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Examples:Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist—Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish romantic novelist—Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun—Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish geologist—sir (term of address for senior officer)—Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere—Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system—Sir Richard Branson (1950-), British millionaire and founder of Virgin—Sir Edward Youde (1924-1986), British diplomat, ambassador Beijing 1974-1978, governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986—honored Sir (also sarcastic)—Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), UK socialist politician—Sir Donald Tsang or Tsang Yam-Kuen (1944-)—honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk)—Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web—Sir Li Ka-shing (1928-), Hong Kong businessman—Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843—lit. please Sir, get inthe boiling pot [idiom.]— |