The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1885 by Sir Hiram Maxim.

Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3. 5 tons, with a 110-foot ( 34-meter ) wingspan that was powered by two 360-horsepower ( 270-kW ) steam engines driving two propellers.

Inventors Augustus Applegath, Sir Hiram Maxim and Jack Wall, inventor of the Crayford focuser, which is incorporated into many modern telescopes were also residents.

The Medal of Valor was awarded posthumously to Sir Winston Churchill, Hiram Bingham IV, and Pope John Paul II ...." Wall Street Journal ( March 30, 2011 )

It is the birthplace of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ( 1840 – 1916 ) and Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet ( December 23, 1874 – July 7, 1943 ).

In 1894, British MP Sir Charles Dilke observed in the House of Commons: " The only person who has up to the present time benefited from our enterprise in the heart of Africa has been Mr. Hiram Maxim "

Sir Hiram Maxim made a number of experiments in Britain, eventually building an enormous machine with a wingspan of, powered by two advanced lightweight steam engines which delivered 180 hp ( 134 kW ) each.

The first automatic, self-powered machine gun was invented by an American born Briton, Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884 and first displayed in 1885.

The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884.

He was the son of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Machine gun.

Maxim wrote an amusing account of his youth in the book A Genius in the Family: Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Through a Small Son's Eyes.

* a large number of inventors, engineers, architects, and builders, such as Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic machine gun, Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer and inventor of the famous steel process, James Henry Greathead who tunnelled much of the London Underground, William Burges and Sir William Tite, gothic architects

Image: WNC_Maxim. JPG | Stone of Sir Hiram Maxim

American-born Edward R. Hewitt had helped Sir Hiram Maxim to build a large steam plane in 1894.

In designing the ride, Disney engineers visited Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, England to examine the Captive Flying Machines, a similar ( but much larger ) ride designed by Sir Hiram Maxim, and which has operated there since 1904.

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

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All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

Within hours after taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by the commander of the army Brigadier General David Lansana, a close ally of Sir Albert Margai who had appointed him to the position in 1964.

Former mayors include Gary Baildon, Lex Bell, Ray Stevens, Ern Harley and Sir Bruce Small, who was responsible for the development of many of the canal estates that are now home to thousands of Gold Coast residents.

On 18 April 2003 as part of the third report into collusion between Loyalist paramilitaries, RUC, and British Army, Sir John Stevens published an Overview and Recommendations document ( Stevens 3 ).

Sculptors both British and Europeans who were based in Britain and whose work is in the collection include: Nicholas Stone, Caius Gabriel Cibber, Grinling Gibbons, John Michael Rysbrack, Louis-François Roubiliac, Peter Scheemakers, Sir Henry Cheere, Agostino Carlini, Thomas Banks, Joseph Nollekens, Joseph Wilton, John Flaxman, Sir Francis Chantrey, John Gibson, Edward Hodges Baily, Lord Leighton, Alfred Stevens, Thomas Brock, Alfred Gilbert, George Frampton, Eric Gill.

Stevens is shown as totally loyal to Lord Darlington, whose friendly approach towards Germany, through his friendship to Mrs Charles Barnet, also results in close contacts to right-wing extremist organizations, such as the Blackshirts of Sir Oswald Mosley.

Wales has a tradition for producing notable singing artists including Sir Geraint Evans, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dame Anne Evans, Dame Margaret Price, Sir Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler, Bryn Terfel, Mary Hopkin, Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Meic Stevens, Dame Shirley Bassey and Duffy.

The Stevens Inquiries were three official British government inquiries led by Sir John Stevens concerning collusion in Northern Ireland between loyalist paramilitaries and the state security forces.

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

* Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens gives British police in London " shoot-on-sight " orders to deal with possible suicide bombers as expectations rise of an Al-Qaeda attack on the British capital.

* Commissioner Sir John Stevens QPM ( 2000 – 2001 )

* Commissioner Sir John Stevens QPM DL ( 2001 – 2002 )

* Commissioner Sir John Stevens KStJ QPM DL ( 2002 – 2005 )

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".

In April 2006, Atlas Foundation awarded Maxim Institute's Parent Factor publications as the winner of the Innovative Projects category of the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. The Atlas Foundation is a centre-right US think-tank

The manor was owned in the early 1900s by Countess, later Baroness, Moura ( Maria Zakrevskaya Benckendorff ) Budberg, who has been called the " Mata Hari of Russia " and who was close to Sir R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Russian writer Maxim Gorki and H. G.

Frequent current performers at the Hall include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Stephen Kovacevich, Andras Schiff, Joshua Bell, Maxim Vengerov, Thomas Quasthoff, Ian Bostridge, Susan Graham, Angela Hewitt, Mark Padmore, Steven Isserlis, Sir Thomas Allen, Matthias Goerne, Dame Felicity Lott, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Simon Keenlyside, Anne Sofie von Otter, Wolfgang Holzmair, Soile Isokoski, the Nash Ensemble, The King's Consort, the Beaux Arts and Florestan Trios and the Emerson, Endellion, Artemis, Hagen, Jerusalem and Zehetmair Quartets.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

On February 9, 1734, the town was incorporated as Rumford, from which Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford would take his title.

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Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.

* Sir Edward Travis ( February 1942 – 1952 )

Sir John Tenniel ( Bayswater, London, 28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914 ) was a British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of England ’ s 19th century.

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

* ' Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius ' exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery-21 November 2009 to 20 February 2010

Nkrumah was released from prison on 12 February and was summoned by Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor, and asked to form a government on the 13th.

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Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

Sir Thomas More (; 7 February 14786 July 1535 ), known to Catholics as Saint Thomas More since 1935, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

Born in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger ).

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

* February 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer ( b. 1908 )

* February 13 – Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist ( d. 1820 )

* February 1 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist ( b. 1819 )