Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

** William Ledyard Rodgers, American admiral and military and naval historian ( d. 1944 )

Born into a prosperous ethnic German Jewish family in Arverne, Queens, New York City, Rodgers was the son of Mamie ( Levy ) and Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Abrahams.

On 25 January 1981, MPs Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen made the Limehouse Declaration from Owen's house in Limehouse, which announced the formation of the Council for Social Democracy in opposition to the granting of block votes to the trade unions in the Labour Party to which they had previously belonged.

Members of the City Council are Thomas Bennis, William Collins, Daniel Patterson and Judith Rodgers.

Ripley was originally owned and settled by William, John, and Lewis Rodgers.

* George William " Bill " Rodgers, radio officer ( died 1997 )

Notables attending included: New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey ; violinist Fritz Kreisler ; James A. Farley ; Metropolitan Opera manager Rudolph Bing ; NBC chairman David Sarnoff ; CBS chairman William S. Paley ; Broadway composer Richard Rodgers ; and Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer.

The ships were built by the following companies: Robert Napier & Company, Randolph Elder & Company, Dobbie Hedderwick & Co., Dobie & Company, Mackie & Thomson, Smith & Rodgers, London & Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., William Beardmore & Company, John Elder & Company, Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng.

William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC ( born Liverpool 28 October 1928 ), usually known as William Rodgers but also often known as Bill Rodgers, was one of the " Gang of Four " of senior British Labour Party politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).

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" William Hawkins of the New York World-Telegram said that Merman was " bright as a whip, sure as her shooting, and generously the foremost lady clown of her time " and asserted that the show itself was comparable to those of Rodgers and Hammerstein, proclaiming, " For verve and buoyancy, unslackening, there has seldom if ever been a show like it ... the girls in Annie have the beauty and character of looks one associates with a Rodgers and Hammerstein show.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

The original ' Cottage ' was built in 1780, by William Craven, the sixth Baron Craven and was located on the centre circle of the pitch.

Fighting off a prior claim by Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, Proprietor of Maryland, the Duke passed his somewhat dubious ownership on to William Penn in 1682.

* Thomas William Jones, Baron Maelor

* 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist ( b. 1824 )

* William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, General, British Army ( Field Marshal, Australian Army )

Elizabeth set out to rule by good counsel, and she depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers led by William Cecil, Baron Burghley.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and Oxford's father-in-law, c. 1571.

Mountbatten was married on 18 July 1922 to Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham may have become aware of the offensive representation after a public performance ; he may also have learned of it while it was being prepared for a court performance ( Cobham was at that time Lord Chamberlain ).

His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Francis Bacon's uncle.

The first recorded impeachment is that of William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer during the Good Parliament of 1376.

* 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist and engineer ( d. 1907 )

* 1753 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician ( d. 1825 )

Severn also painted such works as Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, Shepherds in the Campagna, Shelley Composing Prometheus Unbound, Isabella and the Pot of Basil, Portia with the Casket, Ariel, Rienzi, The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon, a large altarpiece for the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, and many portraits of statesman and aristocrats, including Baron Bunsen and William Gladstone.

Benjamin West's depiction of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | William Johnson sparing Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau | Lord Dieskau's life after the Battle of Lake George.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

id: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

There followed the materialist and atheist Jean Meslier, Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d ' Holbach, Denis Diderot, and other French Enlightenment thinkers ; as well as in England, John " Walking " Stewart, whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth.

* 1759 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1834 )

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | William Cecil ( William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Lord Burghley ), Oxford's guardian and father-in-law, and Queen Elizabeth's most trusted advisor.

Schools in Thurrock include ; The Ockendon Academy, Chafford Hundred Campus, Gable Hall School, Gateway Academy, Grays Convent High School, William Edwards School & Sports College, Grays School Media Arts College, Deneholm Primary, Little Thurrock Primary, Quarry Hill Infant and Junior, St Thomas Of Canterbury Catholic Primary, Stifford Clays Infant and Junior, Stifford Primary, Thameside Infant and Junior School, Tudor Court Primary School, Warren Primary School, Chafford Hundred Primary School, Woodside Primary School ( which was opened in 1952 as Tyrell's Infant and Junior Schools, the names being changed to avoid confusion with the neighbouring Torell's Secondary School ; the schools were later amalgamated into one primary school ) and Treetops School.

Born in Manchester, the son of Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and the junior Samuel Greg.

* William Vestey of Blue Star Line, who also lived at Quarry Brook prior to the Hornby family.

Sharp became interested in traditional English dance when he saw a group of morris dancers with their concertina player William Kimber at the village of Headington Quarry, just outside of Oxford, at Christmas 1899.

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Amblecote Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is almost unique ( as is nearby Quarry Bank Church ) because it is constructed completely of yellow fire bricks, made by local brickworks ( William King and Co ) from the local fire clay which, together with thick coal seams, forms the main strata of Amblecote in the east, whilst the new red sandstone underlies Amblecote to the west of the railway line.

Born in Manchester, the son of the elder Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and Robert Hyde Greg.

* William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank ( born 1928 ), British politician

* William John Fiske ( 1954 – 2008 ), co-creator of Quarry Hill Creative Center in Rochester, Vermont

It was first described in 1805 for an occurrence within the High Down Quarry, Filleigh, Devon, England and named for William Wavell (?- 1829 ) of England who discovered the mineral.

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* Labour cabinet ministers Peter Shore and William Rodgers, who adopted the name " Quarry Bank " as part of his baronial title

Rathbone was the eldest son of William Rathbone of Greenbank, Liverpool and his wife Elizabeth Greg daughter of Samuel Greg of Quarry Bank, Cheshire.