* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.

A similar approach was taken by Canadian astronomer Alastair G. W. Cameron and American astronomer William R. Ward, who suggested that the Moon was formed by the tangential impact upon Earth of a body the size of Mars.

The first recorded mention of the food was in the Aberdeen Evening Express, following a tip off phone call to their journalist Alastair Dalton that a chip shop in Stonehaven had been deep frying Mars Bars for local kids.

* Alastair Ninian John Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1920 – 2002 )

* Alastair Denniston ( 1921 – February 1942 ) ( continued as Deputy Director ( Diplomatic and Commercial ) until 1945 ).

* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals

* 1928 – Alastair Burnet, English journalist and broadcaster ( d. 2012 )

* 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor ( d. 1976 )

* August 19 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor ( b. 1900 )

********* HH Prince Alastair of Connaught ( 1914 – 1943 )

Returning to Australia, Taylor made 1, 403 first-class runs at 70. 15 during the 1989 – 90 season, and ended 1989 with 1, 219 Test runs, thus becoming the first player to better one thousand Test runs in his debut calendar year, something only matched once by England opener Alastair Cook over 15 years later.

Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE ( 9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976 ) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films.

* Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ( 1914 – 1943 ), only son of the younger Prince Arthur, died unmarried

Alastair Arthur Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ( formerly Prince Alastair of Connaught and Strathearn ; 9 August 1914 – 26 April 1943 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria through his father and great-great-grandson of Victoria through his mother.

* 9 August 1914 – 20 November 1917: His Highness Prince Alastair of Connaught

* Alastair Goodlad 1990 – 1992

Robert Alastair Addie ( 10 February 1960 – 20 November 2003 ) was an English actor who was best known for playing Sir Guy of Gisbourne in the television series Robin of Sherwood.

Forgan is the sixth chair of the trust ; her predecessors were John Scott ( 1936 – 48 ), Alfred Powell Wadsworth ( 1948 – 56 ), Richard Scott ( 1956 – 84 ), Alastair Hetherington ( 1984 – 89 ), and Hugo Young ( 1990 – 2003 ).

* James Alastair Frederick Campbell Erskine-Murray, 13th Lord Elibank ( 1902 – 1973 )

England – Samit Patel, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Alastair Cook, Steven Davies, Luke Wright and Liam Plunkett

* David Alastair Pearson Anderson, 2nd Viscount Waverley ( 1911 – 1990 )

* Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock ( 1927 – 2009 )

* LIVINGSTONE, Alastair of Bachuil, Aikman, Christian W. H. and Hart, Betty Stuart, editors, Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ’ s Army 1745-46, Aberdeen University Press, 1985.

Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.

* Søren Kierkegaard ( 1843 ), Either / Or, translated by Alastair Hannay, London, Penguin, 1992

* Alastair Cook ( born 1984 ), English cricketer

* Alastair Dunn ( 2002 ), The Great Rising of 1381: The Peasant's Revolt and England's Failed Revolution, ISBN 0-7524-2323-1

His best-known play is An Inspector Calls ( 1945 ), later made into a film starring Alastair Sim released in 1954.

* Alastair Cook ( chorister ), cricketer.

She was baptised at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, by the Bishop of Norwich, on 23 December 1990, she was the first royal baby to have a public christening, and her godparents were James Ogilvy ( her father's second cousin ), Captain Alastair Ross ( who was unable to attend ), Mrs Ronald Ferguson ( her maternal grandfather's 2nd wife ), Mrs Patrick Dodd-Noble, and Miss Louise Blacker.

Lady Barnett-whose autobiography, My Life Line, was published in 1956, had one son, Alastair ( born 1944 ), with her husband.

( 2 ) 19 June 1948 Maj Harry Alexander Gordon MC ( d. 19 June 1965 ), 2nd son of Cdr Alastair Gordon DSO RN.

He is thought to be based on Alastair Graham ( whose name was mistakenly substituted for Sebastian's several times in the original manuscript ), Hugh Patrick Lygon and Stephen Tennant.

Together with her husband, Alastair Dunnett, she wrote the text for the photography book The Scottish Highlands ( Photographs: David Patterson ), published in 1988.

* Pennycook, Alastair ( 1995 ), The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language, Longman.

* Pennycook, Alastair ( 1998 ), English and the Discourses of Colonialism, Routledge.

* Pennycook, Alastair ( 2001 ), Critical Applied Linguistics, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

* Scrooge ( 1951 film ), a film featuring Alastair Sim

The accompanying book, Life in the Freezer: A Natural History of the Antarctic by Alastair Fothergill with a foreword by David Attenborough ( ISBN 0-563-36431-9 ), was published by BBC Books on 4 November 1993.

Dexter continued his good run of form to equal Patsy Hendren's England record of six consecutive Test 50s ( 85 and 172 against Pakistan and 70, 99, 93 and 52 against Australia ), which he soon shared with Ken Barrington and more recently Alastair Cook.

* In 2003, Alastair Campbell ( who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM ) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies. The alleged bug discovery was at a hotel during PM Tony Blair's official visit to New Delhi in 2001.

By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter Princess Mary, his unmarried sister Princess Victoria, his uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, his cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, his cousin once removed Prince Alastair of Connaught, and his unmarried cousin Princess Patricia of Connaught.

Alastair John Campbell ( born 25 May 1957 ) is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003.

* Alastair Niven, Principal, Cumberland Lodge ( nominated by the British Council )

The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named after the British glass manufacturer Pilkington, which pioneered the technique ( invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington ) in the 1950s.

Prince Alastair was denied the title of a British prince and the style His Highness in 1917.

* Alastair Pearson, a British Army officer who received his four awards within the space of two years during the Second World War.

Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad, KCMG, PC, ( born 4 July 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as the British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 until 2005.

At the end of the 1950 British comedy film The Happiest Days of Your Life, head teachers Muriel Whitchurch ( Margaret Rutherford ) and Wetherby Pond ( Alastair Sim ) discuss which corner of the British Empire they can escape to, and she mentions having a brother who, " grows groundnuts in Tanganyika ".

* Alastair Goodlad, Baron Goodlad ( born 1943 ), British Conservative politician

The British sent Commander Alastair Denniston, head of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School, Dilly Knox, chief British cryptanalyst and Commander Humphrey Sandwith, head of the Royal Navy's intercept and direction-finding stations.

Over the course of two weeks in April 2004, the British satirical magazine Private Eye published a journal, Teacher's Diary, written by an anonymous maths teacher at what he called ( quoting Tony Blair's spokesman, Alastair Campbell ) " a bog standard comprehensive ".

* The Anatomist ( 1961 ), a British film, starred Alastair Sim as Knox.

Alastair Leithead on BBC News 24 on 26 December 2007, presented a half-hour feature about Wakhan, focusing particularly on the work of expatriate British Doctor Alexander Duncan, which provided a significant piece of extended media reporting from this inaccessible area.

Herbert's " Misleading Cases ", a satire on the British legal system, also starring Alastair Sim as the Judge as well as playing Leopold Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus.