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.

* Kennedy, Sir Ludovic, The Airman And The Carpenter, 1985, ISBN 0-670-80606-4

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.

*** Sir ( Arthur ) Gareth Ludovic Emrys Rhys-Williams, 3rd Baronet ( born 1961 )

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

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.

* Sir Ludovic Kennedy

Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy ( 3 November 191918 October 2009 ) was a British journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author best known for re-examining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley, and for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

Kennedy was born in Edinburgh, the son of a career Royal Navy officer, Edward Coverley Kennedy, and his wife, Rosalind Grant, daughter of Sir Ludovic Grant, 11th Baronet.

* Sir Ludovic Kennedy-Daily Telegraph obituary

The only son of Sir Robert Tuite Boothby, KBE, of Edinburgh and a cousin of Rosalind Kennedy, mother of the broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Boothby was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford.

The writer and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy has asserted that Boothby fathered at least three children by the wives of other men ( two by one woman, one by another ).

Sir Ludovic Kennedy, a campaigner against miscarriages of justice, dedicated a book to Peirce, calling her " the doyenne of British defence lawyers " and that she " refuses to be defeated in any case no matter how unfavourable it looks ".

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.

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.

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 ).

The official birth of the term " stab-in-the-back " itself possibly can be dated to the autumn of 1919, when Ludendorff was dining with the head of the British Military Mission in Berlin, British general Sir Neill Malcolm.

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 May – 3 June 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 3 June – 18 October 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO

* 1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.

The three races offered the largest purse and in 1919 Sir Barton became the first horse to win all three races.

* 1919 – Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and Governor-General

Following the 1919 Nickle Resolution, however, it was against non-binding policy for the sovereign to grant such honorific titles to Canadians ; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir Robert Borden, who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the House of Commons.

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.

** Sir Charles Solomon Henry, 1st Baronet, Australian businessman ( d. 1919 )

** Sir Edward Poynter, French-born artist ( d. 1919 )

* June 17 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist ( d. 1919 )

* December 8 – Sir Zelman Cowan, 19th Governor-General of Australia ( b. 1919 )

They are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet ( 1856 – 1919 ), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munros Tables, in 1891.

He was succeeded as editor in 1919 by Sir Richard Gregory.

Prince Albert ( left ) at an RAF dinner in 1919 with Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard | Sir Hugh Trenchard ( centre ) and Christopher Courtney ( right )

* Sir Auckland Geddes – President of the Local Government Board ( to 1919 )

Sir Barton, winner in 1919

The first winner of the Triple Crown was Sir Barton, in 1919.

* Sir Alfred Sherman ( 1919 – 2006 ), British journalist

* Sir Abe Bailey, 1st Baronet, of South Africa ( 1919 ), extant

* Sir John Watson ( VC ) ( 1829 – 1919 ), English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1857

* 1909 – 1940: Sir Vernon Kell ( from 1919, Sir Vernon Kell ) ( b. 1873 – d.

* 1979 – 1981: Sir Howard Smith ( b. 1919 – d.