* 1838 – Sir Henry Irving, British actor ( d. 1905 )

* Laocoon, translated by Sir Robert Phillimore, London, G. Routledge & sons, 1905.

In 1905 Sir Frederick Treves wrote that the village " straggles down hill like a small mountain stream.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

King led the effort to raise a memorial to Harper, which resulted in the erection of the Sir Galahad statue on Parliament Hill in 1905.

Sir Robert Jardine ( 1825 – 1905 ) is the ancestor of the Buchanan-Jardine branch of the family.

* Sir Douglas Alexander ( 1905 – 1949 )

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

It is at the Castellania that physician and archaeologist Sir Themistocles Zammit discovered the Mediterranean strain of brucellosis in 1905.

* Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Baronet, of Luton Hoo Park, in the Parish of Luton and County of Bedford ( 1905 ), extinct 1973

After the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour fell in December 1905 there was some speculation that Asquith and his allies Richard Haldane and Sir Edward Grey would refuse to serve unless Campbell-Bannerman accepted a peerage, which would have left Asquith as the real leader in the House of Commons.

" He was appointed to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904, and early in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the committee of engineers which subsequently reported in favor of a sea-level canal ... In 1904 Parsons was also appointed, together with the famous British engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, to membership on a board to pass on the plans of the Royal Commission on London Traffic.

* 1956 – 1965: Sir Roger Hollis ( from 1960, Sir Roger Hollis ) ( b. 1905 – d.

Some weeks later he named the peak after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory ( 1819 – 1905 ).

* Life of Sir Thomas Browne ( 1905 )

In 1905, the Japanese government conferred the Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun, and Sir Edmund was granted permission to retain and wear the insignia.

Sir William McDougall PC CB ( January 25, 1822 – May 29, 1905 ) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE ( 2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998 ) was an English composer.

The orchestra made its first British tour in 1905, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar.

His wife, Cecil Mary Nowell Dering Tupper ( Viscountess Craigavon ; died 1960 ), whom he married on 22 March 1905 after a very brief courtship, was English, the daughter of Sir Daniel Tupper, assistant comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's department of the king's household.

Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister, who formed his government the day after Curzon returned to England.

Sir Louis Hypolite Lafontaine, Bart., then Chief Justice of Lower Canada then married Montreal, January 3oth, 1861, the widowed Jane Élisabeth Geneviève Morrison, ( 1822 – 1905 ) daughter of Charles Morrison, on January 30, 1861.

* Balfour Paul, Sir James, Lord Lyon King of Arms, editor, The Scots Peerage, Edinburgh, 1905, under ' Lauderdale '.

After a few unsuccessful stabs at entry-level office work and other jobs suitable for adolescents, Julius took to the stage as a boy singer in 1905.

( D ) König's Paradox was also published in 1905 by Julius König.

In 1903, following the split of the RSDLP, Lenin left the staff ( after his initial proposal to reduce the editorial board to three-himself, Julius Martov and Georgi Plekhanov-was vehemently opposed ), the newspaper fell under the control of the Mensheviks and was published by Plekhanov until 1905.

By 1905 Hillman — along with many others in the Bund — had come to identify himself with the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ), identifying in particular with the internationalism of Julius Martov.

He obtained a doctorate in astronomy in 1905 based on a dissertation written under the supervision of Julius Bauschinger at ( today Humboldt University ), Berlin.

Julius Oppert ( July 9, 1825-August 21, 1905 ), French-German Assyriologist, was born at Hamburg, of Jewish parents.

Julius Carl Raschdorff's 1894 – 1905 reconstruction of the Berliner Dom into a neo-Renaissance cathedral ( replacing the classical cathedral designed by Schinkel ) severely disrupted the classical ensemble, especially since the new cathedral has significantly larger dimensions than its predecessor.

Julius Karl Scriba ( 5 June 1848 – 3 January 1905 ) was a German surgeon serving as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan, where he was an important contributor to the development of Western medicine in Japan.

Julius Stinde ( August 28, 1841-August 5, 1905 ), German author, was born at Kirchnüchel in Holstein, the son of a clergyman.

He studied chemistry at the University of Leeds with Julius B. Cohen and after he worked with Albrecht Kossel on arginase at the University of Heidelberg he joined Columbia University in 1905, working in the lab of Christian Herter.

In 1905, after Henry Chadwick wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cricket and rounders, Spalding called for a commission to find out the real source of baseball.

It was completed in 1905 and stands next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, with the following lines from Cowper's poem, referring to the British Empire:

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Three women have won the British Open Championship: Lily Gower in 1905, Dorothy Steel in 1925, 1933, 1935 and 1936, and Hope Rotherham in 1960.

The British experimented with oil propulsion for the Tribal class of 1905 but switched temporarily back to coal for the later Beagle class in 1909.

During 1900 it was adopted by Germany, by Russia in 1904, the British West Indies in 1905, Spain in 1906, Belgium in 1909, Argentina in 1912, and Romania in 1913.

Works rivaling the British short in length did not appear until 1905, when Edwin Porter made How Jones Lost His Roll, and The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog.

From 1905, Cantor corresponded with his British admirer and translator Philip Jourdain on the history of set theory and on Cantor's religious ideas.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

An early design of electric locomotive showing the steeplecab arrangement: North Eastern Railway ( UK ) | North Eastern Railway British Rail Class ES1 | No. 1, England from 1905

* 1905 – Geoffrey Grigson, British writer ( d. 1985 )

* 1840 – Simeon Solomon, British artist ( d. 1905 )

* 1905 – C. P. Snow, British writer ( d. 1980 )

The southern half was colonised in the same year by the United Kingdom as British New Guinea, but in 1904 with the passage of the Papua Act, 1905 was transferred to the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia who took on its administration.

Additionally from 1905, British New Guinea was renamed the Territory of Papua.

Following the passage of the Papua Act, 1905, British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua, and formal Australian administration began in 1906, although Papua remained de jure a British possession until the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975.

The title was first referred to on government documents during the administration of Benjamin Disraeli but did not appear in the formal British Order of precedence until 1905.

:* 20 July 1887: British Somaliland protectorate ( in the north ) subordinated to Aden to 1905.

From 1905, the Argentine Meteorological Office cooperated in maintaining a meteorological observatory at Grytviken under the British lease requirements of the whaling station until these changed in 1949.

Some questioned whether the country was overstretched, and in 1905 the British foreign minister said that the " empire resembles a huge, gouty giant with its fingers and toes extended all over the globe, which cannot be approached without eliciting a scream.

* March 6 – Henry Wilcoxon, British actor ( b. 1905 )

* August 21 – Constant Lambert, British composer ( b. 1905 )