The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

A British scholar, Samuel Brittan, concluded in 2010, " Hayek's book Constitution of Liberty is still probably the most comprehensive statement of the underlying ideas of the moderate free market philosophy espoused by neoliberals.

The tradition is itself named after Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), a British civil servant and scholar of magic.

Kathleen Kenyon was the eldest daughter of Sir Frederic Kenyon, a biblical scholar and later director of the British Museum.

Another influential early study was The media are American by British scholar Jeremy Tunstall ( 1977 ).

* 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar ( d. 1990 )

* 1719 – John Hudson, British classical scholar ( b. 1662 )

* 25-Donald Nicol, 80, British Byzantine scholar.

When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over.

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.

As Jon Mee, a scholar of British radicalism, writes: " Paine believed.

* Andrew Petter, Canadian constitutional law scholar, former Attorney-General of British Columbia, and current president of Simon Fraser University

Wade – Giles was developed by Thomas Francis Wade, a British ambassador in China and Chinese scholar who was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.

* August 26 – Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar ( b. 1843 )

* August 29 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest ( b. 1844 )

* June 30 – Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar ( d. 1928 )

* July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest ( d. 1930 )

* December 23 – Sara Coleridge, British scholar ( d. 1852 )

John Enoch Powell, MBE ( 16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998 ) was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, linguist and soldier.

** Richard Dawes, British classical scholar ( d. 1766 )

Eric Ives, a British historian and legal expert, advocates the 1501 date, while Retha Warnicke, an American scholar who has also written a biography of Anne, prefers 1507.

The project is endorsed by a diverse and international group of supporters, including former Dutch prime-minister Jan-Peter Balkenende from the Christian Democratic Appeal ; Rita Süssmuth from the Christian Democratic Union ; the Hungarian dissident and philosopher György Bence ; British political scholar David Miller ; and others.

According to Sir Richard C. Jebb, a British classical scholar, " the intercourse between Isaeus and Demosthenes as teacher and learner can scarcely have been either very intimate or of very long duration ".

British conservative scholar R. J.

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( 1883 – 1963 ), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral

* 1956 – Andrew Lansley, British politician

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

It wasn't until 1994 that it was proven by the British mathematician Andrew Wiles.

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

In a flag of thirteen stars, this placement produced the unmistakable outline of the crosses of St. George and of St. Andrew, as used together on the British flag.

* 1944 – Andrew Davis, British conductor

Two British physicists, Andrew Noble and Frederick Abel, worked to improve the properties of blackpowder during the late 19th century.

Former Head Office of the British Linen Bank in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

The fundamental properties of currents mediated by ion channels were analyzed by the British biophysicists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley as part of their Nobel Prize-winning research on the action potential, published in 1952.

Monroe sent in General Andrew Jackson who pushed the Seminole Indians south, executed two British merchants who were supplying weapons, deposed one governor and named another, and left an American garrison in occupation.

* 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

* 1917 – Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2012 )

* 1978 – Andrew Kinlochan, British singer ( Phixx )

* Godsell, Andrew " Stonehenge: Older Than the Centuries " in " Legends of British History " ( 2008 )

Andrew Millar, a British publisher, purchased the rights to James Thomson's The Seasons in 1629, and when the copyright term expired, a competing publisher named Robert Taylor began issuing his own reprints of the work.

In March 2009, British family care activist and a best-selling novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to The Angry Brigade.

Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).

* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

* April 8 – Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer ( d. 1924 )

* May 15 – Andrew Eldritch ( born Andrew Taylor ), British singer / songwriter ( The Sisters of Mercy ).