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.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

Shortly afterwards, several London newspapers pointed out that " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " anagrams into " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

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The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen.

* Sir Peter Blake-Yachtsman, buried at nearby Warblington Church.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

The public role adopted by Sir John Kerr was curtailed considerably after the constitutional crisis of 1975 ; Sir William Deane's public statements on political issues produced some hostility towards him ; and some charities disassociated themselves from Peter Hollingworth after the issue of his management of sex abuse cases during his time as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane became a matter of controversy.

* Sir Peter Marychurch ( 1983 – 1989 )

Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold a sitting of the Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739.

Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.

As Sir Peter Russell remarks in his biography, " In Henryspeak, conversion and enslavement were interchangeable terms.

Famed psycho-anatomist Ralph Greenson and Sir Peter Scott were good friends.

* 1956: Gigi, by Anita Loos, director Sir Peter Hall, New Theatre, London

* 1961: Ondine, by Jean Giraudoux, director Sir Peter Hall, Aldwych Theatre, London

Scottish politician Nicholas Fairbairn pointed out that the name was an anagram for " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

* Sir Peter Blanchard ( 1998 )— supreme court justice

Sir Colin Earl Meads, KNZM, MBE ( born 3 June 1936 ), is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer.

Sir Michael John Cullen, KNZM ( born 5 February 1945, London ) was a New Zealand politician.

Members are: the chairman Sir John Anderson KBE ( Wellington ), Anne Blackburn ( Auckland ), Bryan Gould CNZM ( Opotiki ), Sir John Goulter, KNZM, JP ( Paihia ), June McCabe ( Auckland ) and Joan Withers ( Auckland ).

Sir Peter Wilfred Tapsell, KNZM, MBE, FRCS, FRCSEd ( 21 January 1930 – 5 April 2012 ) was Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996.

Sir Richard Leslie Taylor, KNZM, is the creator and head of New Zealand film prop and special effects company Weta Workshop.

Sir Robert James Charles, ONZ, KNZM, CBE ( born 14 March 1936 ) is a New Zealand professional golfer whose achievements over five decades rank him among the most successful left-handed golfers of all time, being the first lefty to win a golf major, winning more than 70 titles, and beating his age twice during a tournament as a 71 year-old.

Sir Angus Tait, KNZM, OBE ( 22 July 1919 – 7 August 2007 ) was a New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.

Sir Thomas Gault KNZM QC PC, 8 April 1992

Sir John Henry KNZM QC, 19 November 1996

Sir Ted Thomas KNZM, 19 November 1996

Sir Doug Graham KNZM, 24 June 1998

Sir Douglas Lorimer Kidd, KNZM ( born 12 September 1941 ) is a former New Zealand politician.

Sir Douglas Arthur Montrose " Doug " Graham KNZM ( born 12 January 1942 ) is a former New Zealand politician.

Sir Wilson James Whineray, KNZM, OBE ( born 10 July 1935 ) is a former business executive and the longest-serving captain of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team.

Sir John James Patrick Kirwan, KNZM, MBE ( born 16 December 1964 ) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer, and former All Black, turned coach.

This appointment grants the post-nominal letters KNZM and grants the knight the right to style themselves as Sir John.

:* Hon Sir William Young, KNZM 23 February 2006 – 1 July 2010

:* Hon Sir Noel Anderson, KNZM 1 January 2004 – 23 February 2006

:* Rt Hon Sir Thomas Gault, KNZM 24 May 2002 – 31 December 2003

Sir Graham William Henry KNZM ( born 8 June 1946 in Christchurch ) is a New Zealand rugby union coach, and former head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE ( born 24 November 1955 ) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator.

The current manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has won 24 major honours since he took over in November 1986.

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The category of Knight of the order had been created only on 24 May, and the Chancellor and Principal Knight of the Order, the Governor-General Sir John Kerr, became the first appointee, ex officio.

“ The Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, Knight-Prisoner .” The Review of English Studies ; 24. 95 ( 1973 ): 257-265.

The University was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act, on 24 September 1850 and was assented on 1 October 1850 by Sir Charles Fitzroy.

* October 24 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1876 )

* June 24 – Sir George Stuart White, British field marshal ( b. 1835 ).

* January 24 – Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born film director ( b. 1893 )

* June 24 – Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer ( d. 2001 )

* August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

* January 24 – Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist ( b. 1842 )

* May 24 – Sir John Norreys, with an expeditionary force sent by Queen Elizabeth I of England, takes the town of Guingamp after a brief siege, on behalf of Henry of Navarre.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

The castle, however, was under a constant state of siege, and the English commander, Sir Phillip de Mowbray, had advised Edward that he would surrender the castle to the Scots unless Edward arrived by 24 June 1314, to relieve the siege.

On 24 November, Baldwin consulted the three leading opposition politicians in Britain: Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee, Liberal leader Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston Churchill.

When Vernon had been joined by Sir Chaloner Ogle with massive naval reinforcements and a strong body of troops, an attack was made on Cartagena in what is now Colombia ( 9 March – 24 April 1741 ).

Sir Jacob Epstein was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery on 24 August 1959.

Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 ( baptised ) – 26 March 1726 ) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSI ( 10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904 ) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia.

His elder son James Erskine Wemyss ( 1789 – 1854 ) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and the grandfather of Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Erskine-Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss ( 12 April 1864 – 24 May 1933 ), known as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss between 1916 and 1919.

24 – Chicago Symphony Chorus ; Margaret Hillis, director ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )