Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

In more recent times, the University boasts one of Europe's largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians, including former First Minister Donald Dewar, fomer leader of the Liberal Democrats and current Rector of the University Charles Kennedy, Liam Fox, John Smith, Sir Menzies Campbell and current Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

He was also a heavy smoker from the time he was just eight years old ; and by his own admission in a December 1977 interview with Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Burton was smoking 60 – 100 cigarettes per day.

The colony's third and last governor, Sir Arthur Kennedy oversaw the union of the two colonies in 1866.

* Inspector-General Sir Albert Kennedy, from January 1961.

* Sir Ludovic Kennedy ( 1919 – 2009 ), broadcaster and writer

From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 – 1984 ), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons ( sitting for Stafford ), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.

His last public appearance was at his 80th birthday, in 1986, when a group of his former students, including Sir Martin Gilbert, Alan Sked, Norman Davies and Paul Kennedy, organised a public reception in his honour.

* Mary, Married 1st George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus ; Married 2nd Sir James Kennedy the Younger ; Bethrothed to Sir William Cunningham ; Married 3rd to Sir William Graham of Kincardine ; Married 4th Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath ( Ancestors

The Lord Chancellor ( Lord Dilhorne ), the Attorney General ( Sir John Hobson ) and the Solicitor General, ( Sir Peter Rawlinson ) privately gave Home their opinion that the American blockade of Cuba was a breach of international law, but he continued to advocate a policy of strong support for Kennedy.

In 2008, there were performances by Elaine Paige, All Angels, and Alfie Boe ; in 2009, performances by Barbara Dickson, Sir Willard White, Blake, and Natasha Marsh, with a James Bond 007 spectacular, featuring the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, as the Sunday finale ; 2010 saw performances by Katherine Jenkins and Nigel Kennedy.

Headmasters include Sir Thomas Ashton, Samuel Butler, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Cyril Argentin Alington, H. H. Hardy, Lord Wolfenden and Sir Eric Anderson.

On 6 December 2008, former leaders of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy and Lord Steel, unveiled a plaque to commemorate Sir Henry at the home in Bath Street, Glasgow.

* Air Marshal Sir Thomas Kennedy 1979 – 1981

He served as Liberal Democrat Shadow Scotland Secretary under Charles Kennedy, but was sacked by Sir Menzies Campbell.

The Upper Terrace, by Sir Robert Smirke, was completed in 1818, and the Lower, by George Kennedy, was added in 1851.

Cash was cleared on appeal in February 2010 by former High Court judge and President of the Court of Appeal, the Rt Hon Sir Paul Kennedy after it was reported on 28 May 2009, in the swirl of stories surrounding the 2009 Parliamentary Expenses scandal, that Cash had claimed £ 15, 000 which he paid his daughter, Laetitia Cash, a prospective Conservative candidate, as rent for a Notting Hill flat, when he had a mortgaged flat of his own a few miles away, which his son Sam Cash was staying in rent-free.

* Gilbert Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: Sir Thomas Wharton: pledge with Archbishop of Canterbury.

* statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy, in the Botanical Gardens ( picture ).

* 1919 – Ludovic Kennedy, British broadcaster and political activist ( d. 2009 )

The broadcast was preceded by an introduction from British journalist Ludovic Kennedy.

In his book Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the " Bismarck ", the author Ludovic Kennedy describes an incident that allegedly took place below the Denmark Strait during 1941, following the sinking of the Hood.

He taught himself the instrument, and formed a quartet at the school in 1936 that included the future journalist Ludovic Kennedy on drums.

* Well-known broadcasters who played themselves included Robert McKenzie, Ludovic Kennedy and Sue Lawley.

In his book on the trial, Ludovic Kennedy considers the guilty verdict to be a miscarriage of justice, and points out that Keeler received more money from Ward than he did from her, so that rather than Ward living on her earnings it was she living on his.

British journalist Ludovic Kennedy in particular questioned much of the evidence, such as the origin of the ladder and the testimony of many of the witnesses.

This led to further investigation, and in 1985, Ludovic Kennedy published The Airman And The Carpenter in which he argued that Hauptmann had not kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.

Ludovic Kennedy in particular questioned much of the evidence, such as the origin of the ladder and the testimony of many of the witnesses.

The Programme's contribution to contemporary poetry and criticism was outstanding, under producers and presenters such as John Wain, Ludovic Kennedy, George MacBeth and Patrick Dickinson ; here it promoted young writers such as Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, as well as the " difficult " work of David Jones and Laura Riding.

His defection, and subsequent election as a Liberal MP, caused some surprise after his prominent role in opposing Ludovic Kennedy, the Liberal candidate in the 1958 Rochdale by-election.

* Ludovic Kennedy: Pursuit – the Sinking of the Bismarck ( 1974 ).

Prominent deceased distinguished supporters include philosopher A J Ayer, founder of the BHA Harold Blackham, visionary science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, social and political theorist Bernard Crick, child psychologist and activist Dr James Hemming, jazz and blues singer George Melly, comedian Linda Smith, broadcaster and journalist Sir Ludovic Kennedy.

Ludovic Kennedy, however, showed that the confessions were fabricated and dictated to Evans by the investigating officers, and that they interrogated the accused over the course of late evening and early morning hours to his physical and emotional detriment, a man already in a highly emotional state.

Ludovic Kennedy provided one possible reconstruction of how the murder took place, where an unsuspecting Beryl lets Christie into her apartment, expecting the abortion to be carried out, but is instead attacked and then strangled.

However, several authors, such as Ludovic Kennedy, pointed out the many contradictions and errors in the Crown's case, and the innocence of Evans is now widely accepted, both by public, experts and by the Crown itself.

He was usually presented in the form of interviews with various comedians or journalists acting as the interviewer, including Chris Morris and Ludovic Kennedy.

Towards the end of his life, Cook appeared as Streeb-Greebling, interviewed by Ludovic Kennedy in " A Life In Pieces ".

Other past presenters include: Sir Robin Day, Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Sir Charles Wheeler and Jeremy Vine.

In 1989 former Royal Naval Officer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy published his autobiography, in which he devoted several pages to " a submarine atrocity " on the night of 9 July 1941 which gave rise to the accusation of ' war crimes '.

Five years previously in 2003, former BBC host Sir Ludovic Kennedy complained that ethnic minorities were over-represented on television, prompting a BBC spokeswoman to explain that Holby City has more ethnic characters as it is set in an area where minorities account for up to 30 % of the population.

This was supported by survivors ' reports in Pursuit: the Sinking of the Bismarck, by Ludovic Kennedy, 1974 and by a later examination of the wreck itself by Dr. Robert Ballard in 1989.