His 1946 biography, Wellington, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

He won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Riceyman Steps.

* 2002: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, shortlist, Family Matters

J. B. Priestley made excellent use of the form in his enormously successful The Good Companions ( 1929 ) and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

After returning to London from India, he completed his last novel, A Passage to India ( 1924 ), for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being immediately recognised as a classic of English literature.

Buchan was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of the Marquess of Montrose, but the most famous of his books were the spy thrillers, and it is for these that he is now best remembered.

Priestley's first major success came with a novel, The Good Companions ( 1929 ), which earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and made him a national figure.

The Masters and The New Men were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954.

* Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1924.

James Edward Tait was a Dumfries-born recipient of the Victoria Cross.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize ( 1969 ), for her book Mary, Queen of Scots.

* Victoria R. I. ( 1964 ) Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson and awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize ISBN 0-297-84142-4

Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981.

Midnight ’ s Children was awarded the 1981 Booker Prize, the English Speaking Union Literary Award, and the James Tait Prize.

The I, Claudius novels, as they are called collectively, became massively popular when first published in 1934 and gained literary recognition with the award of the 1934 James Tait Black Prize for fiction.

Rushdie achieved fame with Midnight's Children 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and named Booker of Bookers in 1993.

On this occasion Coxswain Andrew Ritchie, Mechanic George Duthie, Bowman Charles Tait, Assistant Mechanic James Noble and Crew Members John Crawford and John Buchan all lost their lives-the only survivor was Charles Tait.

He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature .< ref >

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Hugh Walpole, The Secret City

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon ( 1835 – 1902 )-A Memoir

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill

Gee was awarded the 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Plumb.

Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.

Some of the turning points included the use of the term " Black Power " by Kwame Toure ( Stokely Carmichael ) and the release of James Brown's song " Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud ".

* James Hal Cone ( born 1938 ), an advocate of Black liberation theology

" The Sign of the Southern Cross " is a song by Black Sabbath written in 1981 which was sung by Ronnie James Dio.

Black had mixed the Jungle Book's " King of the Swingers " with the break from James Brown's " Funky Drummer ".

Examples are the Matthew Reilly books Temple and Hell Island, the James Rollins books Sandstorm, Map of Bones, The Judas Strain, The Doomsday Key and Black Order, and the video game series Metal Gear Solid, as well as the video games Infamous, Vanquish, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

* 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

His son James II ( reigned 1437 – 1460 ), when he came of age in 1449, continued his father's policy of weakening the great noble families, most notably taking on the powerful Black Douglas family that had come to prominence at the time of the Bruce.

The focus of the Scottish Enlightenment ranged from intellectual and economic matters to the specifically scientific as in the work of William Cullen, physician and chemist, James Anderson, an agronomist, Joseph Black, physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, the first modern geologist.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket ( 1874 ), Detroit Institute of Arts

* 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell, and Elf ) ( d. 2010 )

* 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James )

* 1959 – James Lomenzo, American musician ( Megadeth, White Lion and Black Label Society )

C. L. R. James also used the term to refer to revolutionaries during the Haitian Revolution in his book The Black Jacobins.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

* 2010 – James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist ( b. 1924 )

Hay and Ham hired new bandmates to tour behind the record, including jazz / fusion bassist Jeremy Alsop, progressive rock drummer Mark Kennedy ( ex Ayers Rock ), and guitarist James Black, who respectively play on seven, eight and one of the ten tracks on Two Hearts.

* James Black – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.