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* 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 and Tilloch
* Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, a major figure in Canadian Confederation
* Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
As a banker, he strongly disagreed with the government ’ s proposed measures to widen its fiscal powers during the late 1860s, and in 1866 he attacked Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt ’ s recommendations for tariff reductions, fearing it would bring " beggary or emigration " for many Canadians.
He joined Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt and Elliot Torrance Galt in their western industrial enterprises as a surveyor, later becoming Elliott's assistant and Land Commissioner of the North Western Coal and Navigation Company.

Sir and Galt
The motion succeeded, and Alexander Galt, John Ross, and Sir George-Étienne Cartier went to London to begin the long process of convincing the British to make British North America into the first sovereign Dominion within the British Empire.
Today, Sir Galt has a street name after him.
Sir Alexander Galt and his son Elliott Torrance Galt co-founded the city of Lethbridge, Alberta in 1883, when he established a coal mine on the banks of the Oldman River in the southwest portion of the District of Alberta, Northwest Territories.
Sir Alexander Galt laid out the street plan of Lethbridge's present location in 1885 after his settlement was moved to the prairie level from the river valley.
Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier dedicated the Galt Hospital addition, which houses the Galt Museum, in 1910.
* Sir Alexander Galt ( 1817-1893 ), businessman, statesman, Father Of Confederation
* Galt House, Simpson Street ; built in the 1860s for Sir Alexander Galt, later lived in by the Caverhills, since demolished
In 1899, he married Mabel Lillian Galt, a daughter of Sir Alexander and half-sister of Elliot Galt.

Sir and GCMG
Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.
* 1955-1957: His Highness The Right Honourable Aga Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, PC, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO
( 1978 ) Chauvel of the Light Horse A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, GCMG, KCB.
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH ( 8 August 188020 December 1961 ) was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament .< ref >
Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.
* Sir Reginald Hibbert, GCMG Chargé d ' Affaires in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, 1964 66 ; Minister at Bonn 1972 75 ; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1975 76 ; Deputy Under-Secretary of State 1976 79 ; Ambassador to France 1979 82.
Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH ( 9 September 191119 May 2002 ), Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH ( 23 February 190831 March 1988 ), was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia.
Sir John " Black Jack " McEwen, GCMG, CH ( 29 March 1900 20 November 1980 ), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.
* The Most Revd the Hon Sir Paul Reeves GCMG GCVO QSO, former Archbishop of New Zealand and Governor-General of New Zealand
* Sir George Ferguson Bowen GCMG
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC ( 18 January 1849 7 January 1920 ), Australian politician and judge, served as the first Prime Minister of Australia and became a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD ( 27 June 1865 8 October 1931 ) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War.
Sir Arthur William Fadden, GCMG ( 13 April 1894 21 April 1973 ) was an Australian politician and, briefly, the 13th Prime Minister of Australia.
* Rt Hon Sir Earle Page, GCMG MP: Minister for Commerce ( CP )
* 1973 1978: Sir Maurice Oldfield, GCMG, CBE
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake, KG, GCMG, CH, PC, QSO, KStJ ( 11 February 1904 8 December 1983 ) was a New Zealand politician.
( 3 ) Maj Donald Struan Robertson ( d. 1991 ), son of the Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson GCMG KBE.
Lieutenant-General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie GCMG, KCB, DSO ( 12 July 1879 3 October 1964 ) was a British Army veteran of the Second Boer War, and First and Second World Wars.
Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC ( 25 February 1845 12 September 1918 ) was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia.
* 1946 1951: Lieutenant-General His Excellency Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO ***
* William Robertson Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO ( 29 January 1860 12 February 1933 ), Chief of the Imperial General Staff ( CIGS ) from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
Sir Henry " Harry " Hamilton Johnston, GCMG, KCB ( 12 June 1858-31 July 1927 ), was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the " Scramble for Africa " that occurred at the end of the 19th century.
Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB ( 5 December 1875 30 November 1933 ), was a Canadian general during World War I.

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