As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

* Sir Charles Waldstein, Alcamenes and the establishment of the classical type in Greek art ; 1926

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

* Sir Charles Walker, Thirty-Six Years at the Admiralty ( London, 1933 )

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

The original early 19th-century interior designs, many of which still survive, included widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis, on the advice of Sir Charles Long.

After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

* α CVn ( Asterion, Cor Caroli ) is the constellation's brightest star, named by Sir Charles Scarborough in memory of King Charles I, the deposed king of Britain.

The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

Otto Lilienthal, following the work of Sir George Cayley, was the first person to become highly successful with glider flights.

* Physiology or Medicine – Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi

His only daughter, Clementine Maria, married Count Otto Stenbock, and after his death, Sir Herbert Chermside, a governor of Queensland.

He was friends of, and played with, the most distinguished conductors of the day, including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, George Szell, Willem Mengelberg, and Sir Adrian Boult.

* Sir Otto Beit, 1st Baronet, of Tewin Water ( 1924 ), dormant or extinct 1994

During the 1930s and 1940s, its roster of artists included Arturo Toscanini, Sir Edward Elgar, and Otto Klemperer, among many others.

On 5 July 2007, Otto von Habsburg received the Freedom of the City of London from the hands of Sir Gavyn Arthur, a former Lord Mayor of London.

Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy, and by 1880 a committee of examiners comprising Charles Hallé, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that the school lacked " executive cohesion ".

A century later, British historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan would write in a study of the American Revolution, when talking about the impact of the victories at Trenton and Princeton, that " It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world.

Other collections include the libraries of Sir Henry Wood and Otto Klemperer.

Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career.

* Sir George Otto Trevelyan: A Memoir ( 1932 ).

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

A rhododendron grove was designed and planted in the 1970s by Otto Ruzicka, and is called the " Hasluck Garden " after governor-general Sir Paul and his vice-regal consort, Dame Alexandra Hasluck.

* Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet ( 1838 – 1928 )

He soon discovers, however, that all is not well: he has been replaced as MP for Haltemprice ; Sarah has had him declared dead, made off with his money, and is now engaged to Count Otto Von Munchweiller, a Danish nobleman and MEP for East Germany ; and his patron Sir Greville lost his seat in Parliament in the last election.

* 23 March / 24: Joined 6 Corps ( Lt-General Sir Aylmer Haldane ) in Third Army, initially in reserve, then at Ervillers, to defend the line against the German Seventeenth Army ( General Otto von Below ) on the right ( i. e. north ) wing of the " Michael 1 " German Spring Offensive ( Kaiserschlacht ) in the First Battle of the Somme ( 1918 ).

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM, PC ( 20 July 1838 – 17 August 1928 ) was a British statesman and author.

He has also worked as close friends and advisers to the likes of Erik the Red, William I of England ( whom he advised to invade England under the name Sir Von Savage ), Napoleon Bonaparte as Marshal Savage, Ra's al Ghul, Otto von Bismarck ( whom he helped to invade France as Baron Von Savage ), and Adolf Hitler.

* Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, Cawnpore, Indus, Delhi, ( first edition 1865 ), reprint 2002.

The attending doctor Dr. Doskil ( Donald Meek ) and Sir Karell's friend Baron Otto ( Jean Hersholt ) are convinced that responsible for the murder is a vampire, specifically Count Mora ( Bela Lugosi ) and his daughter Luna ( Carroll Borland ), while the Prague police inspector ( Lionel Atwill ) refuses to believe.

During 1916 and 1917, the EEF, commanded by Sir Archibald Murray and later by Edmund Allenby, had pushed the Central Powers ' Yildirim Army Group commanded by Erich von Falkenhayn and later by Otto Liman von Sanders back from the Suez Canal and out of the Sinai and southern Palestine.

* the description of neurotransmission and the first neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, by Sir Henry Hallett Dale and Otto Loewi, leading to a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1936 ;