* 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.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

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.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Hitler's British guests were a mélange of aristocratic Germanophiles such as Lord Londonderry, professional pacifists such as George Lansbury and Lord Allen, retired politicians, ex-generals, fascists such as Admiral Barry Domvile and Sir Oswald Mosley, journalists such as Lord Lothian and G. Ward Price, academics such as the historian Philip Conwell-Evans, and various businessmen like the newspaper magnate Lord Rothermere and the merchant banker Lord Mount Temple.

Matheson retired as taipan in 1842 and handed over control of the firm to his nephew Sir Alexander Matheson, who was also known as of the same capacity and competence as the elder Jardine and Matheson.

The King was intimately involved in the appointment of Fisher's successor as the Fisher-Beresford feud had split the service, and the only truly qualified figure known to be outside of both camps was Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, who had retired in 1907.

Fraser sought the backing of the retired longtime Liberal Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, and went to see Menzies in person, taking with him a 1947 statement by Menzies supporting the blocking of supply in the upper house of the Victorian Parliament.

After falling ill in 1925, Strachey finally sold his controlling interest in the paper to his business manager, Sir Evelyn Wrench, and retired, dying two years later in 1928.

He became Father of the House after the 2001 General Election, when Sir Edward Heath retired.

The Governor, Sir Philip Game, a retired Royal Air Force officer, advised Lang that in his view this action was illegal, and that if Lang did not reverse it he would dismiss the government.

Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan ( 1st Baronet 1604-79 ) served in the Commonwealth forces during English civil war from 1642-9, was Governor of Gloucester 1645, fought in Flanders, wounded, and in 1661 retired to his estate in Kynnersley, Herts.

During the administration of Sir Robert Peel, Palmerston led a retired life, but he attacked with characteristic bitterness the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with the United States.

In his later years he retired to his house in Halifax, later deeding the house and the 95 acres ( 38 hectares ) to the city, now known as Sir Sandford Fleming Park ( Dingle Park ).

Richter retired from conducting in 1911, and Sir Edward Elgar was elected conductor-in-chief for the 1911 – 12 season.

The LPO's managing director, Thomas Russell, then invited Sir Adrian Boult to take up the principal conductorship, after Boult had retired from his chief conductorship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In 1955 Sir Kenneth Barnes retired and John Fernald was appointed principal.

In 1943 Russell retired and was replaced by Sir William Gammie Ogg.

Sir Frank Smith, a retired former Chief Engineer at Imperial Chemical Industries was asked by the Conservative Minister of Transport, Ernest Marples, to become a member of an advisory group ; Smith declined but recommended Beeching in his place, a suggestion which Marples accepted.

On 30 October, retired Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher was reappointed First Sea Lord to replace Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, who had been forced to resign because of public outcry against a perceived German prince running the British navy.

* Maj Gen Sir E. B. Rowcroft ( 1881 – 1963 ), British Army officer and founder of REME retired to and died in Lyme Regis.

* 1899 – Sir Noël Coward, English playwright, actor and composer ( d. 1973 )

* Sir Leonard Hooper ( 1965 – 1973 )

* Sir Arthur Bonsall ( 1973 – 1978 )

* 1889 – Sir Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales 1932-39 ( d. 1973 )

The poem has been adapted to film twice, on both occasions by writer-director Stephen Weeks: first as Gawain and the Green Knight in 1973 and again in 1984 as Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, featuring Miles O ' Keeffe as Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight.

“ The Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, Knight-Prisoner .” The Review of English Studies ; 24. 95 ( 1973 ): 257-265.

* Sir Geoffrey Arthur, 1973 – 75

* April 13 – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, British ( Scottish ) inventor of radar ( d. 1973 )

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

On 10 March 1973, the Governor of the island Sir Richard Sharples was assassinated, along with his aide-de-camp and his dog.

* Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John Disarmament and security since Locarno 1925-1931 ; being the political and technical background of the general disarmament conference, 1932, New York, Howard Fertig, 1973.

The Complete Plain Words was revised by Sir Bruce Fraser in 1973, and by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut in 1986 ( ISBN 0-11-701121-5 ).

* Chief Constable Sir James Flanagan, from November 1973.

* Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet ( 1892 – 1973 ), of the Ackroyd Baronetcy of Dewsbury and Lord Mayor of London ( 1955 – 56 )

* Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Baronet, of Luton Hoo Park, in the Parish of Luton and County of Bedford ( 1905 ), extinct 1973

The present library building ( by Sir Denys Lasdun ) was added in 1973, the Brunei Gallery in 1995, and an extension to the library building opened in 2004 ( the second phase of this expansion was completed in 2006 ).

Sir John Habakkuk ( principal 1967 – 84 ) and Sir Peter North ( principal 1984 – 2005 ) both served terms as Vice-Chancellor of the university, from 1973 to 1977 and from 1993 to 1997 respectively.

The Hartland House, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was the first purpose-built college building, finished in 1937 with an additional wing built in 1973.

Among the last notable recordings of older-style performances were Beecham's final, extravagantly reorchestrated version made for RCA in 1959 ; one conducted by Karl Richter for DG in 1973, though it used authentic orchestration ; and a third based on Prout's 1902 edition of the score, with a 325-voice choir and 90-piece orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks in 1995.

* 1973 Ludwig van Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos – Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )

Sir Arthur William Fadden, GCMG ( 13 April 1894 – 21 April 1973 ) was an Australian politician and, briefly, the 13th Prime Minister of Australia.

What a Lovely War ( 1969 ), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier and directed by Richard Attenborough ; Justine ( 1969 ), directed by George Cukor ; Le Serpent ( 1973 ), co-starring Henry Fonda and Yul Brynner ; A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), in a controversial performance as Lieutenant General Frederick " Boy " Browning, also starring Sean Connery and an all-star cast and again directed by Richard Attenborough.