Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

* Lester Piggott – Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

He was on good terms with Sir William Paddy.

However he later decided against taking the role, after Afghanistan said it preferred General Sir John McColl and did not want Paddy Ashdown.

* Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick " Paddy " Bardon Hine GCB, GBE-Senior Royal Air Force commander.

Artists with works displayed in Government House include E. Phillips Fox, Tom Roberts, Sir Arthur Streeton, Sir William Dargie, Margaret Preston, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, W. B. McInnes, Elioth Gruner, Sir Lionel Lindsay, Sir Bertram Mackennal, Sir Hans Heysen, Lloyd Rees, Fred Williams, Arthur Boyd, Sir Sidney Nolan, Leonard French, Justin O ' Brien, Ray Crooke, John Dowie, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Margaret Olley, Pro Hart, Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungarrayi, Charlie Tjararu Tjungarrayi and Paddy Japaljarri Sims.

Past LBC presenters include: Adrian Allen ; Carol Allen ; Dominic Allen ; Mike Allen ; Toby Anstis ; Dickie Arbiter ; Tre Azam ; Phillip Bacon ; Bill Bailey ; David Bassett ; * Jeni Barnett ; Simon Bates ; Jeremy Beadle ; Alison Bell ; Bill Bingham ; Therese Birch ; Frank Bough ; Tommy Boyd ; Gyles Brandreth ; Bill Buckley ; Paul Callan ; Douglas Cameron ; Mike Carlton ; Mike Carson ; Clare Catford ; Marcus Churchill ; Nick Conrad ; Andy Crane ; Jamie Crick ; Jono Coleman ; Steve Crozier ; Tim Crook ; Gino D ' Acampo ; Dan Damon ; Peter Deeley ; Anne Diamond ; Mike Dickin ; Richard Dallyn ; Jenny Eclair ; Richard Fairbrass ; Caroline Feraday ; John_Forrest_ ( Producer-Director ); Mariella Frostrup ; George Gale ; Krishnan Guru-Murthy ; Boy George ; Charlie Gibson ; Charles Golding ; Angie Greaves ; Eric Hall ; Bob Harris ; Brian Hayes ; Chris Hawkins ; Phillip Hodson ; Bob Holness ; Eamonn Holmes ; Jon Holmes ; Fred Housego ; Rufus Hound ; Howard Hughes ; Sue Jameson ; Bob Johnson ; Bryn Jones ; Steve Jones ; Barry Jordan ; Charlie Jordan ; Lesley Judd ; Henry Kelly ; Allan King ; Gary King ; Jenny Lacey ; Iain Lee ; Richard Littlejohn ; Wendy Lloyd ; Sir Nicholas Lloyd ; Adrian Love ; Dave Luddy ; Kelvin MacKenzie ; Richard Mackney ; Mike Mendoza ; Daisy McAndrew ; Rod Lucas ; Carol McGiffin ; Monty Modlin ; Nathan Morley ; Douglas Moffatt ; Bel Mooney ; Jane Moore ; Elliot Moss ; Pete Murray ; Paddy O ' Connell ; Rod Lucas ; Tom Parker-Bowles ; Michael Parkinson ; Frank Partridge ; John Perkins ; David Prever ; Martin Popplewell ; Gill Pyrah ; Anna Raeburn ; Angela Rippon ; Rowland Rivron ; Richard Robbins ; Paul Ross ; Kenny Sansom ; Adrian Scott ; Valerie Singleton ; Penny Smith ; Jon Snow ; Julia Somerville ; Laurence Spicer ; Dr Pam Spurr ; Janet Street-Porter ; Peter Stringfellow ; Carol Thatcher ; Sandi Toksvig ; Petroc Trelawny ; Michael Van Straten ; Robbie Vincent ; Becky Walsh ; Sandy Warr ; Brian Widlake ; James Williams, Matthew Wright, and Martin Young ;.

* Lester Piggott – Pinched ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1959 ), Casabianca ( 1963 ), Soft Angels ( 1965 ), Royal Palace ( 1966 ), Remand ( 1967 ), Sir Wimborne ( 1975 ), Dunbeath ( 1982 )

A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ) and Teenoso ( 1983 ).

* Derby-( 9 )-Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

Personalities to own a DW medal are former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, double Olympic gold medallist rower James Cracknell and Rebecca Stephens, the first woman to climb Everest solo.

He also revealed that he wants Sir Terry Wogan to play an Irish baddie when Max and Paddy go to a funeral in Ireland but, after a stag night, only have fancy dress clothes.

When See resigned in June 1904, he recommended to Governor Sir Harry Rawson that he appoint Paddy Crick, but Rawson did not favour Crick because of his excessive drinking in Executive Council meetings and in due course asked Waddell to be Premier.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell had already ruled out the idea that members of his party would take seats in a Brown cabinet, but, according to the reports, Brown still proceeded to approach Ashdown with the offer.

