Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

), George Jean Nathan and Alexander Woollcott were honored in odd quarters, and the whole Booth Tarkington, Willa Catheter ( sic ), ) Pearl, Buck,, Amy Lowell, William Lyon Phelps atmosphere lay thick as Los Angeles smog

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

* 1902 – George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent ( d. 1942 )

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

* David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1908 – 1974 )

* Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( b. 1955 )

On 28 August 1924 Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO ( 1888 – 1971 ), editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, which published two of her books that year.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

Founded in 1920 by George Alexander Sullivan, the Order had been based upon a blend of Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Freemasonry and his own personal innovation, and had moved to Christchurch in 1930.

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

Further, as a reward for his leadership in North Africa and Italy, Alexander, along with a number of other prominent British Second World War military leaders, was elevated to the peerage on 1 March 1946 by King George VI ; he was created Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal in the County of Donegal.

Alexander thus chose to retire from the army and take up the new position, and, in anticipation of his viceregal posting, was on 26 January 1946 appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

John Quincy Adams in a posthumous portrait created in 1858 by George Peter Alexander Healy | G. P. A.

In the 1790s he fretted over an aging George Washington being too much influenced by close advisers such as Alexander Hamilton, who Monroe thought too close to Britain.

President Polk, 1858 portrait, by George Peter Alexander Healy | George Healy

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

In 1906 construction began on the Post Office, with local cricketer George Wilder laying an inscribed brick.

* George Wilder-Former Hampshire and Sussex cricketer whose name is inscribed on a stone at Emsworth Post Office dated 1906.

* 1893 – George Geary, English cricketer ( d. 1981 )

* 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer ( d. 1943 )

Back row: Dick Barlow ( umpire ), Tom Hayward, George Hirst, William Gunn ( cricketer ) | Billy Gunn, J. T.

* December 1 – George Lohmann, English cricketer ( born 1865 )

* June 2 – George Lohmann, English cricketer ( d. 1901 )

* July 9 – George Geary, English cricketer ( d. 1981 )

* October 27 – George Thompson, English cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* March 6 – George Geary, English cricketer ( b. 1893 )

An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, " He loved cricket ... and played it ardently and very badly ", while in a review of Cricket Country, George Orwell described him as " the true cricketer ":

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC ( 27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001 ), often referred to as " The Don ", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.

George Baillie Duncan ministered at Christ Church, Cockfosters and the cricketer Andrew Wingfield Digby was a curate there.

* George Smith ( cricketer ) ( died 1761 ), London Cricket Club player who was also the " keeper " of the Artillery Ground

* George Smith ( Nottingham cricketer ) ( 1785 – 1838 ), English cricketer

* George Smith ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( 1876 – 1929 ), first class cricketer for Yorkshire CCC

* George Smith ( cricketer, born 1906 ) ( 1906 – 1989 ), English cricketer

In these sketches the ' expert ' is invariably named " George Parr " ( after the English cricketer, rather than the US politician ).

Because it is quiet and secluded, Alderney has attracted some famous residents, including authors T. H. White ( The Once and Future King ) and Elisabeth Beresford ( The Wombles ), cricket commentator John Arlott, cricketer Sir Ian Botham, Beatles producer Sir George Martin, actress Dame Julie Andrews, and Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew.

* George Passmore ( cricketer ) ( 1852 – 1935 ), English cricketer