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Sir George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland was a successful privateer against Spanish shipping in the Caribbean.
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* 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.
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* 1599 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O ' Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.
However in 1946, when Sir Miles Clifford arrived as governor, there were no air services, no roads outside Stanley and an indifferent sea service.
In 1866 Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt invented a clinical thermometer that produced a body temperature reading in five minutes as opposed to twenty.
* Marared ferch Llywelyn ( died after 1268 ), married John de Braose and Sir Walter de Clifford.
The young Prince of Wales had with him the Earl of Warwick, and Earl of Oxford, Sir Godfrey de Harcourt, the Lord Raynold Cobham, Lord Thomas Holland, Lord Stafford, Lord Mauley, the Lord Delaware, Sir John Chandos, Lord Bartholomew Burgherst, Lord Robert Neville, Lord Thomas Clifford, the Lord Bourchier, the Lord Latimer.
* Elizabeth Percy ( c. 1395 – 26 October 1436 ), who married firstly John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, slain at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422, by whom she had issue, and secondly Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland ( d. 3 November 1484 ), by whom she had a son, Sir John Neville.
* Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet, of Flaxbourne, in New Zealand ( 1887 ), extant
* Sir Clifford Chatterley, D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
* Sir Clifford Curzon
Doug Clifford also produced " Groovers Paradise " for former Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados frontman Doug Sahm.
* Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt ( 1836 – 1925 ), physician ; inventor of the medical thermometer.
Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford, 1st Bt., was a fag to Palmerston, Viscount Althorp and Viscount Duncannon and later remembered Palmerston as by far the most merciful of the three.
For example, Constance ’ s social insecurity, arising from being brought up in an upper middle class background, in contrast with Sir Clifford ’ s social self-assurance, becomes more evident in passages such as:
The first commission were: the Duke of Albermarle, Lord Ashley, ( Sir ) W Coventry, ( Sir ) J Duncomb and ( Sir ) T Clifford.
( The others were Sir William D ' Oyly, Sir Thomas Clifford and Col. Bullen Reymes.
Although much of the groundwork had been laid by Henrietta, the finer points and actual provisions of the treaty were hammered out by Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington and Sir Thomas Clifford.
Caricature from Vanity Fair ( British magazine ) | Vanity Fair of Admiral ( Royal Navy ) | Admiral Augustus Clifford | Sir Augustus W. J.
* 25 July 1832 – 8 February 1877: Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford
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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.
Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.
Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.
* A History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Sir Leslie Stephen, 2 volumes ( 1876, 3rd ed.
* Sir George Gordon, 3rd Baronet ( 1637 – 1720 ) ( created Earl of Aberdeen in 1682 )
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* August 4 – Sir George Acheson, 3rd Baronet, Irish nobleman ( d. 1685 )
In Ireland the great-great-grandson of the 3rd earl, Sir Piers Butler, contested the will and claimed the Earldom himself.
His eldest son Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1861 to 1865.
Upon the death of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet in 1749, the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street ( a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college ), was applied by his will.
Lee was born in Cheshire, England, the son of General John Lee and Isabella Bunbury ( daughter of Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet ).
At the age of 84, Spock came in 3rd ( out of a field of 8 ), rowing his dingy across the Sir Frances Drake Channel between Tortola and Norman Island, a distance of four miles.
Gort had ordered Sir Ronald Adam, 3rd Corps Commander, and French General Falgade, to prepare a perimeter defence of Dunkirk.
* Sir Nicholas L ' Estrange, 3rd Bt ( 1632-1669 )
* Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 3rd Bt ( explorer )
* Sir David Bartlett, 3rd Baronet, Won gold for Britan in the 1936 Olympics ( for fencing ).
* Sir Cornelis Speelman, 1st Baronet, of the Netherlands ( 1686 )-the 3rd Baronet also became Jonkheer in the Dutch nobility, extant
John Wright's son, Francis, married Selina, daughter of Sir Henry FitzHerbert, 3rd Baronet of Tissington Hall, Derbyshire and was a noted philanthropist ; he was Susan's great great grandfather.
He then worked for a time with Sir John Vanbrugh, helping him build Blenheim Palace for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, where he took charge from 1705, after Vanbrugh's final break with the demanding Duchess of Marlborough, and Castle Howard for Charles Howard, later the 3rd Earl of Carlisle.
Both Sir William Cecil and Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex ( especially the latter ), eagerly support this marriage offer.
These members included: Arthur Greenwood ; Sir Archibald Southby, 1st Baronet ; Sir Alec Douglas-Home ; James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster and Victor Raikes.
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