The day after the United Kingdom declared war in August, 1914, three hundred and fifty rugby union players, of middle class and professional background with solicitors and barristers and many working in banks and insurance companies, assembled on the ground.

* Irby Love Knotts, Jr. ( 1914 – 1995 ), originally from Ashland, served as a Natchitoches Parish clerk of court and from 1976-1977 headed the Louisiana Clerks of Court Association.

In 1914, a newly-appointed municipal clerk wrote the name of the town as “ Seaside Park ” in the council minutes.

In 1914, he became a clerk at the Office of the French governor in Vientiane.

After leaving school, his father's failure in business as a wholesale ironmonger meant that the family could only afford to send his older brother to Birmingham University, so he taught at a primary school and worked as a clerk in Stewarts & Lloyds, a metal-tube maker, between 1910 and 1914.

in 1912, Knopf worked as a clerk at Doubleday ( 1912 – 1913 ), then as an editorial assistant to Michael Kennerly ( 1914 ).

He served an LDS mission from 1914 to 1916, then worked for various banks in Arizona's Gila Valley as a clerk and bank teller.

In 1914, at the age of thirteen and a half, he began work first as an office clerk at a local insurance company, then as smelter at a pipe factory, assistant machinist on a private estate, worker in a plant making artificial millstones, warehouseman, and at other jobs, including on the railroad.

In 1914 he was elected county clerk for Ray County, a post he held for the next eight years.

In 1914, she enlisted in the RFC as a pay clerk.

He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1914, was a law clerk in Baltimore the same year, and subsequently went in to private practice.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues.

Hunter College – so-named in 1914, originally Female Normal and High School and later the Normal College – had existed since 1870, and later expanded into the Bronx in the early 20th century with what became Herbert Lehman College, but CCNY and Hunter resisted merging.

* 1914 – Herbert Reinecker, German writer ( d. 2007 )

Herbert E. Balch continued the work from 1904 to 1914, where he led excavations of the entrance passage ( 1904 – 15 ), Witch's Kitchen ( Chamber 1 ) and Hell's Ladder ( 1926 – 1927 ) and the Badger Hole ( 1938 – 1954 ), where Roman coins from the 3rd century were discovered along with Aurignacian flint implements.

* Silberer, Herbert ( 1917 ) Problems of mysticism and its symbolism ( translation of Silberer, Herbert ( 1914 ) Probleme der mystik und ihrer symbolik Heller, Vienna, OCLC 4943853 ) Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, OCLC 538149 ; reprinted in 1970 by S. Weiser, New York, ISBN 0-87728-038-X

1911 ; film of play, directed by Maurice Tourneur, released in 1918 ); Lyall, Eric: Two Pierrot Plays ( 1918 ); Rodker, John: " Fear " ( 1914 ), " Twilight I " ( 1915 ), " Twilight II " ( 1915 ); Sargent, Herbert C .: Pierrot Playlets: Cackle for Concert Parties ( 1920 ).

His maternal grandfather was Herbert Cozens-Hardy, the Liberal MP for North Norfolk who became both the Master of the Rolls and Baron Cozens-Hardy on 1 July 1914.

* Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ( 1854 – 1930 ), Home Secretary 1905 – 1910 and Governor-General of South Africa 1910 – 1914 ; youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone

started to emerge with the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906 – 1914 under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

Herbert also worked closely with John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin and others in founding the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ( ASCAP ) on February 13, 1914, becoming its vice-president and director until his death in 1924.

Besides those mentioned above, other Herbert operettas with particularly strong scores are Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1899 ), The Singing Girl ( 1899 ), The Enchantress ( 1911 ), The Madcap Duchess ( 1913 ), and The Only Girl ( 1914 ).

Having earlier served as counsellor of the Romanian legations in Paris and Petrograd, by 1914 Prince Antoine was First Secretary of the Romanian Legation in London and by 1918 had entered the circle of Herbert Henry Asquith ( former Liberal Prime Minister ).

* Celtic Poem for cello and orchestra ( 1914, arrangement of the piece for cello and piano, dedicated to Herbert Withers );

Jerome " Jerry " Siegel ( October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996 ), who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S. Fine, was the American co-creator of Superman ( along with Joe Shuster ), the first of the great comic book superheroes and one of the most recognizable of the 20th century.

* Herbert Czaja ( born November 5, 1914 ), German politician ( CDU )

Trafford Leigh-Mallory was born in Mobberley, Cheshire, the son of Herbert Leigh Mallory, ( 1856 – 1943 ), Rector of Mobberly, who legally changed his surname to Leigh-Mallory in 1914.

* 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.

Dr. Herbert Czaja ( November 5, 1914 – April 18, 1997 ) was a German Christian Democratic politician and advocate for Germans expelled after World War II.

