1984 — The country's first coalition government, between Sir Thomas and Geoffrey Henry, is signed in the lead up to hosting regional Mini Games in 1985.

* 1926 – Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician

Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE ( born 8 December 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire ) is a retired England footballer best remembered for making his mark in history as the only player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final.

Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

* Sir Geoffrey Arthur, 1973 – 75

Sir Geoffrey Palmer, former New Zealand Prime Minister

* Dr Matthew Palmer, former Dean of Law School, son of Sir Geoffrey Palmer above

** Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician

* June – Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel to Connaught to parley with the local Irish lords.

Keynes's brother Sir Geoffrey Keynes ( 1887 – 1982 ) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile.

The principal drafter of this provision, Sir Geoffrey Harrison, explained that this article was not intended to approve the expulsions but to find a way to transfer the competence to the Control Council in Berlin so as to regulate the flow.

Geoffrey and Katharine Clifton were based on Sir Robert Clayton East-Clayton, 9th Baronet of Marden, and 5th Baronet of Hall Place, Maidenhead, and his wife, Dorothy, both of whom were dead by the time the novel takes place.

In November 1538, using evidence acquired from Sir Geoffrey Pole under interrogation in the Tower, he imprisoned the Marquess of Exeter, Sir Edward Neville, and Sir Nicholas Carew on charges of treason ; all were executed in the following months.

* Robert Warwick as Sir Geoffrey, a supporter of Prince John

* Sir Geoffrey Keynes, ed.

Their daughters were actresses Viola Tree ( who married theatre critic Alan Parsons ) and Felicity Tree ( who married Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, third baronet ) and poet Iris Tree ( who married Curtis Moffat, becoming Countess Ledebur ).

The film stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville / Edward, the Black Prince.

Along the way to his first tournament in Rouen, the trio encounters Geoffrey Chaucer ( Paul Bettany ), who agrees to forge patents of nobility to allow William to compete as a knight under the assumed name of " Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein " from Gelderland.

In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.

The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.

* Roosevelt hosted Sir Winston Churchill in May 1943.

The 7th Duke of Marlborough was the paternal grandfather of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ( who was born at Blenheim Palace on 30 November 1874 ).

*< cite > History of the English-Speaking Peoples < cite > by Sir Winston Churchill Cassell reference, ISBN 0-304-36389-8

Winston Churchill | Sir Winston Churchill with the Royal Scots Fusiliers near the Western Front in 1916.

In recent history, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Heath, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not been elevated to the House of Lords.

* 1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet ( which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill ) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.

* Anthony Cave Brown, " C ": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, 1987, published by Macmillan, New York.

Local stamps were issued for Soay between 1965 and 1967, all on the Europa theme, some being overprinted to commemorate Sir Winston Churchill.

* Sir Winston Churchill

Prime Ministers from 1900 to 1945: Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.

* Sir Winston Churchill

* Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ( United Kingdom )

* April 9 – Sir Winston Churchill becomes honorary citizen of the United States

* January 30 – State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place with the largest assembly of statesmen in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.

* November 3 – Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur and grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill ( d. 1891 )

Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.

On 24 November, Baldwin consulted the three leading opposition politicians in Britain: Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee, Liberal leader Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston Churchill.

In 1969, along with Hugh Trevor-Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Winston Churchill's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

Similarly, though Sir Winston Churchill was first elected in 1900, he did not become Father of the House until 1959 because he lost his seat in 1922, not returning to the Commons until 1924.

Queen Elizabeth II came to dine at 10 Downing Street to mark his resignation, an honour she has bestowed on only one other Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.