81. Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake Royal Navy Modern and relevant, capable and resilient and top class employer withtop class people. http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3525.html

Mon 19 Sep 2005 Surface Fleet Fleet Air Arm Submarine Service Royal Marines ... Picture Gallery You are in: Navy Life History Naval Leaders Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake 1540-1596 Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake c1540-1596 The greatest sailor of his generation, the navigator Francis Drake was famous in his own lifetime. He first went to sea aged 13, an apprentice on a small trading ship. The master left the ship to Drake who sold it and sailed with his cousin Sir John Hawkins. Hawkins and Drake made the first English slave-trading expeditions. The dream of French and English privateers in the sixteenth century was to capture Spanish silver mined in the Andes and then transported back to Spain. The most vulnerable part of the journey was crossing the isthmus of Panama in Central America. It was here with the help of the cimarrones, escaped slaves who fought the Spanish, that Drake ambushed a treasure train in February 1573. He returned to England a wealthy man. In 1577 Drake was commissioned to circumnavigate the globe, Queen Elizabeth being among the sponsors of the expedition. On the three year voyage aboard the Golden Hind Drake sailed through the Straits of Megallan into the Pacific. Here he raided Spanish treasure ships before proceeding up the coast of the Americas and landed in what is now California naming it Nova Albion (New England). Turning west across the Pacific, Drake visited the East Indies and loaded his ship with spices before returning to England via the Cape of Good Hope. Drake’s feat of navigation was extraordinary. Only one man, Magellan, had ever circumnavigated the globe before and he had not lived to tell the tale. The expedition captured an estimated £600,000 worth of booty and demonstrated the wealth and vulnerability of the Spanish empire. The Queen’s share of £300,000 was more than the crown’s income for a whole year.

82. BBC - History - Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) British Timeline Science Under Royal Patronage. BBC Links The Newton Project Newton s Biography, University of Saint Andrews http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index MONDAY 19th September 2005 Text only BBC Homepage History Homepage Topics Ancient Resources Interactive Content Reading Room Timelines Historic Figures ... History for Kids Practical History Archaeology Family History History Trails Community Messageboard Newsletter About This Site About the BBC ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 (although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642, dates in this biography are those of today's 'corrected' Gregorian calendar, adopted in Britain in 1752) - in the manor house in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, three months after his father's death. He was so tiny that no one expected him to survive. When Newton was three years old, his mother remarried, an event which improved her situation, and led to three more children, but which deprived Isaac of a mother. His stepfather, the Reverend Mr Smith, would not take the three-year-old Newton along with his mother, and he was left at Woolsthorpe with his grandparents. We know little about Newton's pre-teen years, other than that he attended day schools in the neighbouring villages of Skillington and Stoke. In August 1653, when Newton was 10, the Reverend Smith died and Isaac's mother returned to Woolsthorpe. At the age of 12, Newton was sent to grammar school in Grantham. Here he got the standard education of the time, which included Latin and Greek, and some Bible studies - taught at the time to reinforce the Protestant faith in England. He was placed in the bottom class at Grantham, but a playground fight that he won due to sheer spirit began a rise to the top of the school.

83. BBC - History - Oliver Cromwell Biography of Cromwell courtesy of the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/cromwell_01.shtml

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index MONDAY 19th September 2005 Text only BBC Homepage History Homepage Topics Ancient British Empire Nations Resources Interactive Content Reading Room Timelines Historic Figures ... History for Kids Practical History Archaeology Family History History Trails Community Messageboard Newsletter About This Site About the BBC ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Oliver Cromwell By Professor John Morrill Oliver Cromwell played a leading role in bringing Charles I to trial and execution, and was a key figure during the civil war. Why does he remain one of the country's most controversial public figures? Page 1 of 6 1. A unique leader 2. Member of Parliament (1640 - 1649) 3. Soldier (1642 - 1651) 4. Statesman (1651 - 1658) ... Print entire article A unique leader Oliver Cromwell rose from the middle ranks of English society to be Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, the only non-royal ever to hold that position. He played a leading role in bringing Charles I to trial and to execution; he undertook the most complete and the most brutal military conquest ever undertaken by the English over their neighbours; he championed a degree of religious freedom otherwise unknown in England before the last one hundred years; but the experiment he led collapsed within two years of his death, and his corpse dangled from a gibbet at Tyburn. He was - and remains - one of the most contentious figures in world history 'Cromwell had been converted to a strong puritan faith' Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon. His ancestors had benefited from the power of a distant relative, Thomas Cromwell, who secured them former monastic lands in 1538-9. Cromwell's grandfather built an elegant house on the outskirts of Huntingdon and regularly entertained King James (the hunting was good in Huntingdon) and other prominent courtiers. But Cromwell's father was a younger son who only inherited a small part of the family fortune and he was brought up in a modest town house. Burdened by debt and a decline in his fortunes, he sold up in 1630, and took a lease on a farm a few miles away, in St Ives. It would appear that in 1634 Cromwell attempted to emigrate to Connecticut in America, but was prevented by the government from leaving.

84. Dr Richard Wiseman Biography Prof Wiseman has given invited addresses at The Royal Society, The Royal In 2001 he presented a series of evening lectures at the Royal Society’s Summer http://phoenix.herts.ac.uk/PWRU/RWhomepage.html

Prof Richard Wiseman NEW: Prof Wiseman's latest study into alleged hauntings BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Prof Richard Wiseman started his working life as an award-winning professional magician and was one of the youngest members of The Magic Circle. He then obtained a first class honours degree in Psychology from University College London and a doctorate in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently supported by a DreamTime Fellowship from the The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). The University of Hertfordshire recently awarded Prof Wiseman Britain's first Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology. In 2000 he was awarded The CSICOP Public Education In Science Award, and in 2002 Prof Wiseman received the Joseph Lister Award from the BAAS. RESEARCH Prof Wiseman has established an international reputation for scientific research into the scientific examination of unusual areas within psychology. This work has been reported in over 40 academic journal articles, including those In Nature, Science and Psychological Bulletin. In addition, he has co-authored 6 books and presented over 50 papers at both national and international conferences - Full Publication list.

