In the English-speaking world it was Sir Albert Howard who worked extensively in India on sustainable practices and Lady Eve Balfour who was a huge proponent of composting.

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* 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.

In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

* The Discovery of Penicillin, A government produced film about the discovery of Penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming, and the continuing development of its use as an antibiotic by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

( Malcolm Fraser chose Sir Zelman Cowen and Sir Ninian Stephen ; and John Howard chose Peter Hollingworth and Michael Jeffery.

The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The Spanish and the Dutch Republic outnumbered the English fleet's 22 galleons and 108 armed merchant ships ; however, The Spanish lost as a result of bad weather on the English Channel and poor planning and logistics, and in the face of the skills of Sir Francis Drake and Charles Howard, the second Baron Howard of Effingham ( later first Earl of Nottingham ).

The Fredericton campus features two sites of national historic importance, both designated as National Historic Sites of Canada: the 1827 Sir Howard Douglas Hall ( Arts Building ) and the 1851 William Brydone Jack Observatory.

Sir Howard Douglas Hall.

Esme Howard | Sir Esme Howard, Rt.

* Physiology or Medicine – Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey

* August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

* July 31 – The first engagement between the English and Spanish fleets, off Plymouth, results in a victory for the English under command of Lord Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Drake.

For example, in 2001, Sir David Howard was created a Grand Cordon, First Class, of the Order of Independence of Jordan following the state visit of King Abdullah II.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

They are dedicated to two members of the Catholic nobility, Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton and Byrd's own patron Sir John Petre, who had been elevated to the peerage in 1603 under the title Lord Petre of Writtle.

* Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John Disarmament and security since Locarno 1925-1931 ; being the political and technical background of the general disarmament conference, 1932, New York, Howard Fertig, 1973.

Their characters — Fiona and Charles — were a pair of lovestruck, dated cinema idols engaging in stilted, extraordinarily polite dialogues, in scenes that were parodies of Sir Noël Coward's style, most particularly that of Dame Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter.

* Sir Felix Carbury, Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now

* Sir Felix Aylmer, ( 1889 – 1979 ), actor, lived at Painshill House, Cobham in the 1970s.

( As he was not a Royal subject he was not entitled to by styled as " Sir Felix de Weldon .”)

Her godparents were: Sir Felix Brunner, 3rd Baronet ( her maternal uncle ); Major Sir Digby Lawson, 2nd Baronet ; Mrs Arthur Colegate ( her paternal aunt ); and Mrs Ronald Fife.

The Cambrian / Llynfi Works attracted investment capital from a number of prominent figures of the early Victorian period, including the poet William Wordsworth, who was a Cambrian shareholder in the early 1840s, Sir Felix Booth, the gin distiller, and the writer and radical politician, Dr John Bowring.

* 1915 – 1934: Sir Felix Cassel

# Sir Felix Foy, Bart.

On 31 May 1906 Goddard married Marie Schuster, the daughter of the banker Sir Felix Otto Schuster, with whom he was to have three daughters.

The cast featured Norman Wisdom as Charley Wykeham, Pip Hinton as Amy Spettigue, Terence Cooper as Jack Chesney, Pamela Gale as Kitty Verdun, Jerry Desmonde as Sir Francis Chesney, and Felix Felton as Mr Spettigue.

The earliest written record of what was probably a meningioma is from the 1600s, when Felix Plater ( 1536-1614 ) of the University of Basel performed an autopsy on Sir Caspar Bonecurtius.

* Sir Felix Booth, 1st Baronet ( died 1850 )

Sir Felix Pole, a former manager of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ), was appointed to investigate the road transport situation.

Entomologists who left a mark include William Stephen Atkinson ( 1820 – 1876 ), E. Brunetti ( 1862 – 1927 ), Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher ( 1878 – 1950 ), Sir George Hampson ( 1860 – 1936 ), H. E. Andrewes ( 1863 – 1950 ), G. M. Henry ( 1891 – 1983 ), Colonel C. T. Bingham ( 1848 – 1908 ), William Monad Crawford ( 1872 – 1941 ), W. H. Evans ( 1876 – 1956 ), Michael Lloyd Ferrar, F. C. Fraser ( 1880 – 1963 ), Harold Maxwell-Lefroy ( 1877 – 1925 ), Frederic Moore ( 1830 – 1907 ), Samarendra Maulik ( 1881 – 1950 ), Lionel de Nicéville ( 1852 – 1901 ), Ronald A. Senior-White ( 1891 – 1954 ), Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson ( 1840 – 1890 ) and Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ).

* The Dream ( ballet ), choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton to music by Felix Mendelssohn, and based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Amongst the aristocratic investors on the railway scheme's board is Sir Felix Carbury, a young and dissolute baronet who is quickly running through his widowed mother's savings.

Sir Felix manages to win Marie's heart, but his schemes are blocked by Melmotte, who has no intention of allowing his daughter to marry a penniless aristocrat.

Sir James Winterwood is a fictional English traveller, adventurer and writer in the second half of the 19th century and a recurring character of the Brazilian writer Rita Maria Felix da Silva.

In 1937 the house was bought by Sir Felix Brunner ( 1897 – 1982 ) and his wife Lady Elizabeth Brunner, the grand-daughter of the Victorian era actor-manager Henry Irving.

Sir Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, OBE ( 21 February 1889 – 2 September 1979 ) was an English stage actor who also appeared in the cinema and on television.

This he applied in the cases of Felix Slade, John Henderson, Lady Fellows for the collection of Sir Charles Fellows, William Burges, and Octavius Morgan.

* Sir Henry Felix Jervis-White-Jervis ( 1859 – 1947 ), 5th Baronet of Bally Ellis, County Wexford, Ireland lived in Callander from 1890 until his death.

At a request from Sir Felix Pole, the Great Western's General Manager, to get the tractive effort up to above 40, 000 lbf ( a major goalpost ), the cylinders were enlarged to-inch bore, bringing the figure up to.

* Sir Edmund George Felix Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet of Oxburgh Hall