Gordon's father came to Lower Canada as the Quebec agent to the London firm of Sir Samuel Fludyer, Adam Drummond ( his brother ) & Franks, contractors for victualling the troops in North America.

Winning The Derby was undoubtedly Sir Gordon's crowning victory, and he was promptly summoned from the winners ' enclosure to be congratulated by the Queen.

Towering over them all is the short-tempered, demanding chief surgeon, Sir Lancelot Spratt ( played by James Robertson Justice in a manner quite unlike Gordon's original literary character ), who strikes terror into everyone.

With Private Eye riding the satire boom, Peter Cook soon took an interest and contributed two serials recounting the bizarre adventures of Sir Basil Nardly-Strobes and the Rhandi Phurr, both of which were admirably illustrated by Rushton, as was " Mrs Wilson ‘ s Diary ".

" He served during the engagement as a volunteer under Sir John Byron and, riding alone at a gap in a hedge commanded by the enemy's fire, was immediately killed.

The British humorous magazine Punch, which was founded in 1841 riding on the earlier success of Cruikshank's Comic Almanac ( 1827 – 1840 ), employed an uninterrupted run of high-quality comic illustrators, including Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers and Georges du Maurier, into the 20th century.

Sir Orfeo wanders in the forest for many years, sleeping on the bare earth and living on berries and fruits in summer, roots and the bark of trees in winter, until after ten years, he sees Heurodis riding past in the company of a fairy host.

* 1841 – Sydenham dies in a riding accident and is replaced by Sir Charles Bagot.

* John, the son of Phineas Pett of Chatham, was involved in an ordeal in the beginning of October 1624, when occurred: " a wonderful great storm, through which many ships perished, especially in the Downs, amongst which was riding there the Antelope of His Majesty, being bound for Ireland under the command of Sir Thomas Button, my son John then being a passenger in her.

The riding has been represented by a number of notable Members of Parliament ( MPs ), including Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( 1877 – 1919 ), senior Cabinet member Ernest Lapointe ( 1919 – 1941 ) and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent ( 1942 – 1958 ).

The present manor house was built in 1341 for Sir John de Pulteney, a London merchant and four-times Mayor of London who wanted a country residence within easy riding distance of London.

Local attractions include the Gordon Russell Museum ( celebrating the work of the 20th century furniture maker Sir Gordon Russell MC ), the high Broadway Tower on its hilltop site in the Broadway Country Park, Chipping Campden, Snowshill village, Snowshill Manor ( owned by the National Trust ), horse riding and, for the many ramblers, the Cotswold Way.

The story portrays Sir Oluf riding to his marriage but being entranced by the music of the elves.

In 1904, he contested the riding of North Toronto for Parliament against Sir George Foster.

A Liberal, he represented the riding of Northumberland from 1904 until 1917 when, as a result of the Conscription Crisis he ran for re-election as a Unionist supporting Sir Robert Borden's government.

The major centre of the riding, and its namesake, is the city of Prince Albert which has a rich political history that includes representation by three former Prime Ministers ( Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1896, William Lyon Mackenzie King from 1926 to 1945, and John Diefenbaker from 1953 to 1979 ).

A supporter of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, King was a Liberal candidate in the riding of Kootenay in the 1911 federal election but was defeated.

Sir Isumbras is riding in his forest early one morning when a bird in the branches above him begins to talk.

Sir Isumbras, keen to avenge himself on the sultan who stole his wife, rides into battle on a horse used by the smithy for carrying coal, armed in his own armour ( perhaps conjuring an image like that of Florent riding out against a giant wearing his father ’ s rusty armour in the medieval romance Octavian ).

On leaving school his theatrical career started immediately, with an introduction to Sir Donald Wolfit by his French master.

One ancestor was a leading activist in the Irish National Land League of Mayo and the Irish Republican Brotherhood ; an uncle, Sir Paget John Bourke, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II after a career as a judge in the Colonial Service ; while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun.

In January 1906, he resumed his full-time naval career, first as an Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty and, in August, as flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Sir George Egerton on.

Pitt and Henry Fox were considered the two favourites for the position, but Newcastle instead rejected them both and turned to the less well-known figure of Sir Thomas Robinson, a career diplomat, to fill the post.

Twenty years after he had received a similar windfall from the Marlborough legacy, Sir William Pynsent, a Somerset baronet to whom he was personally quite unknown, left him his entire estate, worth about three thousand a year, in testimony of approval of his political career.

His sponsor for the election ( besides his father ) was the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, with whom Peel's political career would be entwined for the next 25 years.

* An overview of the career of Sir Robert Peel at www. victorianweb. org

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

Sir Robert William " Bobby " Robson, CBE ( 18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009 ) was an English footballer and manager, who managed seven European clubs and the England national team during his career.

At the age of about 40, she reaches the zenith of her career when she is employed by the eminent British entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman

During the latter part of his career, celebrated actor John Barrymore starred in a radio program, Streamlined Shakespeare, which featured him in a series of one-hour adaptations of Shakespeare plays, many of which Barrymore never appeared in either on stage or in films, such as Twelfth Night ( in which he played both Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch ), and Macbeth.

* Sir David Manning, a career diplomat who served as British Ambassador to Israel from 1993-1995 and the United States from 2003-2007.

Initially, Woolley naively sees his job as the disinterested implementation of the Minister's policies, but gradually finds that this conflicts with his institutional duty to the department and sometimes ( since Sir Humphrey is responsible for formally assessing Woolley's performance ) his own potential career development.

While he is theoretically responsible to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance reviews and influences Bernard's Civil Service career.

In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Between 1957 and 1992 the long-serving MP for Beckenham was Sir Philip Goodhart, who was soon discovered by Mrs Thatcher to be a ' wet ' and consequently his career as a junior minister came to a quick end early in her premiership.

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury | Sir Horatio Vere was the commander of English troops in Holland during the Siege of Ostend, under whom Standish likely served. The circumstances of Standish's early military career in Holland ( the " low countries " to which Morton referred ) are vague at best.

Sir George Gilbert Scott ( 13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878 ) was an English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.

For example, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a son and grandson of Kentish mariners, held the office of West Looe MP early ( 1713 – 1715 ) and at the end ( 1741 – 1743 ) of his political career.

Chill October ( Collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber ), was the first of the large-scale Scottish Landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career.

At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

* Sir James Marjoribanks, career diplomat who presented Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967

Four of Sir Charles Barry's five sons followed in his career footsteps.

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE, ( born 22 February 1928 ), commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV host and entertainer whose career spans 72 years.