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Maxwell and Sir
Edited and Translated by Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Concertos have been composed for piccolo, including those by Lowell Liebermann, Antonio Vivaldi, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Todd Goodman, Martin Amlin, Will Gay Bottje, Bruce Broughton, Valentino Bucchi, Avner Dorman, Jean Doué, Michael Easton, Egil Hovland, Guus Janssen, Tilo Medek, Dexter Morrill, Raymond Niverd, Daniel Pinkham, Thomas Schudel, and Allan Stephenson.
While the Scottish Enlightenment is considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another fifty years or more, thanks to such figures as James Hutton, James Watt, William Murdoch, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin and Sir Walter Scott.
* Sir John Clerk of Eldin ( 1728 – 1812 ) prolific artist, author of An Essay on Naval Tactics ; great-uncle of James Clerk Maxwell
Stromness is referenced in the title of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's popular piano piece Farewell to Stromness, a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue, which was written to protest at plans to open a uranium mine in the area.
Around 1220 Alexander II of Scotland granted the lands to Sir John Maxwell, making him Warden of the West March.
Sir John Maxwell also served as Chamberlain of Scotland from 1231 – 1233, and began work on the first castle at Caerlaverock.
It was here that Sir John's brother Sir Aymer Maxwell began construction of the present castle.
The Maxwells, under their chief, Sir Eustace Maxwell, made a vigorous defence that repelled the English several times.
Possession of the castle was subsequently restored to Sir Eustace Maxwell, Sir Herbert's son, who at first embraced the cause of John Balliol, and in 1312 received from Edward I an allowance of £ 20 for the more secure keeping of the castle.
By the end of the Wars of Independence in the mid 14th century, Caerlaverock had been regained by the Maxwells, with Sir Robert Maxwell rebuilding much of the castle between 1373 and 1410.
The 8th Lord was killed by the Johnstones during a fight at Dryfe Sands, and in 1513 the 9th Lord Maxwell was executed for the revenge murder of Sir James Johnstone.
Classical acts to have an album nominated have included Sir John Tavener, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Gavin Bryars and Nicholas Maw.
The architects were Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton and the Head Engineer Sir Owen Williams.
* Sir Maxwell Jamieson: Chief Constable of Dumfriesshire
* The St. Magnus Festival was founded in Orkney by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
The plot of the movie concerns Kelly Collins, a free-spirited eighth grade girl whose mother gets married to Brigadier General Joe " Sir " Maxwell ( Gary Cole ).
* Gary Cole as General Joe " Sir " Maxwell
It was renamed Templeton College in 1983 as a result of a donation from Sir John Templeton, in honour of his parents, Harvey Maxwell and Vella Handly Templeton.
* Matilda-Harrie, married on 14 October 1839, John Maxwell son of Sir John Maxwell, 7th Baronet

Maxwell and Herbert
Robert de Maxwell of Maxwell, Caerlaverock and Mearns ( d. 1409 ) rebuilt Caerlaverock castle and was succeeded by Herbert Maxwell of Caerlaverock ( d. 1420 ) who married Katherine Stewart.
In the 1270s the " new " castle was completed, and Herbert Maxwell, nephew of John Maxwell, occupied it.
* Sir Herbert Maxwell, History of Dumfries and Galloway ( Edinburgh, 1896 )
and trans ' Maxwell, Sir Herbert, 1913.
Maxwell, Sir Herbert, 1913.
* Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell: The Life and letters of George William Frederick 4.
* Herbert, Rosemary, ‘ Reginald Hill ’, in The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews with Mystery Writers ( New York: G. K. Hall, Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, & Oxford: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994 ), pp. 194 – 223.
* Richard Maxwell: Herbert Schiller ( Critical Media Studies ), Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, ISBN 0-7425-1848-5
* Maxwell, Sir Herbert.
* Sir Herbert Maxwell Bart., FRS, LLD., A History of the House of Douglas 2 vols, Freemantle and Co., London ( 1902 )
A Riposte appeared in a similarly-presented volume, The Adventures of the White Girl in her Search for God by Charles Herbert Maxwell, which showed an outdoor young woman wielding a niblick on the cover ( far less improbable than that Shaw's girl should carry a knobkerry ).
* Sir Herbert Maxwell, Dumfries and Galloway ( Edinburgh and London, 1897 );
Herbert Maxwell defines " Rhinns " as rionn, rinn, meaning a point or promontory.
His paternal grandfather, Sir Herbert Maxwell, was an archaeologist, politician and natural historian.
* Maxwell, Sir Herbert History of the House of Douglas II vols.
* Maxwell, Sir Herbert.
On January 25, 1930, President Herbert Hoover asked Congress to re-appropriate an additional $ 100, 000 for the main school building at Maxwell Field.
* Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity ( 2004 ) with Herbert W. Shove, George Maxwell, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur J. Penty, H. J. Massingham, Eric Gill, and Harold Robbins
* Maxwell, Sir Herbert, A History of the House of Douglas II vols.

