Richard Sykes

Richard Sykes may refer to:

  • Sir Richard Sykes (biochemist) (born 1942), biochemist, former Rector of Imperial College, London and Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline
  • Sir Richard Sykes (diplomat) (1921–1979), British diplomat, assassinated in 1979
  • Richard Sykes (rugby union) (1839–1923), rugby player and landowner in North Dakota

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    “Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
    —Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)