New Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry was fiercely critical of the decision and dispatched a vaka ( traditional voyaging canoe ) with a crew of Cook Islands ' traditional warriors to protest near the test site.

GCHQ had a very low profile in the media until 1983 when the trial of Geoffrey Prime, a KGB mole within GCHQ, created considerable media interest.

In 1990 he became leader of the Labour Party and consequently Prime Minister for a few months, convincing the Labour caucus that, while he could not win the election for Labour, he would help save more seats than staying with the incumbent, Geoffrey Palmer.

Sir Geoffrey Palmer, former New Zealand Prime Minister

* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

* Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer ( New Zealand )

* September 4 – Geoffrey Palmer resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Mike Moore.

* July 15 – Geoffrey Prime, a GCHQ civil servant, is remanded in custody on charges under the Official Secrets Act 1911.

** Prime Minister of New Zealand David Lange resigns for health reasons and is replaced by Geoffrey Palmer.

Its current mayor is Mayor Geoffrey Prime.

* Sir Geoffrey Palmer-former Prime Minister of New Zealand

* Geoffrey Prime ( born 1938 ), British spy

Many constitutional commentators believe that the Governor-General ( or the Sovereign ) does not have the power to refuse Royal assent legislation in New Zealand-former law professor and Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Professor Matthew Palmer argue any refusal of Royal Assent would lead to a constitutional crisis.

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC ( 29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869 ) was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party.

Famous MSU alumni include former Michigan governors James Blanchard and John Engler, U. S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Tim Johnson, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil Donna Hrinak, former Jordan Prime Minister Adnan Badran, billionaire philanthropists Tom Gores and Eli Broad, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Wallace B. Jefferson, trial lawyer Geoffrey Feiger, former Food and Drug Administration official Peter Rheinstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, Teamsters president James P. Hoffa, Quicken Loans founder and Cleveland Cavaliers owner and billionaire Dan Gilbert, Sergeant at Arms of the U. S. House of Representatives Wilson Livingood, former Michigan U. S. Senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, former Vice President of the Republic of Liberia Harry Moniba, and former U. S. Ambassador to Italy Peter Secchia.

After Geoffrey Palmer became party leader and Prime Minister in 1989, Lange became ( from 1989 to 1990 ) Attorney-General, Minister in Charge of the Serious Fraud Office and a Minister of State.

Others, such as former law professor and Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Matthew Palmer argue any refusal of Royal Assent would lead to a constitutional crisis.

It was probably for this reason that Lange's successor, Geoffrey Palmer, established the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, which could offer the Prime Minister advice independent of that given by individual ministers.

Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer, also Minister of Justice, established the Royal Commission on the Electoral System in 1985.

Notable supporters of the Supreme Court were former Privy Councillor Lord Cooke of Thorndon and former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, while most senior lawyers were opposed to the change.

Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer, KCMG, AC, SC ( born 21 April 1942 ), served as the 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand from August 1989 until September 1990, leading the Fourth Labour Government.

On 30 June 1798 he married Charlotte Margaret Hornby, daughter of Reverend Geoffrey Hornby, with whom he fathered future Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

The former astrologer, and scientist, Geoffrey Deans and psychologist Ivan Kelly conducted a large scale scientific test, involving more than one hundred cognitive, behavioral, physical and other variables, but found no support for astrology.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

Historically, the ideals of chivalry were popularized in medieval literature, especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (" History of the Kings of Britain "), written in the 1130s.

* Dr Matthew Palmer, former Dean of Law School, son of Sir Geoffrey Palmer above

Past chairmen have included Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont and former British Telecom chairman Christopher Bland.

" " Never in the history of journalism has so much been read for so long by so few ," wrote Geoffrey Crowther, a former editor.

* Geoff Cook ( born Geoffrey Cook, 9 October 1951, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire ) is a former English cricketer, who played in seven Tests and six ODIs from 1981 to 1983.

At its head was an abbot, the first incumbent being Geoffrey of Canterbury, former prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, the Kent monastery that probably supplied Dunfermline's first monks.

Before Woolf had even published his final report, Sir Geoffrey Bowman, a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and former First Parliamentary Counsel, was commissioned to write a report on the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal.

Starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, it follows the relationship between two former lovers who meet unexpectedly after not having been in contact for 38 years.

* Geoffrey Bing ( 1909 – 1977 ) — former MP

The building is commonly known as " The GAB ", after being named after the diplomat Sir Geoffrey Arthur — a former master of the college ( 1975 – 1985 ).

He contested Hexham at the 1979 general election, but was defeated by the Conservative MP and former Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Rippon.

Geoffrey Ian Gallop, AC ( born 27 September 1951 ) is an Australian academic and former politician.

* Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., legal ethics and civil procedure scholar, former Director of the American Law Institute ( 1984 – 1999 )

In late 2008, Cameron asked Lamont together with fellow former chancellors Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and Kenneth Clarke to provide Cameron with strategic political and economic advice as Britain's banking and fiscal position worsened.

This was the first parachute raid for 2 SAS, and also the raid when Maj. Geoffrey Appleyard, ( former commander of the Small Scale Raiding Force ), was lost.

