Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

Instead of quelling the dissension, as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir Francis Drake lopped a man's head off under similar circumstances ), Hudson decided to be reasonable.

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1982 – 1990 Sir Francis Graham-Smith

He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing abhorrence of the Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

A Young Disraeli by Francis Grant ( artist ) | Sir Francis Grant, 1852

Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.

Similarly, the influences of philosophers such as Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), who demanded more rigor in mathematics and in removing bias from scientific observations, led to a scientific revolution.

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.

Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.

In 1586, Sir Francis Drake captured the city of Santo Domingo, collecting a ransom for its return to Spanish rule.

The Neustra Señora del Rosario, the Spanish Armada's " payship " commanded by Admiral Pedro de Valdés, was captured along with all its crew by Sir Francis Drake.

* Piggott, Sir Francis.

* 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, drawing on the recent work of his half-cousin Charles Darwin.

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.

Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State ( England ) | Principal Secretary 1573 – 1590.

Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.

Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.

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.

* 1822 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician ( d. 1911 )

* January 17 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist ( b. 1822 )

* February 16 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist ( d. 1911 )

He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton.

Sir Francis Galton first observed the phenomenon in the context of simple linear regression of data points.

The concept of regression comes from genetics and was popularized by Sir Francis Galton during the late 19th century with the publication of Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature.

Sir Francis Galton first discovered anticyclones in the 1860s while studying meteorology.

The bean machine, as drawn by Sir Francis Galton

The bean machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem, in particular that the normal distribution is approximate to the binomial distribution.

During the late 19th century, English psychometrician Sir Francis Galton attempted to define physiognomic characteristics of health, disease, beauty, and criminality, via a method of composite photography.

* Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 1938 – 1949

Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.

Other potential influences in the development of this technique include Husserl's version of epoche and the work of Sir Francis Galton.

Historiometry started in the early 19th century with studies on the relationship between age and achievement by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet in the careers of prominent French and English playwrights but it was Sir Francis Galton, a pioneering English eugenist who popularized historiometry in his 1869 work, Hereditary Genius.

This use of the word " regression " was coined by Sir Francis Galton in a study from 1885 called " Regression Toward Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature ".

Even NPL director Sir Charles Galton Darwin, while supporting the work, observed that Essen would get the correct result once he had perfected the technique.

) Following the death of George's son, Sir Charles Galton Darwin, in 1962, those concerned with the foundation of the new college learned that the property was to become available.

* Sir Francis Galton ( 1822 – 1911 ), English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS ( 17 December 177829 May 1829 ) was a British chemist and inventor.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS ( 29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945 ) was an English electrical engineer and physicist.

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, ( October 31, 1925 – March 15, 2004 ) was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist.

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, FRS, QC, MP ( 1965 – 1966 )

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, FRS, QC ( 1966 – 1976 )

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC ( 1976 – 15 May 1978 )

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.

* Arthur Eddington OM ( Sir ) FRS: cremated

* James Frazer OM, FRS, FBA ( Sir )

* Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM, FRS, ( Sir )

* Horace Lamb ( Sir ) FRS

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS ( 13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973 ) is considered by many to be the " inventor of radar ".

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH, FRS ( 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871 )

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS ( 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941 ) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS ( born 9 January 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.