* 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 George Biddell Airy 1801 – 1892, Cambridge & London

* Sir George Biddell Airy ( 1801 – 1892 ) – Astronomer Royal, attended Colchester Royal Grammar School 1814 – 1819

It was named in honor of the British Astronomer Royal Sir George Biddell Airy ( 1801-1892 ), who in 1850 built the transit circle telescope at Greenwich.

Airy is an impact crater on Mars, named in honor of the British Astronomer, Royal Sir George Biddell Airy ( 1801 – 1892 ).

In December 1841 he entered the service of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, under Sir George Biddell Airy and in 1846 was one of the earliest observers of the planet Neptune.

* Sir George Biddell Airy ( 1801 – 1892 ), British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, for whom the following features, phenomena, and theories are named:

The modern prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851.

He also recruited many disciples to the cause – most notably James Clark Ross, a nephew of Sir John's, the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the astronomer royal, George Airy.

In 1851 Sir George Airy established the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, as the location of the prime meridian where longitude is defined to be 0 ° ( the point that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres ).

The prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851.

Major-General Sir Christopher John Airy KCVO CBE ( born 8 March 1934 ) was General Officer Commanding the Household Division and Major-General Commanding London District.

* Major-General Sir Christopher Airy, KCVO CBE 1986-1989 late Scots Guards

The following year, after pressure from the astronomers George Airy and Sir John Herschel, the bill was watered down to merely legalise the use of the metric system in contracts.

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS ( 19 June 1820 ) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS ( 16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753 ) was an Irish physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the United Kingdom which became the foundation of the British Museum.

* Sir Cyril Hinshelwood OM PRS

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, PRS ( 22 November 191730 May 2012 ) was a Nobel Prize-winning English physiologist and biophysicist.

Sir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS ( 9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968 ) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist.

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, PRS ( 5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998 ) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.

* Sir John Hoskins, PRS

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS ( 30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977 ) was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons.

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS ( 27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952 ) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.

Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE ( 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 ), was a Scottish geologist and writer.

Sir Robert Robinson OM, PRS, FRSE ( 13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975 ) was an English organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs ( anthocyanins ) and alkaloids.

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS ( 19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967 ) was an English physical chemist.

* Sir William Henry Bragg, OM, KBE, FRS ( PRS 1935 – 40 ), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1915