In " His Last Bow ", Holmes has retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 – 1904, as chronicled by Watson in his preface to the series of stories entitled " His Last Bow.

Richard Henry Pratt retired from the Army in 1903 and from supervising the school as its superintendent in 1904.

In 1904, he became the librarian of the House of Lords Library, where he exercised considerable influence till he retired in 1914.

During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 1905, Gunji, a retired Japanese military man and local settler in Shumshu, led an invading party to the Kamchatka coast.

He retired in October 1904.

Adele and Albert Herter spent a good deal of their time in California at " El Mirasol ", the grand family estate bought in 1904 in Santa Barbara where his mother Mary Miles Herter had entertained friends such as Robert Louis Stevenson's widow Fanny Vandegrift ( who later retired to and died at " El Mirasol " in 1914.

He was appointed a CMG in 1904 and retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1908.

He retired after writing his memoirs, but still wrote articles on the most important premières of the day, up to his death in 1904 in Baden.

Graham retired from the army in 1904, and became private secretary to the former Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery, 1904 – 06.

Boyle continued his career as the 19th Governor of Mauritius from 20 August 1904 to 10 April 1911, after which he retired to Brighton, England.

Walkem retired from politics in 1882 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia sitting on the court until his retirement in 1904.

In 1904 he retired, and he died at Rapallo on 1 July 1907.

About 1904, West and Porter retired and sold the company to William Davison, Carleton A. Woodward and H. E.

On his retirement from the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1904 Abberline retired to Bournemouth.

He was promoted Lieutenant in 1898 and after being invalided from India in 1903 he retired to the reserve of regular officers in 1904.

He retired from active service in December 1904.

He retired in 1904.

He exhibited a very large number of memorable portraits, figure subjects and landscapes, in oil and watercolour ; he achieved marked success as a worker in enamel, as an etcher, mezzotint engraver and illustrative draughtsman ; and he exercised wide influence upon art education by means of the Herkomer School ( Incorporated ), at Bushey, which he founded in 1883 and directed without payment until 1904, when he retired.

He retired from the active list in 1904 on reaching the age limit, and devoted himself with the greatest energy to critical military literature.

After a tour that was notably successful in the south Emmett retired to his hometown of Mount Vernon in 1888 where he died on June 28, 1904, aged 88 years.

* Délibérations sur le projet de loi et les propositions de loi concernant la séparation des Eglises et de l ' Etat by the retired journalist Claude Ovtcharenko ( including all parliamentary sessions, Emile Combes ' 1904 speech, chronology, etc.

He retired to the seaside with his enormous family, and died at St Kilda in 1904.

After the conclusion of the 1904 season, Hutton temporarily retired from ice hockey.

The first university in modern India was setup by the British in Calcutta in 1861 as a means of spreading western philosophical thought among the elite in India and to create in the words of Lord Macaulcay, “ a class of Indians who would be Indian in blood and colour but western in thought and ideas .” This initiative was furthered by the passing of the Universities Act of 1904.

The town was originally incorporated in 1904 due to the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad passing through the area.

In 1904, the Missouri – Kansas – Texas Railroad ( MKT ) completed its track between Georgetown and Austin, passing just outside of Pflugerville.

The platform at Stogumber was extended in 1900, a new passing loop was opened in 1904 at and, the following year, a second platform was opened at Minehead.

In 1963 Santo broke the modern National League record with 374 assists at third base, passing Tommy Leach's 1904 mark of 371.

By the end of 1904, subsequent to Congress passing a safety act that mandated the change, the Southern Pacific converted the locomotive's link and pin coupling equipment to automatic " knuckle " couplers, possibly of the Janney type.

The route was originally popularized by the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run begun in 1927 for cars built before 1904 and reenacting the original 1896 Emanicipation Run, which was held on 14 November 1896 to celebrate the passing into law of the Light Locomotives Act which raised the speed limit to 14 mph and did away with the need for a person to walk in front of a mechanised vehicle waving a red flag to warn other road users.

The Metropolitan Railway was extended to Uxbridge from Harrow on the Hill in 1904, passing through Eastcote.

Penrose was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and ordained an apostle on July 7, 1904 after the passing of Elder Abraham O. Woodruff.

Pelorus Jack was shot at from a passing ship, and was later protected by a 1904 New Zealand law.

A unified London side appears to have competed in friendly matches even earlier: there is passing mention of " London " having been heavily defeated in a friendly match against Corinthian FC in a 1904 Times article.

She helped form the Women's National Indian Association in 1883 and was the associations president from 1887 to 1904, during this time the association made progress in advancing the rights of Native Americans, including influencing the passing of the Dawes Severalty Act by Congress in 1887, providing Native Americans with allotment and citizenship.

On 21 October 1904, while passing by the United Kingdom ( an ally of Japan but neutral in this war ), they nearly provoked a war in the Dogger Bank incident by firing on British fishing boats that they mistook for Japanese torpedo boats.

