Sir Harry Hinsley, a Bletchley veteran and the official historian of British Intelligence during the Second World War, said that Ultra shortened the war by two to four years and that the outcome of the war would have been uncertain without it.

( 1978 ) Chauvel of the Light Horse A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, GCMG, KCB.

* 1933: First European passenger cars with diesel engines ( Citroën Rosalie ); Citroën used an engine of the English diesel pioneer Sir Harry Ricardo.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Sir Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckyballs commented: " This most exciting breakthrough provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has, as I long suspected, existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy.

Vancouver was the first European to enter Burrard Inlet on 13 June 1792, naming it after his friend Sir Harry Burrard.

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE ( 8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001 ) was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice.

" The head of the British army at the time, General Sir Richard Dannatt, first said on 30 April 2007 that he had personally decided that the Prince would serve with his unit in Iraq, and Harry was scheduled for deployment in May or June 2007, to patrol the Maysan province.

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.

* 1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.

* Shaw, Harry E. ( 1983 ) The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his successors.

At length Vane rose to remonstrate, and call him to his senses ; but Cromwell, instead of listening to him, drowned his voice, repeating with great vehemence, and as though with the desperate excitement of the moment, " Sir Harry Vane!

Sir Harry Vane!

Good Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!

Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba.

When the British governor of Uganda, Sir Harry Johnston, discovered some pygmy inhabitants of the Congo being abducted by a showman for exhibition, he rescued them and promised to return them to their homes.

* Ash, Russell: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Pavilion Books, London, 1989, ISBN 978-1-85145-422-8 ; Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York, 1990, ISBN 0-8109-1898-6

Sir Harry Hinsley, official historian of British Intelligence in World War II, made a similar assessment about Ultra, saying that it shortened the war " by not less than two years and probably by four years "; and that, in the absence of Ultra, it is uncertain how the war would have ended.

In the sciences Sussex counts among its past and present faculty five Nobel Prize winners: Sir Anthony Leggett, Sir Paul Nurse, Archer Martin, Sir John Cornforth and Professor Harry Kroto.

Sir Harry, the first Briton to win the chemistry prize in over ten years, received the prize in 1996 for the discovery of a new class of carbon compounds known as the fullerenes.

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 1854, Sir James Paget was the first to report median nerve compression at the wrist in a distal radius fracture.

An example is George MacDonald Fraser's tales of the dashing cad, poltroon, and bounder Sir Harry Paget Flashman.

He is known to have done so with William Paget, private secretary to Henry VIII, and to have secured the support of Sir Anthony Browne of the Privy Chamber.

* Sir James Paget ( 1814 – 99 ), Victorian Surgeon who had the James Paget Hospital named in his honour.

Books were acquired by collectors including Sir William Cecil, William, Lord Paget, John Dee and Archbishop Matthew Parker.

* Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser: Sir Harry Paget Flashman travels on the train's first journey as a guest of the journalist Henri Blowitz.

* Sir Julian Paget, Bt – Second to none: the Coldstream Guards, 1650 – 2000 ( 2000 ) ISBN 0-85052-769-4

* Lester Matthews as Sir William Paget

In the summer of 1544, he told Sir William Paget a work was in the press, " on the art of Shooting ".

Henry VIII gave Bromley Abbatis to Sir William Paget, Clerk of the Signet and Privy Councillor.

Captain William Paget, Sir Arthur Paget, General Sir Edward Paget, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget and Berkeley Paget were his younger brothers.

( As in Mr American, this novel is also connected to the Flashman series-in this case Sir Harry Flashman's father plays a minor role.

Before Nakata became a voice actor, he was a TV actor best known as Sir Cowler in Choushinsei Flashman and Great Professor Bias in Choujuu Sentai Liveman of the Super Sentai Series.

* Choushinsei Flashman ( Sir Kaura )

He portrayed Sir Richard Flashman in the BBC's popular 1971 television serial Tom Brown's Schooldays and was also in Bachelor Father.

The management of her finances was left in the hands of her loyal comptroller, Sir Dighton Probyn VC, who undertook a similar role for her husband.

* Sir John Watson ( VC ) ( 1829 – 1919 ), English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1857

* Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet, British soldier, VC winner

*** Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC GCB

*** Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar

He was the father-in-law of Major William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L ' Isle VC, and first cousin-once-removed to General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton.

* 1941 – 1942: Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO **

* 1942 – 1945: Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO **

* 1945 – 1946: Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO ***

* 1946 – 1951: Lieutenant-General His Excellency Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO ***

** General Sir Hugh Henry Gough, VC, GCB ( attended East India College Haileybury )

Recognising the inequality of this, the Governor of New Zealand of the time, Sir George Bowen, announced a new medal of equivalent rank to the VC.

General Sir Samuel James Browne VC GCB KCSI ( 3 October 1824 – 14 March 1901 ) was a British Indian Army cavalry officer in India and Afghanistan, best known today as the namesake of the Sam Browne belt.

Air Commodore Sir Hughie Idwal Edwards VC, KCMG, CB, DSO, OBE, DFC ( 1 August 1914 – 5 August 1982 ) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force, Governor of Western Australia, and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry " in the face of the enemy " that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.

It was established by Captain Sir William Peel VC, who resided at The Lodge, and was also known as Captain Peel's Railway.

* Sir Neville Howse, VC ( 1863 – 1930 ), the first Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, a physician living in Orange, twice elected Mayor, and later federal politician

4th Infantry Brigade ( Major General Sir Evelyn Wood VC )

General Sir Hugh Henry Gough, VC, GCB (; 14 November 1833 – 12 May 1909 ), was born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family in Calcutta, Bengal, India, and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Gough, VC, and uncle of the World War I commanders General Sir Hubert Gough and Brigadier General Sir John Edmund Gough, VC.

Gough, VC, GCB, nephew of General Sir Hugh H. Gough, VC, and brother of Brigadier General Sir John Edmund Gough, VC ( the only family to ever win the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery, three times ).