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* 1933 1955 Sir Harold Spencer Jones
They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.
Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943
Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home.
It is, indeed, the cardinal weakness of this form of intuitionism that no satisfactory list can be given and that no moral principles have the " constant and never-failing entity ," or the definiteness, of the concepts of geometry ( these attacks are not uncontested — see, for example, the " Common Sense " tradition from Thomas Reid to James McCosh and the Oxford Realists Harold Prichard and Sir William David Ross ).
" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.
* Sir Harold Caccia, 1945 48 ( subsequently The Lord Caccia )
** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.
* Chemistry Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
* Carter, Harold Burnell ( 1988 ) Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820 London: British Museum of Natural History 10-ISBN 0-565-00993-1 ; 13-ISBN 978-0-565-00993-9
The photograph shows him before the procedure ( left ) and after ( right ) receiving a skin flap ( surgery ) | flap performed by Sir Harold Gillies in 1917.
Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.
Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.
* The Right Honourable Sir Harold Wilson, KG, OBE, FRS, MP ( 23 April 1976 9 June 1983 )
* The Right Honourable Sir Harold Wilson, KG, OBE, FRS ( 9 June 16 September 1983 )
In October 1964, Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( who had only been in power for 12 months since the resignation of Harold Macmillan ) called a general election.
The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.
* Sir Harold Ridley ( United Kingdom ) In 1949, may have been the first to successfully implant an artificial intraocular lens after observing that plastic fragments in the eyes of wartime pilots were well tolerated.

Sir and Leslie
Following Sir Leslie Stephen's English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, most commentators agree that two features constituted the core of deism:
* A History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Sir Leslie Stephen, 2 volumes ( 1876, 3rd ed.
De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).
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" Edgar and Lucie at Mermaiden's well " by Charles Robert Leslie ( 1886 ), after Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.
* Stephen, Sir Leslie and Sir Sidney Lee ( editors ).
* Sir Leslie Fielding, Vice-Chancellor from 1987 to 1992 of the University of Sussex
* 1804 Sir John Leslie observes that a matte black surface radiates heat more effectively than a polished surface, suggesting the importance of black body radiation
* 1810 Sir John Leslie freezes water to ice artificially
* Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
* Sir Leslie Murphy ( 1915 2007 ) was born in Southall and educated at Southall Grammar School ( now Villiers High School ).
* Sir John Leslie ( 1766 1832 ) mathematician, physicist, investigator of heat ( thermodynamics )
Sir Joseph Barnby, caricature by " Leslie Ward | Spy " Sir Joseph Barnby ( 12 August 1838 28 January 1896 ), English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York.
Well-known Australian classical performers include: sopranos Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Joan Hammond, Joan Carden, Yvonne Kenny, Sara Macliver and Emma Matthews ; pianists Roger Woodward, Eileen Joyce, Michael Kieran Harvey, Geoffrey Tozer, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Leslie Howard and Ian Munro ; guitarists John Williams and Slava Grigoryan ; horn player Barry Tuckwell ; oboist Diana Doherty ; violinists Richard Tognetti and Elizabeth Wallfisch ; cellists John Addison and David Pereira ; organist Christopher Wrench ; orchestras like the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra ; and conductors Sir Bernard Heinze, Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Bonynge, Simone Young and Geoffrey Simon.
* Stephen, Sir Leslie & Sir Sidney Lee.
( see Sir Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, x.
A biographical introduction to The Backwater of Life was furnished by Sir Leslie Stephen.
Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy, and by 1880 a committee of examiners comprising Charles Hallé, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that the school lacked " executive cohesion ".

Sir and White
* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.
The next major addition was the White Wing 1882 1884 added behind the eastern end of the South Front, the architect being Sir John Taylor.
The White Company, comprising men-at-arms and longbowmen and commanded by Sir John Hawkwood, is the best known English Free Company of the 14th century.
The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In the meantime, the immediate priority was to provide accommodation for the next Parliament, and so the Painted Chamber and White Chamber were hastily repaired for temporary use by the Houses of Lords and Commons respectively, under the direction of the only remaining architect of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Sir Robert Smirke.
Sir James Brooke founds the White Rajah dynasty of Sarawak.
In it, he was informed that the King had knighted him as Sir Topaz, Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah.
Despite the fact that this was a fairly transparent hoax, McGonagall would refer to himself as " Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah " in his advertising for the rest of his life.
* July 25 Sir William Thomas White introduces the first income tax in Canada as a " temporary " measure ( lowest bracket is 4 % and highest is 25 %).
* June 24 Sir George Stuart White, British field marshal ( b. 1835 ).
Sir George Stuart White, commanding the British division at Ladysmith, had unwisely allowed Major-General Penn Symons to throw a brigade forward to the coal-mining town of Dundee ( also reported as Glencoe ), which was surrounded by hills.
The resulting Battle of Elandslaagte was a clear-cut British tactical victory, but Sir George White feared that more Boers were about to attack his main position and ordered a chaotic retreat from Elandslaagte, throwing away any advantage gained.
Sir George White ( British Army officer ) | George Stuart White greets Major Hubert Gough on 28 February.
Sir David John White OBE ( born 2 February 1940 ), known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor.
* Edward makes appearances in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novels The White Company and Sir Nigel
The British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Ltd was founded in February 1910 by Sir George White, chairman of the Bristol Tramway and Carriage Company, along with his son Stanley and his brother Samuel, to commercially exploit the fast-growing aviation sector.
In 1960 the late Sir George White saved the car division from being lost in the BAC merger.
Later, in 1587, White became governor of Sir Walter Raleigh's failed attempt at a permanent settlement on Roanoke island, known to history as the " Lost Colony ".
In 1585 White accompanied the expedition led by Sir Ralph Lane to attempt to found the first English colony in North America.
White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World ; he served as mapmaker and artist to the expedition, which encountered considerable difficulties and returned to England in 1586.
After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.
There is also a record of an Elizabeth Aguirre of Petersfield, Hampshire ( died 1665 ), who was the second wife of Josias White ( 1573 1622 ) of Hornchurch, Essex, brother of John White the ' Patriarch of Dorchester ', and son of a John White of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire ( 1540 before September 30, 1618 ), who afterwards married a Francis Drake ( 1573 1634 ) of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey a first cousin once removed of Sir Francis Drake ( 1540 1596 ) the famous explorer.

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