Dessie's location led to the telegraph line the Italians constructed between 1902 and 1904 from Asmara south to Addis Ababa passing through the city, and giving it a local telegraph office.

From 1895 through to his final season in 1914, Hayward never once failed to reach 1, 000 first-class runs, passing 2, 000 on ten occasions and twice ( in 1904 and 1906 ) scoring over 3, 000 ; his 1906 aggregate of 3, 518 ( at 66. 37 with 13 hundreds ) established a record which stood until surpassed by Denis Compton and Bill Edrich in 1947.

After passing through other hands, the château was purchased in 1652 by Jean-Philippe Loys, whose family possessed it until the end of the 18th century, when the conseiller d ' état Jacques-François Viquerat ( 1838 – 1904 ) bought it.

Those of 1735, 1762, 1780 and 1791 have been mentioned ; those of 1817, 1832, 1859 and 1904 – 1905 were no less powerful, and their history is interwoven with Calvinistic Methodism, the system of which is so admirably adapted for the passing on of the torch.

Hanch was treasurer of the Nordyke & Marmon Company, an Indianapolis firm which had manufactured flour-milling machinery before producing the Marmon car in 1904.

The die was engraved by Max Zietler of the Philadelphia firm of Baily Banks & Biddle in 1903 ( and is thus sometimes called the 1903 die ), but final delivery was delayed until January 1904 due to issues with the press.

In 1904 the firm started a Fiume – New York service with calls at Italian ports and Gibraltar.

His father, Ralph Lawson ( 1904 – 1982 ), was the owner of a commodity-trading firm in the City of London, while his mother, Joan Elisa Davis,

* John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age, 2002, Tempus Publishing, Ltd, pb., ( ISBN 0-7524-2766-0 ) This is a collection of essays by various specialists, and comprises biographies of Maudslay, Roberts, Napier, Clement, Whitworth, Nasmyth and Muir, as well as an account of the London Engineering Scene at the time of Maudslay, and an account of the firm from the death of Maudslay in 1831 until its demise in 1904.

E. F. Hutton & Co. was an American stock brokerage firm founded in 1904 by Edward Francis Hutton, his brother Franklyn Laws Hutton, and later led by well known Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb.

In 1904, UE acquired Aibl publishers, and so acquired the rights to many works by Richard Strauss and Max Reger, but it was the arrival of Emil Hertzka as managing director in 1907 ( who remained until his death in 1932 ) which really pushed the firm towards new music.

Don Brothers, Buist & Company Ltd, as the firm was known from 1904, built another works in Forfar, at Strang Street, in 1929.

The piccolo heckelphone is a very rare woodwind instrument invented in 1904 by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany.

Sir David Brown ( 10 May 1904 – 3 September 1993 ) was an English entrepreneur, managing director of his family firm David Brown Limited and one time owner of shipbuilders Vosper Thornycroft and automobile manufacturer Aston Martin.

The dragline was invented in 1904 by John W. Page ( as a partner of the firm Page & Schnable Contracting ) for use digging the Chicago Canal.

The firm carried on under Post's grandson Edward Everett Post ( 1904 – 2006 ) until the late twentieth century.

In 1904, his son Josef became a full partner in the firm.

In April 1904, the prominent New York City architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings was retained.

In April 1904 the prominent New York City architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings was retained.

From June 1904 to August 1905 he worked at architectural firm Quido Bělský in Prague.

The largest of these was the firm of Bernard Beckworth on Cademan Street, which was established in 1875 and ran until the 1970s ; it is listed in Kelly ’ s Directories of Leicestershire from 1904 through to 1941 as ‘ Beckworth and Co. Ltd, Charnwood Mineral Water Works ’.

By 1904, the firm of Stinson Brothers, based on Loughborough Road, had appeared.

After attending a local board school for five years, Cardus left at age 13 and took on various jobs before being employed as a clerk in a marine insurance firm in December 1904.

In 1904, Meralco acquired both the Compañía de los Tranvías de Filipinas, a firm that operated public transportation and ran Manila's horse-drawn and steam-operated tramways, and added La Electricista.

Some confusion, arose between the bass oboe and the heckelphone, a double reed instrument of similar register introduced by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel in 1904 which is distinguished from standard members of the oboe family by its wider bore, different fingering system ( on older instruments ), and larger bell.

In 1977, the firm established the Eppa Hunton IV Memorial Book Award at the University of Virginia's School of Law, in honor of Hunton's grandson, who lived from July 31, 1904 to November 23, 1976.

Gibrat's law, sometimes called Gibrat's rule of proportionate growth is a rule defined by Robert Gibrat ( 1904 – 1980 ) stating that the size of a firm and its growth rate are independent.

Becker, who had been a junior partner under Schaffner, paid in $ 50, 000 from a life insurance policy to start his own firm and by 1904 Becker had paid back the losses suffered by Schaffner's customers.