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Examples:Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990—Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission Qing China in 1793—Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist—Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer—Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore—FTSE (British provider of stock exchange indices such as FTSE 100)—Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun—Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal—John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain—Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist—Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist—Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system—Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880—Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist—Joseph Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist and author of Science and Civilization in China—Sir Richard Branson (1950-), British millionaire and founder of Virgin—Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system—Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson explain the mass of elementary particles—John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), influential British economist—Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist—Sir Edward Youde (1924-1986), British diplomat, ambassador Beijing 1974-1978, governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986—RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 (Taiwan)—RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912—John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed atomic theory—Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright—David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1935-), British diplomat and China expert, Governor of Hong Kong 1986-1992—native state (term used by British Colonial power refer to independent states of India or Africa)—British Columbia, province of Canada (loanword from "BC")—Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), British adventurer and archaeologist who explorer Xinjiang in early 20th century—British colonial administration of Hong Kong 1837-1941 and 1945-1997—Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee—Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher and political scientist, member of British Parliament—Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity—MI6 (British military counter-intelligence office)—Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843— |