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Sir and Chief
* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875
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Sir William Deane described one of his functions as being " Chief Mourner " at prominent funerals.
Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.
In 2007 Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang requested for Beijing to allow direct elections for the Chief Executive.
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
Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.

Sir and Minister
* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.
The first Prime Minister Sir Albert Henry led the county until 1978 when he was accused of vote-rigging.
:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.
* 1957 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
The 7th Duke of Marlborough was the paternal grandfather of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ( who was born at Blenheim Palace on 30 November 1874 ).
* 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1917 )
* 1894 – Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1978 )
Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.
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* 1904 – Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1983 )
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In 1975, Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam recommended to the Queen that Sir Colin Hannah, then Governor of Queensland, have his dormant commission revoked for having made public political statements.
Scullin recommended the Australian jurist Sir Isaac Isaacs, and he insisted that George V act on the advice of his Australian Prime Minister in this matter.
This necessarily limited his personal and political impact, especially when compared to his immediate predecessor Sir Robert Menzies, who was Prime Minister for a total of 18 years.
In 1939 Holt's mentor Robert Menzies became Prime Minister after the sudden death of the incumbent Joseph Lyons and the short-term caretaker ministry of Sir Earle Page.
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* 1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada ; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1815 – Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada is born.
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Sir John Alexander Macdonald, ( 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891 ), was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

Sir and Madras
* April 29 – Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d ' Aché indecisively near Madras.
* George Stubbs ' Cheetah with Two Indian Attendants and a Stag ( 1764 – 1765 ) also shows the cheetah as a hunting animal and commemorates the gift of a cheetah to George III by the English Governor of Madras, Sir George Pigot
The movement in August of Sir Hector Munro with a force of over 5, 000 from Madras to Kanchipuram ( Conjeevaram ) prompted Hyder to lift the siege of Arcot and move to confront him.
* Sir Perungavur Rajagopalachari, Indian civil servant, Diwan of Cochin and later, Travancore and the first president of the Madras Legislative Council
Lieutenant ( later General Sir ) Arthur Thomas Cotton ( 1803 – 99 ), Madras Engineers, was responsible for the design and construction of the great irrigation works on the river Cauvery, which watered the rice crops of Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts in the late 1820s.
He was the second son of Sir Francis Macnaghten, Bart., judge of the supreme courts of Madras and Calcutta, and was educated at Charterhouse.
Ramachandran is the grandson of Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, Advocate General of Madras and co-architect of the Constitution of India.
* Sir V. Bhashyam Aiyangar, The first Indian to be appointed Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency and Law member of the executive council of the Governor of Madras between 1897 to 1900, was created as a CIE in 1895, however his later promotion to the rank of Knight Bachelor in 1900 often overshadows his CIE status.
# 1878: Lady Denison ( Caroline Denison, wife of Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras )
# 1879: Dowager Lady Pottinger ( widow of Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor of the Presidency of Madras 1848-1854 )
# 1897: Lady Havelock ( Anne Havelock, wife of Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of the Presidency of Madras 1896-1900 )
Madras Army | Madras Sappers & Miners joined Sir Colin Campbell in the second relief of Lucknow in November 1857
* Woodroffe, Sir John, Sakti and Sakta: Essays and Addresses on the Shâkta Tantrashâstra, Ganesh & Company ( Madras, 9th Ed.
IEI was established in 1920 in Madras ( Chennai ) with Sir Thomas R. J.
* Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger ( 1789 – 1856 ), Envoy and Plenipotentiary to China, 1840 – 1843, first Governor of Hong Kong, 1843 – 1844, and Governor of Madras, 1847 – 1854
* Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, English civil servant, governor of Madras
* Diwan Bahadur Sir S. Kumaraswami Reddiar ( b. April 23, 1876 ) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as a minister in Madras Presidency.
* Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Nye, GCSI, GCIE, KCB, KBE, MC, Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff as well as being involved in Operation Mincemeat, Governor of Madras in 1946, UK High Commissioner in Delhi from 1948 to 1952, High Commissioner to Canada from 1952 to 1956, chairman of the Nye Committee.
Located at Taliparamba, 20 kilometers from Kannur city, this station was started by Sir Charles Alfred Barber at the behest of the erstwhile Madras Government, based on the recommendation of the Famine Commission of 1880 of Government of India.
In 1917, the then Diwan of Mysore Sir M. Visvesvaraya felt a need to have an engineering college in the state as the Civil Engineering College Madras and College of Engineering Poona were unable to accommodate enough students from Mysore State.
In 1849, Nolan was appointed ADC to General Sir George Berkeley, Commander-in-Chief at Madras.
The General Post Office ( GPO ), Madras, was established by Sir Archibald Campbell in 1786.
This decision gave the British time to shore up their defences in the south, and despatch reinforcements under the command of Sir Eyre Coote to Madras.

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