The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

He had an elder brother, John ( the father of Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet of the Turing Baronets ).

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

* 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

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.

A subsidiary colony was to be founded on Norfolk Island, as recommended by Sir John Call, to take advantage for naval purposes of that island's native flax and timber.

The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII, and were acquired in the early 17th century by Sir Robert Cotton from Thomas Walker, Clerk of the Parliaments.

At the building of Chelsea-College he was Deputy-Surveyor, and Clerk of Works, under Sir Christopher Wren.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another fifty years or more, thanks to such figures as James Hutton, James Watt, William Murdoch, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin and Sir Walter Scott.

* Sir John Clerk of Eldin ( 1728 – 1812 ) prolific artist, author of An Essay on Naval Tactics ; great-uncle of James Clerk Maxwell

On 17 January 2012, it was announced that this six-member commission would be named the Commission on the consequences of devolution for the House of Commons, would be chaired by former Clerk of the House of Commons Sir William McKay, and would have one member from each of the devolved countries.

On 17 January 2012, it was announced that this six-member commission would be named the " Commission on the consequences of devolution for the House of Commons ", would be chaired by former Clerk of the House of Commons Sir William McKay, and would have one member from each of the devolved countries.

Sir George Russell Clerk was sent out in 1853 as special commissioner " for the settling and adjusting of the affairs " of the Sovereignty, and in August of that year he summoned a meeting of delegates to determine upon a form of self-government.

Sir George Clerk announced that, as the elected delegates were unwilling to take steps to form an independent government, he would enter into negotiations with other persons.

" While the elected delegates sent two members to England to try and induce the government to alter their decision Sir George Clerk speedily came to terms with a committee formed by the republican party and presided over by Mr J. H. Hoffman.

A convention allowing the independence of the country was signed at Bloemfontein on 23 February by Sir George Clerk and the republican committee, and in March the Boer government assumed office and the republican flag was hoisted.

The society contained a remarkable group of men who afterwards became eminent in different ways: for example, developer of classical electromagnetic theory James Clerk Maxwell and Liberal Party leader Sir William Harcourt.

He was patronized by Sir James Clerk, whose hall at Penicuik House he decorated with a series of subjects from Ossian.

* The Justice Clerk, Sir James Balfour

Henry VIII gave Bromley Abbatis to Sir William Paget, Clerk of the Signet and Privy Councillor.

* 1845 – 1846 Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet

The Select Committee began deliberating on 1 June 1880, when it considered a paper put in by Sir Thomas Erskine May, the Clerk of the House.

But there is considerable controversy about whether the tactic was intentional, and, if so, who was responsible for the idea ( Rodney, his Captain-of-the-Fleet Sir Charles Douglas, or John Clerk of Eldin ), or even if this was the first case of such a tactic.

* Sir George Clerk, Bt ( 1862 – 1868 )

The present Clerk to the Company is Sir Antony Reardon Smith, Bt.

As assistant to Sir George Russell Clerk, he now added to his political experience in the management of the district of Ferozepore ; and when news of disaster came from Kabul in November 1841 he was sent to Peshawar in order to push up supports for the relief of Sale and the garrison of Jalalabad.

His father, the late Sir Neville Leigh KCVO, was Clerk to the Privy Council and hailed from the West Hall, High Legh family.

* Sir Charles Lennox Peel ( 1823 – 1899 ), Clerk of the Council, was the son of Laurence Peel, sixth son of the first Baronet.

Sir Francis William Lascelles, son of Henry Arthur Lascelles, fourth son of the aforementioned William Lascelles, was Clerk of the Parliaments between 1953 and 1958.

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( b. 1782 )

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

* 1661 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician ( b. 1604 )

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ) by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

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.

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 John Gordon ( d. c. 1395 ) of Strathbogie, ancestor of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, was the brother of Elizabeth Gordon.

She married Sir Alexander Seton ( d. 1438 ) and was the mother of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly ( ancestor of the Marquesses of Huntly ).

* Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet ( 1610 – 1644 )

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS ( 17 December 177829 May 1829 ) was a British chemist and inventor.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

* 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.

* Sir William Hamilton, 1st Baronet ( c. 1605 – 1680 )