* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

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

Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F. B. A., F. R. S.

* 1835 – 1881 Sir George Biddell Airy

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

Sir George Cayley was one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics.

In 1799 Sir George Cayley set forth the concept of the modern airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

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.

A drawing of a glider by Sir George Cayley, one of the early attempts at creating an aerodynamic shape.

Sir George Cayley is credited as the first person to identify the four aerodynamic forces of flight — weight, lift, drag, and thrust — and the relationships between them.

Otto Lilienthal, following the work of Sir George Cayley, was the first person to become highly successful with glider flights.

* Extract on The Beltane Fires from Sir James George Frazer's book The Golden Bough-1922

Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.

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.

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

* Frazer, Sir James George, Myths of the Origin of Fire, London: Macmillan, 1930.

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.

Sir William Calthorpe made presentations to the rectory of Beeston in 1460, 1481, and 1492

* Sir Paul Smith, the fashion designer who attended Beeston Fields Secondary Modern School for Boys whilst growing up.

* Sir Neil Cossons ( Chairman of English Heritage ) grew up in Beeston, attending Church Street School, where his father was the headmaster.

Sir Paul Smith, CBE, RDI, ( born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire on 5 July 1946 ) is an English fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear.

Roe married Lady Eleanor Beeston, the young widowed daughter of Sir Thomas Cave of Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire in 1614, just weeks before embarking for India.

It was continuously in the repertory there and at the Red Bull Theatre, under the managements of Christopher Beeston, William Beeston, and Sir William Davenant, down to the closing of the theatres at the start of the English Civil War in 1642.

File: Sir Theodore Mayerne drawing by Peter Paul Rubens. jpg | Rubens-Sir Théodore de Mayerne, a portrait drawing ( c. 1630 )

Sir John Gordon ( d. c. 1395 ) of Strathbogie, ancestor of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, was the brother of Elizabeth Gordon.

* Sir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1632 – 1665 )

* Sir William Hamilton, 1st Baronet ( c. 1605 – 1680 )

* Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet ( c. 1607 – 1679 )

* Lady Margaret Hamilton ( d. c. 4 May 1642 ), married Sir William Cuninghame of Caprington

In his History of the World ( written c. 1616 ) Sir Walter Raleigh erroneously asserted ( attributing the information to Johannes Nauclerus c. 1425-1510 ), that Nineveh had originally had the name Campsor before Ninus supposedly rebuilt it.

* Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood ( c. 1436 ) -

The Septuagint: A column of uncial text from 1 Esdras in the Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 | Codex Vaticanus c. 325 – 350 CE, the basis of Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton's Greek edition and Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint | English translation.

A later English Arthurian romance, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell ( c. 1450 ), uses much of the same elements of the Wife of Bath's tale, yet changes the setting to the court of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

2 c. 3 ) passed in 1677 ( authored by Sir Leoline Jenkins and passed by the Cavalier Parliament ), the title of which is An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries.

Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594

Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.

Painting by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1640, Dutch-born English Baroque era painter.

* June 27 – Sir John Hayward, English historian ( b. c. 1560 )

* September 19 – Sir William Waller, English Civil War general ( b. c. 1635 )

Blind Harry was active some two hundred years after the events described in his The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, c. 1470.

* Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet ( c. 1614-1697 ), barrister, member and briefly Speaker of the House of Commons of England, and judge

Sir Edward Walpole ( c. 1706 – 1784 ); he had an illegitimate daughter, Maria Walpole, who later married into the British Royal Family, becoming the wife of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, King George III's brother.

Sir Francis Walsingham ( c. 1532 – 6 April 1590 ) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death, and is popularly remembered as her " spymaster ".

* Sir James Pulteney, 7th Baronet ( c. 1755 – 1811 ), born James Murray, Scottish general and MP for Weycombe and Regis

* Sir James Murray, 10th Baronet ( c. 1814 – 1843 )