' Commonwealth Secretary-General Sir Shridath Ramphal affirmed: ' His own leadership in providing from Britain a worthy response to African national consciousness shaped the post-war era and made the modern Commonwealth possible.

Sir Shridath Surendranath " Sonny " Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OM, OCC, QC, FRSA ( born 3 October 1928 ) served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975-1990.

* The Ramphal Centre for Commonwealth Policy Studies-Official website for the continuation of the work of Sir Shridath Ramphal: promoting good governance, economic development and social justice around the world.

In 2007, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth at the time of the Agreement, Sir Shridath Ramphal spoke out for the first time about a secret deal saying, " I took an initiative of my own as Secretary-General which isn't much known and talked about but can be now.

* Sir Shridath Ramphal-Former Commonwealth Secretary General

* Sir Shridath Ramphal

This was confirmed by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810, who named it chlorine, from the Greek word χλωρος ( chlōros ), meaning " green-yellow.

Mr. Pitt's case in ' 84 is the nearest analogy ; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice ; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected.

The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.

The accuracy of Baffin's tidal and astronomical observations on this voyage was confirmed in a remarkable manner by Sir Edward Parry, when passing over the same ground, two centuries later ( 1821 ).

Remember, therefore, all the fine things that your jurists and statesmen have said and written about the great palladium of British liberty and so forth: remember how the learned Sir William Blackstone hath delivered himself on this point ;— how that ' the founders of the English laws have with excellent forecast contrived that the truth of every accusation, whether preferred in the shape of indictment, information, or appeal, should be confirmed by the unanimous suffrage of twelve of his ( the accused person's ) equals and neighbours, indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion.

The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General John de Chastelain, chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, as well as Lord Eames, former Archbishop of Armagh and Sir George Quigley, former top civil servant.

Hobson was appointed Lieutenant Governor under the Governor of New South Wales, Sir George Gipps ( ratified on 30 July 1839 ) and British consul to New Zealand ( confirmed on 13 August 1839 ).

By a very extensive charter in The Great Seal of Scotland, confirmed at Whitehall, London, on 4 December 1660, Charles Maitland and his heirs male by his marriage were bound to " take the name of Lauder and bear the Arms of Lauder of Haltoun ", which was done in accordance with the charter by John Maitland, Charles 2nd son, who received a baronetcy of Nova Scotia as Sir John Lauder.

" This is confirmed by Sir W. Ouseley, who says, from Hamdallah, an eminent Persian geographer, that Mazanderan was originally named Mawz-anderan, or within the mountain Mawz.

The descendant of Herveus, Sir Robert de Keith ( d. 1332 ), was confirmed in the office of " Great Marischal of Scotland " by Robert Bruce around 1324.

The latter attribution has been confirmed and refined by W. L. Halstead and by Cyrus Hoy ( 1980 ), giving the subplot concerning Sir Owen the Welsh Knight and his wife Gwenthyan, as well as that concerning the Duke's sister Julia and her three foolish suitors to Haughton, leaving the main plot to Dekker and Chettle.

The opening statement of the Statute Book was " Divers Ordinances, Statutes, and Customs, presented, reputed, and used for Laws in the Land of Mann, that were ratified, approved, and confirmed, as well by the Honourable Sir John Stanley, Knight, King and Lord of the same Land, and divers others his Predecessors, as by all Barons, Deemsters, Officers, Tenants, Inhabitants, and Commons of the same Land where the Lord's Right is declared in the following Words " < sub >(' divers ' is an old word meaning ' various ')</ sub >

According to Strype the rebuilt church was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and this would seem to be confirmed by the fact that in the parish account for 1685 there is the following item: To one third of a hogshead of wine, given to Sir Christopher Wren, £ 4 2s .< ref name =" Thornbury1 "> Thornbury, Walter ( 1878 ) ' Bartholomew Lane and Lombard Street ' in Old and New London: Volume 1 pp. 522-530.

* Sir Robert Shirley, 7th Baronet ( 1650 – 1717 ) ( confirmed as Baron Ferrers of Chartley in 1677 and created Earl Ferrers in 1711 )

Whereas most Bacteria, in terms of diversity It should be therefore noted that the etymology is not due to chlorine, an element ( dephlogisticated muriatic acid air ) which was confirmed as such in 1810 by Sir Humphry Davy and named after its pale green colour.

At Holyrood House on 30 July 1618 James VI & I confirmed Sir George Forrester of Corstorphine in the lands and barony of Corstorphine.

