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5th Marquess Lansdowne
HENRY CHARLES KEITH FITZ- MAURICE, fifth marquess of LANSDOWNE statesman, cartoon when appointed governor- general of Canada. Date: 1845 - 1927

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Baron Gros, the Newly Appointed French Ambassador at the Court of St. James s, 1862

Appointment of Bernulfus bishop of Utrecht, print maker: Jacobus van Dijck, 1853

Consecration of the Levites, Jan Luyken, Willem Goeree, 1683

The Royal Aeronautical Society Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Production, appointed in 1941, on the terrace behind No.4 Hamilton Place

Major Robert Hobart Mayo, the steward appointed to observe the attempt on behalf of the international authority, signs a card which will be photographed on to the film carried in the aircraft

Wg Cdr James Jimmy Leonard Dell (1924-2008) was appointed deputy chief test pilot at English Electric in 1959. Date: 1924

Cocktail lounge of the Boeing Stratocruiser
The smartly appointed cocktail lounge of the Boeing Stratocruiser provides the air transportation field with a luxury undreamed of a few years ago

Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772-1842): English soldier: Lieut-General 1812: General 1825: Appointed C-in-C of army in England 1825-39 when Wellington became Prime Minister: Viscount 1842

Hobart Pacha or Pasha: Augustus Charles Hobard-Hampden (1822-1886), c1880. English naval officer and Naval adviser to Turkey who was appointed a Marshal of the Ottoman Empire

August Wilhelm Hofmann (1818-1892), German organic chemist. Through his work on coal-tar derivatives, in 1858 obtained aniline dye magenta or fuschine

Henry Edward Manning (1809-1892) English Roman Catholic prelate, c1880. After graduating from Oxford, Manning was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1840 was appointed archdeacon of Chichester

In 1822 the French appointed commission to finding the speed of sound in air. Two hills near Paris chosen for the experiment at Villejuif and Montlhery. On each hill a gun was discharged

Prince Imperial Ui, the Prince Imperial of Korea, (1877 - 1955) fifth son of Emperor Gwangmu of Korea. He could not become the Crown Prince

Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary 1st Duc de Rovigo (1774-1833) French general and diplomat, 1814. In 1810 Napoleon appointed him Minister of Police

Charles Plumier (1646-1704) French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, was born at Marseilles. Appointed royal botanist by Louis XIV in 1693

Wilhelm Karl, Ratter von Hardinger, c1871. Hardinger (1795-1871), Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist, in 1840 was appointed Counsellor of Mines, Vienna

John Flamsteed (1646-1719) English astronomer and clergyman. Appointed first Astronomer Royal 1675. Engraving 1794

James Rennell (1742-1839), British geographer. Rennell was appointed the first surveyor-general of Bengal in 1764. He carried out a survey of Bengal 1765-1771. From The European Magazine

Newcomen-type steam engine attributed to Jean Rodolphe Perronet, French civil engineer. Perronet (1708-1794), after training as an architect and working as a civil engineer

Cross section of Newcomen-type steam engine attributed to Jean Rodolphe Perronet, French civil engineer. (1767). Perronet (1708-1794), after training as an architect and working as a civil engineer

Sonia (or Sophie) Kowalevski (or Kowalevski), Russian mathematician, (1850-1891). She was appointed professor of mathematics at Stockholm in 1884

Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer, 19th century. Lalande (1732-1807) was professor of astronomy at the College de France for 46 years from 1760

William Gilbert (1540-1603) English physician and scientist born at Colchester, Essex. Appointed physician to Elizabeth I (1601)

John Tyndall (1820-1893) Irish born physicist and mountaineer (1893). Studied in Marburg under Robert Bunsen (1811-1899). Appointed professor at the Royal Institution, London, in 1844

Washington, appointed Commander in Chief. Currier & Ives print 1876. Print shows George Washington standing on a platform surrounded by members of the Continental Congress

Alfonso XIII 1886 - 1941), King of Spain, posthumous son of Alfonso XII of Spain, proclaimed King at his birth. He reigned from 1886-1931

Jean-Marie Coutelle, Appointed Commander of Les Aerostiers, 1794. Below right, varnishing balloon at School of Military Ballooning, Meudon

Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) American general, U. S. Army field commander in both North Africa
Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) American general, U.S. Army field commander in both North Africa and Europe during the Second World War

George Calett Marshall (1880-1959) American soldier and military leader. Chief of Staff of the US Army. Appointed Secretary of State by President Truman in 1945 he headed the European Recovery Plan

American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence) 1775-1783: Washington appointed commander-in-chief by the Continental Congress

Robert Lowe, lst Viscount Sherbrooke (1811-1892) British statesman. In 1868 appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Gladstone. Raised to peerage as Viscount Sherbrooke in 1880

William Cecil, lst Baron Burghley (1520-1598) appointed Secretary of State by Elizabeth I in 1558 and was the prominent English statesman of his age. Cecil in the robes of the Order of the Garter

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour (1848-1930) Scottish-born British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1902-1905 Balfour Declaration (1917)

William Henry Flower (1831-1899) English surgeon and zoologist, born at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England. On the death of Richard Owen he was appointed Director of the Natural History Museum

Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) English civil engineer and son of the railway engineer George Stephenson whom he assisted in a number of projects

Ideal and Real : William Henry Smith (1825-1891), son of William Henry Smith (1792-1865), as Secretary of State for War as he might be seen by the Germans, and how he really was

George Stephenson (1781-1848) English mechanical engineer and railway pioneer. Engineer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (1825)

George Joachim Goschen (1831-1907), lst Viscount Goschen, English businessman and statesman born in London. Appointed a director of the Bank of England in 1856

Philip Magnus (b1843) English educationalist, writer and editor. A minister at the West London Synagogue (1866-1880). In 1880 he was appointed secretary of the City

General Francois Paul Anthoine (1860-1944). During the First World War he commanded the First French Army in 1917. In November 1917 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief. Anthoine in 1919

General Auguste Dubail (1851-1934) French Army officer. During the First World War, after the French failure at Verdun in 1916

Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) French soldier who entered the army in 1871. Director of the Ecole de Guerre (School of War) 1907-1911

General Adolph Guillaumat (1863-1940). French military commander in the First World War. At the end of the war he was appointed to the Supreme War Council at Versailles

General Charles Mangin (1866-1925) French army officer who had command in the First World War. At the end of thear he was appointed to the Supreme War Council. Mangin in 1918

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Appointed to shape history: From the Defence of Chateau de Hougoumont at the Battle of Waterloo to the appointment of Matthew Hopkins as Witchfinder General, and Mr. Justice Field's influential rulings, individuals have been appointed to leave their mark on society. The notorious pirate Henry Morgan plundered the seas while Anselm was made Archbishop, guiding religious beliefs. Witnessing bravery amidst chaos, British squares held strong against French cavalry attacks in Waterloo. Aneurin Bevan championed healthcare reform, while Alfred Rosenberg shaped Nazi ideology. Nicholas II led his staff through turbulent times in Russia. John Law's scheme challenged economic norms and a railway line construction connected nations in 1841. These appointments reveal both triumphs and controversies that have shaped our world.