Maxwell and life
With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so.
One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
Five years later, in 1864, Ludwig Boltzmann, a young student in Vienna, came across Maxwell ’ s paper and was so inspired by it that he spent much of his life developing the subject further.
Nicholas Maxwell, a contemporary philosopher in the United Kingdom, advocates that academia ought to alter its focus from the acquisition of knowledge to seeking and promoting wisdom, which he defines as the capacity to realize what is of value in life, for oneself and others.
After the overthrow of the corrupt Vulcan High Command and the death of Admiral Maxwell Forrest, who sacrificed his life to save Soval from a terrorist attack, the attitudes of Soval, and Vulcan society in general, became more cordial and accepting towards humanity.
In May 2006, he played the role of the fallen press baron Robert Maxwell in Maxwell, a BBC2 dramatisation of the final 18 months of Maxwell's life.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was appointed in March 2004 for a ten-year period, unlike previous appointments, which were for life.
As well as the Freak, Rita's chief adversary is Kath Maxwell ( Kate Hood ), a middle-class woman and friend of Bob Moran, who retaliates against Rita for her brutal initiation into prison life because of her crime – the mercy killing of her terminally ill daughter – and toughens up, becoming a serious rival for the top dog role with her new hard attitude and monopoly on contraband rackets in the prison.
The life of Taverner was the subject of Taverner, an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies.
She was sentenced to death, but General Maxwell commuted this to life in prison on " account of the prisoner's sex.
The story follows the life of Susan Maxwell, a " glamorous movie star " through her work as an actress and through her romances.
Then, following his devout Presbyterian faith, Maxwell became a Medical missionary for the English Presbyterian Church and, in about 1898, went to Fujian in China, where he spent the majority of his professional life.
The title " Ring of Bright Water " was taken from a poem by Kathleen Raine ( 1908 – 2003 ), who said in her autobiography that Maxwell had been the love of her life.
The Rocks Remain is a sequel to Ring of Bright Water, as it demonstrates the difficulty Maxwell was having, possibly as a result of his mental state, in remaining focused on one project and the impact that had on his otters, Sandaig, and his own life.
According to Douglas Botting, Maxwell suffered from bipolar disorder throughout his life.
Moore frees the Mayor but Maxwell kills her as she saves Callahan's life.
Amanda Mealing was voted fourth " Best Actress " in 2006 for her role as Connie Beauchamp, and the " Casualty @ Holby City " moment where doctor Jim Brodie ( Maxwell Caulfield ) sacrifices his life for midwife Rosie Sattar ( Kim Vithana ) was voted viewers ' fourth " Favourite Moment " of 2004.
Berg recalled that Baker " changed my life ," and convinced him to quit acting to concentrate on his thesis, a study of editor Maxwell Perkins.
As a youngster, Maxwell Lord had a fairly sheltered life.
Maxwell Lord later in life was confirmed as a metahuman with the ability to telepathically influence peoples ' minds.
He is remembered through the Creevey Papers, published in 1903 under the editorship of Sir Herbert Maxwell, which, consisting partly of Creevey's own journals and partly of correspondence, give a lively and valuable picture of the political and social life of the late Georgian era, and are characterized by an almost Pepysian outspokenness.
* Blue Beetle is dead, killed by Maxwell Lord ; Booster Gold attempts to save his life via time travel, but after witnessing the repercussions it causes, Ted resolves to reverse his salvation.
* The Member from Trois-Rivières, a one-act play about the life of Ezekiel Hart, was written in 1959 by Maxwell Charles Cohen.

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