Notable Jardines Managing Directors or Tai-pans included Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, David Jardine, Robert Jardine, William Keswick, James Johnstone Keswick, Ben Beith, David Landale, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, Sir William Johnstone " Tony " Keswick, Sir Hugh Barton, Sir Michael Herries, Sir John Keswick, Sir Henry Keswick, Simon Keswick and Alasdair Morrison.

Philosophers working in the intersection of Thomism and analytic philosophy include: David Braine, Brian Davies OP ( Fordham ), Gabriele De Anna ( Udine ), John Finnis ( Oxford ), Peter Geach, John Haldane ( St Andrews ), Jonathan Jacobs ( Colgate ), Anthony Kenny ( Oxford ), Fergus Kerr OP ( Oxford ), Gyula Klima ( Fordham ), Norman Kretzmann, John Lamont, Anthony J. Lisska ( Denison ), Alasdair MacIntyre ( Notre Dame ), Bruce D. Marshall ( Southern Methodist Univ ), William Marshner ( Christendom ), Christopher Martin ( St Thomas, Houston ), Cyrille Michon ( Nantes, France ), Mark Murphy ( Georgetown ), Herbert McCabe, John P. O ' Callaghan ( Notre Dame ), Claude Panaccio ( UQAM ), Robert Pasnau ( CU Boulder ), Craig Paterson ( Independent Scholar ), Roger Pouivet ( Nancy, France ) Matthew S. Pugh ( Providence College ), Eleonore Stump ( Saint Louis ), Thomas Sullivan and Sandra Menssen ( University of St. Thomas, MN ), Stephen Theron, Denys Turner ( Yale ), Michael Thompson ( Pittsburgh ).

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

* Constitutional Law, 2002, The Laws of Scotland, David Heald and Alasdair McLeod ( 2002 )

* Torrance influenced the thinking of some of today ’ s leading Systematic Theologians in Great Britain and on the Continent such as Ivor Davidson of the University of St. Andrews, David A. S. Fergusson of the University of Edinburgh, Alasdair I. C. Heron of the University of Erlangen, Germany, Alan J. Torrance of the University of St. Andrews, Robert T. Walker of the University of Edinburgh and John B. Webster of the University of Aberdeen.

A Bird in Your Ear is a one act opera by British / American composer David Bruce based on the Russian folk tale, The Language of the Birds, with a libretto by Alasdair Middleton.

* Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General ( 1982-87 )

The BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne, stated he was instructed to do so by the Governors of the BBC.

It was withdrawn shortly before its scheduled transmission, it was listed in the Radio Times, because then Director of Television Programmes Alasdair Milne found it " nauseating " though " brilliantly made ".

Scottish Television retained its franchise at the first time of asking in 1967, despite strong competition from a consortium led by the future BBC Director General Alasdair Milne and strong indications that the company would lose its franchise.

The forced departure of Director-General Alasdair Milne following pressure from the Thatcher government required someone at the top, preferably from outside the corporation, with editorial and production experience: Milne had been summarily replaced by Michael Checkland, an accountant.

Former BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne described Birt as “ the most graceless man I have ever known ” and a “ ghastly man ” who did little good for the BBC except establishing the BBC ’ s Internet service.

* Alasdair Milne

Sir Michael Checkland ( born 13 March 1936 ) was Director-General of the BBC from 1987 to 1992, being appointed after the forced resignation of Alasdair Milne.

The following year he became Director-General upon the resignation of Alasdair Milne.

Alasdair Milne joined the BBC in September 1954 as a general trainee.

However, his natural genuflection to those in power ensured that his five years in charge of the BBC were generally very stable and secure for the organisation, in stark contrast to the subsequent director-generalship of Alasdair Milne.

Curran was more influenced by Mary Whitehouse and other moralists than Greene had been, and was Director-General when Dennis Potter's play Brimstone and Treacle was banned in 1976 ( although the decision to ban the play was ironically made by the more Left-leaning Alasdair Milne ).

The Play for Today series continued to take risks throughout Curran's eight years as Director-General and, in the drama series Days of Hope which accounted the early years of the Labour movement in Britain, the BBC proved that it was not necessarily as Tory-biased as some thought ( although significantly the series was never shown again ; it might have been more likely to gain a repeat under Hugh Greene or Alasdair Milne ).

Marmaduke Hussey was appointed chairman of the Board of Governors apparently with the specific agenda of bringing down the then-Director-General Alasdair Milne ; this government also broke the tradition of always having a trade union leader on the Board of Governors.

* Alasdair Milne ( 1968-72 ) Later BBC Director General

In 1981, he was replaced as controller of BBC One by Alan Hart ( television executive ) and made the BBC's deputy managing director of television under Alasdair Milne.

The affair led to the resignation of BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne in January 1987.

The company's name derives from negative references made in the mid-1980s, by then BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne and in the title of a book by Financial Times journalist Chris Dunkley, to " wall-to-wall Dallas " as a possible aftereffect of the coming deregulation of UK broadcasting.

