Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

* Burke, Sir Bernard.

In November 1934, Ribbentrop visited Britain where he met with George Bernard Shaw, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lord Cecil, and Lord Lothian.

Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba.

* Sir Bernard Miles

Eisenstein proposed a biography of munitions tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff and a film version of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and more fully developed plans for a film of Sutter's Gold by Jack London, but on all accounts failed to impress the studio's producers.

* Sir Bernard Burrows, 1963 – 66

Meanwhile the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, simultaneously pushed them westward, effectively squeezing the Germans and Italians into a smaller and smaller portion of Tunisia and out of North Africa altogether by mid-May.

A common ( and more laconic ) British English variation, coined by Sir Bernard Ingham, is the saying " cock-up before conspiracy ", deriving from this quotation:

Romeo and Juliet kissing in a painting by Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee | Frank Dicksee.

In the BBC radio dramatizations, Gandalf has been voiced by Norman Shelley in The Lord of the Rings ( 1955 – 1956 ), Heron Carvic in The Hobbit ( 1968 ), Bernard Mayes in The Lord of the Rings ( 1979 ) and Sir Michael Hordern in The Lord of the Rings ( 1981 ).

In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

The Raid on Cartagena in 1697 by Sir Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis and Jean Baptiste Ducasse was an all-out invasion that was politically motivated.

* Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, 1st Baronet, of Stoke Poges, in the County of Buckingham ( 1921 ), extant

* Sir George Crofts, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession

Hacker goes to his department and meets his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, and his Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley.

Consequently, another recurring scenario is one where Bernard must " walk the tightrope " –- that is, arbitrate between his two conflicting duties by resorting to elaborate verbosity ( much like Sir Humphrey ) to avoid choosing one over the other.

The first syllable of his surname is pronounced " Wise ", but Sir Humphrey and Bernard persistently call him " Weasel ".

After the third series, following Sir Humphrey's promotion to Cabinet Secretary, Hacker becomes Prime Minister and requests that Bernard Woolley continue as his Principal Private Secretary.

The one exception to this neutrality occurs very briefly in " The National Education Service ", when Sir Humphrey explains to Bernard how the policy of comprehensive education is retained through successive governments, using different arguments according to which party is in power.

The three main characters in the Minister's Office of the Department of Administrative Affairs: from left, Sir Humphrey Appleby, Bernard Woolley and Jim Hacker.

To sway Bernard, Sir Humphrey uses phrases such as " barbarism " and " the beginning of the end ".

The Editor's Note to The Complete Yes Prime Minister ( supposedly published in 2024 after Hacker's death but actually published by the BBC in 1989 ), thanks " Sir Bernard Woolley GCB " for his help and confirms that he did indeed make it to the position of Head of the Civil Service.

** Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman

** Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman

Finally, in 1593, when her sons, Tibbot Burke and Murrough O ' Flaherty, and her half-brother, Donal-na-Piopa, were taken captive by the English governor of Connacht, Sir Richard Bingham, Ní Mháille sailed to England to petition Elizabeth I for their release.

The attempt was made via then British Cabinet Secretary, Sir Burke Trend.

* A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol II Sir Bernard Burke ( 1855 ) p103.

The difference between them is said to have been widened by Burke ’ s growing intimacy with Sir Joshua Reynolds, and by Barry ’ s jealousy of the fame and fortune of his rival “ in a humbler walk of the art .” About the same time he painted a pair of classical subjects, Mercury inventing the lyre, and Narcissus, the last suggested to him by Burke.

On his return to England he was charged in Parliament with high crimes and misdemeanors by Edmund Burke, who was encouraged by Sir Philip Francis, whom Hastings had wounded during a duel in India.

* David Burke as Sir William Catesby

They were accused by Burke ( and later by Macaulay ) of committing judicial murder ; but Sir James Stephen, who examined the trial in detail, states that the indictment for forgery arose in the ordinary course, was not brought forward by Hastings, and that Impey conducted the trial with fairness and impartiality.

* A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire by Sir Bernard Burke, 1866

He came to belong to the circle of Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds.

* Burke, Sir Bernard ( ed ).

* Sir John Bernard Burke, Genealogical History of Dormant and Extinct Peerages ( London, 1883 )

* Burke, Sir Bernard, The English Peerage ( London, 1865 )

* Sir Bernard Burke.

Burke went on to play leads on Broadway in Mrs. Dot, Suzanne, The Runaway, The " Mind-the-Paint " Girl, and The Land of Promise from 1910 to 1913, along with a supporting role in the revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Amazons.

However, an opening night program, bearing a picture of Burke, from her 1912 triumph The Mind The Paint Girl ( Sir Arthur Wing Pinero ) is still displayed in the lobby of the Lyceum Theatre in New York City.

* The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales ; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, by Sir Bernard Burke, C. B., LL. D., Ulster King of Arms, London, Harrison, 59, Pall Mall, 1884.

* Vicissitudes of Families, by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, published by Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, Paternoster Row, London, 1861.

* Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet ( 1813 – 1875 ), Irish legislator

* Sir Thomas Kerry Burke ( born 1942 ), New Zealand Labour Party Member of Parliament for Rangiora and West Coast

Sir Thomas Kerry Burke ( born 24 March 1942 ) served as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1987 to 1990.