* 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.

* 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.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

* The Life Of Sir Alexander Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1959.

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.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

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.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.

His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon was also a General in the Army.

She married Sir Alexander Seton ( d. 1438 ) and was the mother of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly ( ancestor of the Marquesses of Huntly ).

* 1926 – Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor ( d. 1995 )

They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, ( 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891 ), was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

* Sir Alexander Hamilton ( d. bef.

In 1789 Sir Alexander Mackenzie followed the river named after him to the Arctic Ocean.

* Sir Frederick Cadogan ( beheaded ) for burning a turtle in public ( b. 1208 )

Among the representatives were the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan ; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Andrei Gromyko ( 1909 – 1989 ); Wellington Koo ( 1887 – 1985 ), Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom ; and U. S. Undersecretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. ( 1900 – 1949 ), each of whom chaired his respective delegation.

It appears that a frank conversation with his pugnacious Permanent Secretary, Sir Alexander Cadogan brought Halifax to the sharp realisation that the road to appeasement had taken Britain into a series of concessions that were unwise, and that were unlikely to secure the necessary pacification of Germany.

Two days later Italy invaded Albania but Halifax met Sir Alexander Cadogan and " decided we can't do anything to stop it ".

Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet, who was killed in action at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709, and Penelope Cadogan, sister of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan.

It was depicted by Sir Frank Dicksee, Frank Cadogan Cowper, John William Waterhouse, Arthur Hughes, Walter Crane, and Henry Maynell Rheam.

To the right of Sir Edward stands Henry Hopkinson, private secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan ; Richard Casey, Minister Resident in the Middle East, is to the right of Lady Spears, with Mrs Ethel Casey to her left.

Cadogan married Elizabeth, second daughter and heiress of the prominent physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane.

Sir George Cadogan, second son of the third Earl, was a General in the Army.

Sir Edward Cadogan, seventh son of the fifth Earl, was a Conservative Member of Parliament.

Anyone coming in afterwards to steal them would have needed three keys ( for the building, the office, and the safe ), but no duplicates were found on Cadogan West ’ s body, and only the late Sir James had all three keys.

* 1982-1984 Sir John Ivan George Cadogan ( 1930 -)

* Sir Alexander Cadogan ( 1952 )

Sir Alexander Cadogan wrote about Goerdeler's offer " We are to deliver the goods and Germany gives I. O. Us ".

Gilmour was the son of stockbroker Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, Victoria, a granddaughter of the 5th Earl of Cadogan.

At " Old Stamboul " – as he came to remember the Embassy of Sir Nicholas O ' Conor – he worked together with Laurence Oliphant, Percy Loraine and Alexander Cadogan.

* Sir Cadogan, fictional Harry Potter character

Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan PC OM GCMG KCB ( 25 November 1884 – 9 July 1968 ) was a British civil servant.

Winston Churchill told Parliament, " His Majesty's Government could have had no abler representative that Sir Alexander Cadogan and there is no doubt that a most valuable task has been discharged.

The plot of the movie concerns Kelly Collins, a free-spirited eighth grade girl whose mother gets married to Brigadier General Joe " Sir " Maxwell ( Gary Cole ).

Sir Julius Vogel, KCMG ( 24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899 ) was the eighth Premier of New Zealand.

A member of an old Northumberland family, he was eighth in descent from Sir Thomas Grey, of Heton, elder brother of John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville ( see the Earl of Tankerville, 1418 creation ) and fifth in descent from Sir Edward Grey, of Howick, uncle of William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Warke.

* Sir Robert Laird Borden ( 1854-1937 ), eighth Prime Minister of Canada, 1911-1920

John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL ( 27 April 1874 – 20 August 1941 ), known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth Governor-General of Australia.

Major-General Sir Newton James Moore KCMG ( 17 May 1870 – 28 October 1936 ), was the eighth Premier of Western Australia and a member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1932.

Laura, Lady Borden ( née Bond ; November 26, 1861 – September 7, 1940 ) was the wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada.

He also died without issue and was succeeded by his distant relative Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, 5th Baronet, of Killock, who became the eighth Earl of Stair ( see below for earlier history of the baronetcy ).

The barony was inherited by his second cousin once removed, Sir Paulet St Andrew St John, 5th Baronet, who became the eighth Baron.

Sir Daniel Lascelles, son of the Honourable William Horace Lascelles, eighth son of the fourth Earl, was a diplomat.

Also, Sir Edmund Monson, younger brother of the first Viscount Oxenbridge and the eighth Baron, was a noted diplomat and served as British Ambassador to France from 1896 to 1904.

The Honourable Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, younger twin brother of the eighth Baron, was a Lord Justice of Appeal.

The eighth share was Sir George Carteret's, which had passed to his great-grandson John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

Sir Hugh John Macdonald, PC ( March 13, 1850 – March 29, 1929 ) was the only surviving son of the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, and was a politician in his own right, serving as a member of the Canadian House of Commons and a federal cabinet minister, and briefly as the eighth Premier of Manitoba.

The eighth share belonged to Lord Carteret, great-grandson of original Lord Proprietor, Sir George Carteret.

* Sir Robert Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada

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

* Sir Hugh John Macdonald was the son of John A. Macdonald, served as a member of the Canadian House of Commons, a federal cabinet minister, and as the eighth Premier of Manitoba.

Sir Paulias Nguna Matane GCL, GCMG, OBE, KStJ ( born 21 September 1931 ), formerly a career civil servant, was the eighth Governor-General of Papua New Guinea from 29 June 2004 to 13 December 2010.

His mother was Jane, third daughter of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet, and sister of the seventh and eighth Earls of Stair ; she died in 1833.

He will play the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Sir Oliver Mowat.

The eldest son, Charles Hugh, became eighth lord ; the third was Major General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford.