* Joseph Harcourt Tombs British decorated war hero

In 1980, Istomin was hired by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers to advise the company in the publication of facsimile editions of original editions by Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy, among others.

* Sir William Harcourt is the source for the character of Sir Ethelred in Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent.

Born at Gurcy-le-Châtel ( Seine-et-Marne ), he was the son of Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d ' Haussonville and Louise née Louise Albertine, princesse de Broglie ; in 1865 he married Mlle Pauline d ' Harcourt.

Their grandson Joseph Tombs received the VC for actions during World War I.

Tombs of Mikhail Suslov | Suslov, Joseph Stalin | Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin | Kalinin, Felix Dzerzhinsky | Dzerzhinsky, Leonid Brezhnev | Brezhnev in front of the Kremlin wall.

The Whyos had several leaders, but longest reigning were Danny Lyons ( arrested for the murder of gangster Joseph Quinn ), his girlfriend (" Pretty " Kitty McGowan ) and Danny Driscoll ( hanged at Tombs Prison for the death of Beezy Garrity during a gunfight with rival Five Points gangster Johnny McCarthy ).

In light of this, an unofficial ' twelfth VC ' may be added to those listed: Private Joseph Williams, B Coy, 2nd / 24th Foot, who was killed during the fight in the hospital and for whom it was mentioned in despatches that " had he lived he would have been recommended for the Victoria Cross ".

* Joseph Malone ( VC ), British soldier

Another scheme was proposed by William Napier and William Hope ( VC ) in January 1862, in response to requests from the Metropolitan Board for imaginative ways to generate a profit from the large quantities of sewage which had been conveyed away from London by Joseph Bazalgette's sewer system.

* Joseph Lister ( VC ) ( 1886 – 1963 ), sergeant in the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross

Joseph Prosser VC ( 1828 – 10 June 1867 ) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

VC Winner Joseph Prosser.

Joseph Lister VC ( 19 October 1886 – 19 January 1963 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

One Old Belvederian has been awarded the Victoria Cross, Surgeon Captain Thomas Joseph Crean VC DSO ( 1873 to 1923 ); he later achieved the rank of Major.

* Joseph Lister ( VC ), received VC for actions at the Third Battle of Ypres

Joseph Charles Brennan VC ( August 1818 – 24 September 1872 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Joseph Ward VC ( 1832 – 23 November 1872 ) was born in Kinsale, County Cork, and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Joseph Watt, VC ( 25 June 1887 – 13 February 1955 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Joseph Edward Woodall VC ( 1 June 1896 – 2 January 1962 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He was decorated with the VC by Queen Victoria in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle on 21 November 1857 along with James Craig, George Symons and Joseph Malone.

Joseph Trewavas VC CGM ( 14 December 1835 – 20 July 1905 ) was a British ) recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John Joseph Sims VC ( 1835 – 6 December 1881 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Alfred Joseph Richards VC ( 21 June 1879 – 21 May 1953 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Patrick Joseph Bugden VC ( 17 March 1897, Tatham, New South Wales – 28 September 1917, Ypres, Belgium ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

James Joseph Magennis VC ( surname originally McGinnes ) ( 27 October 1919 – 12 February 1986 ) was a Belfast-born recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Joseph Henry Collin VC ( 10 April 1893 – 9 April 1918 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe VC ( 12 January 1826 – 12 April 1876 ) was the second South African-born recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Major Dr. Thomas Joseph Crean, VC, DSO ( Dublin, Ireland, 19 April 1873 – Mayfair, London, England, 25 March 1923 ) was an Irish rugby union player, British Army soldier and doctor.

* Joseph Showalter Smith ( 1824 – 1884 ), U. S. Representative from Oregon

* 1884 – Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician, 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ( d. 1968 )

A statue of Sir Francis Drake by Joseph Boehm ( a copy of the original in his home town of Tavistock ) was placed here in 1884 to commemorate him.

* June 2 – Joseph Farnham, American screenwriter ( b. 1884 )

** Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the RMS Titanic ( b. 1884 )

By 1884, Joseph Hudson had perfected his whistles and he released the world's most successful whistle to date, the " Acme Thunderer " ( the first ever pea whistle ).

Joseph Lemercier ( born Paris 1803 — died 1884 ), considered by some of his contemporaries to be “ the soul of lithography ”, was also one of the founders of the modern crayon.

The title of choreographer Joseph Hansen's 1884 ballet, Macabre Pierrot, created in collaboration with the poet Théo Hannon, summed up one of the chief strands of the character's persona for many artists of the era.

* Laurent, Joseph, 1884.

In Eastern Europe, Joseph Rabinowitz established a Hebrew Christian mission and congregation called " Israelites of the New Covenant " in Kishinev, Ukraine in 1884.

In 1884, Joseph became the head of the Anderson family.

Cooper Landing was named for Joseph Cooper, a miner who discovered gold there in 1884.

Paris sports an impressive landmark for a city of its size: the LDS Bear Lake Stake Tabernacle, a sandstone church designed by Joseph Don Carlos Young and built between 1884 and 1889.

The company built a breaker, said to be " a model of neatness ," built by contractor Joseph C. Tyrrell and completed in September 1884.

* Joseph Westwood ( 1884 – 1948 ), Scottish politician

A pamphlet entitled " The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick ", produced c. 1884 to accompany his exhibition, states that he started to display symptoms at approximately five years of age, with " thick lumpy skin ... like that of an elephant, and almost the same colour ".

Honorine Anthoine de Saint-Joseph ( Marseille, 26 February 1790 – Paris, 13 April 1884 ), a niece of Julie Clary, the wife of Joseph Bonaparte, by whom he had issue, and soon afterwards was ordered to Spain.

* Joseph Bonnet ( 1884 – 1944 ), French organist and composer

This movement was originally written in June 1884 as the opening number – "" – in Mahler's incidental music for a series of seven tableaux vivants based on Joseph Victor von Scheffel's poem Der Trompeter von Säckingen, which, Blumine aside, has since been lost.

* Abraham Hayward ( 1801 – 1884 ), writer and essayist who, with his father Joseph Hayward, an amateur horticulturist of ' Westhill ', Silver Street, Lyme Regis, successfully brought a landmark case in the 1840s on behalf of the citizens of Lyme Regis, to maintain a permanent right of way for the town's citizens across the cliffs to Axmouth and Seaton.

** Joseph Reinach, Léon Gambetta ( 1884 ), Gambetta orateur ( 1884 ) and Le Ministère Gambetta, histoire et doctrine ( 1884 )

The renowned Irish tenor John McCormack ( 1884 – 1945 ) advised him that his voice was better suited to a lighter repertoire than the operatic one he had in mind, and urged him to find an agent — thus he found the noted impresario Jack Hylton ( 1892 – 1965 ) who booked him, but couldn't fit his full name on the bill, thus Joseph McLaughlin became Josef Locke.

They had two daughters and two sons, the elder of whom, Joseph Scott Phillips, became a major in the Bengal artillery, and died at Wimbledon, Surrey, on 18 December 1884, aged 72.