In 1734, a local benefactor, Sir Henry Fermor bequeathed money for a church and charity school for the benefit of the " very ignorant and heathenish people " that lived in the part of Rotherfield " in or near a place called Crowborough and Ashdown Forest ".

Chatham House has distinguished presidents from each of the three main political parties at Westminster: Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister, Lord Ashdown, former EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and former leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Baroness Scotland, the Shadow Attorney General.

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.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

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Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, ( October 31, 1925 – March 15, 2004 ) was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist.

Sir Augustine Danger " Austin " Powers, KBE, is a fictional character from the Austin Powers series of films.

* Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE inventor of the jet engine

In 1997 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE )-though since he is an ordained priest in the Church of England it is technically incorrect to call him " Sir John Polkinghorne ".

* In 1965, while he was still an American citizen, Menuhin was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which entitled him to use the postnominal letters KBE, but not to style himself Sir Yehudi.

After Menuhin gained British citizenship in 1985, his knighthood was upgraded to a substantive one, and he became Sir Yehudi Menuhin KBE.

Notable exceptions include RUC Chief Constable Sir James Flanagan KBE ( Derry ), Deputy Chief Constable Michael McAtamney, Assistant Chief Constable Cathal Ramsey, Chief Superintendent Frank Lagan as well as RUC Superintendents Kevin Benedict Sheehy ( Glengormley ) and Brendan McGuigan.

Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC ( November 14, 1891February 21, 1941 ) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the main discoverers of insulin.

Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB, KBE, MVO, MA ( Oxon ) ( Nigel Hawthorne ) serves throughout the series as Permanent Secretary under his Minister, Jim Hacker at the Department of Administrative Affairs.

* Sir William Stuttaford KBE

*** Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar

Sir Timothy Bartel Smit KBE ( born 1954 ) is a Dutch-born British businessman, famous for his work on the Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project, both in Cornwall, Britain.

* 1956 – 1968: Sir Richard White, KCMG, KBE

Sir Roger George Moore, KBE ( born 14 October 1927 ), is an English actor, perhaps best known for his role as British secret agent James Bond in the official film series between 1973 and 1985, and also as Simon Templar in The Saint between 1962 and 1969.

* Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domvile KBE CB CMG-former Director of Naval Intelligence

* Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE, CVO was a British naval surgeon, courtier and intimate of King George VI.

* Brigadier-General Sir Ormonde de l ' Épée Winter KBE CB CMG DSO

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, KBE ( 11 August 191331 May 1991 ) was an English novelist and short story writer.

: See also Lieutenant General Sir Vernon Sturdee KBE CB DSO, his nephew

( 3 ) Maj Donald Struan Robertson ( d. 1991 ), son of the Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson GCMG KBE.

Air Marshal Sir John Hugh Lapsley KBE, CB, DFC, AFC, RAF ( 24 September 1916 – 21 November 1995 ) was a World War II fighter pilot and, later, a senior Royal Air Force commander.

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

Sir John Simon MP, another future Foreign Secretary, was also horrified at the tactics being used.

British MP and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the Chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, guided the drafting of the Convention.

One of the sons of Sir Morris Abbot called George was also an MP in the Short Parliament.

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 ).

From 1987 to 1992, he was the oldest sitting British MP ( preceding former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath ).

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, QC, MP ( 1963 – 1965 )

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, FRS, QC, MP ( 1965 – 1966 )

* Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet ( 1699 – 1771 ), Irish MP for Carlow County 1730 – 1761

* Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet ( 1761 – 1817 ), Irish and British MP for Carlow County 1783 – 1790 and 1796 – 1802

His father's first cousin, Sir Richard Pepys, was elected MP for Sudbury in 1640, and appointed Baron of the Exchequer on 30 May 1654, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, on 25 September 1655.

The area ( initially as Kidderminster, then after 1983 as the Wyre Forest constituency ) has been represented by Conservative MPs Gerald Nabarro 1950 – 63, Sir Tatton Brinton 1964 – 74, Esmond Bulmer 1974 – 87, Anthony Coombs 1987 – 97, and Labour MP David Lock 1997 – 2001.

* Sir Michael Neubert ( briefly ), Conservative MP from 1974 to 1997 for Romford

Sir Robert Walpole, KB, MP ( 1725 – 1726 )

Sir Robert Walpole, KG, KB, MP ( 1726 – 1742 )

The current Father of the House of Commons is Sir Peter Tapsell, Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle, who began his continuous service from the 1966 general election.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

* The Right Honourable Sir Harold Wilson, KG, OBE, FRS, MP ( 23 April 1976 – 9 June 1983 )

* The Right Honourable Sir James Callaghan, KG, MP ( 23 April 1987 – 11 June 1987 )

* Sir James Pulteney, 7th Baronet ( c. 1755 – 1811 ), born James Murray, Scottish general and MP for Weycombe and Regis

* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone

* Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet ( 1804 – 1889 ), MP, elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone

In September 1942, coal miners in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in Great Britain led by Sir Barnett Stross MP founded the organisation Lidice Shall Live to raise funds for the rebuilding of the village after the war.