John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

Analytic theorists like Henry Home, Lord Kames, William Hogarth, and Edmund Burke hoped to reduce beauty to some list of attributes.

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

After being pulled through a time portal, Ash Williams lands in 1300 AD, where he is almost immediately captured by Lord Arthur's men, who suspect him to be an agent for Duke Henry, with whom Arthur is at war.

These negotiations were complicated by the sudden death of Lord George on 21 September 1848, but Disraeli obtained a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to about £ as of ) from Lord George's brothers Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield.

Other possible ministers included Sir Robert Inglis, Henry Goulburn, John Charles Herries, and Lord Ellenborough.

Henry of Nassau, Lord of Overkirk ( 1640-1708 ).

The Lord Chancellor of England was almost always a bishop up until the dismissal of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey by Henry VIII.

In response to Strongbow's successful invasion, King Henry II of England reaffirmed his sovereignty by mounting a larger invasion in 1171 and pronouncing himself Lord of Ireland.

* Powicke, F. M. ( 1947 ), King Henry III and the Lord Edward: The Community of the Realm in the Thirteenth Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Both proved unenthusiastic, and in 1565 Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who carried his own claim to the English throne.

The royal party stayed at Lord Henry Howard's residence at Audley End, where Gabriel Harvey dedicated his Gratulationes Valdinenses to the Queen.

He had two elder brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 1799 – 1877 ) and Henry ( 1801 – 1872 ), later Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

Henry Home, Lord Kames, by David Martin.

Henry Home, Lord Kames ; Hugo Arnot ; James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, by John Kay ( caricaturist ) | John Kay.

Henry Home, Lord Kames ( 169627 December 1782 ) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver.

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* Henry Home ( Lord Kames ) at The Online Library of Liberty

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* 1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.

* Lord Victor Cavendish Bentinck, 1939 – 45 ( subsequently The 9th Duke of Portland )

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

* May 6 – The " Invincibles " ( militant Irish republicans ) kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T. H.

** John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England ( murdered )

In the ensuing dispute, Tyler ( supposedly ) drew his dagger, and William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London, drew his sword and attacked Tyler, mortally wounding him in the neck ; Sir John Cavendish, one of the King's knights, drew his sword and ran it through Tyler's stomach, killing him almost instantly.

Partly this was in search of better professional prospects for the newly qualified doctor, but another factor may have been unease about their Anglo-Irish ancestry, following the assassination by Irish nationalists of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the British Chief Secretary for Ireland, in 1882.

They split in 1932 when Adele married her first husband, Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, a son of the Duke of Devonshire.

Her great-uncle was Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, who was leader of the Liberal Party in the 1870s, and a close colleague of William Ewart Gladstone, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Salisbury.

Forster resigned and the new Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, was murdered by Irish terrorists on 6 May 1882, leaving the ' Kilmainham Treaty ' almost useless.

His mother was Lady Anne Grey, fourth daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and his father was Lord Charles Cavendish, third son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire. The family traces its lineage across eight centuries to Norman times and was closely connected to many aristocratic families of Great Britain.

His mother died in 1733, three months after the birth of her second son, Frederick, and shortly before Henry ’ s second birthday, leaving Lord Charles Cavendish to bring up his two sons.

Lord Charles Cavendish lived a life of service, first in politics and then increasingly in science, especially in the Royal Society of London.

He was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Cavendish of Hardwicke in 1751 and served as First Lord of the Treasury and titular Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1756 to 1757.

Their third and youngest son Lord George Cavendish was created Earl of Burlington in 1831.

He was the eldest son of Lord Edward Cavendish, third son of the seventh Duke.

Lord James Cavendish, third son of the first Duke, also represented this constituency in the House of Commons.

Lord Charles Cavendish, second son of the second Duke, was a politician and scientist.

Lord James Cavendish, third son of the second Duke, was a soldier and briefly represented Malton in Parliament.

Lord George Cavendish, second son of the third Duke, was a long-standing Member of Parliament and served as Comptroller of the Household from 1761 to 1762.

Lord Frederick Cavendish, third son of the third Duke, was a Field Marshal in the Army.

Lord John Cavendish, fourth son of the third Duke, was a politician and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1782 and 1783.