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Alastair Arthur Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ( formerly Prince Alastair of Connaught and Strathearn ; 9 August 1914 – 26 April 1943 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria through his father and great-great-grandson of Victoria through his mother.
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Other noteworthy hard SF authors include Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Greg Bear, Larry Niven, Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Sheffield, Ben Bova, Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Egan.
Past and current notable members of the SPR include Henry Sidgwick, Frederick Myers, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Alfred Russel Wallace, Sigmund Freud, W. B. Yeats, C. G. Jung, William James, Arthur Balfour, Archie Roy, Rupert Sheldrake, Richard Wiseman, Susan Blackmore, Dean Radin, Alastair Sim, Peter Underwood and Charles Tart.
Alastair Sim starred as Inspector Goole, renamed " Poole " for the film, with Jane Wenham as Eva Smith, Eileen Moore as Sheila Birling, Arthur Young as Arthur Birling, Brian Worth as Gerald Croft, Olga Lindo as Sybil Birling and Bryan Forbes as Eric Birling.
The film co-stars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour, James Villiers and Arthur Lowe.
Jay Cocks called the screenplay a " snarling, overwrought and somewhat parochial satire on aristocracy and privileged morality "; he called the film " wretchedly photographed ... as if it were shot under floodlights "; in contrast Cocks praised the performances by Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, and James Villiers, but reserves most of his praise for O ' Toole, saying his performance is of " such intensity that it may trouble sleep as surely as it will haunt memory.
By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter Princess Mary, his unmarried sister Princess Victoria, his uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, his cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, his cousin once removed Prince Alastair of Connaught, and his unmarried cousin Princess Patricia of Connaught.
* Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ( 1914 – 1943 ), only son of the younger Prince Arthur, died unmarried
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Her only son and the heir apparent to the Dukedom of Fife, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, died in Ottawa in 1943, a year after succeeding his paternal grandfather as 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.
Since Princess Alexandra's only son, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, had predeceased her, the dukedom passed to her nephew, Lord Carnegie, the son of Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, and his wife, Princess Maud of Fife ( née Lady Maud Duff ).
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She was baptised at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, by the Bishop of Norwich, on 23 December 1990, she was the first royal baby to have a public christening, and her godparents were James Ogilvy ( her father's second cousin ), Captain Alastair Ross ( who was unable to attend ), Mrs Ronald Ferguson ( her maternal grandfather's 2nd wife ), Mrs Patrick Dodd-Noble, and Miss Louise Blacker.
( 2 ) 19 June 1948 Maj Harry Alexander Gordon MC ( d. 19 June 1965 ), 2nd son of Cdr Alastair Gordon DSO RN.
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As a great grandchild of Queen Victoria through the male line, Alastair was styled His Highness Prince Alastair of Connaught from birth.
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Shortly after Prince Alastair was born, World War I broke out, prompting strong anti-German feelings in the United Kingdom.
This excluded Alastair, who was only a great-grandson of a sovereign ( and was not the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales ).
* LIVINGSTONE, Alastair of Bachuil, Aikman, Christian W. H. and Hart, Betty Stuart, editors, Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ’ s Army 1745-46, Aberdeen University Press, 1985.
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* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.
As a vintage rally car, on January 29, 2012 Hayden Burvill, Alastair Caldwell, and their # 35 1968 Porsche 912 finished first in class, and 7th overall in the 2012 London to Cape Town World Cup Rally ; a 14 country, three continent, 14, 000 kilometre, 26 driving-days event.
Forgan is the sixth chair of the trust ; her predecessors were John Scott ( 1936 – 48 ), Alfred Powell Wadsworth ( 1948 – 56 ), Richard Scott ( 1956 – 84 ), Alastair Hetherington ( 1984 – 89 ), and Hugo Young ( 1990 – 2003 ).
Research professors include Professor Thomas Joshua Cooper ; Professor Alastair Macdonald ; Professor Paul Anderson, Professor Roger Wilson, Professor Linda Drew, Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam ; Professor Tim Collins, Professor Christopher Platt and Professor Brian Evans.
During the ascent, as Lousma described the abort modes as they became available, the show's host Alastair Burnet quickly asked Lousma which abort mode he preferred ; " Abort to Orbit " came the quick reply.
Poioumenon ( plural: poioumena ; from, " product ") is a term coined by Alastair Fowler to refer to a specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation.
* Sir Alastair Burnet ( School House, 1942 – 46 ): Journalist and broadcaster ; editor of The Economist from 1965 – 74 ; long-serving ITN newscaster.
converted into EAM ; and ( 4 ) EAM admitted Mitchell Appel, Avi T. Aronovitz, Richard Berenger, Howard B. Sirota and R. Alastair Short ( the “ Shareholders ”) as holders of profits interests and Value Line restructured its ownership interests in EAM as described below.
He coached Cambridge University and Bedford School ; when Alastair Cook came through the School's First XI, Randall recommended that the youngster be picked for the ECB National Academy.
The band originally consisted of Eugene Reynolds ( real name: Alan Forbes ), vocals ; Fay Fife ( born Sheilagh Hynde ), vocals ; Jo Callis, guitar ; William Mysterious ( born Alastair Donaldson ), saxophone ; Angel Patterson ( born Alistair Patterson ), drums ; Hi-Fi Harris, guitar ; Dr D. K.
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