In World War I, Duquesne spied for Germany, earning the Iron Cross for allegedly sinking the HMS Hampshire thereby killing Lord Kitchener in 1916.

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

Admiral Jellicoe was appointed First Sea Lord in November 1916 and turned over command of the Grand Fleet to Admiral David Beatty.

In December 1916 on unveiling a statue of Gladstone, Lord Rosebery speculated that Gladstone's view of British involvement in the Great War would not have been favourable.

The first Air Board came into being on 15 May 1916 with Lord Curzon as its chairman.

After December 1916, Lloyd George relied on the support of Conservatives and of the press baron Lord Northcliffe ( who owned both The Times and The Daily Mail ).

At the 1924 general election, Baldwin won a clear victory, the leading coalitionists such as Austen Chamberlain and Lord Birkenhead ( and former Liberal Winston Churchill ) agreeing to serve under Baldwin and thus ruling out any restoration of the 1916 – 22 coalition.

Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 " in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air " ( along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon ).

On 4 June 1916, Lord Kitchener personally answered questions asked by politicians about his running of the war effort ; at the start of hostilities Kitchener had ordered two million rifles from various US arms manufacturers.

Lord Kitchener sailed from Scrabster to Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916 aboard HMS Oak before transferring to the armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire for his diplomatic mission to Russia.

* Henry Sanderson Furniss, Lord Sanderson ( 1907 – 1916 )

In addition, the wreck of the, which hit a mine while carrying Lord Kitchener north to Murmansk on 5 June 1916 and sank off the west coast of the mainland, is also a protected site.

He returned to the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty in the coalition government formed in May 1915, then in David Lloyd George's coalition government he was Foreign Secretary ( 1916 – 1919 ).

** Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho ( 1884 – 1916 )

FitzAlan was elected Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1894, a seat he held until 1921, and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905 and under H. H. Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1915 to 1921 ( jointly from December 1916 onwards ).

Of Balfour's appointment to Asquith's cabinet in 1916, Lord Rosebery, who had been Prime Minister in 1894 – 95, said that having an ex-premier in the cabinet was " a fleeting and dangerous luxury ".

Early in 1916 he asked the British commander-in-chief, General Sir Douglas Haig, to put in a good word with the British Ambassador in Paris ( Lord Bertie ) so that it would get back to the French government.

J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, stayed in Great Haywood during the winter of 1916 / 17 and in his story ' The Tale of the Sun and the Moon ' ( The Book of Lost Tales 1 ) he writes about a gnome called Gilfanon who owned an ancient house "... the House of a Hundred Chimneys, that stands nigh the bridge of Tavrobel ".

* Lord William Cecil ( bishop ) ( 1863 – 1936 ), Bishop of Exeter, 1916 – 1936

* Algernon, 1st Lord Redesdale ( 1837 – 1916 )

He was, in 1916, appointed as governor general by King George V, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom H. H. Asquith, to replace Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, as viceroy, and occupied that post until succeeded by the Lord Byng of Vimy in 1921.

With the outbreak of the First World War, however, Cavendish ceased activities related to all but his honorific appointments and, between 1915 and 1916, sat as the Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in the Cabinet of H. H. Asquith.

* The Lord Newton 1915 – 1916

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

In his War Memoirs, Lloyd-George wrote of meeting Weizmann in 1916 that Weizmann:

Edith Stein was Husserl's student at Göttingen while she wrote her On the Problem of Empathy ( 1916 ).

While recovering from his injuries and shell shock in 1916, he wrote some scenarios and ideas for films.

She wrote for the IWW between 1916 and 1918.

In 1916, after Einstein completed his foundational work on general relativity, Lorentz wrote a letter to him in which he speculated that within general relativity the aether was re-introduced.

While on sick-leave in 1916, he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption.

It also appears in Lost Laysen, the novella Mitchell wrote as a teenager in 1916, and in Mitchell's last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began writing in 1926.

Mitchell wrote a romance novella, Lost Laysen, when she was fifteen years old ( 1916 ).

In response to the outbreak of World War I, Lenin wrote his book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism from 1915 to 1916 and published in 1917 in which he argued that capitalism directly leads to imperialism.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

Hector Hugh Munro ( 1870 – 1916 ), also known by his pen name of Saki, wrote satirical short stories about Edwardian England.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title " The Triumph of Bullshit ", written in the form of a ballade.

As early as 1916, Julian Huxley wrote a two part article in the Auk, noting the tensions between amateurs and professionals and suggesting the possibility that the " vast army of bird-lovers and bird-watchers could begin providing the data scientists needed to address the fundamental problems of biology.

His results confirmed Einstein's predictions in every detail, but Millikan was not convinced of Einstein's interpretation, and as late as 1916 he wrote, " Einstein's photoelectric equation ... cannot in my judgment be looked upon at present as resting upon any sort of a satisfactory theoretical foundation ," even though " it actually represents very accurately the behavior " of the photoelectric effect.

The composer's name was given as ' Gustav von Holst ' — by the time he wrote " Mercury " in 1916 he had dropped the ' von ', for he signed the score of that movement separately as ' Gustav Holst '.

" Alexandra wrote Nicholas on 13 March 1916 that Tatiana was the only one of their four daughters who " grasped it " when she explained her way of looking at things.

" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on 6 December 1916.

" My little Malama came for an hour yesterday evening ," wrote Alexandra to Nicholas on 17 March 1916.

By 1916, Edward H. Bennett, co-author of the Plan of Chicago, wrote that a lakefront location would be most suitable for an airport serving the central business district.

In April 1916, the Los Angeles Times wrote :" The next large feature looming on the horizon is the Ince photoplay, ' Civilization ' ...

" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on December 6, 1916.