The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

* William Power ( 1940 – 1942 )

* Domhoff, G. William, " The Class Domination Theory of Power ", University of California, Santa Cruz

By 1858, thermo-dynamics, as a functional term, was used in William Thomson's paper An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat.

Power passed to five politicians known collectively by a whimsical and secondly William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth

* 1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor

* IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award

Providers for fixed odd betting would include ChoiceOdds, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, and William Hill plc.

* Ari Berk and William Spytma, " Penance, Power, and Pursuit: On the Trail of the Wild Hunt "

It stars Tyrone Power, Sr., Juan de la Cruz, Helen Riaume, William Haben and C. Norman Hammond.

This line of thought is seen among proponents of a spiritual or mystical universe such as the Carlos Castaneda, New Thought writers Frank Channing Haddock ( The Power of Will ) and William Walker Atkinson ( Personal Power Volume V: Will Power ).

The Catawba Power Company had been founded in 1899 by William C. Whitner, Dr. Gill Wylie and his brother Robert Wylie.

On March 16, 2006 Duke Power announced that a Cherokee County site had been selected for a potential new nuclear power plant, to be called the William States Lee III Nuclear Generating Station.

William W. Tefft, a Consumers Power civil and hydraulic engineer invented and patented the so-called " conduit spillway ", which channels excessive flow through channels built into the plant.

The William H. Zimmer Power Station, nuclear power plant converted to coal-fired generation that creates 1300-megawatts of electricity, is partially located within village limits.

I am sure the King would have no difficulty in giving his Sovereignty to England ; and I have lately, with Sir William Hamilton, got a Note that Malta should never be given to any Power without the consent of England ....

The first American novel is William Hill Brown ’ s The Power of Sympathy published in 1791.

* Duiker, William J., The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam 2nd ed.

* Livezey, William E. Mahan on Sea Power ( Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, reprinted 1981 )

* Howell, William G., Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action, Princeton University Press, 2003.

* William Hill Brown's sentimental epistolatory novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.

* F. H. Armstrong, " William Lyon Mackenzie, First Mayor of Toronto: A Study of a Critic in Power ", Canadian Historical Review 48 ( 1967 )

He resigned from the party in 1942 following his failure to persuade the party to adopt a devolutionist stance rather than supporting all out Scottish independence and due to the victory of Douglas Young over his favoured candidate William Power for the chairmanship of the party.

His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

* 1903 – William Primrose, Scottish violist ( d. 1982 )

His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

Fans come from all over the world to see the places in Scotland where William Wallace fought for Scottish freedom, and also to the places in Scotland and Ireland to see the locations used in the film.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

William Aiton, a Scottish botanist, included an entry for the cranberry in volume II of his 1789 work, Hortus Kewensis.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

* 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( b. 1585 )

* 1585 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( d. 1649 )

Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper, Sears Roebuck and William Benton.

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.