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.

* Sir Freddie De Guingand, Major General, British Army

a satirical attack on the traditions of the European society, of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511, dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More, and inspired by De triumpho stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio, near Forlì.

De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).

He was the only Australian Prime Minister to recommend the appointment of four governors-general ( Sir William Slim, and Lords Dunrossil, De L ' Isle, and Casey ).

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.

De Roquefeuil came up almost as far as The Downs, where he learnt that Sir John Norris was at hand with twenty-five sail of the line, and thereupon precipitately retreated.

Hill claims that it was named after General Sir De Lacy Evans, a Crimean war hero.

Fulk is brought up in the castle of Joce De Dynan, and fights for his master against Sir Gilbert de Lacy – these battles are also the source of the story of Marion de la Bruyere, the betrayed lover whose ghost is still said to be heard crying " Goodbye, Cruel World!

* Sir De Villiers Graaff, 2nd Bt ( South African politician ).

De Ruyter's flagship De Zeven Provinciën is shown in the left background in close combat with the Vice-Admiral of the Blue, Sir Joseph Jordan on Royal Sovereign.

Her paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland ( 1882 – 1965 ), an aircraft designer, notably of the De Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name.

Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ( Alcock and Brown ), Brabazon Road ( Brabazon ), Bleriot Road ( Louis Blériot ), Cobham Road ( Sir Alan Cobham ), De Havilland Road ( de Havilland ), Norman Crescent ( Nigel Norman ), Phoenix Way ( Heston Phoenix ), Sopwith Road ( Thomas Sopwith ), Spitfire Way ( Supermarine Spitfire ), Whittle Road ( Frank Whittle ), and Wright Road ( the Wright brothers ).

* The Adventures of Robin Hood – Episode " Friar Tuck " as Sir William of Marmsbury, " Checkmate " as Count De Waldern ( series 1: 1955 ), " A Village Wooing " as Wat Longfellow ( series 2: 1956 ) and " The Reluctant Rebel " as Herbert ( series 4: 1958 ).

He was the son of Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr, of Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire, and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey.

Leaving his deputy Sir Samuel Argall ( circa 1580 – circa 1626 ) in charge, Lord De La Warr returned to England and published a book about Virginia, The Relation of the Right Honourable the Lord De-La-Warre, of the Colonie, Planted in Virginia, in 1611.

Cecily was the daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex. They had four surviving children: Henry West, 4th Baron De La Warr, Robert, Lucy, who married Sir Robert Byron, and Cecily, who married John Byron, 1st Baron Byron.

It was also where Sir Martin De La See led the local resistance against Edward IV's landing on 14 March 1471, as he was returning from his six months ' exile in the Netherlands.

* Europe ’ s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore De Mayerne, 2007, ISBN 0-300-11263-7.

Peter, grandson of De Budworth and ancestor of Sir Peter Warburton, second Bart.

* Well ( Noble ) Learned Sir / Madam ( De weledelgeleerde heer / vrouwe )-a doctorandus

* Well ( Noble ) Strictly Sir / Madam ( De weledelgestrenge heer / vrouwe )-a master in laws ( meester in de rechten ) or a university engineer ( ingenieur )

The Cistercian-Bernardine concept of Catholic warrior-asceticism that so distinguishes the character of Sir Galahad also informs St. Bernard's projection of ideal chivalry in his work on the Knights Templar, De laude novae militiae.