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.

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

Many of his government ’ s reforms were due to his Minister for Justice, John Maddison, and Attorney-General Sir Kenneth McCaw, who initiated the establishment of the Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the introduction of consumer laws, an ombudsman, legal aid, health labels on cigarette packs, breath-testing of drivers, limits on vehicle emissions, the liberalisation of liquor laws, and compensation for victims of violent crime.

* Sir Kenneth Keith, ( LLM, Honorary Doctor of Laws ) international jurist

The main University Library which has been renamed the Sir Kenneth Green Library is also situated on the All Saints campus.

A largely honorific post, the current Chancellor is Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, former Chief Medical Officer and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham.

At the Supreme Command conference, General Eisenhower led the meeting, which was attended by General Patton, General Bradley, General Jacob Devers, Major General Sir Kenneth Strong, Deputy Supreme Commander Arthur Tedder, and a large number of staff officers.

The members with this length of service are: Sir Gerald Kaufman, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Meacher and Dennis Skinner ( listed according to the order in which they took the oath after the 1970 election ).

In November 1953, Time published evidence gathered variously by Kenneth Page Oakley, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark and Joseph Weiner proving that the Piltdown Man was a forgery and demonstrating that the fossil was a composite of three distinct species.

* Chief Constable Sir Kenneth Newman, from May 1976.

* Kenneth Hunter as Sir Mortimer, a supporter of Prince John

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

The station's owner was again played by Deayton, though the character name was changed from Sir Norman Tonsil to Sir Kenneth Yellowhammer for the TV series, to serve as one of the show's thinly-veiled references to Sky TV.

* Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Charles Michael Giddings CB OBE DFC AFC and Bar, born in Walthamstow in 1920.

The Trust's Patron is Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay ; the President is the Duke of Buccleuch, and the Chairman is Sir Kenneth Calman.

The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, " if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art.

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( ; born 10 December 1960 ) is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland.

Branagh, Kenneth Charles ( full name ); Sir Kenneth

Sir Kenneth Clark was of the view that by means of the Carolingian Renaissance, Western civilization survived by the skin of its teeth.

The latter trip was extremely rainy, which led Sir James Clark, the Queen's physician, to recommend Deeside for its more healthy climate.

They are legislative and executive powers and functions conferred on the Governor-General, not by Royal authority, but by statutory authority ," a view held also by Andrew Inglis Clark, who assisted Sir Samuel Griffith with drafts of the constitution and later became Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

The battle of the name raged on for many years and drove a wedge between Louis and LeGros Clark, Sir Wilfrid from 1955, who took the Paranthropus view.

Sir James Clark Ross took the first modern sounding in deep sea in 1840, and Charles Darwin published a paper on reefs and the formation of atolls as a result of the second voyage of HMS Beagle in 1831-6.

Treeshrews were moved from Insectivora to the Primates order, because of certain internal similarities to the latter ( for example, similarities in the brain anatomy, highlighted by Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark ), and classified as a primitive prosimian.

" Southwark was incited to insurrection " by Sir Elias Lyvet ( Levett ) and his associate Thomas Clark, who promised Scottish aid to carry out the insurrection.

* Clark, Ronald William Sir Mortimer Wheeler ( Roy Publishers, New York, 1960 )

Among the most notable corporate raiders of the 1980s were Carl Icahn, Victor Posner, Nelson Peltz, Robert M. Bass, T. Boone Pickens, Harold Clark Simmons, Kirk Kerkorian, Sir James Goldsmith, Saul Steinberg and Asher Edelman.

Notable Red Tories include Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Robert Borden, John Farthing, George Grant, John Diefenbaker, Davie Fulton, Robert Stanfield, Dalton Camp, W. L. Morton, William Davis, Joe Clark, and Flora MacDonald.

The Old Town Hall, built in 1776, now houses Stranraer Museum with its displays of Victorian Wigtownshire and the town's polar explorers, Sir John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross.

He also recruited many disciples to the cause – most notably James Clark Ross, a nephew of Sir John's, the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the astronomer royal, George Airy.

* Sir Kenneth Clark KCB ( 1938 – 46 )

* Prof. Sir Kenneth Clark KCB ( 1946 – 49 )

* Prof. Sir Kenneth Clark KCB FBA ( 1949 – 50 )

* Sir Kenneth Clark KCB FBA ( 1950 – 59 )

* Sir Kenneth Clark CH KCB FBA ( 1959 – 69 )

* The Sir Kenneth Mackenzie Clark Collection at the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto

Sir James Clark Ross discovered it in 1841, and it was later named in honour of him by Robert F. Scott.

