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A portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (d. 1554 CE) who infamously led a failed rebellion against Mary I of England (r. 1553-1558 CE) in 1554 CE. (The Weiss Gallery, London)

A c. 1571 CE portrait of Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591 CE), an Elizabethan sailor and adventurer. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Sir Toby Belch, a comedic character from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, oil on canvas by George Henry Hall, 1854. Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sir Richard Bingham, English soldier and naval commander, oil on panel painting by an unknown artist, c. 1564. National Portrait Gallery, London.

An 1854 painting by Francis Grant of Sir Hugh Gough (1779-1869), commander-in-chief of the armies of the East India Company in the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). He is wearing his famous battledress of a long white coat and pith helmet.

A c. 1581 CE portrait by an unknown artist of the English mariner, privateer and slave trader Sir John Hawkins (1532-95 CE). (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England)

The fatal wounding of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) at the Battle of Zutphen (22 September 1586);oil on canvas by Benjamin West, 1806. Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.

Sir Guy Carleton, British general and Governor of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War. Portrait by an unknown artist, 1923. National Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

Construction of the sloop-of-war HMS Sir Isaac Brock at York, Upper Canada. Named after a fallen British general, the ship was intended to give Britain superiority on Lake Ontario; it was still unfinished when it was burnt during the Battle...

Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532 – 1590), principal secretary and spymaster of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603). Painting by John de Critz, c. 1589, oil on panel. In the National Portrait Gallery, London.