Sir Robert Garran noted as early as 1901 that the governor-general was distinguished from other Empire governors-general by the fact that " the principal and most important of his powers and functions, legislative as well as executive, are expressly conferred on him by the terms of the Constitution itself.

* A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1899 – 1901, 4 volumes ).

* 1901 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( b. 1832 )

After the British invasion following the killing of Sir Louis Cavagnari in 1879, Yaqub Khan, Yahya Khan and his sons, Princes Mohammad Yusuf Khan and Mohammad Asef Khan, were seized by the British and transferred under custody to the British Raj, where they forcibly remained until the two princes were invited back to Afghanistan by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in the last year of his reign ( 1901 ).

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Sir John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia, who served from 1890 to 1901.

Sir William Henry Hadow's multi-volume Oxford History of Music had appeared between 1901 and 1905.

On the death of the Duchess of Cleveland in 1901, the historic estate was bought back by Sir Augustus Webster, 7th baronet.

They include those dedicated to Beau Nash, Admiral Arthur Phillip ( first Governor of the colony of New South Wales, which became part of Australia after federation in 1901 ), James Montague ( Bishop of Bath and Wells ), Lady Waller ( wife of William Waller, a Roundhead military leader in the English Civil War ), Elizabeth Grieve ( wife of James Grieve, physician to Elizabeth, Empress of Russia ), Sir William Baker, John Sibthorp, Richard Hussey Bickerton, William Hoare, Richard Bickerton and US Senator William Bingham.

* 1901 – 1901: Sir Frederick Bramwell

In 1901, Sir George Donaldson donated several pieces of art Nouveau furniture to the museum, which he had acquired the previous year at the Paris Exposition Universelle.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

1901 Photo in 1898 of the future 1st Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton aged 49 and 2nd Prime Minister of Australia Alfred Deakin The first and second Prime Ministers of Australia, Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin, amongst the 1901 cabinet Sir Edmund Barton Memorial, Barton ACTFew people doubted that Barton, as the leading federalist in the oldest state, deserved to be the first Prime Minister of the new federation.

Pitzhanger Manor and the extensive grounds on which it stands, was sold to the council in 1901 by Sir Spencer Walpole, which had been bought by his father the Rt.

The legend was actually formalised by Sir Walter Scott and was later instigated in a town festival called " The Cleikum Ceremonies " in 1901.

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet ( 26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901 ) was an English railway chairman and politician.

On the British side, Sir Alfred Milner was appointed the first governor of the Orange River Colony on 4 January 1901, with Hamilton John Goold-Adams as lieutenant-governor, in office until 23 June 1902.

* Welch, A. M., " Sir John Fortescue, Buried at Ebrington Gloucestershire ", published in: Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Volume 24, 1901, pp. 193-250

Sir William Dobbie was plunged into the Second Boer War shortly after the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.

Consequently, the faculty, the first of its kind in Britain, was founded by Sir William Ashley in 1901, who from 1902 until 1923 served as first Professor of Commerce and Dean of the Faculty.

* 1901 – John C. Stennis, American politician ( d. 1995 )

* 1831 – John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec ( d. 1901 )

* 1901 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician ( d. 1991 )

* 1901 – John Gunther, American journalist and author ( d. 1970 )

Poster for Penn Quakers | University of Pennsylvania vs. Georgetown University baseball game, circa 1901, by John E. Sheridan ( illustrator ) | John E. Sheridan.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest to serve, was 42 years and 11 months old when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy, the youngest to be elected, was 43 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated in 1961.

The John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow | Earl of Hopetoun, the first Governor-General, 1901 – 1903

The fundamental ionisation mechanism used was discovered by John Sealy Townsend by his work between 1897 and 1901, and is known as the Townsend discharge, which is the ionization of molecules by ion impact.

Between 1899 and 1901, British boat designer John Thornycroft worked on a series of models with a stepped hull and single bow foil.

* 1901 – John Van Druten, English playwright and director ( d. 1957 )

The first excavation at Tell as-Sultan was carried out in 1867, and the monasteries of St. George of Koziba and John the Baptist were refounded and completed in 1901 and 1904, respectively.

* John Brown ( footballer born 1901 ) ( 1901 – 1977 ), English footballer for Leicester City and Wrexham

* John Augustus Walker ( 1901 – 1967 ), Alabama Gulf Coast artist

* John Hayes ( 1901 – 1917 )

Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever ; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year.

Illustrations by John Varley in Thought Forms ( 1901 ) influenced him visually.

** John Alton, American cinematographer ( b. 1901 )

* May 24 – Private John Condon, youngest British soldier to die during the First World War ( b. c. 1901 )

** John Sherman Cooper, American politician ( b. 1901 )

* August 5 – Edward John Eyre, explorer ( d. 1901 )