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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.

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His eldest son, Sir William Hale-White, was a distinguished doctor ( sketch ).

Sir and author
* Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy.
On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.
* 1906 – Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author ( d. 1996 )
Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.
* 1478 – Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist and author ( d. 1535 )
If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France where, for any thing I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already a ' be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.
The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship, first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Sir Francis Bacon wrote some or all the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare, in opposition to the scholarly consensus that William Shakespeare of Stratford was the author.
* Sir Halford John Mackinder ( 1861 – 1947 ), author of The Geographical Pivot of History, co-founder of the London School of Economics, along with the Geographical Association.
Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.
" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.
Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional detective created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sir and Great
The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.
Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.
Great expectations attended his coming of age ; Sir George Buc recalled predictions that ' he was much more like ... to acquire a new erldome then to wast & lose an old erldom ', a prophecy that was never fulfilled.
From the eighteenth century, Spanish sources reported that immediately after the takeover of the city, Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own initiative caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession of the Rock in name of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, whose government ratified the occupation.
: 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.
* The Great Auk is the mascot of the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, Sir Sandford Fleming College in Ontario, and the Adelaide University Choral Society ( AUCS ) in Australia.
In 1825, Sir John Franklin wrote that " The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport " while on Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions.
Stein, as well as other contemporary explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband and Nikolai Przhevalsky, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the so-called Great Game.
In the South East corner of Kew Gardens stands the Great Pagoda ( by Sir William Chambers ), erected in 1762, from a design in imitation of the Chinese Ta.
Great novelists like Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens also wrote some short stories.
The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, and entered use on the Great Western Railway in Britain.
The lasting connections were achieved by the ship SS Great Eastern, captained by Sir James Anderson.
They were designed by Sir Herbert Baker and the opening ceremony was performed by Sir Stanley Jackson, who had suggested the inclusion of the words The Great Cricketer in the dedication.
* Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )
* November 17 – Sir Walter Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.
* King James I of Great Britain sends Sir Thomas Roe as his ambassador to the Mughal court of Jahangir.
However, the church of St Mary-le-Bow was destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren.
The other members of the committees were: Colonel Evan Hunter, General Secretary of the British Olympic Association, and Chef de mission for Great Britain ; Lord Aberdare, the other British member of the IOC ; Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett ; Alderman H. E.
The dedicatee long remained unidentified, but John Harley's researches into the heraldic design on the fly-leaf have shown that she was Lady Elizabeth Neville, the third wife of Sir Henry Neville ( Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ) of Billingbear in Berkshire, who was a Justice of the Peace and a warden of Windsor Great Park.
This painting by George Hayter | Sir George Hayter ( now in the National Portrait Gallery ( London ) | National Portrait Gallery ) commemorates the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832.
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC ( 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745 ), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole Pimlico, 2008.
The gardens contain two major monuments, one dedicated to Sir Alexander Ball and another in remembrance of the Great Siege of Malta.
The invention of the instrument is credited to Sir Charles Wheatstone ; his earliest patent of a like instrument was granted 19 December 1829, No 5803 in Great Britain.

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