Later I learned that Sir Hugh Dalton had expressed a desire to see me, hence their trip to `` No Man's Land ''.

* 1599 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O ' Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.

Before the demolition could take place, Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ( Director of Naval Intelligence and head of MI6 ) bought the site.

They and the Auxies became known as Tudor's Toughs after the police commander, Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor.

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 ).

In the Battle of Ushant with the French in 1778, Lord Keppel commanded the Channel Fleet and the outcome resulted in no clear winner ; Keppel ordered to renew the attack and this was obeyed except by Sir Hugh Palliser, who commanded the rear, and the French escaped bombardment.

Historian Sir Hugh Thomas in his book " Conquest " reports the probable date of her death as 1551, deduced from letters he discovered in Spain alluding to her as alive in 1550 and deceased after 1551.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

Nevertheless, the Montreal capitalist Sir Hugh Allan, with his syndicate Canada Pacific Railway Company, sought the potentially lucrative charter for the project.

Two groups competed for the contract to build the railway, Sir Hugh Allan's Canada Pacific Railway Company and David Lewis Macpherson's Inter-Oceanic Railway Company.

He announced he had uncovered evidence that Sir Hugh Allan and his associates had been granted the CPR contract in return for political donations of $ 360, 000.

Perhaps even more damaging to Macdonald was when the Liberals discovered a telegram, through a former employee of Sir Hugh Allan, which had been stolen from the safe of Allan's lawyer, Sir John Abbott.

* Sir Hugh Stevenson, 1960 – 63

Notable Jardines Managing Directors or Tai-pans included Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, David Jardine, Robert Jardine, William Keswick, James Johnstone Keswick, Ben Beith, David Landale, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, Sir William Johnstone " Tony " Keswick, Sir Hugh Barton, Sir Michael Herries, Sir John Keswick, Sir Henry Keswick, Simon Keswick and Alasdair Morrison.

Jardine, Matheson and Co. offered its shares to the public in 1961 under the tenure of Sir Hugh Barton and was oversubscribed 56 times.

* March 13 – Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist ( d. 1941 )

** Sir Hugh Willoughby, English Arctic explorer

* Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff

As governor of Kenya, Sir Percy Girouard was instrumental in initiating railway extension policy that led to construction of the Nairobi-Thika and Konza-Magadi railways.

In response to the various Bedouin raids, the British High Commissioner in Baghdad, Sir Percy Cox, imposed the Uqair Protocol of 1922 which defined the boundaries between Iraq and Nejd and between Kuwait and Nejd.

" More, upon learning that al-Sabah claimed the outer green line of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention ( 4 April ), would relay the information to Sir Percy.

On 19 April, Sir Percy stated that the British government recognized the outer line of the Convention as the border between Iraq and Kuwait.

Sir Percy Cox, the British representative, saw through the ploy and drew a line on the map separating the Qatar Peninsula from the mainland.

Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.

' before falling have been that during the battle Richard was abandoned by Baron Stanley ( made Earl of Derby in October ), Sir William Stanley, and Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.

* Sir Percy Craddock, 1985 – 92

* September 14 – Battle of Homildon Hill: Northern English nobles led by Sir Henry " Hotspur " Percy defeat a Scottish raiding army under the Earl of Douglas.

Knox sailed secretly to Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast of England at the end of July, to meet James Croft and Sir Henry Percy at Berwick upon Tweed.

* April 25 – Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Yorkist forces under Lord Montague defeat Lancastrians under Sir Ralph Percy, who is killed.

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, Sir Richard Venables and Sir Richard Vernon were publicly hanged, drawn and quartered in Shrewsbury on 23 July and their heads publicly displayed.

They owned large areas of Tottenham and Sir Henry Percy ( Harry Hotspur ) was a family member.

Sir Henry Percy KG ( 20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403 ) was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, and Margaret Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby, and Alice de Audley.

* Elizabeth Percy ( c. 1395 – 26 October 1436 ), who married firstly John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, slain at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422, by whom she had issue, and secondly Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland ( d. 3 November 1484 ), by whom she had a son, Sir John Neville.

* Sir Percy Hobart, armoured vehicle strategist and commander of the 79th Armoured Division in the Second World War

* Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel

* Sir Percy Ware-Armitage film ( Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines )

Marguerite St. Just, a beautiful French actress, is the wife of wealthy English fop Sir Percy Blakeney, a baronet.

