Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, PRS (/ s t oʊ k s /; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish English physicist and mathematician.Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal …

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (UK: / ˈ m ɪ l eɪ / MIL-ay, US: / m ɪ ˈ l eɪ / mil-AY; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was …

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was an admiral in the Royal Navy.As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession.While in temporary command of Antelope, he drove a French ship ashore in Audierne Bay, and captured two privateers in 1757 during the Seven Years' War.He held senior command as Commander …

Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet (October 1729 – 30 May 1805), known as William Johnstone until 1767, was a Scottish advocate, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1805. He was reputedly the wealthiest man in Great Britain. He profited from slave plantations in North America, and invested in building developments in Great Britain, …

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, PC (/ ˈ k ɑːr ˈ b ɛr ɪ s f ər d /; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside The Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General …

Admiral Sir Percy Moreton Scott, 1st Baronet, KCB, KCVO (10 July 1853 – 18 October 1924) was a British Royal Navy officer and a pioneer in modern naval gunnery.During his career he proved to be an engineer and problem solver of some considerable foresight, ingenuity and tenacity. He did not, however, endear himself to the Navy establishment for his regular outspoken criticism of …

1643 – First English Civil War: Roundhead forces under Sir William Waller led a successful surprise attack in Hampshire on a winter garrison of Cavalier infantry and cavalry.; 1769 – Dartmouth College was established by royal charter in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire.; 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces, capturing the Chinese city of Nanjing, …

Note that a "Brigadier" is not classed as a "general" in the British Army, despite being a NATO 1-star equivalent rank.. Hence, in the lists below: [ 1* = Brigadier General/Brigadier] 2* = Major General 3* = Lieutenant General 4* = General [ 5* = Field Marshal] Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

Sir Thomas Parry: Sir Henry Helmes: 1614: Sir Francis Bacon, sat for Cambridge University repl. by Thomas Perient: Henry Finch: 1620: Sir Thomas Richardson: Robert Shute: 1621: Sir Thomas Richardson: Henry Meautys: 1624: Sir Arthur Capell: Sir John Luke: 1625: Sir Charles Morrison, 1st Baronet: Sir John Luke: 1626: Sir Charles Morrison, 1st ...

George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, CH, PC (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire from 1997 and Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997. He has served in …