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Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.
* March 29 – Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private.
Its chief affluent is the Minjan, which Sir George Robertson found to be a considerable stream where it approaches the Hindu Kush close under the Dorab.
He was assisted in this task by Sir Robert Mark, who later became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Sir James Robertson, the then Chief Constable of Glasgow.
Generals such as Sir William Robertson were critical of Kitchener's failure to ask the General Staff ( whose chief James Wolfe-Murray was intimidated by Kitchener ) to study the feasibility of any of these campaigns.
* Woodward, David R. " Field Marshal Sir William Robertson ", Westport Connecticut & London: Praeger, 1998, ISBN 0-275-95422-6
Founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales, and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879, it is the world's second oldest purposed national park ( after Yellowstone in the United States ), and the first to use the term " national park ".
* Woodward, David R, " Field Marshal Sir William Robertson ", Westport Connecticut & London: Praeger, 1998, ISBN 0-275-95422-6
* Guy Middleton as Sir William Robertson
He would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at I. C. I., the controversial sum of £ 24, 000 (£ 367, 000 in today's money ), £ 10, 000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the last chairman of the British Transport Commission, £ 14, 000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time.
Mawson Station is located at Holme Bay in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica, named in January 1930 by Sir Douglas Mawson during the first British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition ( BANZARE ) voyage, aboard Discovery.
( 3 ) Maj Donald Struan Robertson ( d. 1991 ), son of the Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson GCMG KBE.
Beeching would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at I. C. I., the controversial sum of £ 24, 000 (£ 367, 000 in today's money ), £ 10, 000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the last chairman of the British Transport Commission, £ 14, 000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time.
Sir Howard Grubb perfected the device in World War I. Morgan Robertson ( 1861 – 1915 ) claimed to have tried to patent the periscope: he described a submarine using a periscope in his fictional works.
In the 1954 comedy film Doctor in the House, Sir Lancelot Spratt, the intimidating chief of surgery played by James Robertson Justice is asking instructional questions of his medical students.
Sir Walter Scott, Hugh Blair, Henry Mackenzie, Lord Woodhouselee, William Robertson, John Home, Robert Fergusson, and Dugald Stewart were resident in Edinburgh, and were all painted by Raeburn.
Rothermere offered Trenchard the post of Chief of the Air Staff and before Trenchard could respond, Rothermere explained that Trenchard's support would be useful to him as he was about to launch a press campaign against Sir Douglas Haig and Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
After two months on the RAF's inactive list, Trenchard returned to military duties in mid-January 1919 when Sir William Robertson, the Commander-in-Chief of Home Forces, asked him to take charge of around 5, 000 mutinying soldiers in Southampton.
French recommended Robertson as his successor and Kitchener told Esher ( 4 December ) that the government intended to appoint Robertson Commander-in-Chief, but General Sir Douglas Haig, Robertson's senior and a front line commander since the start of the war, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the BEF in December 1915.

Robertson and Charles
According to a June 2, 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot, Robertson had extensive business dealings with Liberian president Charles Taylor.
Robertson also had financial ties to former presidents Charles Taylor of Liberia and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, both internationally denounced for their human rights violations.
, the Richmond City Council consisted of: Kathy C. Graziano, 4th District, President of Council ; Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, Vice-President of Council ; Bruce Tyler, 1st District ; Charles R. Samuels, 2nd District ; Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd District ; E. Martin ( Marty ) Jewell, 5th District ; Cynthia I Newbille, 7th District ; Reva M. Trammell, 8th District ; and Douglas G. Conner Jr., 9th District.
Among them, the American entomologist Charles Robertson carried out what is still the single most intensive study of flower-visiting insects of a single locality, culminating in a 221-page book published in 1928 under the title Flowers and Insects.
Three months later, three of the six and eighteen others became the guild's first officers and board of directors: Ralph Morgan ( its first president ), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Mowbray ( who personally funded the organization when it was first founded ), Leon Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, Boris Karloff ( reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Frankenstein ), Claude King, Noel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle Talbot.
* Charles C. " Charlie " Robertson: A 1915 Nocona High School graduate, Mr. Robertson went on to play major league baseball with the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns, and Boston Braves.
During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.
According to the Durant Report on the CIA's top-secret 1953 Robertson Panel, " The writings of Charles Fort were referenced to show that ' strange things in the sky ' had been recorded for hundreds of years.