Mount Erebus was discovered on January 27, 1841 ( and observed to be in eruption ) by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross who named it Mount Erebus after his ships, Erebus and Terror ( which were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous Arctic expedition ).

Great expectations attended his coming of age ; Sir George Buc recalled predictions that ' he was much more like ... to acquire a new erldome then to wast & lose an old erldom ', a prophecy that was never fulfilled.

He once recalled that when Sir Ralph Richardson " wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir ...

Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616 in a successful effort to redeem his leadership.

Eventually, Davis brought her case to court in Britain, hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir Patrick Hastings, who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to " come to the conclusion that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what she wants is more money ".

Rice recalled that during the meeting, Tenet told Bush, " Sir, I believe it ’ s al-Qaeda.

The presentation was made by Sir Adrian Boult, who recalled that as they left the platform, " Monteux gave two little groans as we walked down the passage, and I suddenly found my arms full of violins and bows.

Sir Bartle Frere had been recalled in 1880 to face charges of misconduct, by the 1st Earl of Kimberley ( secretary of state for the colonies ).

In April 1852, Sir Harry Smith was recalled by Earl Grey, who accused him — unjustly, in the opinion of the Duke of Wellington — of a want of energy and judgement in conducting the war ; he was succeeded by Lieutenant-General Cathcart.

" Sir Henry Wood, who had been répétiteur for the production, recalled in his autobiography that " Carte had had a repertory of six operas instead of only one, I believe he would have established English opera in London for all time.

This post he held until 1782, when General Sir Henry Clinton was recalled in the aftermath of the 1781 surrender at Yorktown.

Bond Head was recalled in late 1837 and replaced with Sir George Arthur who arrived in Toronto in March 1838 and sent Lord Durham, who was assigned to report on the grievances among the colonists and find a way to appease them.

Shortly afterwards, Pezza was recalled to Sicily to gather more forces, and in April joined an expedition to reinforce Gaeta that was led by the British admiral Sir Sydney Smith, one of Napoleon ’ s most inveterate foes.

However, Cooke's view recalled a similar opinion expressed by the famous 17th century English jurist, Sir Edward Coke.

Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, a British resident in Florence, recalled in a letter that " The common people are convinced she went off in a hurricane of wind ; a most violent one began this morning and lasted for about two hours, and now the sun shines as bright as ever ..." The royal line of the House of Medici went extinct with her death.

Promoted First Secretary in 1920, he was appointed private secretary to Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, but was recalled to the Foreign Office in June 1920.

However, in Summer 1927 he was recalled to London and demoted to First Secretary for criticising his Minister, Sir Percy Loraine, in a dispatch.

In December 1850 war broke out with the Xhosa and some of the Khoikhoi ; Sir Harry Smith was insufficiently supplied with troops from England ; and though his conduct of the operations was warmly approved by the Duke of Wellington and other military authorities, Lord Grey, in a dispatch never submitted to the queen, recalled him in 1852 before the Xhosa and Khoikhoi had been completely subdued.

Gilbert Frankau recalled, in his own autobiography Self Portrait, that in 1928 Sir Thomas Horder confided: " Birkenhead's pure eighteenth-century.

His aunt Nancy Mitford, in letters to Evelyn Waugh, recalled Sir Oswald and his family cruising the Mediterranean Sea on the family yacht.

Because of her parents ' fame, Mills grew up surrounded by famous actors such as Rex Harrison, David Niven, and Marlon Brando and she recalled her childhood in the 2000 documentary film Sir John Mills ' Moving Memories which was written by her brother, Jonathan.

In this structure he recalled now Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Scovell as Superintendent of Military Communications.

Ketèlbey's nephew, the pianist Sir Clifford Curzon, recalled in his BBC Desert Island Discs broadcast, ' Little Clifford was supposed to be in bed but he never was, he was out sitting on the landing, listening to my uncle playing through the well of the stairway of my father's old house, and so the first of music I really heard were these immortal melodies of Ketèlbey.

Mills recalled her childhood in the 2000 documentary film Sir John Mills ' Moving Memories which was written by her brother Jonathan.

Davies was related to the famous British actor Sir Henry Irving ( referred to as cousin Brodribb by the family ); he later recalled that his grandmother referred to Irving as " the cousin who brought disgrace on us ".