Many of the sequels revolve around French characters whom Sir Percy has met and is attempting to rescue.

In addition to the direct sequels about Sir Percy and his league, Orczy's related books include The Laughing Cavalier ( 1914 ) and The First Sir Percy ( 1921 ), about an ancestor of the Pimpernel's ; Pimpernel and Rosemary ( 1924 ), about a descendant ; and The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World ( 1933 ), a depiction of the 1930s world from the point of view of Sir Percy.

Beckett's pieces include numerous burlesques and pantomimes, the libretti of Savonarola ( Hamburg, 1884 ) and The Canterbury Pilgrims ( Drury Lane, 1884 ) for the music of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) C. V. Stanford.

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.

* Peace – Sir Norman Angell ( Ralph Lane )

** A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Ralegh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina.

There are many other relics of antiquity to be found here such as the so-called King Arthur's Footprint on the Island and a carved rock from Starapark which has been placed outside the Sir James Smith's School at Dark Lane, Camelford.

In 1915, Sir Hugh Lane bequeathed his collection of European modern art to Dublin, but controversially this went to the Tate, which expanded its collection to include foreign art and continued to acquire contemporary art.

In 1585 White accompanied the expedition led by Sir Ralph Lane to attempt to found the first English colony in North America.

The enterprise was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin.

In the text, Harriot reports that relations between the Roanoke Indians and the English settlers were mutually calm and prosperous, contradicting other historical evidence that catalogues the bloody struggles between the Roanoke Indians and both of Raleigh's commanders, Sir Richard Grenville and his successor Ralph Lane.

Raleigh was named after Sir Walter Raleigh and established in 1792 on purchased from Lane.

Harriet Harman MP lives in Winterbrook Road, Albert Booth MP, Secretary of State for Employment under Jim Callaghan, lived on the corner of Woodwarde Road and Desenfans Road and Sir Robin Butler, secretary to the Cabinet, lived in Half Moon Lane.

* Sir David P. Lane, Oncologist best known for identifying P53 went to school and grew up in Purley.

A bankruptcy and sale of remaining stock in the St. Martin's Lane premises in 1804 did not conclude the firm's latest phase, as the younger Chippendale supplied furniture to Sir Richard Colt Hoare at Stourhead until 1820 ( Edwards and Jourdain 1955: 88 ).

Statue of Sir Henry Royce, standing outside the company's HQ at Moor Lane, Derby

" The seal was redesigned by Adelaine Lane, niece of Governor Sir Cavendish Boyle in 1903.

In 1737 his King and the Miller of Mansfield, a " dramatic tale " of King Henry II, was produced at Drury Lane, and received with much applause ; the sequel, Sir John Cockle at Court, a farce, appeared in 1738.

It was laid out by the architect and planner Sir James Pennethorne along the approximate line of former Essex Street, Rose Lane and Red Lion Street, and entailed the demolition of some 250 sub-standard properties in Whitechapel and Spitalfields.

Sir Joseph Swan lived at Underhills, Kells Lane from 1869 – 83, where his experiments led to the invention of the electric light bulb.

Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier.

A relative of George Washington, Sir John Washington, lived in Chancery Lane in the town, and his wife is buried in the church.

Sir Robert Hunter, one of the founders of the National Trust, lived in Three Gates Lane between 1883 – 1913.

On 14 July, the High Court Judge Sir Geoffrey Lane was appointed to preside over the inquiry as Commissioner.

Speaking in the House of Commons Minister for Aerospace and Shipping Michael Heseltine paid tribute to the work done by Mr Justice Lane, Sir Morien Morgan and Captain Jessop for the work they had carried out during the inquiry into the accident.

* Sir Francis Baring, founder of Baring Brothers Bank, bought the Manor House ( attributed to architect Richard Jupp ) in Manor Lane ( now a library and its grounds a public park, Manor House Gardens ) in 1796.

According to Strype the rebuilt church was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and this would seem to be confirmed by the fact that in the parish account for 1685 there is the following item: To one third of a hogshead of wine, given to Sir Christopher Wren, £ 4 2s .< ref name =" Thornbury1 "> Thornbury, Walter ( 1878 ) ' Bartholomew Lane and Lombard Street ' in Old and New London: Volume 1 pp. 522-530.