Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

He was created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on 31 October 1898 as a victory title commemorating his successes, and began a programme of restoring good governance to the Sudan.

On his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 he was created Baron Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby.

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB, PC, FRS ( 1 May 1818 – 29 May 1898 ) was a Scottish scientist and Liberal politician.

* Terence Donovan, Baron Donovan ( 1898 – 1971 ), British Labour Party Member of Parliament 1945 – 1950, Law Lord 1964 – 1971

* George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan, 6th Baron Lucan, 1st Baron Bingham, 12th Baronet ( 1898 – 1964 )

* Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor ( 1898 – 1984 ), Welsh politician

When he died without sons in 1898 the viscounty became extinct, but the barony descended to his brother Debonnaire John ( 1830 – 1900 ), whose son Augustus Debonnaire John ( b. 1868 ) became 9th Baron Monson in 1900.

Moritatsu, 14th Hosokawa family head, 3rd Marquess, 2nd Baron ( 1883-1970 ; succeeded his elder brother as the 2nd Baron Hosokawa in 1898, succeeded his father as the 14th Hosokawa family head and as the 3rd Marquess in 1914, titles abolished in 1947, continued as family head to his death ).

He was the son of Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier ( 1758 – 1823 ) and the father of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick ( 1819 – 1898 ).

Paul J. Baron designed the town in 1898.

* Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild ( 1839 – 1898 )

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild ( 1839 – 1898 ) lived in Leighton House in the High Street ( demolished in 1959 for the Co-op furniture store but now the site occupied by Wilkinsons ) before building and moving to Waddesdon Manor.

The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild ( 1839 – 1898 ).

When Baron Ferdinand died in 1898, the house passed to his sister Alice de Rothschild, who further developed the collections.

* Major-General Sir Herbert Kitchener, in recognition of his victory in the Battle of Omdurman, was created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk ( Khartoum being the less obscure but relatively near capital of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ), in 1898, and ( by this time a full General ) was further created Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, of Khartoum and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk ( having been Administrator of Transvaal and of the Orange River Colony in 1901 ), in 1902, and ( by this time a Field Marshal ) was further still created Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, in 1914.

In late 1898, following the death of Baron Ferdinand, Alice inherited Waddesdon Manor, the conservation of which became her passion.

New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland, but none have been since the creation of Baron Curzon in 1898.

* Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, 1st Baron Ettrick ( 1819 – 1898 )

He had already been created Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1898, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1902 and was made Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent and Viscount Broome, of Broome in the County of Kent, at the same time he was granted the earldom.

It was created in 1898 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ( 11 October 1825 – 28 November 1898 ) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of realism chiefly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like " Die Füße im Feuer " ( The Feet in the Fire ).

Norton's theorem is an extension of Thévenin's theorem and was introduced in 1926 separately by two people: Siemens & Halske researcher Hans Ferdinand Mayer ( 1895 – 1980 ) and Bell Labs engineer Edward Lawry Norton ( 1898 – 1983 ).

Also in 1897, he played briefly as King Ferdinand V of Vingolia in F. C. Burnand's His Majesty at the Savoy Theatre and made two more short London stage appearances thereafter, as Scoones in Young Mr Yarde ( 1898 ) and Lambert Simnel in The Gay Pretenders ( 1900 ).

* Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ( 1825 – 1898 ), Swiss poet

The genius behind " Ajeeb " were players such as Harry Nelson Pillsbury ( 1898 – 1904 ), Albert Beauregard Hodges, Constant Ferdinand Burille, Charles Moehle, and Charles Francis Barker.

* Ferdinande de Lesseps ( Paris, 3 December 1872-Paris, 4 May 1948 ), married firstly in Paris on 10 May 1890 to Ferdinand de Gontaut-Biron ( Paris, 11 November 1868-Château de Kimpempois, 6 December 1898 ), of the Marquesses of Saint-Blacard, by whom she had a son Ferdinand de Gontaut-Biron ( Paris, 25 January 1892-Paris, 2 February 1892 ), and married secondly François-Joseph de Cassagne de Beaufort, Marquis de Miramon ( 1867 – 1932 )

Ferdinand Rosenthal ( Berlin, 1898 ; repr.

Some of the earliest structures which may be considered metamaterials date back to Jagadish Chandra Bose who in 1898 researched substances with chiral properties and to studies by Karl Ferdinand Lindman on wave interaction with metallic helices as artificial chiral media in the early twentieth century.

Ferdinand Julius Cohn ( 24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898 ) was a German biologist.

George Müller ( German – born as: Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller ) ( 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898 ), a Christian evangelist and Director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England, cared for 10, 024 orphans in his life.

Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild ( 17 December 1839 – 17 December 1898 ) was an English art collector, and a member of the prominent Rothschild family of bankers.

In 1883 Ferdinand de Rothschild was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and in 1885 was elected as Liberal MP for Aylesbury, a seat he held until his death in 1898.

The extensive lot was bought by Tsar Ferdinand I in 1898 and is situated just outside Sofia.

* Lutheran Redeemer Church, Jerusalem, as architect, built after his designs by his pupil Paul Ferdinand Groth between 1893 and 1898

* 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founder of the Religious of the Assumption ( d. 1898 )

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

Impressed by Brâncuși's talent for carving, an industrialist entered him in the Craiova School of Arts and Crafts ( școala de arte și meserii ), where he pursued his love for woodworking, graduating with honors in 1898.

Image: Camille Pissarro 002. jpg | Avenue de l ' Opera, Paris, 1898

* 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of in a Jeantaud electric car.

* 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

Georges Méliès first used superimposition on a dark background in la Caverne maudite ( The Cave of the Demons ) made a couple of months later in 1898, and then elaborated it further with multiple superimpositions in the one shot in l ' Homme de têtes ( The Troublesome Heads ).

* 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.

In 1898, Janet was appointed psychology lecturer at the Sorbonne, and in 1902 became chair of experimental and comparative psychology at the Collège de France.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.

* 1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter ( b. 1898 )

* Karl E. Schedl ( 1898 – 1979 ), Austrian zoologist, scientist ( de )

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* December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.

In 1898, La Paz was made the de facto seat of the national government, with Sucre remaining the nominal historical as well as judiciary capital.

* Castanhoso, M. de ( 1898 ) Dos feitos de D. Christovam da Gama em Ethiopia Lisbon: Imprensa nacional.

In his third volume of Études de science musicale, published in 1898, Antoine Dechevrens laid out a comprehensive system of interpreting the neumes of Sankt Gallen style in proportional note lengths.

* Études de science musicale ' IIIe Étude ' by Antoine Dechevrens, Paris, 1898

He spent the academic year 1898 – 99 at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, where he studied morphology and philology.

Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898 The production of his heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac ( 28 December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin ), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title-role, was a triumph.