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1 de abr. de 2024 · March 11, 1863, Pau, France (aged 60) Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet (born Jan. 29, 1803, near Butterley, Derbyshire, Eng.—died March 11, 1863, Pau, France) was an English general and political officer in India known, because of his reputation for chivalry, as “the Bayard of India” (after the 16th-century French soldier Pierre Terrail ...
6 de abr. de 2024 · army. Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (born April 10, 1707, Stitchel, Roxburgh, Scot.—died Jan. 18, 1782, London, Eng.) was a British physician, an early exponent of the importance of ordinary putrefactive processes in the production of disease. His application of this principle to the administration of hospitals and army camps has earned him ...
9 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Harry Smith, Baronet (born June 28, 1787, Whittlesey, Isle of Ely, Eng.—died Oct. 12, 1860, London) was a British general, governor of Cape Colony, and high commissioner in South Africa from 1847 to 1852. Smith began his career in the army as an ensign in 1805 and served with distinction in South America (1807) and, during the Napoleonic ...
29 de mar. de 2024 · gunnery. Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (born Sept. 13, 1831, Greenock, Renfrew, Scot.—died Oct. 22, 1915, Argyll) was a Scottish physicist and gunnery expert, considered a founder of the science of ballistics. His pioneering research on fired gunpowder, often in conjunction with the British chemist Frederick Abel, contributed greatly to the ...
3 de abr. de 2024 · picturesque. Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (born 1747—died Sept. 14, 1829, Foxley, Herefordshire, Eng.) was a British landscape designer and, with the writer-artist William Gilpin and Richard Payne Knight, one of the chief aestheticians of the Picturesque movement in landscaping. Price was a wealthy country squire, Knight his friend and ...
10 de abr. de 2024 · Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (born Aug. 13, 1819, Skreen, County Sligo, Ire.—died Feb. 1, 1903, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was a British physicist and mathematician noted for his studies of the behaviour of viscous fluids, particularly for his law of viscosity, which describes the motion of a solid sphere in a fluid, and for Stokes’s theorem, a basic theorem of vector analysis.
25 de mar. de 2024 · Sir Bartle Frere, 1st Baronet (born March 29, 1815, Brecknockshire, Wales—died May 29, 1884, Wimbledon, Surrey, Eng.) was a British colonial administrator in India and finally in South Africa, where his administration as high commissioner became highly controversial. After graduation from the East India Company ’s college at Haileybury in ...