It was created in 1914 for the famous soldier Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum.

Between 1910 and 1914 the Irish Home Rule question re-emerged, introduced by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

Other notable buildings of the College include the Ibberson Building built in 1914 ( named after its architect, Herbert George Ibberson ) which is considered by many-including Nikolaus Pevsner in his Buildings of England-to be the College's most significant building ; a fact mirrored by its Grade Two listed status, the only listed building on the site.

( 1914 – 1918 ) G. Frederick Barnes, William Barnett, Arthur Brackley, William C. Collins, George F. Craddock, Trevor Durrant, Robert G. Fuller, Albert Giles, William Giles, Alan F. M. Grant, David Millard, Archibald Muir, Maurice Simmonds, W. Kenneth Sinclair, Robin R. Skene, Ernest Tickner, Jack Tickner, Herbert W. Walls, Ernest A. Whapshot, Sidney Wright, Alfred Wye.

Irwin served on the executive committee of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium in 1914 – 1915 and was chief of the foreign department of George Creel's Committee on Public Information in 1918.

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

( 1911 – 1914 ) Bertha Potter Palmer ( Bertha Palmer ) ( of Chicago and Sarasota ) completes purchases of bordering the Hillsborough River in present day Temple Terrace, Temple Crest, Terrace Park, Busch Gardens and the University of South Florida area.

The Astros won a wild card berth on the final day of the regular season, becoming the first team since the world champion 1914 Boston Braves to qualify for the postseason after being 15 games under. 500.

Additional credence is given to this by noting who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the two previous years, 1914 and 1915, and in the following year, 1917.

In 1914, Max von Laue of Germany won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, which was a crucial step towards the invention of X-ray spectroscopy.

In May 1914, Broz won a silver medal at an army fencing competition in Budapest.

Liverpool reached its first FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1 – 0 to Burnley It won consecutive League championships in 1922 and 1923, but did not win another trophy until the 1946 – 47 season, when the club won the First Division for a fifth time.

In 1914, Nurmi joined the sports club Turun Urheiluliitto and won his first race on the 3, 000 metres.

In 1914, Prokofiev finished his career at the Conservatory by entering the so-called ' battle of the pianos ', a competition open to the five best piano students for which the prize was a Schreder grand piano: Prokofiev won by performing his own Piano Concerto No. 1.

Since the 1914 – 15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 94 times by 18 active NHL teams and five defunct teams.

On 27 March 1914 in New York City, Sam Langford won a newspaper decision in a ten-rounder with Johnson.

After a brief lull they won the competition again in 1911 and then won it three times in a row between 1914 and 1916.

Despite financial constraints, Watford won the Southern League title in the 1914 – 15 season under his successor, Harry Kent.

In the December 1910 election the Liberals again won, though their majority in the Commons was now dependent on MPs from Ireland, who had their own price ( at the election the Liberal and Conservative parties were exactly equal in size ; by 1914 the Conservative Party was actually larger owing to by-election victories ).

Everton won the FA Cup for the first time in 1906 and the League title again in 1914 – 15.

Robert " Bob " Gaston Moch ( 20 June 1914 – 18 January 2005 ), born and raised in Montesano, was the coxswain of the University of Washington varsity eight-man shell won the gold medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin by defeating the favored teams from Germany and Italy in front of Adolf Hitler.

In 1914, Dupré won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata, Psyché.

They won this league in its first year, but did not win it again until the beginning of World War I in 1914, which halted all football activities in Germany.

His major positive contributions that won them Battle of the Marne were 1 ) his sustained calm under pressure and the calculated reasoning of an alumnus from Ecole Polytechnique 2 ) his ruthless dismissal of unsuccessful generals during the summer of 1914 ( three army commanders, ten corps commanders and thirty-eight divisional commanders, replacing them with combative men like Foch, Franchet d ' Esperey and-more junior at that stage-Petain and Nivelle ) and 3 ) his outstanding logistical handling of French infantry divisional movements and artillery ammunition supplies during and after the French retreat of August 1914.

The Austro-Hungarian army invaded Serbia capturing the capial Belgrade on 2 December 1914, however the Serbian Army successfully defended the country, won several victories, and on 15 December 1914 recaptured Belgrade.

Despite old guard opposition, the conservative forces formed a party of their own in 1913, the Rikken Dōshikai, a party that won a majority in the House over the Seiyūkai in late 1914.

About 1914 Joe " King " Oliver won a musical " cutting contest " and claimed Keppard's crown ; soon after Keppard accepted an offer to join Bill Johnson's band in Los Angeles, California.

In 1914, he won first prize in an international singing competition in Parma.