Among them are Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, Focus on the Family's James Dobson, the 700 Club's Pat Robertson, Prison Fellowship's Charles Colson, columnist Cal Thomas, preacher and author Tim LaHaye, former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Liberty University and Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell.
Charles Lindbergh's first piloting job was flying airmail for Robertson Airlines from Lambert Field ; he left the airport for New York about a week before his record-breaking flight to Paris in 1927.
* In 1973, many scenes of the made-for-TV movie The Man Without a Country starring Cliff Robertson were filmed at Mystic Seaport and aboard the Charles W. Morgan.
This includes the Order of Canada insignia presented to Robertson Davies, Foster Hewitt, Charles Band, and Arnold Smith, plus Canada's first Victoria Cross, awarded in 1854 to Old Boy Alexander Roberts Dunn, and a Victoria Cross awarded to Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn ; the valour medals were given to the Canadian War Museum on permanent loan on 17 May 2006.
They include Gordon Barnes, Mary E. Barnicle, E. C. Beals, Barbara Bell, Paul Brewster, Genevieve Chandler, Richard Chase, Fletcher Collins, Carita D. Corse, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Dr. E. K. Davis, Kay Dealy, Seamus Doyle, Charles Draves, Marjorie Edgar, John Henry Faulk, Richard Fento, Helen Hartness Flanders, Frank Goodwin, Percy Grainger, Herbert Halpert, Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Myra Hull, George Pullen Jackson, Stetson Kennedy, Bess Lomax, Elizabeth Lomax, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Eloise Linscott, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Walter McClintock, Alton Morris, Juan B. Rael, Vance Randolph, Helen Roberts, Domingo Santa Cruz, Charles Seeger, Mrs. Nicol Smith, Robert Sonkin, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Jean Thomas, Charles Todd, Margaret Valliant, Ivan Walton, Irene Whitfield, John Woods, and John W. Work III. This checklist has been prepared as a result of countless requests.
The school submitted itself annually to an independent academic assessment, conducted by Sir Charles Grant Robertson fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
' Although Gilfillan and Charles Cowden Clarke published the Reliques for Cassell in 1877, Gilfillan's 1858 edition was simultaneously published by James Nichol in Edinburgh, in London by James Nisbet, and in Dublin by W. Robertson, appealing to ready markets in Scotland and Ireland.
At least some of his books are characterized by harsh criticism of almost everyone involved in textual criticism, such as Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ), Archibald Thomas Robertson ( 1863 – 1934 ), Charles Haddon Spurgeon ( 1834 – 1892 ) with the likes of Julius Wellhausen ( 1844 – 1918 ) and Harry Emerson Fosdick ( 1878 – 1969 ).
In 1961, Charles ' 26 and Marie Robertson provided a historic gift to expand and strengthen the graduate school as a place where men ( and later women ) dedicated to public service could obtain the knowledge and skills that would qualify them for careers in government service, particularly in the areas of international relations and affairs, upon graduation or later in their careers.
A $ 35 million grant from Charles and Marie Robertson, the owners of the A & P grocery chain, funded the construction of the school's current home in Robertson Hall designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
Bush ( former Trustee of the University ), Ken Burns, Condoleezza Rice, Pervez Musharaff, Colin Powell, Carl Sagan, Desmond Tutu, Bob Dole, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Benjamin Netanyahu, Thomas Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, José María Aznar, Tom Brokaw, John Edwards, Gerhard Schröder, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Kay, Queen Noor, John Glenn, Lord George Robertson, Benazir Bhutto, Lech Wałęsa, Madeleine Albright, Thomas Kean, Brit Hume, Barbara Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Beschloss, Shimon Peres, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, John Updike, Lawrence Eagleburger, Mario Cuomo, William Bennett, Juan Williams, Pierre Salinger, Sam Nunn, Vicente Fox, Dan Rather, Dominique de Villepin, Bill Clinton ( organized by the San Antonio Business Council ) and John Cleese.
Underwood, whose term would expire in 1853, desired re-election, and Whigs Charles S. Morehead and George Robertson had also announced their respective candidacies.

Robertson and Grant
Former President Ulysses S. Grant, an ally of Sen. Conkling, notified President Garfield by letter that he disapproved of Blaine's nomination and staunchly opposed Garfield's appointment of Robertson as the port of New York's customs collector.
On 13 December 2011, the parliamentary caucus voted David Shearer and Grant Robertson to replace them.
Labour's Grant Robertson said his party was deeply concerned about rising crime rates but the bill did not address the causes of those crimes.
