* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

* The Crossbow by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, BT

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

It opened at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse.

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

Sir Ralph Abercromby ( sometimes spelt Abercrombie ) ( 7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801 ) was a Scottish soldier and politician.

Sir Ralph Abercromby, Commander of the British forces that captured Trinidad and Tobago.

After holding for a short period the office of commander-in-chief in Scotland, Sir Ralph, when the enterprise against the Dutch Batavian Republic was resolved upon in 1799, was again called to command under the Duke of York.

Death of Gen Sir Ralph Abercrombie by Sir Robert Ker Porter.

A public house in central Manchester, the ' Sir Ralph Abercrombie ', is named after him.

* Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sir Ralph Abercromby

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

* Sir Ralph Stevenson, 1936 – 39

He once recalled that when Sir Ralph Richardson " wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir ...

He was head of the Durham Militia band 1760 – 61 and visited the home of Sir Ralph Milbanke at Halnaby Hall in 1760, where he wrote two symphonies, as well as giving performances himself.

* March 21 – Second Battle of Abukir in Egypt: British troops defeat the French, but the British commander, Sir Ralph Abercromby, dies later of a wound received in the action.

* February 18 – Spanish Governor José Maria Chacón peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad to a British naval force commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

* April 17 – Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfully invades San Juan, Puerto Rico in what will be one of the largest British attacks on Spanish territories in the western hemisphere, and one of the worst defeats of the English navy for years to come.

* Peace – Sir Norman Angell ( Ralph Lane )

French recommended Robertson as his successor and Kitchener told Esher ( 4 December ) that the government intended to appoint Robertson Commander-in-Chief, but General Sir Douglas Haig, Robertson's senior and a front line commander since the start of the war, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the BEF in December 1915.

William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher PC, QC ( 13 August 1817 – 24 May 1899 ), known as Sir William Brett between 1868 and 1883, was a British lawyer, judge and Conservative politician.

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

Nineteenth-century fictional depictions of John were heavily influenced by Sir Walter Scott's historical romance, Ivanhoe, which presented " an almost totally unfavourable picture " of the king ; the work drew on Victorian histories of the period and on Shakespeare's play.

A later English Arthurian romance, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell ( c. 1450 ), uses much of the same elements of the Wife of Bath's tale, yet changes the setting to the court of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Arcadia, e. g. in Sir Philip Sidney's prose romance The Old Arcadia ( 1580 ).

Uther appears in the chivalric romance Sir Cleges as the king to whom Sir Cleges brings the Christmas cherries, obtained by miracle.

Sir Galahad does not feature in any romance by Chrétien de Troyes, or in Robert de Boron's Perceval, or in any of the continuations of Chrétien's story of the mysterious castle of the Fisher King.

Still, despite their perils and chances of error, such forests, being the location where the knight can obtain the end of his quest, are places where the knights may become worthy ; one romance has a maiden urging Sir Lancelot on his quest for the Holy Grail, " which quickens with life and greenness like the forest.

The vogue for the pastoral romance spread throughout Europe producing such notable works as Bernardim Ribeiro " Menina e Moça " ( 1554 ) in Portuguese, Montemayor's Diana ( 1559 ) in Spain, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia ( 1590 ) in England, and Honoré d ' Urfé's Astrée ( 1607 – 27 ) in France.

The same year Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The Lost World, which is also commonly referred to as a scientific romance.

" As such, it combines elements of traditional romance, of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel tradition, of the pastoral tradition, of traditional Victorian values, and of the contemporary sensation novel trend.

At Woodstock in 1575 he delivered a prose speech before Elizabeth, and was present at a reading of the Pleasant Tale of Hemetes the Hermit, a brief romance, probably written by the queen's host, Sir Henry Lee.

In 1839 he edited Sir John Mandeville's Travels ; in 1842 published an Account of the European manuscripts in the Chetham Library, besides a newly discovered metrical romance of the 18th century ( Torrent of Portugal ).

In England, the subject was treated in the metrical romance, Sir Gowther, probably written around the end of the fourteenth century.

The film tells its story against the backdrop of a romance between a time-displaced Sir Richard Francis Burton and the ghost of " Zero " ( the character is not identified by Dugas ' name ).

Sir Walter Scott's romance The Heart of Midlothian ( 1818 ) recounts the heroine waylaid by highwaymen while travelling from Scotland to London.

He became a munificent patron of poets: Nashe dedicated his romance of Jack Willon to him and Gervase Markham his poem on Sir Richard Grenville's last fight.

Meanwhile, inspired by Sir Walter Scott's novels, Hauff wrote the historical romance Lichtenstein: Romantische Sage aus der wuerttembergischen Geschichte ( 1826 ; Lichtenstein: Romantic Saga from the History of Württemberg ), which became hugely popular in Germany and especially in Swabia, treating as it did the most interesting period in the history of that country, the reign of Duke Ulrich ( 1487 – 1550 ).

* Chaka, a historical romance, with an introduction by Sir Henry Newbolt ... translated from the original Sesuto by F. H. Dutton ( 1931 )

The play ends with a suggestion that romance may yet blossom between Sir Robert and Catherine, who acknowledges that she has misjudged him all along.

Waverley Abbey was, however, featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's classical romance, Sir Nigel.

" In a broad analysis, McConnell associate the American western movies and romance movies to the Arthurian mythology, adventure and action movies to the " epic world " mythologies of founding societies, and many romance movies where the hero is allegorically playing role of a knight, to " quest " mythologies like Sir Gawain and the Quest for the Holy Grail.

The chivalric romance Sir Orfeo, retelling the story of Orpheus as a king rescuing his wife from the fairy king, shows so many motifs in common with this tale that it appears to have been a major influence on it.