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* 1925 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist co-founder of the Guinness World Records ( d. 2004 )
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Category: Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1917 – 1925 )
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Alan Ross Mayfield McWhirter ( 12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975 ), known as Ross McWhirter, was, with his twin brother, Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records and a contributor to Record Breakers.
William Edward Norris ( 18 November 1847 – 1925 ), English novelist, was the son of Sir W Norris, chief justice of Ceylon.
In 1925, after acrimoniously firing manager Leslie Knighton, Norris hired Huddersfield Town's Herbert Chapman as his replacement.
In 1927, the Daily Mail reported that Norris had made under-the-counter payments to Sunderland's Charlie Buchan as an incentive for him to join Arsenal in 1925 ; this was in an era of the League's maximum wage, and any additional financial incentives to players were strictly outlawed, although many clubs at the time broke the rules.
Ref: Osborn, Norris Galpin, Editor, History of Connecticut in Monographic Form ( States History Co., 1925 ); Hooker, John, An Account of the Reunion of the Descendants of Rev.
** Norris McWhirter, records compiler ( born 1925 )
Rogers was returned to parliament in the 1925 election, defeating former Liberal premier Tobias C. Norris by 1, 617 votes in Winnipeg South.
Norris dismissed Knighton in the summer of 1925 and replaced him with Herbert Chapman.
Kathleen Norris in 1925.
* Norris McWhirter ( 1925 – 2004 ), editor of Guinness World Records
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* 1925 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist, co-founder of the Guinness World Records ( d. 1975 )
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Using a Nipkow disk, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird succeeded in demonstrating the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925, and of moving, monochromatic images in 1926.
** Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer ( b. 1925 )
Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi ( 30 July 1925 – 15 April 1984 ) was a Scottish novelist.
Shortly after De la Cierva's success with the C. 6, Cierva accepted an offer from Scottish industrialist James G. Weir to establish the Cierva Autogiro Company in England, following a demonstration of the C. 6 before the British Air Ministry at RAE Farnborough, on 20 October 1925.
* Marguerite Wood, Foreign Correspondence with Marie de Lorraine: the Balcarres Papers, Scottish History Society, 2 vols ( 1923, 1925 ).
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In 1925, at the height of his movie career, Lloyd entered into Freemasonry at the Alexander Hamilton Lodge No. 535 of Hollywood, advancing quickly through both the York Rite and Scottish Rite taking the degrees of the Royal Arch with his father, becoming a 32nd degree Mason.
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David MacRitchie ( April 16, 1851-January 14, 1925 ) was a Scottish folklorist and antiquarian.
* Mick McGahey, ( 1925 – 1999 ) was a Scottish miners leader who had worked in the mines of Cambuslang.
Margaret Anne Sinclair ( born Edinburgh, Scotland 1900: died London, England 1925 ), a Scottish Roman Catholic nun, was born in Middle Arthur Place, Edinburgh in a basement flat of a dilapidated tenement block, the third of six children of Andrew, a dustman for Edinburgh City Corporation, and Elizabeth Sinclair.
Ian Robertson Hamilton, QC ( born 13 September 1925 ) is a lawyer and Scottish Nationalist.
* GALASHIELS HISTORICAL PEACE PAGEANT ( 1919 ) GALASHIELS WAR MEMORIAL ( 1925 ) ( archive films from the National Library of Scotland: Scottish Screen Archive )
George MacDonald Fraser, OBE FRSL ( 2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008 ) was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays.
Fraser was born to Scottish parents in Carlisle, England on 2 April 1925.
Record crowds attended the 1925 Scottish Cup Final, a 5 – 0 win for Celtic against Rangers, and the 1927 Scotland v England match, England's first win in the stadium.
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In 1923 on the Grouping, he was appointed deputy CME of the newly formed London, Midland and Scottish Railway ( LMS ), under George Hughes and became CME in October 1925.
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