In 1878 Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd, together with Colonel Francis Duncan established the concept of teaching first aid skills to civilians.

* Duncan, Francis.

Bruce had won the seat with a smaller majority than Francis Duncan had for the Unionists in 1885.

The first ferries were side-loading paddle steamers named Gordon, Duncan and Hutton ( being named after General Gordon of Khartoum, Colonel Francis Duncan MP and Professor Charles Hutton ).

With Margaret, James had three daughters, Jean Stewart, wife of Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Baronet, Grizel Stewart, wife of David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford and Mary Stewart, wife of Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, and one son, John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl, at whose death in 1595 left the earldom in default of male heirs and reverted to the crown.

The names of those considered new apostles were: John Bate Cardale, Henry Drummond, Henry King-Church, Spencer Perceval, Nicholas Armstrong, Francis Woodhouse ( Francis Valentine Woodhouse ), Henry Dalton, John Tudor ( John O. Tudor ), Thomas Carlyle, Francis Sitwell, William Dow, and Duncan Mackenzie.

* Duncan McDowall, Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn, and the Algoma Steel Corporation 1901-1956, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988 ISBN 0-8020-6736-0

* Hewlett, Richard G. and Francis Duncan.

Current projects include Concerto for Horn and Symphony Orchestra for Ondrej Vrabec ( Principal Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ) and the Central England Ensemble, to be premiered in Birmingham UK in 2012, a commission from the Francis Brett Young society to compose a work based on Young ’ s poem, The Ballad of St Kenelm, to be premiered in Halesowen ( the poet ’ s birthplace ) in 2015, and a new work for solo piano for Duncan Honeybourne.

Acts who appeared included: Gloria Gaynor, George Roper, Ken Dodd, Duncan Norvelle, Black Lace, Bernie Winters, Stutz Bear Cats, Kit and the Widow, Wall Street Crash, Kiki Dee, Diane Solomon, Michael Ball, ' Nasty Nigel ' Lythgoe, Martin " The Beast " Francis, Tom Pepper, Fay Presto, Pete Price, Manhattan Transfer, Shane Richie, The Flaming Hamsters, Stan Boardman, Fascinating Aida, Showaddywaddy, Kajagoogoo, Frankie Howerd, Colm Wilkinson, Wilfrid Brambell from Steptoe and Son, Sinitta, Five Star, Indigo Lady, Cheryl Baker, Phil Cornwell, Jaki Graham, Nana Mouskouri, The Chuckle Brothers, Brian Conley, Roy Walker, Wayne Sleep, Andrew O ' Connor, Gareth Hunt, Peter Beckett, Syd Lawrence ( with his orchestra ), Frankie Vaughan, Jessica Martin, George Roper, Caroline Cossey, The Foxes, Mud, Chris Emmett, Keith Harris and Orville, Mick Miller, Diane Solomon, Mark Heap ( The Two Marks ) and Vince Hill.

In response to his letter, thirty European gentlemen of Calcutta including Mr. Justice John Hyde, John Carnac, Henry Vansittart, John Shore, Charles Wilkins, Francis Gladwin, Jonathan Duncan and others gathered on January 15, 1784 in the Grand Jury Room of the old Supreme Court of Calcutta.

The most complete telling of Dunn's life and business career is available in: Duncan McDowall, Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn and the Algoma Steel Corporation 1901-1956 ( Toronto: University of Toronto Press, hb 1984 & pb 1988 ).

Duncan McDowall, Steel at the sault: Francis Hector Clergue, Sir James Dunn and the Algoma Steel Corporation, 1899-1956 ( University of Toronto Press, 1984, pb 1988 )

Garnett was bisexual, as were several members of the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group, and he had affairs with Francis Birrell and Duncan Grant.

In the 1870s Duncan MacKinnon, a Canadian living in New York City, and Alonzo T. Cross of Providence, Rhode Island, created stylographic pens with a hollow, tubular nib and a wire acting as a valve.

As from early 2008 the Australian government led by Kevin Rudd began what it called a " new approach " to relations between Australia and the Pacific, appointing a Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Duncan Kerr.

Short freeway segments of the TCH can be found near Victoria and Nanaimo, but the rest of the highway on Vancouver Island operates mostly as a heavily signalized low-to-limited-mobility arterial road that uniquely ( for the Trans Canada Highway system ) does not bypass any of its areas of urban sprawl, particularly Nanaimo and Duncan.

The Baumgardner's Mill Covered Bridge, Duncan Island ( 36LA60, 61 ), and Shenks Ferry Site ( 36LA2 ) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It ran through central Duncan until 1928, when it was shifted to the south side of the tracks in order to eliminate grade-level crossings between Columbus and Grand Island.

*** Chelonoidis duncanensis, Pinzon Giant Tortoise, Duncan Island Giant Tortoise

* Pinzón ( Duncan ) Island – Named after the Pinzón brothers, captains of the Pinta and Niña caravels, it has an area of 18 square km ( 7 sq mi ) and a maximum altitude of 458 m ( 1, 503 ft ).

In 1946 the firm acquired the Rock Island refinery and crude oil gathering system near Duncan, Oklahoma.

* Treasure Island adapted by James Maxwell with Clive Duncan and Ronald Forfar ( 1981 )

In the Canadian House of Commons, Campbell River is represented by the riding of Vancouver Island North ( John Duncan, Conservative ).

* The Galapagos island, now known as Pinzón Island, was named Duncan Island.

Shortly after Blue Star, Parmar visited auto mechanic and electrician Inderjit Singh Reyat, who lived in Duncan, British Columbia, a small community north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, to ask him to construct a bomb, though Reyat would later claim he had no idea what it would be used for.

* Peter Duncan ( mariner ), American sea captain, see Navassa Island

The name was later corrupted to Duncan ’ s Island.

Other settlements on Vancouver Island ( such as Duncan ) and the mainland are separated from Georgia Strait itself by islands.

John Duncan MacLean ( 8 December 1873, in Culloden, Prince Edward Island – 28 March 1948, in Ottawa, Ontario ) was a teacher, physician, politician and the 20th Premier of British Columbia, Canada.

* June 4 – 6 – With Charles A. Levine as his passenger, Clarence Duncan Chamberlin made a record nonstop transatlantic flight, in his monoplane Columbia, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Eisleben, Germany, a distance of, in 42 hours and 31 minutes.

In the 1880s the Anglican missionary William Duncan, with a group of Tsimshian, requested settlement on Annette Island from the U. S. government.

Highway 18 is a short, long main vehicle route in the Cowichan Valley Regional District on Vancouver Island, connecting the city of Duncan on the Trans-Canada Highway with the community of Youbou, on the north shore of Lake Cowichan.

The Duncan sets sail for the Tabor Island, which, out of sheer luck, turns out to be Captain Grant's shelter.

Airport-Upgrades to the Duncan Town Airport Ragged Island ( funded by the European Union ) were commenced in 2006, at a cost of $ 650, 000.

This housing architecture also can be found substantially in Victoria, Comox, Duncan and Nanaimo ( on Vancouver Island ) but is less common due to the different economic and constraints there.

By 12: 00, however, they had to abandon the effort as interior bulkheads within Duncan collapsed causing the ship to finally sink north of Savo Island.

Early pioneers of what became known as modern dance include Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman and Ruth St. Denis.

Dancers and choreographers such as Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Doris Humphrey, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor re-defined movement, struggling to bring it back to its ' natural ' roots and along with Jazz, created a solely American art form.

Second, they selected defenseman Duncan Siemens 11th overall, a pick acquired from the St. Louis Blues in the controversial trade that sent power-forward Chris Stewart, long time top prospect Kevin Shattenkirk and a second round pick to the Blues in exchange for their first-round pick, veteran Jay McClement and 2006 former first overall pick Erik Johnson.

