Another English seaman, Captain Abraham Kendall, visited Saint Helena in 1591, and in 1593 Sir James Lancaster stopped at the island on his way home from the East.

Further camellias imported in the East Indiamen were associated with the patrons whose gardeners grew them: a double red for Sir Robert Preston in 1794 and the pale pink named " Lady Hume's Blush " for Amelia, the lady of Sir Abraham Hume of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire ( 1806 ).

The same year, Philidor played many games with another strong player, Sir Abraham Janssen, who was then the best player in England, and with the exception of M. de Legalle, probably the best player Philidor ever encountered.

Of the players who encountered Philidor, Sir Abraham Janssens, who died in 1775, seems to have been the best, Mr. George Atwood, a mathematician, one of Pitt's secretaries came next, he was of a class which we should call third or two grades of odds below Philidor, a high standard of excellence to which but few amateurs attain.

* Edward Abraham ( Sir Edward ) ( Fellow 1948 – 1999 )

He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, Dutch financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible, and Orrilia Ortellius, of the famous Ortellius family of mapmakers, and nephew of the cartographer Abraham Ortelius.

Philip Sydney Stott, third son of Abraham and later titled as Sir Philip Stott, 1st Baronet, was the most prominent and famous of the Stott mill architects.

Saunderson possessed the friendship of many of the eminent mathematicians of the time, such as Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, Abraham De Moivre and Roger Cotes.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

With the translation of the Avesta by Abraham Anquetil-Duperron and the discovery of the Indo-European languages by Sir William Jones complex connections between the early history of Eastern and Western cultures emerged.

In 1598 Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia mentions him with Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Abraham Fraunce and others as the " best for pastorall ", but no pastorals of Gosson's are extant.

In 1810 Lord Brownlow married Sophia Hume, daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, of Wormleybury and Lady Amelia Egerton, great-granddaughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.

Significant funding for the science projects and bursaries has come from the Sir Edward Abraham Foundation.

Blackall was named by Surveyor Abraham H. May after Sir Samuel Blackall, the second Governor of Queensland.

Also among them are David Mocatta, a well-known architect, as well as more recently Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta, a famous British Judge.

* Cephalosporin C is first characterized, by Guy Newton and Edward Abraham of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in the University of Oxford.

Lady Amelia Egerton, sister of the seventh and eighth Earls, married Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet.

He showed early prodigious ability at mathematics, and was recommended to Sir Arthur Eddington by Abraham Frankel.

Born at Cawnpore, India, on 30 September 1832, Lord Roberts was the second son of General Sir Abraham Roberts, a native of County Waterford in the south-east of Ireland At the time Sir Abraham was commanding the 1st Bengal European Regiment.

Sir Abraham Roberts, father of the first Earl, was also a distinguished soldier.

The favorable position of English Jews was shown, among other things, by the visit of Abraham ibn Ezra in 1158, by that of Isaac of Chernigov in 1181, and by the resort to England of Jews who were exiled from France by Philip Augustus in 1182, among them probably being Judah Sir Leon of Paris.

The star-studded show featured Sir Elton John, Pattie Labelle, Bryan Adams, and Rufus Wainwright.

The British musician Elton John, for example, is a Knight Bachelor, thus entitled to be called Sir Elton.

So, Elton John may be called Sir Elton or Sir Elton John, but never Sir John.

* April 19 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( d. 1883 )

* July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet ( b. 1846 )

* October 14 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( b. 1818 )

** Sir Arthur Elton, pioneer of the British documentary film industry ( b. 1906 )

* May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English inventor and studio potter ( d. 1920 )

All the 800-plus Steinway Artists signed the piano with their names, including Vladimir Horowitz and Sir Elton John.

When he was knighted, he became Sir Elton John rather than Sir Reginald Dwight.

* Sir Elton John

On 15 September 1997, Sting joined Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Sir Elton John, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London's Royal Albert Hall for Music For Montserrat, a benefit concert for the Caribbean island that had recently been devastated by an eruption from a volcano.

Sir Elton John, who owned Watford during both of Graham Taylor's successful periods as manager, serves alongside Taylor as the club's joint Honorary Life President.

Some of the more notable contributors were Sir Geoffrey Elton, John Clive, Arnaldo Momigliano, Frances Yates, Jeremy Catto, Robert S. Lopez, Michael Howard, David S. Katz, Dimitri Obolensky, J. H.

In 1893, Sir W. M. Ramsay in The Church in the Roman Empire held that the Codex Bezae ( the Western text ) rested on a recension made in Asia Minor ( somewhere between Ephesus and southern Galatia ), not later than about the middle of the 2nd century.

* Sir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1632 – 1665 )

* J. Northcote, The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1818, 2nd edition, 2 volumes ).

Sir John Hussey, later Lord Hussey, was her chamberlain from 1530, and his wife, Lady Anne, daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, was one of Mary's attendants.

The Cowes-Torquay was launched by Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet as the first offshore powerboat racing sport in Britain in 1961.

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* Sir William Compton ( 1625-1663 ; third son of Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton )

* August 17 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.

* August 11 – Domhnall II, Earl of Mar, Sir Robert Keith, Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray, Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith and Robert Bruce ( at the Battle of Dupplin Moor )

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Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet ( 5 February 17882 July 1850 ) was a British Conservative statesman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846.

* Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet ( 1610 – 1675 ), English scholar and politician

Sir Edward Borough was the eldest son of the 2nd Baron's eldest son, Sir Thomas Borough, who would become the 1st Baron Burgh in December 1529 after his father was declared insane.

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* Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet ( 1804 – 1889 ), MP, elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone

In 1719, he bought Battle Abbey from Sir Henry Whistler, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd baronet ( died 1779, leaving a widow, but no children ; whereupon he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother ).

* Lady Katherine Neville, married first on 12 January 1411 John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk ; married second Sir Thomas Strangways ; married third John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont ; married fourth Sir John Woodville ( d. 12 August 1469 ).

It was named for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Irish statesman, and the sister of Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.

* Lady Anne Seymour ( 1538 – 1588 ), married firstly John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick ; she married secondly Sir Edward Unton, MP, by whom she had issue.

Sir Henry Percy KG ( 20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403 ) was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, and Margaret Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby, and Alice de Audley.

* Elizabeth Percy ( c. 1395 – 26 October 1436 ), who married firstly John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, slain at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422, by whom she had issue, and secondly Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland ( d. 3 November 1484 ), by whom she had a son, Sir John Neville.

The title then passed to a junior branch of the family, the Baronets Stanley of Bickerstaffe, descended from Sir James Stanley, younger brother of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby.