* 1925 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist co-founder of the Guinness World Records ( d. 2004 )

** Norris McWhirter ( d. 2004 ) and his twin brother,

* Ross and Norris McWhirter, founder editors of the Guinness Book of Records, lived on Broad Walk

* Norris McWhirter CBE

Other contributors to the fund included Simon Heffer, Norris McWhirter ( a Scots Tory ), Peter Clarke, Lord Bell, Gyles Brandreth and Gerald Howarth ( Hamilton's co-plaintiff in the BBC action ).

Norris Dewar McWhirter, CBE ( 12 August 192519 April 2004 ) was a writer, political activist, co-founder of the Freedom Association, and a television presenter.

After Ross McWhirter's assassination by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), Norris McWhirter carried on alone as editor.

Norris and Ross McWhirter were the twin sons of William McWhirter, editor of the Sunday Pictorial newspaper, and Margaret Williamson.

Norris McWhirter was a member of the Secretariat of the anti-communist European Freedom Campaign, established in London at an Inaugural Rally at Westminster Central Hall on 10 December 1988.

After Ross's death, Norris McWhirter continued to appear on the show, eventually making him one of the most recognisable people on children's television in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1957 Norris McWhirter married Carole Eckert, who died in 1987 ; they had a son and a daughter.

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Alan Ross Mayfield McWhirter ( 12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975 ), known as Ross McWhirter, was, with his twin brother, Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records and a contributor to Record Breakers.

* Get To Your Marks ( 1951, with Norris McWhirter )

* Guinness Book of Records ( 1955 – 1975, with Norris McWhirter )

* Ross: The Story of a Shared Life ( Norris McWhirter ) ISBN 0-902782-23-1

The CDA fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 2002 was addressed by Roger Knapman, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party ; Ashley Mote, prominent UKIP MEP and author of " Overcrowded Britain-Our Immigration Crisis Exposed " ( 2004 ); John Gouriet, a founder with Norris McWhirter of the Freedom Association alongside Derek Turner, editor of Right Now!

The term " supercentenarian " has been in existence at least since the 1970s ( Norris McWhirter, editor of the Guinness World Records, used the word in correspondence with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler, Jr. in 1976 ), and was further popularised in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book entitled Generations.

A reference to the founder of The Guinness Book of Records, the late Norris McWhirter.

Notable names Crosland taught at Oxford were Tony Benn, Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter.

When Sir Hugh Beaver of Guinness came up with the idea for the Guinness Book of Records, it was Chataway who suggested his old university friends Norris and Ross McWhirter as editors, knowing of their liking for facts.

The new wave of missions inspired by Taylor and Guinness have collectively been called " faith missions " and owe much to the ideas and example of Anthony Norris Groves.

Over the years many other artists have been included in the lineup of the ' Live ' band including Marko Simec ( Waiting For Guinness ), the late Bruce ( Babs ) Clarke, well known breaks producer Andy Page, Dave Norris ( Nubreed ) as well as current performers Gerard Masters, Ian Mussington and Cameron Undy.

* Norris McWhirter, Guinness Book of World Records, Sterling Publishing Company, 1981, page 35, ISBN 0-8069-0198-5.

* Norris McWhirter ( 1925 – 2004 ), editor of Guinness World Records

West struck back at this practice in Comic Book: The Movie, in which the entire main cast comprises voice actors, including Jess Harnell, Lori Alan, Daran Norris, Mark Hamill and Tom Kenny.

* Schneider, Norris F. History of Lowell and Adams Township, Midwest Book Company, Lowell, Ohio, 1946.

He continued to write, editing a new reference book, Norris McWhirter's Book of Millennium Records, in 1999.

* Control Data Corporation Records, William C. Norris Executive Papers, 1946-1995.

In 1990, Norris signed a five-album contract with Concord Records.

* Norris W. Potter, The Punahou Story, Pacific Books, 1969.

Books by Charles Norris in Theodore Dreiser's library

* Norris, Gregory, Rachmaninoff ( New York: Schirmer Books, 1993 ).

* Norris, Gregory, Rachmaninoff ( New York: Schirmer Books, 1993 ).

Alongside recurring characters, the early series featured several actors who later achieved greater fame, such as Joely Richardson, (" The Dream ", 1989 ), Samantha Bond, (" The Adventure of the Cheap Flat ", 1990 ), Christopher Eccleston ( One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 1992 ), Hermione Norris (" Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan ", 1993 ), Damian Lewis ( Hickory Dickory Dock, 1995 ), Jamie Bamber ( The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 2000 ), Russell Tovey ( Evil Under the Sun, 2001 ), and Michael Fassbender ( After The Funeral, 2006 ).

He was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in 1988, appearing in the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy and serving as team captain for five seasons in his initial 11 season-stint with the club.

Gilyard is known for his roles as Ben Matlock's ( played by Andy Griffith ) second private investigator ( and right-hand man ) Conrad McMasters, on the 1980s legal drama series, Matlock: ( a role he played from 1989 to 1993 ); as Pastor Bruce Barnes in the Left Behind movie trilogy ; as Cordell Walker's ( played by Chuck Norris ) Texas Ranger partner, James " Jimmy " Trivette, on the 1990s crime drama, Walker, Texas Ranger, and as Lieutenant ( junior grade ) Marcus " Sundown " Williams in Top Gun.

In 1993, he began another longtime co-starring role opposite Chuck Norris on Walker, Texas Ranger.

* Henry Norris Russell Lectureship ( 1993 )

In a shocking upset in December, 1993, Simon Brown, former WBC and IBF welterweight titlist, knocked out Norris in four rounds to win the title and halt Norris ' defense streak at ten.

* 1993, Norris Trophy second runner-up

* European Court of Human Rights ( Dudgeon v. United Kingdom, 1981 ; Norris v. Ireland, 1991 ; Modinos v. Cyprus, 1993 )

In 1993, she signed to perform in the lead female role as Alex Cahill in Walker, Texas Ranger, opposite Chuck Norris.

It remained illegal in neighbouring Republic of Ireland, however until 1993, following the ECHR decision in Norris v. Ireland ( 1988 ), for which Dudgeon was the keystone precedent.

In 1993, the Tigers won the NAIA national football championship against Glenville State 49-35 at ECU's Norris Field.

With the addition of the expansion Nashville Predators, the NHL realigned this year to a strictly geographic six-division structure ( three per conference ), erasing the last vestiges of the traditional four-division structure ( Adams / Patrick / Norris / Smythe ) abandoned in 1993 – 94.

The league's former Norris Division, which existed from 1974 to 1993, was also named after him.