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In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.
Sir Henry Howorth, writing in 1898, put himself firmly in the Lappenburg-Kemble tradition by attacking the veracity of the West Saxon annals.
Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.
Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.
In 1858, Sir Henry Bessemer developed a process of steel making by blowing hot air through liquid pig iron to reduce the carbon content.
Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin
* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875
But Sir Henry Harris said in 1998: " Without Fleming, no Chain ; without Chain, no Florey ; without Florey, no Heatley ; without Heatley, no penicillin.
Sir Henry Bessemer had invented the furnace which allowed the high carbon content of pig iron to be burnt away in a controlled and rapid way.
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.
Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.
* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Mark's, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of the noted Indian administrator, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.
After the death of Sir Robert Montgomery, Henry inherited the Montgomery ancestral estate of New Park at Moville in northern County Donegal.
Other possible ministers included Sir Robert Inglis, Henry Goulburn, John Charles Herries, and Lord Ellenborough.
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.
Replacing Harcourt as party leader was Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
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.
* Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1899 – 1908
They and the Auxies became known as Tudor's Toughs after the police commander, Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor.
Sir Henry Maine ( 1861 ) studied the ancient codes available in his day, and failed to find any criminal law in the " modern " sense of the word.
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.

Sir and Wood's
This sequence traditionally begins with Edward Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 ( to part of which Land of Hope and Glory is sung ), and continues with Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, which culminates in Thomas Arne's Rule, Britannia !.
A medley of sea songs performed by concert orchestra, Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, is a popular component of the Last Night of the Proms in Britain.
Fort Campus was one of the first educational institutions established by the British in India following Sir Charles Wood's Dispatch on Education in 1854.
By early 1940, Wood was worn out by his efforts, and Chamberlain moved him to the non-departmental office of Lord Privy Seal, switching the incumbent, Sir Samuel Hoare, to the Air Ministry in Wood's place.
One of the reasons for Wood's appointment to the Treasury seems to have been Churchill's urgent desire to be rid of the incumbent Chancellor, Sir John Simon, whom Churchill detested.
In the First Boer War of 1881 he was Sir Evelyn Wood's chief of staff and the following year was again head of intelligence, this time in the Egypt campaign, and was knighted.
He visited London on several occasions, and gave successful concerts with his orchestra at the Queen's Hall, on one occasion sharing the stage with Sir Henry Wood and Wood's own orchestra.
* Sir James Balfour Paul: The Scots ' Peerage, founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 9 vols., 1904 – 1914
Vaughan Williams wrote the piece as a tribute to the conductor Sir Henry Wood to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Wood's first concert.
) " The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage, Volume I ".
) " The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage, Volume I ".
It is also used with Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs and in Alexandre Guilmant's Fantasy for organ Op.

Sir and bust
* British Museum: Bronze portrait bust of Sir Joseph Banks by Anne Seymour Damer ( 1814 )
At the celebration of the centenary of gas lighting in 1892, a bust of Murdoch was unveiled by Lord Kelvin in the Wallace Monument, Stirling, and there is also a bust of him by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey at St. Mary's Church.
The four corner gates of the park have one bust each, depicting Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist ; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy ; John Hunter, a pioneer of surgery ; and William Hogarth, the painter.
A bust of founder Sir Peter Scott by Jacqueline Shackleton was completed in 1986 and on display in the grounds.
A commemorative bust of Lt Gen Sir Stanley Savige was erected in 2006.
Sir Henry Moncrieff Wellwood, the bust of Dr Wardrop of Torbane Hill, the two full-lengths of Adam Rolland of Gask, the remarkable paintings of Lord Newton and Dr Alexander Adam in the National Gallery of Scotland, and that of William Macdonald of St Martin's.
A bust by Sir John Steell stands on the east wall of Parliament Hall in Edinburgh.
Also, interestingly, in Crabtree's recitation of the imaginary duel between Sir Peter and Charles Surface ( V. 2 ), the shot of Sir Peter bounces off a " little bronze Pliny " in the older version, but the bust is changed to one of " Shakspeare ( sic )" in the 1821 text.
A marble bust of Sir George, by Weekes, stands in Westminster Abbey.
A monumental bust of Sir Hercules sits atop the facade.
Later that year, he completed his first commission-a bust of Sir John Forrest that now stands in the main entrance hall of Parliament House in Perth.
Pongo is already in residence and has committed two rank floaters: accidentally smashing a whatnot from Sir Aylmer's collection of African curios, and ( in the course of demonstrating how Brazilian natives kill birds with rude slings ) smashing a coveted bust of his host.
Sally tries to replace the bust with another of Sir Aylmer she sculpted ( but had had returned to her, after an unfortunate incident relating to her brother Otis ' publication of Sir Aylmer's memoirs ), but this comes to naught, and both busts end up in Sir Aylmer's collection room.
Uncle Fred's tasks before him are to snatch the bust for Sally Painter ; get Sir Aylmer to drop his suit against Otis, so Sally will not lose the money she invested in his firm ; convince Pongo to turn down Hermione Bostock and marry Sally instead ; restore Bill Oakshott to his place as head of his family home ; and convince Constable Potter not only to not arrest him, but indeed to quit the force so he and Elsie Bean may live happily ever after.
Sir Harry is commemorated throughout the Whittlesey area, giving his name to a local school and community centre, among others, and with a bust in St Mary's church.
* a bust of Sir John McNeill, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 1859.
It took its name from a bust of Sir Thomas Bodley, the eponymist of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, above the shop door.
The celebrated bust of Shakespeare, known as the Davenant bust, in the possession of the Garrick Club, London, must be attributed to Roubiliac ; for him his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a copy of the Chandos Portrait.

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