Geoffrey was tried and convicted, and sentenced to die.

In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".

Eleanor and Henry were cousins to the third degree through their common ancestor, Ermengarde of Anjou ( wife to Robert I, Duke of Burgundy and Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinais ); they were also both descendants of Robert II of France.

In both the earliest materials and Geoffrey he is a great and ferocious warrior, who laughs as he personally slaughters witches and giants and takes a leading role in all military campaigns, whereas in the continental romances he becomes the roi fainéant, the " do-nothing king ", whose " inactivity and acquiescence constituted a central flaw in his otherwise ideal society ".

It should be pointed out that both explanations were mooted in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( below ), who extolled the curative properties of the stones and was also the first to advance the idea that Stonehenge was constructed as a funerary monument.

Geoffrey and Katharine Clifton were based on Sir Robert Clayton East-Clayton, 9th Baronet of Marden, and 5th Baronet of Hall Place, Maidenhead, and his wife, Dorothy, both of whom were dead by the time the novel takes place.

In April 1203 Pope Innocent III annulled both elections, and Geoffrey of Henlaw was appointed to the See of St. David's, despite the strenuous exertions of Gerald.

Consent was obtained from both parties, and on 10 June 1128 the fifteen-year-old Geoffrey was knighted in Rouen by King Henry in preparation for the wedding.

As the 1984 election drew closer, Labour ’ s deputy leader Geoffrey Palmer drafted a compromise that contained elements of both proposals.

It is largely based on the Anglo-Norman Roman de Brut by Wace, which is in turn inspired by Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, though is longer than both and includes an enlarged section on the life and exploits of King Arthur.

The phase of the conflict known as " the Castle War " saw both sides attempting to defeat each other through sieges, such as Stephen's attempts to take Wallingford, the most easterly fortress in Matilda's push towards London, or Geoffrey de Mandeville's attempts to seize East Anglia by taking Cambridge Castle.

In his relations with other officers, Walter worked closely with the justiciar Geoffrey Fitz Peter, on the collection of taxation, and both men went to Wales in 1203 on a diplomatic mission.

Organisations such as the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art have fostered students of theatre, film, and television several of whom have continued to international success, with actors like Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush having been associated with both institutions.

Beeching and his elder brother Geoffrey attended Imperial College of Science & Technology in London where both read physics and took First Class honours degrees.

The discovery was made by Geoffrey Marcy and R. Paul Butler, both astronomers at San Francisco State University.

He subsequently became a teacher at the College himself, his pupils including Richard Arnell and Ernest John Moeran ( who both admired him ); Benjamin Britten ( who found Ireland's teaching less interesting ); the socialist composer Alan Bush ; Geoffrey Bush ( no relation to Alan ), who subsequently edited or arranged many of Ireland's works for publication ; and Anthony Bernard.

While they do eventually become factual lines, unlike those of Geoffrey, their origins are vague and often incorporate both aspects of mythical British history and mythical Irish history.

The novel, which in its turn owes some, though no very considerable, debt to the medieval Tale of Gamelyn ( unwarrantably appended to the fragmentary Cookes Tale in certain manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's works ), is written in the euphuistic manner, but decidedly attractive both by its plot and by the situations arising from it.

Other guest stars, both comedy and straight, have included: Steven Berkoff, Geoffrey McGivern, John Bluthal, Kate Isitt, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nigel Planer, Griff Rhys Jones, Hattie Hayridge, Alistair McGowan, Tamsin Greig, Katherine Parkinson, Colin Baker, Brian Murphy, Rebecca Front, Mary Tamm, Jim Bowen, Peter Davison, Maureen O ' Brien, Lysette Anthony, Mark Caven, Lorelei King, Geoffrey Beevers, Annette Crosbie, Rae Baker Doreen Mantle, Charlie Brooks, Maureen Lipman, Paul Blackthorne, Jimmi Harkishin, and Bill Bailey ( who was also pencilled as the original Jonathan Creek ).

It was added at the personal urging of one of the committee members, Geoffrey de Havilland whose company was involved in development of both Britain's first jet fighters and jet engines.

When disagreement became increasingly a matter of public knowledge, and the 1984 general election drew closer, the party ’ s deputy leader Geoffrey Palmer drafted a compromise proposal that combined elements of both sides of the argument.

Important early vernacular works include Dante's Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron ( both in Italian ), John Barbour's The Brus ( in Scots ), Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ( in Middle English ) and Jacob van Maerlant's Spieghel Historiael ( in Middle Dutch ).

Burnside's personal and professional life come together in Sir Geoffrey Wellingham ( Alan MacNaughtan ), who is both Burnside's former father-in-law and the Permanent Undersecretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that oversees SIS.

His entry in the Dictionary of Art ( 1996 vol 7, p569 ), by Geoffrey Ashton, refers to the invisibility of his brush strokes as a " rather unexciting and flat use of paint " but contrasts that with " Collier's strong and surprising sense of colour " which " created a disconcerting verisimilitude in both mood and appearance ".