* 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.

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.

The captain of the club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St Mary's, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and immunology.

But Sir Henry Harris said in 1998: " Without Fleming, no Chain ; without Chain, no Florey ; without Florey, no Heatley ; without Heatley, no penicillin.

* The Great Auk is the mascot of the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, Sir Sandford Fleming College in Ontario, and the Adelaide University Choral Society ( AUCS ) in Australia.

Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.

* 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer ; introduced Universal Standard Time ( d. 1915 )

Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS ( 29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945 ) was an English electrical engineer and physicist.

* The Discovery of Penicillin, A government produced film about the discovery of Penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming, and the continuing development of its use as an antibiotic by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

In the James Bond novels and short stories by Ian Fleming and others, Assistant Commissioner Sir Ronald Vallance is a recurring fictional character who works for Scotland Yard.

* Physiology or Medicine – Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey

* August 6 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1955 )

* March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1881 )

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

This was a higher honour than the knighthood awarded to penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and it recognised the monumental work Florey did in making penicillin available in sufficient quantities to save millions of lives in the war, despite Fleming's doubts that this was feasible.

Standard time, as originally proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1879, divided the world into twenty-four time zones, each one covering 15 degrees of longitude.

File: SirGeorgeFlemingBt2. jpg | Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet, British churchman.

Douglas's absence from his power base in the Lothians and the Scottish marches encouraged Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Sir David Fleming of Biggar, both firm supporters of Robert III, to take full advantage to become the principal political force in the area.

* Sir Roger Clarendon ( 1345 / 60-executed 1402 ); he married Margaret ( d. 1382 ), a daughter of John Fleming, Baron de la Roche.

and followed in 1937-1940 by a similar multi-cavity magnetron built by the British physicist, Sir John Turton Randall, FRSE together with a team of British coworkers for the British and American military radar installations in WWII.

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS FRSE ( 25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849 ) was a French-born engineer who settled in England.

Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS FRSE ( 31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907 ) was an eminent English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era.

Sir Henry Raeburn FRSE RSA ( 4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823 ) was a Scottish portrait painter, the country's first significant portraitist since the Union to remain based in Scotland.

Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE ( 23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860 ) was Governor of New South Wales ( 1821 – 25 ), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service.

Sir James Whyte Black OM FRS FRSE FRCP ( 14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010 ) was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist.

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA ( 22 February 1792 – 22 October 1871 ) was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.

* 2002-04 Sir George Mathewson CBE, LLD, FRSE

Sir ( Donald ) Neil MacCormick, QC, FBA, FRSE ( 27 May 1941 – 5 April 2009 ), or just Neil MacCormick, was a legal philosopher and Scottish politician.

Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer FRS FRSE ( June 2, 1850, Hornsey, Middlesex – March 29, 1935, North Berwick, East Lothian ) was an English physiologist who coined the word " insulin " after theorising that a single substance from the pancreas was responsible for diabetes mellitus.

* Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE, biologist, sociologist, philanthropist and pioneering town planner.

Sir D ' Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE ( 2 May 1860, Edinburgh – 21 June 1948, St Andrews ) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar.

Sir Gilbert Blane of Blanefield, 1st Baronet FRSE FRS MRCP ( 29 August 1749 – 26 June 1834 ) was a Scottish physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy.

Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE ( 27 March 1855-7 January 1935 ) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.

Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE ( 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 ), was a Scottish geologist and writer.

Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA ( 11 March 1920 – 7 March 2010 ) was a distinguished British Classical scholar and academic, who was head of an Oxford college and from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005 was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder of Fountainhall, 7th Baronet, FRSE FSA ( Scot ) ( 13 August 1784 – 29 May 1848 ) was a Scottish author.

Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet FRS FRSE ( 17 January 1761 – 23 June 1832 ) was a Scottish geologist and geophysicist, born at Dunglass, Haddingtonshire, to Sir John Hall, 3rd Baronet ( died 1776 ), by his spouse, Magdalen ( died 1763 ) daughter of Sir Robert Pringle, 3rd Baronet, of Stichill, Roxburghshire.

Sir Robert Robinson OM, PRS, FRSE ( 13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975 ) was an English organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs ( anthocyanins ) and alkaloids.

Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE ( born 7 July 1944 ) is an English embryologist and is currently Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Admiral Sir John Cunningham Kirkwood " Jock " Slater, GCB, LVO, DL, FRSE ( born 27 March 1938 ) is a former Royal Navy officer.

Sir Ivison Macadam, KCVO, CBE, FRSE.