After Essex's co-conspirator Sir Charles Danvers was executed on in March, Oxford became involved in a complicated suit regarding lands which had reverted to the Crown by escheat at Danvers ' attainder, a suit opposed by Danvers ' kinsmen.

One evening Jekyll attends a party at the home of his fiancee Muriel Carew ( Rose Hobart ), the daughter of Brigadier General Sir Danvers Carew ( Halliwell Hobbes ).

After the other guests have left, Jekyll informs Sir Danvers that, after speaking to Muriel, he wants Carew's permission to push up their wedding date.

Sir Danvers sternly refuses Jekyll's request.

Muriel and Sir Danvers leave London for a few months.

With Ivy's murder, Sir Danvers ' anger towards him for missing the party, and Hyde's persona beginning to dominate his own, Henry Jekyll's life continues to spiral out of control.

He later goes to the Carews ' where Sir Danvers coldly rejects his visit but Muriel welcomes him.

Hyde then viciously murders Sir Danvers out in the garden by striking him repeatedly with Jekyll's cane until it breaks, then runs off into the night towards Jekyll's home and the lab to mix a new formula to change himself back.

* Halliwell Hobbes as Brigadier General Sir Danvers Carew

Amongst his benefactors was Sir John Danvers of Chelsea, the regicide.

The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries initially established the garden on a leased site of Sir John Danvers ’ well-established garden in Chelsea, London.

This house, called Danvers House, adjoined the mansion that had once been the house of Sir Thomas More.

In 1753 he went to America as private secretary to Sir Danvers Osborne, just appointed governor of New York.

Sir John Danvers ( 1588 – 1655 ) was an English courtier and politician.

Danvers was third and youngest son of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, by Elizabeth Danvers.

' ' Twas Sir John Danvers of Chelsey ,' John Aubrey writes ,' who first taught us the way of Italian gardens.

' His house, called Danvers House, adjoined the mansion, once the home of Sir Thomas More, which was known in the seventeenth century as Buckingham and also as Beaufort House.

On 10 July 1628, a year after the death of his first wife, Danvers, then aged 40, married Elizabeth ( b. 1604 ), daughter of the late Ambrose Dauntsey, and granddaughter of Sir John Dauntsey.

* David Plant, Sir John Danvers, Regicide, 1588-1655, the British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website

He had married Margery, daughter of Sir Richard Danvers with who he had two sons, Richard, who died young and Thomas, his heir and the father of the Catholic politician, Sir Francis Englefield.

The name " Holden " was chosen in honour of Sir Edward Holden, the company's first chairman and grandson of J. A.

* Sir Henry Keswick, chairman

In 1650, he went to Cambridge University, having received two exhibitions from St Paul's School ( perhaps owing to the influence of Sir George Downing, who was chairman of the judges and for whom he later worked at the exchequer ) and a grant from the Mercers Company.

For example, when Sir Francis Burdett, chairman of the London Hampden Club, proposed a resolution in favour of universal suffrage, equally sized electoral districts, and voting by secret ballot to the House of Commons, his motion found only one other supporter ( Lord Cochrane ) in the entire House.

Wedgwood was chairman ; also present were William Townsend Aiton ( successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens ), Sir Joseph Banks ( President of the Royal Society ), James Dickson ( a nurseryman ), William Forsyth ( Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville ( a Lord of the Admiralty ) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become the Secretary of the new society.

In 2007, long term chairman and owner Sir John Hall sold his share in the club to Mike Ashley.

Sir John Hall became the club's chairman in 1992, and replaced Ardiles with Keegan, who managed to save the team from relegation to the Third Division.

It depicts Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery and the usual chairman of the Turner Prize jury, and satirises Young British Artist Tracey Emin's installation, My Bed, consisting of her bed and objects, including knickers, which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee.

The British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Ltd was founded in February 1910 by Sir George White, chairman of the Bristol Tramway and Carriage Company, along with his son Stanley and his brother Samuel, to commercially exploit the fast-growing aviation sector.

Management of the theatre was assumed in 1948 by Sir Hugh Wontner, chairman of the Savoy hotel group.

Their chairman Sir Henry Norris took a 20 year lease on part of the grounds of St John ’ s Hall for £ 20, 000.

Sir Frank also served as chairman of the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council.

In addition, more faculties and departments were founded, including Medicine and Oceanography ( despite the discouragement of Sir John Wolfenden, the chairman of the University Grants Committee ).

* Sir Clive Martin ( former Lord Mayor of London and chairman of MPG, an international printing and communication company )

Due to the inability of its original grantees to settle the remote area, however, it was regranted in 1770 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, who renamed it Colebrook Town after Sir George Colebrooke, the East India Company's chairman of the board.

It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson, a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition.

Wembley was also the home to the Wembley Lions motorcycle speedway team, formed by the Wembley Stadium chairman Sir Arthur Elvin.

* Sir Peter Gershon-author of the Gershon Review, chairman of Premier Farnell and Symbian Ltd.

On 6 May 2004 it was announced that Sir Richard Dearlove was to be replaced as head of the SIS by John Scarlett, former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

The club moved in 1998 to the outskirts to the south of Reading to the new Madejski Stadium, which is named after the club's chairman Sir John Madejski.

In the same year he left Cambridge, he met and shortly afterwards married Miss Louisa Adelaide Edlin ( b. 1830 or 1831 ), sister of Judge Sir Peter Edlin, later chairman of the London Quarter Sessions.

Television Wales and West opened transmission at 4: 45pm on 14 January 1958 with a live, 15-minute opening ceremony by station chairman Lord Derby, Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards and Alfred Francis.

The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General John de Chastelain, chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, as well as Lord Eames, former Archbishop of Armagh and Sir George Quigley, former top civil servant.

He would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at I. C. I., the controversial sum of £ 24, 000 (£ 367, 000 in today's money ), £ 10, 000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the last chairman of the British Transport Commission, £ 14, 000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time.

: This article is about Sir Edward Watkin, railway chairman ( 1819-1901 ), for other people of the same name see Edward Watkin ( disambiguation )