* St John's Church, Duncan Terrace.

* Duncan Ferguson 2003 ( now Organist & Master of the Music St Mary's, Edinburgh )

In the following year, St. Stanislaus Church was built by the Polish Roman Catholics of the Duncan area.

The only remaining organized church in Duncan is St. Stanislaus Catholic Church.

Duncan Smith was educated at St. Peter's RC Secondary School, Solihull until the age of 14, 6 years before that school was created in 1974 and was subsequently educated at HMS Conway, a merchant navy training school on the isle of Anglesey ( where he allegedly played rugby union in the position of fly-half alongside Clive Woodward at centre ) until he was 18.

Duncan Grant's remains are buried beside Vanessa Bell's in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, West Firle, East Sussex.

Duncan started out as a swimmer and only began playing basketball in ninth grade after Hurricane Hugo destroyed the only Olympic-sized pool on his home of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands.

* De Poincy and the Order of St John in the New World by Duncan Macpherson

Several Liverpool and Everton footballers have lived in the area, notably Ian Callaghan, Duncan Ferguson, Brian Labone, Gordon West, Mick Lyons, Joe Parkinson, Roger Hunt, Tommy Wright, Roger Kenyon, John Hurst, Peter Thompson, Terry Darracott, Steve Heighway, Tony Hateley and Ian St John.

John Franklin Broxholme ( born 11 June 1930 Bradford, died 24 June 2000 Bury St Edmunds ) is an English thriller writer who published fifteen novels in a little over twenty years ( 1971 – 1993 ) using the pen name of Duncan Kyle.

Reflecting Normanton's religious diversity are a wide number of places of worship, including the Guru Arjan Dev Gurdwara on Stanhope Street, the Singh Sabha Gurdwara on Princes Street, the Ramgarhia Gurdwara on St. James Street and the Guru Ravidass Gurdwara on Duncan Road.

2002 -- Duncan Cooper, St. John ’ s Prep, Boston, MA

He also produced two volumes of memoirs, as well as two volumes of recollections of his friendships and personal encounters with many of the leading figures of his time, including: Pablo Casals, Charlie Chaplin, Eugene Debs, John Dewey, Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, John Reed, Paul Robeson, Bertrand Russell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Santayana, E. W. Scripps, George Bernard Shaw, Carlo Tresca, Leon Trotsky, Mark Twain and H. G. Wells.

Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance pioneers who followed their forerunners – including Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn – in exploring the use of breath and developing techniques still taught today.

For television, he was the conductor for The Andy Williams Show ( 1963 – 1965 ) and the composer of the theme songs for such series as It Takes a Thief ( 1968 ), The Name of the Game ( 1968 ), Dan August ( 1970 ), The Sandy Duncan Show ( 1971 – 1972 ) Maude ( 1972 ), Good Times ( 1974 ), Baretta ( 1975 ), St.

11 November 2006, Dragon's Den businessman Duncan Bannatyne was married at St Mary's Church in Norton.

* Duncan, Barry, St. James's Theatre, Its Strange and Complete History, 1835-1857 ( 1964 ) London: Barrie and Rockliff

Among the pioneers of modern dance were Isadora Duncan, the dance company of Ruth St. Denis and her husband-partner, Ted Shawn, and their pupils Doris Humphrey and Martha Graham.

Rebelling against the rigid constraints of classical ballet, Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis ( with her work in theater ) developed their own styles of free dance and laid the foundations of American modern dance with their choreography and teaching.

On 23 December, the King lead a thanksgiving procession and ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral in London at which Duncan carried De Winter's flag from Vrijheid and Onslow carried Reijntjes ' flag from Jupiter, followed by Fairfax, Essington, Mitchell, Bligh, Walker, Trollope, Drury, O ' Bryen, Gregory and Hotham as well as numerous seamen from the fleet.

Boneshakers began effectively in 1867 and St Cloud was just one of several minor meetings which Duncan just happened to immortalise.