Conan Doyle also showed the photographs to the physicist and pioneering psychical researcher Sir Oliver Lodge, who believed the photographs to be fake.

In 1655, Oliver Cromwell dispatched a fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir William Penn, to conquer Santo Domingo.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

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 ).

* Sir Benjamin Heywood, a prosperous banker, acted as President of the Mechanics ' Institute for the period 1824 – 1841 ; his son, Oliver subsequently became President.

According to the common explanation, when electric waves are set up in the neighborhood of this circuit, electromotive forces are generated in it which appear to make the filings move closer together, that is, to cohere, and thus their electrical resistance decreasesaccordingly, Sir Oliver Lodge termed this piece of apparatus a coherer.

In 1908 Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, wrote to his counterpart at Bristol, welcoming a new university worthy of:

* Sir Oliver Mowat ( 1820 – 1903 ), also considered a Father of Canadian Confederation

Buchan's 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories, and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell.

On 14 June 1645, the main army of King Charles I was destroyed by the Parliamentarian New Model Army commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.

Sir Owen's descendants include Charles I of England and Oliver Cromwell ; King Juan Carlos of Spain and Elizabeth II, the current Queen regnant of the United Kingdom and of 15 other independent states.

Stained glass window in the college chapel, L-R Sir Henry Vane the Younger | Sir Henry Vane, Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden In 1871, the Universities Tests Act abolished all religious tests for non-theological degrees at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities.

* Sir Oliver Sherwell Franks, Baron Franks 1962-76

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.

Subsequent manufacturing improvements can also be credited to Albert Champion, the Lodge brothers, sons of Sir Oliver Lodge, who developed and manufactured their father's idea and also Kenelm Lee Guinness, of the Guinness brewing family, who developed the KLG brand.

From 1616, Buckingham established a dominant influence in Irish affairs, beginning with the appointment of his client, Sir Oliver St John, as Lord Deputy, 1616 – 1622.

Notable past presidents include John Charles Fields ( 1919-1925 ),( founder of the Fields Medal ), William Edmond Logan, Sir Daniel Wilson, Sir John Henry Lefroy, Sir John Beverley Robinson, George William Allan, William Henry Draper, Sir Oliver Mowat and Henry Holmes Croft.

Sir Carol Reed ( 30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976 ) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out ( 1947 ), The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), The Third Man ( 1949 ) and Oliver!

* Timothy Bateson as Sir Oliver Martext

As consequence, many Spiritualist works are widely accepted in Spiritism, particularly the works of scientists Sir William Crookes, and Sir Oliver Lodge.

The story is set over the years 1588 – 1593, and concerns a retired Cornish seafaring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother.

Warned by his host against the squire, and having confided to him how Amy had been entrapped, Tressilian left Cumnor by night, and, after several adventures by the way, reached the residence of Sir Hugh Robsart, Amy's father, to assist him in laying his daughter's case before the queen.

The news of the countess's fate put an end to the revels at Kenilworth, Leicester retired for a time from Court, and Sir Hugh Robsart, who died very soon after his daughter, settled his estate on Tressilian.

Blackmail and corruption had haunted the double lives of Dorian Gray and Sir Robert Chiltern ( in An Ideal Husband ), but in Earnest the protagonists ' duplicity ( Algernon's " bunburying " and Worthing's double life as Jack and Ernest ) is undertaken for more innocent purposes – largely to avoid unwelcome social obligations.

His under-paid men abandoned their lord to save their lives, and Sir Eider died fighting the raiders alone.

This was a higher honour than the knighthood awarded to penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and it recognised the monumental work Florey did in making penicillin available in sufficient quantities to save millions of lives in the war, despite Fleming's doubts that this was feasible.

Certainly, Sir Garnet Wolseley, taking over as Commander-in-Chief from Lord Chelmsford later that year, was unimpressed with the awards made to the defenders of Rorke ’ s Drift, saying " it is monstrous making heroes of those who shut up in buildings at Rorke ’ s Drift, could not bolt, and fought like rats for their lives which they could not otherwise save ".

* Sir John Mummery PC, DL a Lord Justice of Appeal lives at 5 Canonbury Grove

* Sir Nicholas Barrington, ex UK High Commissioner to Pakistan lives in Canonbury Grove

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 Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary, lives in Purley.

Brown with this attitude that threatens the defense and the lives of thousands of men, summoned a council of war in Tudela, in the palace of the Marquis of San Adrián, where they met Palafox ( who arrived the previous day of Zaragoza ), which reunited with his brother Francisco Palafox, General Coupigny and an English observer, Sir Thomas Graham.

King Arthur and Sir Lancelot can never achieve this honor because their lives have not remained pure.

Perhaps the most famous Welsh painters, Augustus John and his sister Gwen John, mostly lived in London and Paris ; however the landscapists Sir Kyffin Williams and Peter Prendergast remained living in Wales for most of their lives, though well in touch with the wider art world.

" Blessed with as many lives as a cat ," his time with the Ojibwa and subsequent explorations are retold in his Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories between the years 1760 and 1776 ( published New York, 1809 ), which he dedicated to his friend Sir Joseph Banks.

Bored by their new lives among the idle rich, they accepted a request for assistance from Sir Gerald Tarrant, a high-ranking official of the British Secret Service.

Rather, as revealed in the ruling of Chief Justice Sir John Robinson, a Lockean justification was given for the prisoners ' condemnation, and not a Burkean one: the Crown, as protector of the lives, liberty, and prosperity of its subjects could " legitimately demand allegiance to its authority.

Sir Timothy is under the mistaken impression that he is Barbatos ' master and that he lives in grand luxury, when in truth Barbatos is manipulating him for his own ends and Sir Timothy lives in a cardboard box in a back alley.

Virgin chairman Sir Richard Branson credited the Pendolino with saving lives in the crash, describing it to BBC News as being " built like a tank ".

Alexandra lives at Thatched House Lodge in Richmond, London a Crown property purchased on a 150-year lease from the Crown Estate Commissioners by Sir Angus Ogilvy after their wedding in 1963.

She lives in St John's Wood, London, in a house previously occupied by Reverend John Hugh Smyth-Piggott, and by Charles Saatchi, and which was featured in Sir John Betjeman's 1973 film Metro-land.

Sir John Lawrence, Viceroy of India banned the British from venturing into these lands, his political view being that if they lose their lives, we cannot avenge them and so lose credit.

His son, Sir Edmund Verney, 6th Baronet, a former High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, lives in the house today.

When not visiting some country house or other as the plots of the books demand, Madeline is generally to be found at Totleigh Towers where she lives with her father, ill-tempered magistrate and silver collector Sir Watkyn Bassett, and her father's ward Stiffy Byng.