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.

Named in about 1915, after Sir William Lamond Allardyce, Governor of the Falkland Islands, 1904-14.

Allardyce was subsequently ordered to Newfoundland where he was to succeed Sir Charles Alexander Harris as Governor of Newfoundland, where he was invited to become patron of the Great War Veterans Association.

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

* 1955-1957: His Highness The Right Honourable Aga Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, PC, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO

( 1978 ) Chauvel of the Light Horse A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, GCMG, KCB.

Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH ( 8 August 188020 December 1961 ) was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament .< ref >

Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.

* Sir Reginald Hibbert, GCMG Chargé d ' Affaires in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, 1964 – 66 ; Minister at Bonn 1972 – 75 ; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1975 – 76 ; Deputy Under-Secretary of State 1976 – 79 ; Ambassador to France 1979 – 82.

Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH ( 9 September 191119 May 2002 ), Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.

Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH ( 23 February 190831 March 1988 ), was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia.

Sir John " Black Jack " McEwen, GCMG, CH ( 29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980 ), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.

* The Most Revd the Hon Sir Paul Reeves GCMG GCVO QSO, former Archbishop of New Zealand and Governor-General of New Zealand

* Sir George Ferguson Bowen GCMG

Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC ( 18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920 ), Australian politician and judge, served as the first Prime Minister of Australia and became a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.

General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD ( 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931 ) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War.

Sir Arthur William Fadden, GCMG ( 13 April 1894 – 21 April 1973 ) was an Australian politician and, briefly, the 13th Prime Minister of Australia.

* Rt Hon Sir Earle Page, GCMG MP: Minister for Commerce ( CP )

* 1973 – 1978: Sir Maurice Oldfield, GCMG, CBE

Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake, KG, GCMG, CH, PC, QSO, KStJ ( 11 February 1904 – 8 December 1983 ) was a New Zealand politician.

( 3 ) Maj Donald Struan Robertson ( d. 1991 ), son of the Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson GCMG KBE.

Lieutenant-General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie GCMG, KCB, DSO ( 12 July 1879 – 3 October 1964 ) was a British Army veteran of the Second Boer War, and First and Second World Wars.

Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, GCMG, PC ( September 6, 1817 – September 19, 1893 ) was a politician and a father of Canadian Confederation.

Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC ( 25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918 ) was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia.

* 1946 – 1951: Lieutenant-General His Excellency Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO ***

* William Robertson – Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO ( 29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933 ), Chief of the Imperial General Staff ( CIGS ) from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.

Sir Henry " Harry " Hamilton Johnston, GCMG, KCB ( 12 June 1858-31 July 1927 ), was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the " Scramble for Africa " that occurred at the end of the 19th century.

Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB ( 5 December 1875 – 30 November 1933 ), was a Canadian general during World War I.