Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

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.

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.

* 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.

* 1881 – 1910 Sir William Christie

* 1661 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician ( b. 1604 )

Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.

After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

Under Sir William Balfour, they broke through the Royalist lines on the night of 31 August, eventually reaching Plymouth 30 miles to the east.

Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:

* Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894 – 1898

The French army also comprised a contingent of Scots commanded by Sir William Douglas.

Striking southwards in the hope of collecting information about French movements, Nelson's ships stopped at Elba and Naples, where the British ambassador Sir William Hamilton reported that the French fleet had passed Sicily in the direction of Malta.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

A house at Balmoral was built by Sir William Drummond in 1390.

The predominance of natural history, books and manuscripts began to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note ; Sir William Hamilton's collection of Greek vases.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

File: Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel 1725-86 by Sir Joshua Reynolds. jpg | Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel in the pose of the Apollo Belvedere, 1753

* September 6 – Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist ( b. 1827 )

* July 17 – Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist ( d. 1902 )

Boole's initial involvement in logic was prompted by a current debate on quantification, between Sir William Hamilton who supported the theory of " quantification of the predicate ", and Boole's supporter Augustus De Morgan who advanced a version of De Morgan duality, as it is now called.

On the death of the Duchess of Cleveland in 1901, the historic estate was bought back by Sir Augustus Webster, 7th baronet.

Sir Augustus ( son of Sir Augustus, 7th baronet ) was born in 1864 and succeeded his father as 8th baronet in 1886.

Sir Augustus was formerly a captain in the Coldstream Guards.

The descendants of Sir Augustus Webster, 7th and last baronet ( died 1923 ), finally sold Battle Abbey to the British Government in 1976 and it is now in the care of English Heritage.

on Sir Augustus d ' Este's claim to the dukedom of Sussex, Baron de Bode's claim as an English subject to a share in the French indemnity, the dispute as to the debts due to the elector of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), confiscated by Napoleon, and the constitutional position of the Mecklenburg landowners-were composed by Zachariae.

Buchan's 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories, and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell.

Their three sons were Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth and General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth.

Inventors Augustus Applegath, Sir Hiram Maxim and Jack Wall, inventor of the Crayford focuser, which is incorporated into many modern telescopes were also residents.

British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr appointed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister after dismissing Gough Whitlam.

* 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

( Malcolm Fraser chose Sir Zelman Cowen and Sir Ninian Stephen ; and John Howard chose Peter Hollingworth and Michael Jeffery.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

An illustrative example is the Australian constitutional crises of 1975, when the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on his own reserve power authority and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser.

* October 21 – Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1952 )

** Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.

However since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identified as Sir Edward Borough.

Fraser sought the backing of the retired longtime Liberal Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, and went to see Menzies in person, taking with him a 1947 statement by Menzies supporting the blocking of supply in the upper house of the Victorian Parliament.

In 1889, Sir William Fraser conflated this uncorroborated remark with the one attributed to him by Count Charles de Montalembert's “ C ' est ici qu ' a été gagné la bataille de Waterloo ” (“ It is here that the Battle of Waterloo was won.

The Complete Plain Words was revised by Sir Bruce Fraser in 1973, and by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut in 1986 ( ISBN 0-11-701121-5 ).

His cousin was Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and his grandparents were Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet and Lady Anna Maria Leslie-Melville.

Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).

Other noted guests on the programme included John Cleese, Ron Moody, Sir Norman Wisdom, Eric Sykes, Liz Fraser, Stanley Lebor, and Philip Jackson.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 – 1984 ), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons ( sitting for Stafford ), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.

* " Our President in 1983 / 84 was: Lady Antonia Fraser " bio at Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.

He and his wife, who died in October 2002 at the age of 96, had eight children, among them the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Lady Rachel Billington, Lady Judith Kazantzis, diplomat Sir Michael Pakenham and Thomas Pakenham ( the 8th Earl of Longford ).

In 1975 Pinter began a serious affair with the historian Lady Antonia Fraser, the wife of Sir Hugh Fraser, which he confessed to his wife that March.

Fraser sold Newstead to local philanthropist, Sir </ nowiki > Julien Cahn, < nowiki > who presented it to Nottingham Corporation in 1931 .</ nowiki >

* Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser: Sir Harry Paget Flashman travels on the train's first journey as a guest of the journalist Henri Blowitz.

Sir Alexander Fraser was given permission to improve and govern the town as Lord Saltoun.