They often carried the title of master builder, or surveyor, after serving a number of years as an apprentice ( such as Sir Christopher Wren ).

: Sir Christopher Wren

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.

He appealed to Burghley to intervene with the Queen on his behalf, but his father-in-law repeatedly put the matter in the hands of Sir Christopher Hatton.

Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".

He pushed onwards in his lone flagship, now renamed the Golden Hind in honour of Sir Christopher Hatton ( after his coat of arms ).

Georgian succeeded the English Baroque of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, William Talman, and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The devastating effects of the fire converted the development of insurance " from a matter of convenience into one of urgency, a change of opinion reflected in Sir Christopher Wren's inclusion of a site for ' the Insurance Office ' in his new plan for London in 1667.

* 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

These include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, among others.

The Trumpington Street Façade with the College Chapel on the right, the first building to be built by Sir Christopher Wren

Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger.

Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.

* Colonel Christopher Brandon — a close friend of Sir John Middleton.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

Nevile ’ s Court was completed in the late 17th century when the Wren Library, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was built.

** Sir Christopher Lee, English actor

* October 20 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician ( d. 1723 )

* February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician ( b. 1632 )

* November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found " a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning " ( later known as the Royal Society ).

Leicester, after some initial jealousy, also became a good friend of Sir Christopher Hatton, himself one of Elizabeth's favourites.

) ( 1847 ): Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton Richard Bentley

His daughter married Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, who lived in Temple Hatton, a house in Hatton, London.

Mary's sister, Elizabeth I held the property until 1574 when she gave the manor house ( but not the manor ) to Christopher Hatton who sold it in the same year to Sir Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter.

It is said that Coke first suggested marrying Hatton to Sir Robert Cecil, Hatton's uncle, at the funeral of Lord Burghley, Coke's patron ; he needed to ensure that he would continue his rise under Burghley's son, Cecil, and did this by marrying into the family.

Robert Rich married firstly, in February 1605, Frances Hatton ( 1590-1623 ), daughter and heir of Sir William Newport alias Hatton ( 1560-1597 ) and Elizabeth Gawdy, by whom he had at least five children.

The house was completed 1583 by the Elizabethan Lord chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton.

In June 2007, Jack Straw, an MP, was appointed as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, thus becoming the first Lord Chancellor to be a member of the House of Commons, rather than the House of Lords or its predecessor, the Curia Regis, since Sir Christopher Hatton in 1578.

Anne Hatton, who was the daughter of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton ( see the Viscount Hatton ) and a relation of the famous Sir Christopher Hatton.

In the Elizabethan era the Lord of the Manor, Sir Christopher Hatton was a sponsor of Sir Francis Drake's expeditions ; Drake renamed one of his ships the Golden Hind after the heraldic symbol of the Hatton family.

Striking southwards in the hope of collecting information about French movements, Nelson's ships stopped at Elba and Naples, where the British ambassador Sir William Hamilton reported that the French fleet had passed Sicily in the direction of Malta.

On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: " I have no doubt that innocent people were shot ".

The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.

Her stubbornness exasperated her interrogator, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, who reported, " I do see it in her face that she is guilty ".

From the eighteenth century, Spanish sources reported that immediately after the takeover of the city, Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own initiative caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession of the Rock in name of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, whose government ratified the occupation.

" The State's longest serving Governor, Sir Roden Cutler, was also reported as saying: " It's a political push to make way in New South Wales to lead the push for a republic.

The then Attorney General for England and Wales ( Sir Thomas Inskip ) is reported to have warned the then Attorney-General of the Irish Free State ( Conor Maguire ) that Ireland had no right to abolish appeals to the Privy Council.

In 1934 the Sir Edward Mountain expedition analysed film taken the same year and concluded that the monster was a species of seal, which was reported in a national newspaper as " Loch Ness Riddle Solved – Official ".

It was reported that former Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare had ordered the operation in relation to his attempts to regain the leadership of the country and had appointed Sasa the commander of the PNGDF.

Oates is reported as saying to Scott, " Sir, I ’ m afraid you ’ ll come to regret not taking my advice.

The East India Company Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe ( 1816 – 1821 ), was appointed by and directly reported to Lord Bathurst, the Secretary for War and the Colonies, in London.

In 1877, the Russian chemist Serge Kern reported discovering the missing element in platinum ore. Kern named what he thought was the new element davyum ( after the noted English chemist Sir Humphry Davy ), but it was eventually determined to be a mixture of iridium, rhodium and iron.

Sir George Stuart White, commanding the British division at Ladysmith, had unwisely allowed Major-General Penn Symons to throw a brigade forward to the coal-mining town of Dundee ( also reported as Glencoe ), which was surrounded by hills.

The DNA profiling technique was first reported in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester in England, and is now the basis of several national DNA databases.

In 1957 a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London had been set up under Sir Edwin Herbert, and this reported in 1960, recommending the creation of 52 new London boroughs as the basis for local government.

Earlier in 1893, Professor McKendrick, of Glasgow, had examined subject and reported unfavourably on the scant knowledge of the special senses displayed by the candidates ; it was in reaction to this that Sir Michael Foster, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed Rivers as a lecturer and he became Fellow Commoner at St John's College forthwith.

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reported seeing large footprints while scaling Mount Everest.

Sir William Drury reported to Sir William Cecil, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I of England, that the Queen was in continuous ill-health " for the most part either melancholy or sickly ".

His general bearing in society — as reported by Sir Walter Scott -- had not been such as to gain and retain lasting friendships.

" 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.

" Diana Mosley, wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, is reported on the ' best authority ', that of her family and intimate circle, to be a public danger at the present time.

Thus, ignoring the second opinion offered by Sir Christopher Wren, the marsh was channelled into three small canal-like streams and across it rose a bridge of huge proportions, so huge it was reported to contain some 30-odd rooms.