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Sir William Quiller Orchardson ( 27 March 1832 — 13 April 1910 ) was a noted Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects who was knighted in June 1907, at the age of 75.
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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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* The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his most well-known pictures while living in Westgate-on-Sea.
The Quiller series focuses on a solitary, highly capable spy ( named after Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ) who works ( generally alone ) for a government bureau that " doesn't exist " and narrates his own adventures.
* No. 37 was the home of the artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson from 1862, an address he shared for three years with John Pettie.
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", " Mrs Orchardson ", " Conditional Neutrality " ( a portrait of Orchardson's eldest son as a boy of six ), " Lord Rookwood ", " The Provost of Aberdeen " and, above all, " Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart.
Those ( in bronze ) of his fellow-artists Arthur Hackcoucoyer ( 1894 ), Briton Rivière and Sir WQ Orchardson ( 1895 ), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1896 ), Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Sir John Everett Millais ( 1897 ), and of AJ Balfour are all striking likenesses, and are equalled by that in marble of Sir Frederick Bramwell ( for the Royal Institution ) and by many more.
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The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.
* 1915 – 27 November 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral ( 1540 – 27 January 1596 ) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era.
Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.
The last Governor, Sir John Shaw Rennie served as the first Governor-General until 27 August 1968.
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The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ( 1969 – 72 ), on 27 August 2004.
On 27 April 1961, Sir Milton Margai lead Sierra Leone to Independence from Britain and became the country's first Prime Minister.
Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.
* May 27 – Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Australian soldier ( b. 1884 )
* May 27 – Sir William Petty, English scientist and philosopher ( d. 1687 )
* May 27 – Sir William Stanier, English steam locomotive engineer ( London, Midland and Scottish Railway ) ( d. 1965 )
* March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder ( b. 1817 )
* March 27 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist ( b. 1842 )
* May 27 – Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Australian Federation ( d. 1896 )
* April 27 – Sir William Jones, British philologist ( b. 1746 )
* February 27 – Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, admiral ( b. 1753 )
* January 27 – Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier ( b. 1540 )
* March 27 – Sir Stephen Fox, English statesman ( d. 1716 )
* June 27 – Sir John Hayward, English historian ( b. c. 1560 )
* December 27 – Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer ( d. 1857 )
* Sir Henry Morton Stanley ( 1841 – 1904 ), Explorer and journalist Sitter associated with 27 portraits
* Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury ( 14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541 ); married Sir Richard Pole ; executed by Henry VIII.
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