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The circle symbol for aromaticity was introduced by Sir Robert Robinson and his student James Armit in 1925 and popularized starting in 1959 by the Morrison & Boyd textbook on organic chemistry.
Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F. B. A., F. R. S.
A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.
Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.
" Secondary Schools in the region include " Albert College " ( private school ) and " Sir James Whitney " ( a school for the deaf and severely hearing-impaired ).
* Extract on The Beltane Fires from Sir James George Frazer's book The Golden Bough-1922
The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.
The latter trip was extremely rainy, which led Sir James Clark, the Queen's physician, to recommend Deeside for its more healthy climate.
The architect Sir John James Burnet was petitioned to put forward ambitious long-term plans to extend the building on all three sides.
During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.
* Frazer, Sir James George, Myths of the Origin of Fire, London: Macmillan, 1930.
: Sir James Dewar
After the fall of James II of England, in 1688, Mather was among the leaders of the successful revolt against James's governor of the consolidated Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros.
, the board is made up of members of the Clay family, whereas the advisory committee is composed of leading authorities in mathematics, namely Sir Andrew Wiles, Yum-Tong Siu, Richard Melrose, Gregory Margulis, James Carlson, and Simon Donaldson.
Only nine years later, in 1664, the Dutch were conquered by a fleet of English ships by Sir Robert Carr under the direction of James, the Duke of York.
* 1939 Sir James Galway, Northern Irish flautist
The most widely known English language translation was made by Sir James Fergusson, formerly Keeper of the Records of Scotland, from text that he reconstructed using this extant copy and early copies of the original draft.
He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.
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 ).
Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, Muriel Spark and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh.
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.
Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

Sir and descendant
In 2006, Adrien Jones, the president of the Owain Glyndŵr Society, said, " Four years ago we visited a direct descendant of Glyndŵr ( Sir John Scudamore ), at Kentchurch Court, near Abergavenny.
A descendant of Sir Robert, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, sold his family's 51 % holding in Jardine, Matheson and Co. for $ 84 million at the then prevailing exchange rate in 1959.
Her father, Richard, was the younger brother of Sir Robert Bowes, a descendant of an old Durham family and her mother, Elizabeth, was an heiress of a Yorkshire family, the Askes of Richmondshire.
She was the oldest surviving child of Sir Thomas Parr, Lord of the Manor of Kendal in Westmorland ( now Cumbria ), descendant of King Edward III, and the former Maud Green, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Green, Lord of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire.
His descendant, Sir Cornelis, became the 8th Baronet.
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.
After the defeat of the English by Philip II, the fief returned to a descendant of the Berlay le Vieux family Sir of Bellay, Guillaume de Melun, during this period the fief went under a big renovation by the creation of high massive walls construction including 13 interlocking towers, with entry only via a fortified gateway and the name was anglicized from Barley to Balley.
He claimed the title of Baron Botetourt as the lineal descendant of Maurice de Berkeley ( d. 1361 ) and his wife Catherine de Botetourt, sister & co-heir of John Botetourt, son and heir of Sir John de Botetourt ( d. 1324 ), baron by writ 1309-15.
The county was named for Sir George Carteret, one of the 17th century English Lords Proprietor, or for his descendant and heir John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.
It consisted of a specialised glass case with original objects and a bronze sculpture of a girl, a direct descendant of a child rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton, who unveiled the work.
( Sir George was a descendant of Sir John Buck, an adherent of Richard III who had been executed following the Battle of Bosworth Field.
From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 1984 ), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons ( sitting for Stafford ), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.
His father's namesake, and John Churchill's biographer and descendant, Sir Winston Churchill, asserted " conditions at Ashe might well have aroused in his mind two prevailing impressions: First a hatred of poverty ... and secondly, the need of hiding thoughts and feelings from those to whom their expression would be repugnant.
The earldom was inherited by his distant relative Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet, of Bickerstaffe, a descendant of a younger brother of the second Earl, who became the 11th Earl of Derby ( see below for earlier history of the Baronetcy ).
On his mother's side of the family he was a descendant of the Elizabethan admiral Sir Richard Grenville, famous for his death in the Revenge at the Battle of Flores.
* Ó Séaghdha ( O ' Shea )-Claimed by Malcolm Richard Archer Shee of Maryland ( b. 1955 ), claiming to be the senior descendant of Elias Shee of Cranmore (+ 1613 ), younger brother of Sir Richard Shee of Kilkenny, the last to be described as " chief " in contemporary sources.
Lord Coventry was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas ( a descendant of John Coventry, Lord Mayor of the City of London in the reign of Henry VI ), and of Margaret Jeffreys of Earls Croome, or Croome D ' Abitot, in Worcestershire.
A descendant of the famous Cavendish family, William Cavendish was born at Handsworth Manor in Yorkshire to Sir Charles Cavendish and Catherine Ogle.
All of Fortescue's minor writings appear in The Works of Sir John Fortescue, now first Collected and Arranged, published in 1869 for private circulation, by his descendant, Lord Clermont. There is an unpublished Ph. D. dissertation on Fortescue's life and career: Paul E. Gill, Sir John Fortescue: Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Polemicist of the Succession Problem, Governmental Reformer, and Political Theorist, The Pennsylvania State University, 1968.

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