In 1930, under the chairmanship of Sir Charles Grant Robertson, vice-chancellors secured a mandate from their respective universities that " it is desirable in the common interests of the United Kingdom to constitute a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals for purposes of mutual consultation ".
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Harriet's fellow parking attendant, Grant Parker, is played by Fred Ewanuick, who later co-starred with Robertson in Corner Gas.
He lost the contest by 1904 votes to Labour's Grant Robertson.
Cliff Robertson stars as Kennedy, with featured performances by Ty Hardin, James Gregory, Robert Culp and Grant Williams.
The conversion from film to recording studio was undertaken by architect Robertson Grant and the acoustics were completed by Keith Grant and Russel Pettinger.
Over the 1970s, Grant commissioned his father, Robertson Grant, to re-design Studio Two, as the now working studio was causing problems with sound transmission to Studio One.
Robertson Grant successfully innovated a completely floating space weighing seventeen tons, which was supported by rubber pads.
The appointment was criticised by the gay community and by Labour MP Grant Robertson due to Neeson's record of voting against gay rights while an MP.
Clan Baird, Clan Cameron, Clan Chisholm, Clan Drummond, Clan Farquharson, Clan Grant of Glenmoriston, Clan Hay, Clan MacLea, Clan MacBain, Clan MacColl, Clan Macdonald of Clanranald, Clan MacDonald of Glencoe, Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry, Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, Clan Macfie, Clan Macgillivray, Clan Gregor, Clan MacInnes, Clan Mackintosh, Clan MacIver, Clan Mackinnon, Clan Maclachlan, Clan MacLaren, Clan MacLeod of Raasay, Clan MacNeil of Barra, Clan Macpherson, Clan Menzies, Clan Morrison, Clan Ogilvy, Clan Oliphant, Clan Robertson, Clan Stewart of Appin, Clan Urquhart.
In 1997, the Grant entered into a joint venture with the Robertson family ( see The Edrington Group ) creating a new company, Highland Distillers.
Recurring cast for Series Two included Stephen Wight as Felix, Jemima Abey as Alex, Sam Troughton as Jez Heriot / Ramiel, Ronan Vibert as Mephistopheles, Katrine De Candole as Perie the Faerie, Laura Donnelly as Maya Robertson, Leon Ford as Max Rosen, Grant Parsons as Dr. Surtees and Anatole Taubman as Raphael.
Actors that have performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre include: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Neagle, Robert Helpmann, Vivian Leigh, Eileen Atkins, Leslie French, Bill Kenwright, Felicity Kendal, Anthony Andrews, Wayne Sleep, Ricky Tomlinson, Jeremy Irons, Zoë Wanamaker, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Lesley Garrett, Douglas Hodge, Richard E Grant, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Biggins, Jenny Galloway, Joanna Riding, Samantha Spiro, Jenna Russell, Liz Robertson, Toyah Willcox, Bernard Bresslaw ( who died in his dressing room at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, while performing the part of Grumio in the 1993 production of The Taming of the Shrew ), Nigel Planer, Nigel Harman, Su Pollard, Milton Jones, John Malkovich, Scarlett Strallen, Sheridan Smith, Summer Strallen, Topol, Millicent Martin, Janie Dee, Clive Rowe, Martha Wainwright, Hannah Waddingham and Helen Dallimore.
* Allan Robertson, Golfer: His Life and Times, by Alistair Beaton Adamson, Worcestershire: Grant Books, 1985.
* Arlene Boxhall, Sarah English, Maureen George, Ann Grant, Susan Huggett, Patricia McKillop, Brenda Phillips, Christine Prinsloo, Sonia Robertson, Anthea Stewart, Helen Volk, Linda Watson, Elizabeth Chase, Sandra Chick, Gillian Cowley and Patricia Davies — Field Hockey, Women's Team Competition
In 1916 Orwell came second in the Harrow History Prize, had another poem published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, and with Connolly had his work praised by the external examiner Sir Charles Grant Robertson.
It starred Jack Watson as Redgauntlet, Roddy McMillan as Nixon, James Grant as Darsie, Andrew Robertson as Alan, and Isobel Black as Lilias.
During 2006 Charles Chauvel became an MP when a vacancy arose ; similarly Louisa Wall entered Parliament in 2008 following a resignation ( although she was not re-elected at the general election later that year ), and Grant Robertson was elected as the MP for Wellington Central in 2008.

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