The UDA's decommissioning was confirmed by General de Chastelain, Lord Eames, the former Archbishop of Armagh and Sir George Quigley, a former top civil servant.

Three years later this was confirmed when Sir James Chadwick discovered neutrons, which with protons make up atomic nuclei.

A later examination by John D. Ray ( the current Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge ) confirmed " there could be no mistaking Hulme's incompetence ".

Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the Trust, confirmed the BBC would not charge for online news following News International's planned introduction of charges for online content.

Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, ( 12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896 ) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.

The proposal was extremely obnoxious to the Irish government, and on the second day of the meeting the secretary of state, George Ogle, announced that the Roman Catholics, in the person of Lord Kenmare, had relinquished the idea of making any claim further than the religious liberty they then enjoyed, and gave as his authority for this extraordinary statement Sir Boyle Roche, by whom it was confirmed!

On 23 December 2010, British press reported that Sir Alex Ferguson had confirmed Van der Sar would retire at the end of the 2010 – 11 Premier League season.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

In The Nemean Lion, he sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, and saved her from having to face justice by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who himself was plotting murder and was unwise enough to let Poirot discover this.

Her stubbornness exasperated her interrogator, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, who reported, " I do see it in her face that she is guilty ".

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

Despite victories at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill, in the face of tough Scottish resistance led by Sir Andrew Murray, the son of Wallace's comrade in arms, successive attempts to secure Balliol on the throne failed.

It was due to the astute politics of Sir Milton Margai that the educated Protectorate elite was won over to join forces with the paramount chiefs in the face of Krio intransigence.

The Spanish and the Dutch Republic outnumbered the English fleet's 22 galleons and 108 armed merchant ships ; however, The Spanish lost as a result of bad weather on the English Channel and poor planning and logistics, and in the face of the skills of Sir Francis Drake and Charles Howard, the second Baron Howard of Effingham ( later first Earl of Nottingham ).

Near Abū Qīr, on 8 March 1801, units of the British army commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby landed from their transports in the face of a strenuous opposition from a French force entrenched on the beach.

Indeed, Sir Toby in Twelfth Night is seen saying, in reference to Sir Andrew's hair, that " it hangs like flax on a distaff ; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off ;" the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that " Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face?

At 4 pm we had to go in and say ( with a straight face ): " Sir, the time is reported as 1600.

What was, on the face of it surprising, was that men such as Dr Johnson and Boswell and Sir Richard Steele would have visited Bedlam.

As Fairfax approached Acton, Colonel Richard Gibson ( deputising for Byron's Sergeant-Major General Sir Michael Erneley, who was ill ), deployed four regiments of infantry ( his own and those of Sir Michael Erneley, Colonel Henry Warren and Sir Robert Byron, younger brother of Lord John Byron ) to face Fairfax.

Sir Bartle Frere had been recalled in 1880 to face charges of misconduct, by the 1st Earl of Kimberley ( secretary of state for the colonies ).

The two principal sources from which Lavater found ' confirmation ' of his ideas were the writings of the Italian Giambattista Della Porta ( 1535 – 1615 ) and the English physician-philosopher Sir Thomas Browne ( 1605 – 1682 ), whose Religio Medici discusses the possibility of the discernment of inner qualities from the outer appearance of the face, thus:

Luckily, as opposed to more than a few contemporary heiresses in search of her particular prince charming, Consuelo Vanderbilt was a great beauty, with a face compelling enough to cause the playwright Sir James Barrie, author of Peter Pan, to write, " I would stand all day in the street to see Consuelo Marlborough get into her carriage.

When Congress fled Philadelphia in the face of Sir Henry Clinton's threatened occupation, Clymer stayed behind with George Walton and Robert Morris.

He also massacred several hundreds of Sorley Boy's following, chiefly women and children, who had hidden in the caves of Rathlin Island in the face of an amphibious assault led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys.

During the Munich Crisis of 1938, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, was concerned about the survival of the aircraft carrier in the face of Italian opposition in the Mediterranean.

The next visitor is Sir James Peel Edgerton, K. C., who frequently escorts Rita about town and against whom Boris has warned Rita, insisting she cease spending time in his company or face the consequences from Mr. Brown.

Air Commodore Sir Hughie Idwal Edwards VC, KCMG, CB, DSO, OBE, DFC ( 1 August 1914 – 5 August 1982 ) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force, Governor of Western Australia, and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry " in the face of the enemy " that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.