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 ".

File: Sir Theodore Mayerne drawing by Peter Paul Rubens. jpg | Rubens-Sir Théodore de Mayerne, a portrait drawing ( c. 1630 )

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 ".

The captain of the club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St Mary's, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and immunology.

Sir Almroth Wright strongly supported Fleming's findings, but despite this, most army physicians over the course of the war continued to use antiseptics even in cases where this worsened the condition of the patients.

Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.

* Sir Patrick Wright, 1982 – 84 ( subsequently The Lord Wright )

Other British privateers of note include Fortunatus Wright, Edward Collier, Sir John Hawkins, his son Sir Richard Hawkins, Michael Geare, and Sir Christopher Myngs.

Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ( Alcock and Brown ), Brabazon Road ( Brabazon ), Bleriot Road ( Louis Blériot ), Cobham Road ( Sir Alan Cobham ), De Havilland Road ( de Havilland ), Norman Crescent ( Nigel Norman ), Phoenix Way ( Heston Phoenix ), Sopwith Road ( Thomas Sopwith ), Spitfire Way ( Supermarine Spitfire ), Whittle Road ( Frank Whittle ), and Wright Road ( the Wright brothers ).

Bingley later sold the estate to Sir Edmund Wright, a future Lord Mayor of London, in 1629, and the current house was built of brick in 1638.

Built between 1629 and 1638 for Sir Edmund Wright, the house replaced an existing structure dating back to the 1300s.

* Interpreter of Buddhism to the West: Sir Edwin Arnold by Brooks Wright.

Its planners, Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, and its landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley aimed to incorporate modern planning principles, which were then being introduced into England's Garden Cities, following ideas advocated by urban planners Ebenezer Howard, Sir Patrick Geddes and Clarence Perry.

Subsequently, Newgrange was visited by a number of antiquarians, who often performed their own measurements of the site and made their own observations, which were often published in various antiquarian journals ; these included such figures as Sir William Wilde, Sir Thomas Pownall, Thomas Wright, John O ' Donovan, George Petrie and James Fergusson.

This period would also create history as Dre and Yella would cross paths with a teenage performing group called CIA ( Cru ' In Action ) starring O ' Shea " Ice Cube " Jackson, Dre ’ s cousin Tony ‘ Sir Jinx ’ Wheatob and Darrell ‘ K-Dee ’ Johnson who caught the attention of regular patron, and local drug dealer Eric ‘ Eazy-E ’ Wright, who was looking to capitalize on this new fad and turn his business legal.

Sir Denis A H Wright, the then British ambassador to Ethiopia, in his annual report for 1961 establishes linkage of Hammarskjold ’ s death to British refusal to allow an Ethiopian military plane carrying troops destined to join the UN mission, landing at Entebbe and over-flying British-controlled Uganda to the Congo.

There were five judges – Sir William Montague ( Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer ), Sir Robert Wright, Sir Francis Wythens, ( Justice of the King's Bench ), Sir Creswell Levinz ( Justice of the Common Pleas ) and Sir Henry Polexfen, led by Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys.

Miss A was referred to Sir William Gull by her doctor, a Mr Kelson Wright, of Clapham, London on 17 January 1866.

Despite the excommunication of Bruce and his followers by Pope Clement V, his support slowly strengthened ; and by 1314 with the help of leading nobles such as Sir James Douglas and Thomas Randolph only the castles at Bothwell and Stirling remained under English control.

It is believed to have been extensively copied, but only one song was printed by Purcell's widow in Orpheus Britannicus, and the complete work remained in manuscript until 1840, when it was printed by the Musical Antiquarian Society under the editorship of Sir George Macfarren.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

The castle remained the property of the Clarendons until 1937, when Lord Clarendon found the maintenance of the castle too expensive and sold Kenilworth to the industrialist Sir John Siddeley.

At the 2005 general elections, the MLP led Alliance Sociale coalition won the elections and Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister while Sir Anerood Jugnauth remained the president.

After the British invasion following the killing of Sir Louis Cavagnari in 1879, Yaqub Khan, Yahya Khan and his sons, Princes Mohammad Yusuf Khan and Mohammad Asef Khan, were seized by the British and transferred under custody to the British Raj, where they forcibly remained until the two princes were invited back to Afghanistan by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in the last year of his reign ( 1901 ).

It remained for Sir J. J. Thomson to discover their subatomic nature, and to prove that cathode rays consist of streams of negative electrons, that is, of negatively electrified particles whose mass is only 1 / 1840 that of a hydrogen atom.

Anecdotes remained popular in Europe well into the 18th century, when the fictional anecdotal letters of Sir Roger de Coverley were published.

Dar-es-Salaam remained the seat of Government of the colony and the first Administrator was Sir Horace Archer Byatt CMG.

The College became Sir George Williams University ( SGWU ) in 1948, when it received a university charter from the provincial government, though it remained the education arm of the Montreal YMCA.

The dedicatee long remained unidentified, but John Harley's researches into the heraldic design on the fly-leaf have shown that she was Lady Elizabeth Neville, the third wife of Sir Henry Neville ( Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ) of Billingbear in Berkshire, who was a Justice of the Peace and a warden of Windsor Great Park.

" Sir Erskine May notes that " reformed Parliament was, unquestionably, more liberal and progressive in its policy than the Parliaments of old ; more vigorous and active ; more susceptible to the influence of public opinion ; and more secure in the confidence of the people ," but admitted that " grave defects still remained to be considered.

Later when the National Government called a General Election he tried to pull the Liberal Party out of it but succeeded in taking only a few followers, most of whom were related to him ; the main Liberal party remained in the coalition for a year longer, under the leadership of Sir Herbert Samuel.

Sir Robert Savile purchased the estate in 1584, and it remained in his family's hands for almost a hundred years.

The method followed by its illustrious author Sir Newton ... spread the light of mathematics on a science which up to then had remained in the darkness of conjectures and hypotheses.

In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, " The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar "; decades later, historian Edmund Morris maintained that it remained the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.

Other historians have argued that Gardiner's exclusion had non-religious causes, that Norfolk was not noticeably conservative in religion, that conservatives remained on the Council, and that the radicalism of men such as Sir Anthony Denny, who controlled the dry stamp that replicated the king's signature, is debatable.

Goochland was named for Sir William Gooch, the royal lieutenant governor from 1727-1749, at which time the nominal governor, the Earl of Albemarle, remained in England.

The Greek revolutionaries, whose motto was ελευθερία ή θάνατος ( eleftheria i thanatos: " freedom or death "), remained defiant, appointing experienced philhellenic British and French officers to command their forces: Maj Sir Richard Church ( C-in-C ) and Col C. Fabvier ( land ); Adm Lord Cochrane ( C-in-C ) and Capt F. A.

The influential Canadian physician, Sir William Osler, described the Canon as " the most famous medical textbook ever written " noting that it remained " a medical bible for a longer time than any other work.

Tattershall castle was recovered in 1560 by Sir Henry Sidney, who sold it to Lord Clinton, later Earl of Lincoln, and it remained with the Earls of Lincoln until 1693.

The Saviles remained here until the English Civil War when the house was besieged, ( having been previously fortified by Sir William Savile, the third baronet of the family ), taken, and demolished by the forces of Parliament.

However, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, then high commissioner and still pressing forward with Carnarvon's federation plan, characterized the award as " one-sided and unfair to the Boers ," stipulated that on the land being given to the Zulu, the Boers living on it should be compensated if they left or protected if they remained.

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.