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

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.

During this campaign in September 1780, Tipu Sultan was dispatched by Hyder Ali with 10, 000 men and 18 guns to intercept Colonel Baillie who was on his way to join Sir Hector Munro.

They are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet ( 1856 – 1919 ), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munros Tables, in 1891.

Sir Hugh Munro, a founding member of the Club, took on the task using his own experience as a mountaineer, as well as detailed study of the Ordnance Survey Six-inch to the mile and One-inch to the mile map series.

He was opposed by Colonel Sir Robert Munro of Foulis who had formed a camp at the Bridge of Alness with 600 men, which also included men from the Clan Ross.

The oldest of those buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym ( died 3 October 1919 ) aged 80.

Hughes, after receiving a vote of no 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.

The movement in August of Sir Hector Munro with a force of over 5, 000 from Madras to Kanchipuram ( Conjeevaram ) prompted Hyder to lift the siege of Arcot and move to confront him.

Well-known Australian classical performers include: sopranos Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Joan Hammond, Joan Carden, Yvonne Kenny, Sara Macliver and Emma Matthews ; pianists Roger Woodward, Eileen Joyce, Michael Kieran Harvey, Geoffrey Tozer, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Leslie Howard and Ian Munro ; guitarists John Williams and Slava Grigoryan ; horn player Barry Tuckwell ; oboist Diana Doherty ; violinists Richard Tognetti and Elizabeth Wallfisch ; cellists John Addison and David Pereira ; organist Christopher Wrench ; orchestras like the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra ; and conductors Sir Bernard Heinze, Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Bonynge, Simone Young and Geoffrey Simon.

That would come only seven years later in 1764 at the Battle of Buxar, where Sir Hector Munro defeated the combined forces of the Mughal Emperor and the Nawab of Awadh in a much more closely fought encounter.

* Robert Munro ( 1684-1746 ), The original Black Watch commander, Colonel Sir Robert Munro

* Sir Thomas Munro Gault ( 1992 )— supreme court justice

Of his equestrian statues the most famous are those of Sir Thomas Munro in Calcutta, the Duke of Wellington in front of the London Exchange and one of King George IV in Trafalgar Square.

The family estate of Sir Hugh Munro, who created Munro's Tables of Scottish mountains over 3000 ft in elevation ( and which are now called " munros ") is also located near the town, as is Kinnordy House, the seat of the Lyells.

Victorian Premier James Munro, for example, fled the colony to escape his creditors in 1890, and Queensland Premier Sir Thomas McIlwraith was notoriously corrupt.

The riot took place in 1874, and occurred as a reaction to heavy-handed evictions and treatment by the factor of Sir James Matheson, Donald Munro.

The first commanding officer of the original Fort George was Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, Colonel of the 42nd Royal Highlanders ( Black Watch ) and chief of the highland Clan Munro.

This provided Lord Denman ’ s successor, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, with a Sydney residence.

First climbed by Charles and Lawrence Pilkington in 1880, the Pinnacle was never climbed by Sir Hugh Munro himself.