* Sir Maurice de Bunsen ( 1852 – 1932 ), British diplomat

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

* The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, Addison – Wesley, Edition 1, 1951.

He also had some public support for his staying on in the War Cabinet for the duration, which was strongly backed by Sir Maurice Hankey, former WW1 Colonel and member of both WW1 & WW2 War Cabinets.

During the early 1950s, while Watson and Crick were determining the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ), they made use of unpublished X-ray diffraction images taken by Rosalind Franklin, shown at meetings and shared with them by Maurice Wilkins, and of Franklin's preliminary account of her detailed analysis of the X-ray images included in an unpublished 1952 progress report for the King's College laboratory of Sir John Randall.

* Sir Maurice de Berkeley, English knight ( d. 1281 )

Edward's finances had been ably managed by Sir Dighton Probyn, Comptroller of the Household, and had benefited from advice from Edward's Jewish financier friends, such as Ernest Cassel, Maurice de Hirsch and the Rothschild family.

The committee's secretary was Sir Maurice Hankey.

These untruths were exposed by General Sir Frederick Maurice in a letter to the press-Lloyd George survived the Commons Debate ( the first occasion on which the Liberal Party openly split ) but years later admitted that he had " misinformed the House ".

It met almost daily, with Sir Maurice Hankey as secretary, and made all major political, military, economic and diplomatic decisions.

" These were a force of Welsh spearmen who were kept together by their commander, Sir Maurice de Berkeley, and the majority of them reached Carlisle.

Sir Michael Caine, CBE ( born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on 14 March 1933 ) is a British actor and author.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2000 New Year Honours he was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE.

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.

At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies.

Sir Maurice Bowra, scholar and wit, was Warden between 1938 and 1970.

At the end of the sixties, the Warden, Sir Maurice Bowra, President of the British academy and one of the first co-founders of the British Institute of Persian Studies ( BIPS ) welcomed a donation to construct the building of the New Library in Wadham, where the emphasis would be given to Persian Studies and the post in Persian.

The Maurice Bowra | Bowra Building by Richard MacCormac | Sir Richard MacCormac of MJP Architects

In 1960, Trevor-Roper waged a successful campaign against the candidacy of Sir Oliver Franks who was backed by the heads of houses marshalled by Maurice Bowra, for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and had his old friend and publisher the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan elected instead.

* 1640-1649: Sir Maurice Eustace

* 1977 Maurice Ravel: Boléro – Kenneth Wilkinson, engineer ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )

* Sir Maurice Alan Mawby – metallurgist & initiator with Albert Morris of ' the green belt ' to regenerate flora and fauna around the mines

Elizabeth married Sir Maurice Berkeley, while Frances married John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck.

* 1973 – 1978: Sir Maurice Oldfield, GCMG, CBE

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

* January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.

The Battle of Cape St Vincent ( 14 February 1797 ) was one of the opening battles of The Anglo-Spanish War ( 1796 – 1808 ) where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.

Vincent O ' Brien named Nijinsky and Sir Ivor as the best horses he had trained, placing Nijinsky first " for brilliance.

Champion racehorses trained by Vincent O ' Brien on the flat include Nijinsky II, Sir Ivor, Ballymoss, Alleged, The Minstrel and El Gran Senor.

* Sir Henry Vincent Meredith, 1st Baronet, of Montreal, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1916 ), extinct 1929

In 1715, founder Sir Mathias Vincent and others failed to pay taxes to William Penn, who took them to court.

Elizabeth died young, Anne married Ralph Sadleir, son and heir of Sir Thomas Sadleir, and Bridget married William Skinner, son and heir of Sir Vincent Skinner.

She came from an upper class background, being the daughter of Captain Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 3rd Baronet ( 1837 – 1871 ) ( see Hawkins-Whitshed Baronets ) by his wife Anne Alicia ( née Handcock ) ( 1837 – 1908 ), and further back was descended from the aristocratic Bentinck family, and was therefore related to the Dukes of Portland.

Under Sir Ralph Abercromby, who succeeded Vaughan in 1795, he was present at the capture of St Lucia ( after which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 56th Foot ) and then that of St Vincent.

* General Sir Richard Vincent ( 1983 – 1987 )

Since the dissolution the site has been owned by: Henry Randes ( the Bishop of Lincoln ); Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby ; Sir Vincent Skinner of Westminster ; Sir Robert Sutton ; George Appleby ; and in 1816 Charles, 1st Baron Yarborough.

* 1888 in art-Birth of Josef Albers, Seán Keating, Giorgio de Chirico, Vincent van Gogh begins his Sunflowers series ; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema paints The Roses of Heliogabalus

* Sir John Campbell, of Airds ( 1807 – 1853 ), Lt-Governor of St Vincent 1845 – 1853

The third, ' An Introduction to the Life and Work of Sir Granville Bantock ' by Vincent Budd was published in 2000 by Gnosis Press and a larger volume is apparently in progress.

# Sir Vincent Meredith ( 1913 to 1927 )

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During the summer of 1779 the Monarch was attached to the Channel fleet under Sir Charles Hardy ; in December was one of the squadron with which Rodney sailed for the relief of Gibraltar, and had a prominent share in the action off St. Vincent on 16 January 1780.

Sir Frederick Nathaniel Ballantyne, GCMG ( born 5 July 1936 ) is the Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

* Admiral Sir John Jervis, victor of the Battle of Cape St Vincent, was created Earl of St Vincent in 1797, and was further created Viscount St Vincent in 1801.