Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".

Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

* 1781 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist ( d. 1868 )

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

* Sir David Brewster -- a short biography

* 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

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 May – 3 June 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 3 June – 18 October 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO

Famous city artists include the portrait painters Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir David Wilkie and Allan Ramsay.

British MP and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the Chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, guided the drafting of the Convention.

Close to the village stands Hanstead House, built by Sir David Yule in 1925, who is buried in the grounds.

Sir Henry Yule ( 1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889 ) was a Scottish Orientalist.

* Yule, Henry, Sir.

As explained by Sir Henry Yule, the editor of an English edition of Marco Polo ’ s Travels: “ Some geographers of the 16th century, following the old editions which carried the travellers south-east of Java to the land of Boeach ( or Locac ), introduced in their maps a continent in that situation ”.

The edition of Luigi Foscolo Benedetto, Marco Polo, Il Milione, under the patronage of the Comitato Geografico Nazionale Italiano ( Florence: Olschki, 1928 ), collated sixty additional manuscript sources, in addition to some eighty that had been collected by Sir Henry Yule, for his 1871 edition.

The man as a unit of weight is thought to be of at least Chaldean origin, with Sir Henry Yule attributing Akkadian origins to the word.

* Yule, Henry, Sir.

In their 1886 dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.

The Bricket Wood campus operated for 14 years on the former estate of Sir David Yule several miles north of London.

Following a succession of owners the newspaper was subsequently bought in 1926 by Sir David Yule of Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, England.

She married Sir David Yule ( 1858-1928 ) a British businessman and nephew of Andrew Yule of Calcutta.

In 1925, Sir David constructed Hanstead House in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, where Lady Yule and her daughter Gladys lived for the rest of their lives.

His uncle was the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule.

Yule had broad interests and his collaborators included the agricultural meteorologist R. H. Hooker, the medical statistician Major Greenwood and the agricultural scientist Sir Frank Engledow.

Several major contributions were received, and the Calcutta millionaire Sir David Yule proved extremely helpful.

In 1783, Father Vincentius Sangermano in his book, ' A Description of the Burmese Empire ' described them as, " a petty nation called JO ( JAW )" Sir Henry Yule, as early as 1508 mentioned about the YO country the location of which was " west of the mouth of the Kyen-dwen ( Chindwin ) the interior of Doab, between the Irrawaddy and the Chindwin, from Mout-Shabo upwards and the whole of the hill country east and north-east of the capital, towards the Ruby-mines, the upper course of Hyitnge, and the Chinese frontier ".

In the verdict of Sir Henry Yule:

* Odoric of Pordenone, translation by Sir Henry Yule, introduction by Paolo Chiesa, The Travels of Friar Odoric: 14th Century Journal of the Blessed Odoric of Pordenone, Eerdmans ( December 15, 2001 ), hardcover, 174 pages,

Malleson ( The History of Afghanistan from the Earliest Period to the outbreak of the War of 1878, 39 ), Col. Failson, ( History of Afghanistan, 49 ), George Bell ( Tribes of Afghanistan, 15 ), E. Balfour ( Encyclopedia of India, article on Afghanistan ), Sir Henry Yule ( Encyclopædia Britannica, article on Afghanistan ), and the Hon.

He was succeeded in turn by Sir David Dundas ( 1871 – 77 ), a lawyer and politician, and then by Sir Henry Yule ( 1877 – 89 ), an Oriental scholar and former East India Company soldier.

Burnell originated with Sir Henry Yule the well-known dictionary of Anglo-Indian words and phrases, Hobson-Jobson.

He did not return to McAndrews & Forbes after the war ; instead, in 1919, he became chairman of the vast Andrew Yule and Company Ltd. of Calcutta, succeeding Sir David Yule.