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On February 9, 1734, the town was incorporated as Rumford, from which Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford would take his title.
On 10 November Reynolds wrote to Benjamin West to resign the Presidency, but the General Assembly agreed that Reynolds should be re-elected, with Sir William Chambers and West to deputise for him.
Benjamin West's depiction of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | William Johnson sparing Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau | Lord Dieskau's life after the Battle of Lake George.
* Sir Benjamin Rudyerd
Prime Ministers of the period included: Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, and Lord Rosebery.
* Sir Benjamin Heywood, a prosperous banker, acted as President of the Mechanics ' Institute for the period 1824 1841 ; his son, Oliver subsequently became President.
Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.
These parties were led by many prominent statesmen including Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury.
* May 19 Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer ( b. 1840 )
* November 30 Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka ( king ) of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
* Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Bt ( Irish brewer and philanthropist ).
Joule could not resist finding antecedents of his views in Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, John Locke, Benjamin Thompson ( Count Rumford ) and Sir Humphry Davy.
Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.
In 1790, Sir Benjamin Hammett introduced a bill into Parliament to end the practice.
" He was appointed to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904, and early in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the committee of engineers which subsequently reported in favor of a sea-level canal ... In 1904 Parsons was also appointed, together with the famous British engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, to membership on a board to pass on the plans of the Royal Commission on London Traffic.
The school's former students ( Old Greshamians ) include Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Lord Reith, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, President Erskine Childers, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Donald Maclean, Sir Lennox Berkeley, Sir Stephen Spender, Tom Wintringham, Sir James Dyson, Ralph Firman, Sir Peter Brook, Sebastian Shaw, Sienna Guillory and Michael Cummings.
* Benjamin Franklin Talbert ( 1875 1959 ) Local blacksmith who shoed Sir Barton, the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
It was regranted to its inhabitants in 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth, who renamed it Keene after Sir Benjamin Keene, English minister to Spain and a West Indies trader.

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# 1760 1770 Sir William Baker
The doctors Richard Warren and Sir George Baker believed Reynolds ' illness to be psychological and they bled his neck " with a view of drawing the humour from his eyes " but the effect of this in the view of his niece was that it seemed " as if the ' principle of life ' were gone " from Reynolds.
They were designed by Sir Herbert Baker and the opening ceremony was performed by Sir Stanley Jackson, who had suggested the inclusion of the words The Great Cricketer in the dedication.
Eventually, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Sir Robert Baker, ordered that the official route be abandoned and the cortège passed through the city.
They include those dedicated to Beau Nash, Admiral Arthur Phillip ( first Governor of the colony of New South Wales, which became part of Australia after federation in 1901 ), James Montague ( Bishop of Bath and Wells ), Lady Waller ( wife of William Waller, a Roundhead military leader in the English Civil War ), Elizabeth Grieve ( wife of James Grieve, physician to Elizabeth, Empress of Russia ), Sir William Baker, John Sibthorp, Richard Hussey Bickerton, William Hoare, Richard Bickerton and US Senator William Bingham.
It was here that he first met Sir Herbert Baker.
The vice presidents are Sir David Attenborough, Prof. Chris Baines, Prof. David MacDonald, Julian Pettifer, Prof. Robert Worcester, Chris Packham, Nick Baker, Bill Oddie and Bill Bolsover.
Sir Richard Baker ( 1568 18 February 1645 ) was the English author of the Chronicle of the Kings of England and other works.
He was probably born at Sissinghurst in Kent, the grandson of Sir John Baker, the first Chancellor of the Exchequer.
* Cato Variegatus or Catoes Morall Distichs, Translated and Paraphrased by Sir Richard Baker, Knight ( London, 1636 )
Valentine BakerValentine Baker ( also known as Baker Pasha ) ( 1827 1887 ), British soldier, was a younger brother of Sir Samuel Baker.
An entirely different design was proposed by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler.
John Baker has described them as " perhaps the single most influential series of named reports ", and even Francis Bacon, Coke's rival, wrote praisingly of them, saying " Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports ( which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted, yet they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases ), for the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases of modern experience are fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time ".
Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
The programme, produced in association with ITN, featured appearances from Sir Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baker ( later a founder of TWW's successors, Harlech Television ), Naunton Wayne, Donald Sinden, Tessie O ' Shea, Donald Houston, Petula Clark, Tommy Cooper and Ralph Reader.
In 1777 his patron John Norris died ; but contributions from Etonians helped fund his maintenance at the university, and he found a new patron in Sir George Baker, then president of the College of Physicians.
The project was designed by Sir William Willcocks and involved several eminent engineers, including Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Aird, whose firm, John Aird & Co., was the main contractor.

Sir and KCB
( 1978 ) Chauvel of the Light Horse A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, GCMG, KCB.
The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen.
The house had previously belonged to Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and before him General Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB.
* 19 June September 1914: Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, MVO, DSO
Vice-Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, KCB, MVO, DSO
* 1915 27 November 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO
Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO
| Sir Adrian Johns KCB CBE ADC
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS ( 13 April 1892 5 December 1973 ) is considered by many to be the " inventor of radar ".
* Vice-Adm Sir Roy Newman KCB, President from 1996 to 2001 of the Royal Naval Association
Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty ( comic baritone )
Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 1896 ).
Pinafore ( as Sir Joseph Porter, KCB ).
* Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Anthony Wagner, KCB KCVO BCL MA ( Oxon ) FSA Garter Principal King of Arms 27 October 1954 1995
* Sir Jonathan Phillips, KCB 2010 -.
* General Sir ( Hugh ) Michael Rose, KCB, CBE, DSO, QGM
* Major Sir Edward Atkinson KCB CBE
General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS ( 14 October 1788 26 June 1883 ) was an Anglo-Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer and the 30th President of the Royal Society.
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 Kenneth Clark KCB ( 1938 46 )
* Prof. Sir Kenneth Clark KCB ( 1946 49 )
* Prof. Sir Kenneth Clark KCB FBA ( 1949 50 )
* Sir Kenneth Clark KCB FBA ( 1950 59 )

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