Sir Ronald Fisher proposed a formal analysis of variance in a 1918 article The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

* Sir Ronald A. Fisher developed several basic statistical methods in support of his work The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson had been offered the governorship of South Australia in 1895 and of Victoria in 1910, but refused both appointments.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

Under this state, allele ( gamete ) frequencies can be converted to genotype ( zygote ) frequencies by expanding an appropriate quadratic equation, as shown by Sir Ronald Fisher in his establishment of quantitative genetics.

He is the only Australian ever appointed to this order, although three British governors-general of Australia ( Lord Hopetoun ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, later Lord Novar ; and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester ) were members.

In the James Bond novels and short stories by Ian Fleming and others, Assistant Commissioner Sir Ronald Vallance is a recurring fictional character who works for Scotland Yard.

* Sir Ronald Syme, ( MA ) classicist historian, OM recipient

* Mr Dryden – The cynical Arab Bureau official was based loosely on numerous figures, including Sir Ronald Storrs, who was head of the Arab Bureau and later the governor of Palestine.

* Clark, Ronald William Sir Mortimer Wheeler ( Roy Publishers, New York, 1960 )

Hughes, after receiving a vote of confidence in his leadership by his party, resigned as Prime Minister but, as there were no alternative candidates, the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, immediately re-commissioned him, thus allowing him to remain as Prime Minister while keeping his promise to resign.

* Sir Ronald Gould ( 1904 — 1986 ), General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1947 — 1970, was educated at Shepton Mallet Grammar School.

In 1936, he studied under Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Jerzy Neyman at University College, London, England.

Gort had ordered Sir Ronald Adam, 3rd Corps Commander, and French General Falgade, to prepare a perimeter defence of Dunkirk.

Gaius Stern and Sir Ronald Syme both dispute this claim, whose chief argument in its favor is that " it was written in German 100 years ago.

Following an investigation into the future of universities, the July 1997 report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, chaired by the then Sir Ronald Dearing recommended the ending of universal free higher education, and that students should pay £ 1, 000 towards the cost of their tuition fees, which would be recovered in the form of a graduate tax.

* Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of malaria transmission by mosquitoes, lived and died at Bath House, Putney Hill.

Ronald Harwood based the play on his experiences as dresser to distinguished English Shakespearean actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, who is the model for the character " Sir " in the play.

( This may have been Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem Lord of the Isles, in which the protagonist is named Ronald.

From 1964 on, this cadre came to identify more with neo-liberal influences in US Republican Party, as espoused by Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, and the Thatcherite leadership in the British Conservative Party, as represented by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher.

Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA ( 11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989 ) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.

Pitt and Landon Ronald conducted the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conducted the London Symphony Orchestra and Hamilton Harty and Sir Edward Elgar conducted the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

In April, the ABC's new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight ran a story which criticised the government's decision not to reappoint the Chair of the ABC Board, Sir James Darling.

* 1962 – 1963 Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Darling

The Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, formed a high opinion of Sturt and appointed him major of brigade and military secretary.

Governor Darling's somewhat tardy but appreciative dispatch of 14 April 1831, and his request for Sturt's promotion, had had no result, and nothing came of the request by Sir Richard Bourke who had succeeded Darling that Viscount Goderich should give " this deserving officer your Lordship's protection and support ".

In 1828 the explorer Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume were sent by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, to investigate the course of the Macquarie River.

He is the great-nephew of Sir William Darling, a Conservative MP for Edinburgh South ( 1945 – 1957 ).

The conclusion in 1838 of a commercial treaty with Turkey, negotiated by Sir Henry Bulwer ( Lord Darling ), struck a deathblow to the system of monopolies, though the application of the treaty to Egypt was delayed for some years.

It was created in 1924 for Sir Charles Darling, a former Conservative Member of Parliament for Deptford and Judge of the High Court of Justice.

* Sir James Ralph Darling OBE, Headmaster of Geelong Grammar School and Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission

On January 5, 2012, a state funeral was held in Nassau for former Bahamian Governor-General Sir Clifford Darling.

Bourke was appointed to succeed Sir Ralph Darling as Governor of New South Wales in 1831.

The final Darling, however, is also a Blackadder and was portrayed by Atkinson in BBC promotional materials in 2002 ; the name Sir Osmond Darling-Blackadder suggests an unknown familial union between Blackadders and Darlings at some point in their histories.

In 1828, the Governor of NSW Sir Ralph Darling subdivided the area, then known as Woolloomooloo Hill, into large allotments which he granted seventeen estates to favoured subordinates and leading businessmen.

The division was created in 1984, when the old Division of Darling Downs was abolished, and is named in honour of Sir Littleton Groom, a long-serving member for Darling Downs.

Signed by over thirty of the leading scientists of the day — including Sir Julian Huxley, Sir Frank Fraser Darling, Sir Peter Medawar, Sir Peter Scott, and C. H. Waddington — Goldsmith and his fellow editor Robert Allen made headlines in January 1972 with A Blueprint for Survival.

On 11 June 1927, the 100-year anniversary of Allan Cunningham's discovery of the Darling Downs, the new road through Cunningham's Gap was officially opened by the local Member of Parliament, Sir Littleton Groom.

Sir Charles Darling the governor had, however, in a dispatch forwarded in the previous December, used a phrase which suggested that he was allying himself with one of the parties to the dispute and was recalled.

But in May word came that the Colonial Secretary in London, the Duke of Buckingham, had instructed the new Governor, Sir John Manners-Sutton, to support the Council in blocking the grant to Darling.

* Darling Street: Named after Sir Charles Henry Darling, Governor of Victoria, 1863 – 1866 ;