85. The Royal College Of General Practitioners Home Page John Hunt page biography and catalogue of his archives Royal College ofGeneral Practitioners 14 Princes Gate Hyde Park London SW7 1PU http://www.rcgp.org.uk/

Members Networks Faculties Search ... Home Royal College of General Practitioners Services Conferences Membership Publications ... Bookstore Features Recent Updates Seven Days GP Guidance Countries International RCGP N.Ireland RCGP Scotland RCGP Wales ... Printable Version Spotlight: Thames Valley Faculty - Annual Symposium 27 th September 2005 A programme of keynote speakers and Workshops. Explore the tension between governed managed practice and the self-regulation of professional autonomy. Stay for the evening to hear Professor Mike Pringle deliver 'Making Revalidation Credible' and enjoy the convivial company of colleagues at faculty's Annual Dinner. Further Details are available on the Thames Valley Annual Symposium Page BJGP online What's New? University of Warwick researchers are investigating health professionals' experience and views via an online questionnaire, DVLA guidelines on fitness to drive Your Health, Your Care, Your Say is dedicated to the RCGP's work on Department of Health's forthcoming White Paper on Health Care Outside of Hospital Information Services has published a new factsheet called Key Statistics from General Practice which contains core UK demographic and workload statistics.

86. RWA:The Royal West Of England Academy In Bristol, UK...Academicians Pages/images http://www.rwa.org.uk/memfrm.htm

87. Celebrity And Royal Biography Books - Penguin UK Buy contemporary, celebrity and royal biography books from Penguin UK s onlinebook store, offering information on new releases, old favourites and http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Browse/BrowseStdPage/0,,104443,00.html

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88. Harry Kroto Bio-sketch Biography. Harold Kroto was born in 1939 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and broughtup in Bolton, Lancashire. Tildon Lecturer (Royal Society of Chemistry) http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/kroto/harry1.html

Biography Harold Kroto was born in 1939 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and brought up in Bolton, Lancashire. He graduated in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1961 and in 1964 received his PhD there for research with R N Dixon on high resolution electronic spectra of free radicals produced by flash photolysis. After two years postdoctoral research in electronic and microwave spectroscopy at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada, he spent one year at Bell Laboratories NJ studying liquid phase interactions by Raman spectroscopy and he also carried out studies in Quantum Chemistry. He started his academic career at the University of Sussex (Brighton) in 1967, where he became a professor in 1985 and in 1991 he was made a Royal Society Research Professor. Buckminsterfullerene. In follow-up investigations of this original discovery the molecule was isolated independently at Sussex and structurally characterised. The presently active research programme derives directly from the earlier work on C and focuses on the implications of the discovery for several areas of fundamental chemistry as well as the way in which it has revolutionised our perspective on carbon based materials. The research encompasses the basic chemistry of the fullerenes, fundamental studies of carbon and metal clusters as well as carbon microparticles and nanotubes. Work on various aspects of interstellar and circumstellar molecules and dust is also in progress. Some parts of the research have been successful due to their interdisciplinary nature and this has been the result of synergistic collaborations involving primarily: colleagues J F Nixon, R Taylor and D R M Walton at Sussex, T Oka at NRC (Canada), and R F Curl and R E Smalley at Rice University (Texas).

89. Sources Of Biographical Information - Royal Astronomical Society American National Biography (successor to The Dictionary of American Biography) . Awards with a wider appeal, such as appointments of Astronomers Royal, http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=75

90. Lenin now feared a violent revolution and on 28th February suggested that NicholasII should abdicate in favour of a more popular member of the royal family. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSlenin.htm

Lenin Spartacus USA History British History Russian Revolution ... Email Vladimir Illich Ulyanov (later known as Lenin) was born in Simbirsk, Russia, on 10th April, 1870. His father, Ilya Ulyanov, a local schools inspector, held conservative views and was a devout member of the Russian Orthodox Church . Lenin was deeply influenced by the revolutionary political views of his older brother, Alexander Ulyanov , who introduced him to the ideas of Karl Marx Lenin was educated at the Simbirsk Gymnasium. His headmaster was F. I. Kerensky, the father of Alexander Kerensky . Although Lenin despised the conservative views of his teachers he still managed to do well in his examinations. At the of seventeen Lenin read the utopian novel, What is to be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky . Along with Alexander Ulyanov and Karl Marx , Chernyshevsky was the greatest influence on his early political development.

91. The Joseph Dalton Hooker Website: Welcome! A leading nineteenth century botanist, and close friend of Charles Darwin. http://www.jdhooker.org.uk/

Welcome! About this site Joseph Dalton Hooker The image on the left shows Joseph Hooker in 1896. It was taken by William J. Hawker (No. 1 Gervis Buildings, Bournemouth) and I am very grateful to Daniel Weinstock M.D. (of Geneva, New York) who sent me a copy. These pages are intended to provide some basic information about Joseph Hooker. They include: more detailed biographical notes , including details of collectors and correspondents in Australia and New Zealand, writings links to web resources that contain information about Hooker, the history of botany in general and the history of natural history more generally A guide to some of the archival sources concerning Hooker, including NEW A guide to published sources about Hooker. You can search this site. There is also some information about Jim Endersby , who runs this site and technical details about it. This site went live in May 2001, since when it has received over 40,000 visitors. It was redesigned in October 2002 and is being updated as and when I have time. Last updated info@jdhooker.org.uk

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