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* Sir Samuel Henry Strong September 30, 1875
The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.
The third group under Sir Herbert Samuel pressed for the parties in government to fight the election on separate platforms.
Samuel had lost his seat in the 1935 election and the leadership of the party fell to Sir Archibald Sinclair.
* Sir Herbert Samuel 1931 1935
Shipping magnate Samuel Cunard | Sir Samuel Cunard
They are legislative and executive powers and functions conferred on the Governor-General, not by Royal authority, but by statutory authority ," a view held also by Andrew Inglis Clark, who assisted Sir Samuel Griffith with drafts of the constitution and later became Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
The early Governors-General frequently sought advice on the exercise of their powers from two judges of the High Court of Australia, Sir Samuel Griffith and Sir Edmund Barton.
* 1989 Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W. W. II codename, Intrepid.
was signed in London on 18 June 1935 by Ribbentrop and Sir Samuel Hoare, the new British Foreign Secretary.
This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).
Similarly in the 1920s it pioneered academic training in Management, with the formation of a Department of Industrial Administration funded by an endowment from asbestos magnate Sir Samuel Turner.
It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.
" The Wanderings of Oisin " is based on the lyrics of the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology and displays the influence of both Sir Samuel Ferguson and the Pre-Raphaelite poets.
It was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843.
* April 28 Sir Samuel Cunard, Canadian business man & founder of the Cunard Line ( b. 1787 )
* Sir Samuel Argall ( 1580 1626 ), former deputy governor of Virginia and current naval officer in the English navy
* August 30 Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Vlieter Incident: A squadron of the Batavian Republic's navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrenders to the British Royal Navy under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell near Wieringen without joining action.
Believing that de Grasse would return a portion of his fleet to Europe, Rodney detached Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood with 14 ships of the line and orders to find de Grasse's destination in North America.
" Defending his own behaviour in not sending his full fleet to North America, he also wrote that " f the admiral in America had met Sir Samuel Hood near the Chesapeake ", that Cornwallis's surrender might have been prevented.
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.
Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

Sir and Morton
The brief biography of Malory goes thus: Born on 6 December 1425 at Morton Court, Shropshire, he was the eldest son of Sir William Malory, representative of Parliament to Cambridgeshire.
Morton was a mentor of the young Sir Thomas More.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands ( 28 January 1841 10 May 1904 ), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.
He became Sir Henry Morton Stanley when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1899, in recognition of his service to the British Empire in Africa.
* Hughes, Nathaniel, Jr. Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Confederate ISBN 0-8071-2587-3 reprint with introduction copyright 2000, from original, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ( 1909 )
* Sir Henry Morton Stanley ( 1841 1904 ), Explorer and journalist Sitter associated with 27 portraits
On the appointed day Bothwell rode magnificently down the Canongate, with the Earl of Morton and Sir William Maitland of Lethington flanking him, and his Hepburns trotting behind.
It was founded by Sir Henry Morton Stanley in 1879.
The Haddiscoe Cut was taken over by the Commissioners in 1842 and sold to the railway developer Sir Samuel Morton Peto.
Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury | Sir Horatio Vere was the commander of English troops in Holland during the Siege of Ostend, under whom Standish likely served. The circumstances of Standish's early military career in Holland ( the " low countries " to which Morton referred ) are vague at best.
With income failing to match expenditure, the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission could not be repaid, so they took over the navigation in 1842, and sold it to the railway contractor Sir Samuel Morton Peto.
Somerleyton Hall was established in 1240 and has been home to Admiral Sir Thomas Allin and Samuel Morton Peto, who oversaw the latest rebuilding in 1843.
Sir Samuel Morton Peto
* Brooks, Edward C. Sir Samuel Morton Peto Bt: eminent Victorian, railway entrepreneur, country squire, MP, Bury Clerical Society, 1996 ISBN 0-9502988-2-6
Notable Red Tories include Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Robert Borden, John Farthing, George Grant, John Diefenbaker, Davie Fulton, Robert Stanfield, Dalton Camp, W. L. Morton, William Davis, Joe Clark, and Flora MacDonald.
* Sir Alastair Morton
The Company was unable to repay the £ 50, 000 loan, and so in 1842 the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners took control of the navigation, and sold it to Sir Samuel Morton Peto, a developer who wanted to build railways along its banks.
Neighbours included the Sardinian ambassador, Sir Walter Rawlinson, Lord Northington, John Morton and the Third Earl of Abingdon, making it an appropriate house for a " great and able Lawyer ".
Berkeley himself paid court to Anne Villiers, Countess of Morton, widowed in 1651 ; she turned him down, perhaps on advice from Sir Edward Hyde.
He left London in 1604 accompanied by Sir Albertus Morton, his half-nephew, as secretary, and William Bedell, the author of an Irish translation of the Bible, as chaplain.

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