James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of the modern theory of electromagnetism, was born here and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and University of Edinburgh, as was the engineer and telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.

James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, who led a successful pro-royalist campaign in the Highlands in 1644-46.

In 1644, James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose attempted to raise the Highlands for the King.

In opposition to this view, scholars in favor of the Sino-Tibetan hypothesis such as W. South Coblin, Graham Thurgood, James Matisoff, and Gong Hwang-cherng have argued that there are regular correspondences in sounds as well as in grammar.

* 1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.

* May 21 – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist ( b. 1612 )

** James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier ( d. 1650 )

* July 27 – First Jacobite rising: Scottish Covenanter supporters of William and Mary ( under Hugh Mackay ) are defeated by Jacobite supporters of James II at the Battle of Killiecrankie near Pitlochry in Perthshire but the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, is killed.

Formed in London in 1988 as Seymour, the group consists of singer / keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist / singer Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree.

Childhood friends Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon met Alex James when they began studying at London's Goldsmiths College in 1988.

# Lady Mary Tudor ( 1673 – 1726 ), married Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater ; after Edward's death, she married Henry Graham, and upon his death she married James Rooke.

Examples include Gopherus agassizii, named by James Graham Cooper after Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, and Acacia greggii, named by botanist Asa Gray after explorer Josiah Gregg.

Venturi's work arguably provided a key influence at important times in the careers of architects Robert A. M. Stern, Philip Johnson, Michael Graves, Graham Gund and James Stirling, among others.

The car, driven by Russell James Pollard, was also occupied by Helene and Robert Graham Salzmann.

James David Graham Niven ( 1 March 1910-29 July 1983 ), known professionally as David Niven, was an English actor and novelist, popular both in Europe and the US.

In May 1930, a petition was signed by 1, 028 economists in the U. S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by Paul Douglas, Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taussig, and Clair Wilcox.

Poster for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Lincoln Center production by James McMullanArcadia first opened at the Royal National Theatre in London on 13 April 1993 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring Rufus Sewell as Septimus Hodge, Felicity Kendal as Hannah Jarvis, Bill Nighy as Bernard Nightingale, Emma Fielding as Thomasina Coverly, Alan Mitchell as Jellaby, Derek Hutchinson as Ezra Chater, Sidney Livingston as Richard Noakes, Harriet Walter as Lady Croom, Graham Sinclair as Captain Brice, Harriet Harrison as Chloe Coverly, Timothy Matthews as Augustus Coverly and Gus Coverly and Samuel West as Valentine Coverly.

In August 1436, James failed humiliatingly in his siege of Roxburgh Castle and then faced an ineffective attempt by Sir Robert Graham to arrest him at a general council.

The council then witnessed an unsuccessful attempt by Graham to arrest the king resulting in the knight's imprisonment followed by banishment but James did not see Graham's actions as part of an extended threat.

The regicide of James I came so unexpectedly that a period of disorder took hold before James II was crowned at Holyrood Abbey on 25 March 1437 but it was not until early May that the main conspirators, Walter of Atholl, his grandson Robert Stewart and Robert Graham were gruesomely executed.

She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985, with The Faction ( James Young and Graham Dids ).

Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw ( who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion ), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J.

Mid-19th century photographs taken by Scotsman James Graham ( photographer ) ( 1853 – 57 ) show the ridge of Ir David as being devoid of housing.

Bill James, a baseball statistician, estimated that Zimmer caught Young in more games than any other battery in baseball history.

Bill James wrote that Zimmer often put a piece of beefsteak inside his baseball glove to protect his catching hand from Young's fastball.

* 1981 – James Shields, American baseball player

In 1982, Ballantine published the first widely-available Bill James Abstract, which helped fuel fantasy baseball interest.

James was not a fantasy player and barely acknowledged fantasy baseball in his annual Abstract, but fantasy baseball interest is credited with his strong sales.

James Madison's baseball team advanced to the 1983 College World Series, the only Division I institution in Virginia to do so besides the University of Virginia in 2009.

Most recently, James Madison University has used funds to create a new baseball and softball field complex by Memorial Hall.

* 1984 – James Loney, American baseball player

Bill James defined sabermetrics as " the search for objective knowledge about baseball.

* Rob Neyer: Senior writer at ESPN. com and national baseball editor of SBNation and former assistant to Bill James, he has worked to popularize sabermetrics since the mid-1980s.

Long after it was first invented, slugging percentage gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage ( OBP ) to form a very good measure of a player's overall offensive production ( in fact, OBP + SLG was originally referred to as " production " by baseball writer and statistician Bill James ).

George William " Bill " James ( born October 5, 1949 ) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential.

Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics.

An aspiring writer and obsessive fan, James began writing baseball articles after leaving the United States Army in his mid-twenties.

He has continued to publish hardcover books about baseball history, which have sold well and received admiring reviews ; these books include three editions of The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ( 1985, 1988, 2001, the last entitled The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.

The web site also offers new " profiles " of teams and players full of facts and statistics that hope to one day map what James has termed " the lost island of baseball statistics.

Although James may be best known as an inventor of statistical tools, he has often written on the limitations of statistics and urged humility concerning their place amidst other kinds of information about baseball.

James had previously published analysis of the use of the closer in baseball, and had concluded that the traditional use of the closer both overrated the abilities of that individual, and used him in suboptimal circumstances.

James was a critic of the Dowd Report, which was an investigation ( commissioned by baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti ) on the gambling activities of Pete Rose.

James, in his Baseball Book 1990, dismissed Dowd's conclusion that the former Cincinnati Reds manager bet on baseball games, for lack of evidence.

James wrote " I would characterize the evidence that Rose bet on baseball as ... well, not quite non-existent.