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Signet ring overview
A signet ring was a ring with the mark of an emblem or symbol on one end.

The Doctor kept a signet ring, which he frequently wore in his first incarnation. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et al)

Erimem wore a signet ring with the symbol of Sekhmet. (AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon)

The Master had a green signet ring with Gallifreyan writing which was used by the Disciples of Saxon to revive him after his death. (TV: The End of Time)

Lord Barset
Lord Barset was a hereditary title on Earth. It was given to at least two human explorers involved in Antarctic expeditions in the 20th and 21st century; they were respectively a grandfather and his grandson.

The grandfather
Lord Barset unearthed a city of intelligent "lizard men" with superior technology beneath the Antarctic ice. He wrote about this in his diary. All but one of the expedition died in the encounter, the expedition's ship, the Rochester, having been lost. This crewmember was discovered holding Lord Barset's diary; he was seemingly driven insane and died just a few days afterwards. (AUDIO: Frozen Time)

The grandson
The diary of Lord Barset was secretly passed down to his grandson, another Lord Barset. Lord Barset was granted a licence to go on an Antarctic expedition to both find the remains of his grandfather's expedition the lizard men's city.

Lord Barset arrived in Antarctica in the Fortitude. When his people failed to make radio contact after six days, he and several others from the Fortitude arrived to the dig site with arms. There, instead of the city his grandfather found, he discovered the remains of an Ice Warrior maximum security prison, where the Seventh Doctor was thawed.

In a "quest for knowledge", he had the Ice Warrior war criminals, led by Lord Arakssor, thawed. Lord Barset and Captain Harman were trapped inside the prison, while the Doctor, Geni and Mac left in Aristo One. Barset and Harman tried to escape to the Fortitude, but Harman was killed by an Ice Warrior's sonic weapon, and Lord Barset was injured and presumed dead. Discovering the Doctor and Geni had returned, he worked with them to stop the Ice Warriors altering the structure Earth's greenhouse gases to cool down the planet and make it into Arakssor's "fortress".

As the process started, Lord Barset was knocked out by falling hail. The Doctor and Geni put him in a small chamber for him to recover. When he woke, he shot at Lord Arakssor, allowing the Doctor to boost the signal to get the attention of the warship of Red 0089. Arakssor then killed him. (AUDIO: Frozen Time)

Behind the scenes
The grandson Lord Barset was a vocal role voiced by Anthony Calf in Frozen Time. The grandfather, who died decades before Frozen Time's main setting, did not appear in a flashback and had no performer in the story.

Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales, née Lady Diana Spencer (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun) and sometimes known as Lady Di, (PROSE: The Dying Days) was the wife of Prince Charles. (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun) She married Charles in 1981. (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World)

When Peter Tyler got his wedding vows to Jackie Prentice wrong, Jackie told the registrar to carry on with the vows, saying, "It's good enough for Lady Di." (TV: Father's Day)

Views on the Doctor
In the words of Madame Vastra, the Doctor was "kind", "a hero" and "the saviour of worlds". (TV: The Snowmen)

Victor Kennedy said he read up on the Doctor and how he was "so passionate" and "so sweet". The Tenth Doctor responded that he may have been these things, but warned Victor not to mistake these traits for "nice". (TV: Love & Monsters) The Tenth Doctor referred to himself as "the Oncoming Storm" and "the Bringer of Darkness". (TV: The Day of the Doctor) According to the Great Intelligence, the Doctor was "blood soaked". (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

Eye of Harmony
[Source explicitly describing the Doctor's Eye as the Gallifreyan Eye's namesake as noted on Talk:Time Vortex goes here] This piece of Time Lord engineering was also an exploding star in the act of becoming a black hole. The Eleventh Doctor explained that "[y]ou rip the star from its orbit [and] suspend it in a permanent state of decay". (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)

The Eye of Harmony was described by both the Eighth (TV: Doctor Who) and Eleventh Doctor (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) as the TARDIS' power source. The Eighth Doctor said it was "[t]he power source of the heart of the TARDIS". (TV: Doctor Who)

Humanian Era
The Humanian Era was a period of Earth history which encompassed at least 29-31 December 1999. (TV: Doctor Who)

2000
The year 2000 was, as evidenced by statements by American news outlets and world-renowned chronologist Professor Wagg — the start of the third millennium. (TV: Doctor Who) This view was shared by at least one incarnation of the Doctor. (PROSE: Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film) Despite the predilection of most humans to celebrate it as the beginning of the millennium, however, at least one other incarnation of the Doctor regarded it as the final year of the second millennium. (PROSE: Millennial Rites) This tug-of-war between the technical and common conceptions of the year was reflected in an argument between Anji Kapoor and her boyfriend Dave Young. He held fast to the view that 1 January 2001 was the beginning of the millennium, whereas she found this pedantry a reason to seriously consider leaving him. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)

January
On 1 January, the Eighth Doctor departed San Francisco after preventing from destroying the planet at the start of the year. Grace Holloway declined an invitation to travel with him and the Doctor did not agree to him coming with her. (TV: Doctor Who)

February
On 10 February, Henry Louis Noone was born in St. Stephen's Hospital in London. (AUDIO: A Death in the Family)

Spring
The Fourth Doctor and Romana II visited Paris, much to Romana's chagrin as they had only just visited the city, albeit twenty-one years earlier. (COMIC: The Forgotten)

December
Prior to Christmas 2000, the Eighth Doctor warned Chang Lee not to be in San Francisco on that date and for him to "take a vacation". (TV: Doctor Who)

Unknown dates
The Hourly Telepress published adventures of the Karkus. (TV: The Mind Robber, PROSE: The Wheel of Ice)

Some time after the departure of the Eighth Doctor, Grace Holloway discovered residue left over from her encounter with. Seeking to develop a human/Time Lord hybrid capable of regeneration, she began working for a genetics lab; later she learned she was actually working for a branch of MI6. (COMIC: The Glorious Dead)

Chloe Webber was born to Trish Webber and Chloe's father. (TV: Fear Her)

Sally Morgan was born. (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana)

Behind the scenes

 * References in the Doctor Who universe tend to indicate the year 2000 was the start of the millennium, rather than 2001, the technical start of that millennium.
 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet directly contradicts TV: The Tenth Planet, the television story the novelisation is adapted from. The 1976 novelisation considers the First Doctor's regeneration having taken place in 2000, rather the 1986 placement the 1966 television story gave.