* Alasdair Fraser ( born 1955 ), Scottish fiddler and owner of Culburnie Records

James Alexander Stewart Stevenson ( invariably known as Stewart Stevenson ) ( Gaelic: Seamus Alasdair Stiùbhart MacSteafain ) ( born 1946 ) is a Scottish politician who became a Member of the Scottish Parliament in 2001.

Calum Alistair MacDonald or Calum Alasdair Domhnallach ( born 7 May 1956, Stornoway ) was Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Western Isles from 1987 until he was defeated by the Scottish National Party in the United Kingdom general election of 2005.

Alasdair Neil Morgan ( born 21 April 1945 ) is a Scottish politician.

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre ( born 1929 ) is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology.

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was born 12 January 1929 in Glasgow, to John and Emily ( Chalmers ) MacIntyre.

* Lord Donald Alasdair Graham, born 1956.

Married 1981, Bridie Donalda Elspeth Cameron of the Black Isle and has issue: Caitriana Mary Alice ( born 1984 ), Alasdair John Cameron ( 1986 – 1988 ), Violet Elizabeth Helen ( born 1992 ), Jennie Alexandra Cameron ( born 1993 ) and Finlay Donald Cameron ( born 1998 ).

Alasdair Bernard Graham, PC ( born May 21, 1929 in Dominion, Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian politician, journalist and businessman.

Alexander MacDonald ( Alasdair MacMhaighstear Alasdair ), the famous poet and supporter of Bonnie Prince Charlie, was born and raised in the neighborhood.

Leonard was born in Glasgow, where he joined a group of new and distinctive authors, including Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington, of whom Hobsbaum was the nucleus.

Professor Robert Alasdair Pearce ( born 28 November 1951 ) is a British academic.

Alasdair Mackie " Algy " Ward ( born 7 July 1959, in Croydon, Surrey ) is an English rock and roll bass guitarist and singer.

Alasdair McDonnell ( born 1 September 1949 ) is an Irish politician, Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and both a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and a Member of the Legislative Assembly for South Belfast.

His recent predecessors are Nathan Riddell ( 2011-12 ), Kevin Smith ( 2010-11 ), James Meredith ( 2009 – 10 ), Jøno Lain ( 2008-9 ), Peter Morcos ( 2007 – 8 ), Nicolas Long ( 2006 – 7 ), Oliver Munn ( 2005 – 6 ), Alasdair Henderson ( 2004 – 5 ) and Mairi Brewis ( 2003 – 4 ).

More recently, Alasdair MacIntyre has attempted to reform what he calls the Aristotelian tradition in a way that is anti-elitist and capable of disputing the claims of both liberals and Nietzscheans.

* November – Battle of Knocknanauss: An Irish confederate force is destroyed by the army of Parliament ; Alasdair MacColla is killed.

Archaeologists Alasdair Whittle and Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be " significant ", with respect to Parc Cwm long cairn, as it is " broadly contemporary with the secondary use of the tomb ".

In 2007 she won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature ; Alasdair Gray ( 1934-) whose Lanark: A Life in Four Books ( 1981 ) is a dystopian fantasy set in his home town Glasgow.

There is, and always has been, sharp disagreement on this question: thus, as Alasdair MacIntyre observed in After Virtue, though thinkers as diverse as Homer, Aristotle, the authors of the New Testament, Thomas Aquinas, and Benjamin Franklin have all proposed lists, and sometimes theories of the interrelation, of the virtues, these do not always overlap.

The highest point of the Cuillins, and of the Isle of Skye, is Sgùrr Alasdair in the Black Cuillins at 992 m ( 3, 255 ft ).

The contemporary Aristotelian philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre is specially famous for helping to revive virtue ethics in his book After Virtue.

This is similar to work done by moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who attempts to show that because ethical language developed in the West in the context of a belief in a human telos — an end or goal — our inherited moral language, including terms such as " good " and " bad ," have functioned, and function, to evaluate the way in which certain behaviors facilitate the achievement of that telos.

Alasdair Smith is a professor of economics and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex and former Chair of the 1994 Group.

The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Honourable Alasdair Harry S. Nathan ( b. 1999 )

Alasdair ( also Alistair and variants ) is a male given name.

Alasdair is the Scottish Gaelic spelling of the name, in origin the Gaelic form of the name Pen15 ( Greek Pen15 Pen15 ).

Alasdair is a Scottish Gaelic given name.

The personal name Alasdair is often Anglicised as Alistair, Alastair, and Alaster.

is: Alasdair MacIntyre

Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray.

It is the second highest peak in the Cuillin, and faces the highest, Sgùrr Alasdair, across Coire Lagan.

Though playing on the mystery genre, the book is more in line with the postmodern fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Alasdair Gray, and Flann O ' Brien.

The band's current line-up is Franck Alba, Glen Johnson, Angèle David-Guillou, Alasdair Steer and Jerome Tcherneyan.

Michael Walzer is usually identified as one of the leading proponents of the " Communitarian " position in political theory, along with Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel.