Sentence examples for major sir from inspiring English sources

The only source that unequivocally describes the quagga in the Free State is that of the English military engineer and hunter Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris.

It featured fewer big names – although in addition to Professor Stephen Hawking's major role, Sir Ian McKellen starred as a version of Prospero from Shakespeare's The Tempest – and eschewed Sir Paul McCartney and the Spice Girls in favour of a tender Antony Hegarty song sung by Birdy and the gospel version of I Am What I Am.

"Every parent knows what I mean", complained Mr Major (now Sir John).

Major likened Sir John to Machiavelli in his memoirs, and was clearly terrified of the man.

Born in Nottinghamshire in 1934, Whitaker was the third son of Major General Sir John Whitaker and his wife Pamela.

On the other plinths in the square stand General Napier, George IV on a horse and Major General Sir Henry Havelock, KCB.

The Tories have given peerages to one of its major donors, Sir Anthony Bamford, the chairman and managing director of JCB.

While weary commuters pay ever more for tickets, Stagecoach's chairman and major shareholder, Sir Brian Souter, enjoys the considerable fortune he has made from privatised transport.

2, 1898), decisive military engagement in which Anglo-Egyptian forces, under Major General Sir Herbert Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener), defeated the forces of the Mahdist leader ʿAbd Allāh and thereby won Sudanese territory that the Mahdists had dominated since 1881.

Omdurman was captured by Anglo-Egyptian forces led by Major General Sir Herbert (later Lord) Kitchener in 1898 but continued to develop into the cultural, religious, and commercial centre of The Sudan.

He wants to win one more major than Sir Nicholas Faldo and take over the memorial cabinet at the golf club in Welwyn Garden City where they both learned to play the game.