Born in Elham, Kent in 1905, he was mentored by F A MacKinnon, an ex-county player who lived in the village, and then after leaving Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone by G J V Weigall, the county coach, who encouraged him to learn to wicket keep so that he would have a better chance of playing for the county as an all-rounder.

A single Stockport seat was created in 1983, returning one member, with the remainder of the ex-county borough forming part of the new Denton & Reddish seat.

Cheves became chief commissioner of claims under the treaty of Ghent.

In 1838, he was appointed as commissioner to settle claims of the Winnebago Indians.

The commissioner stated " I have no evidence that Mr Laws made his claims with the intention of benefiting himself or his partner in conscious breach of the rules.

In 1846 Brewster was appointed commissioner by President James K. Polk to adjudicate the claims of the Cherokee against the U. S. federal government.

In early 1783 he was chosen as a commissioner to survey preemption claims of soldiers along the Cumberland River.

In 1784 he was elected to the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, and later in 1787 he was appointed as a commissioner to negotiate the Connecticut land claims dispute.

Cabell became a commissioner for arranging military claims in 1758.

In the meantime, President Washington had appointed him in December of 1790 as a commissioner to settle Revolutionary War claims.

Reed meets with people from the mayor's office, the police commissioner and other city officials, but they are skeptical of his claims.

In his piece Boborul, Caragiale actually records the events, revisiting his experiences as a seventeen-year-old eyewitness ( and makes some unverifiable claims, such as having been created a deputy police commissioner by Candiano-Popescu, the latter being " president of the Republic ").

The commissioner found: Mr Hunt was in breach of the rules in not reducing his claims on the Additional Costs Allowance in that period to take full account of his agent's living costs.

After serving in Congress, he was appointed a commissioner of the court of claims on April 1, 1925, and served until April 1, 1942, when he retired.

From 1880 to 1885 he sat as a judge of the Supreme Court of Cape Colony ; and he was British commissioner on the Anglo-German commission in 1884-1885 for settling the claims of British subjects at Angra Pequeña ( German: Lüderitzbucht ) and other parts of the south-west coast.

At the coronation of Charles I on 2 February 1626 he was a commissioner of claims, and carried the first sword, and he was called to the privy council 3 Aug. 1626.

After his defeat Ward served as the commissioner for overseeing land claims within the Peters Colony.

It claims to be the premier organisation to have first given overseas Indians and people of Indian origin a voice for the Government to hear, and to have been instrumental in effecting several changes in the way the Government of India deals with the Indian diaspora, including the setting up of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and the appointment of a commissioner for overseas Indians, steps for implementing dual citizenship, and the holding of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.

The winners receive the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, which became the official name of the award in 1944, in honor of the first MLB commissioner, who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944.

By 1695 he was back in England, now formally using the name " Defoe ", and serving as a " commissioner of the glass duty ", responsible for collecting taxes on bottles.

The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed he could not name because they were still alive.

The team name was opposed by St. Petersburg businessmen on the grounds that it emphasized Tampa at the expense of other Bay Area cities, until NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle himself met with them to encourage their support.

The name " Panola " was fabricated by J. B. Calhoun, land commissioner of the Illinois Central Railroad, by arbitrarily combining single consonants and vowels ( Stewart, pg.

Originally named Saltport, the name was changed to honor Myron Holley, a commissioner of the Erie Canal.

* Click on the " Commissioner Office " tab to get the name and contact details of police commissioner of Tiruchirappalli city district.

At incorporation, the municipality's citizens unanimously chose to name it after legislator, speaker, Freemason and explorer, Robert Burnaby, who had been private secretary to Colonel Richard Moody, the Colony of British Columbia's first land commissioner in the mid-19th century.

The trophy is handed out prior to the presentation of the Stanley Cup by the NHL commissioner and only the winner is announced, in contrast to most of the other NHL awards which name three finalists and which are presented at a ceremony.

When asked to name the best detective in France, he volunteers his own deputy commissioner, Claude Lebel.

The name is derived from Alexander St. John, an early surveyor and commissioner.

When the owners met in Cleveland, Ohio on April 24, 1945 to vote for a new commissioner, Chandler's name was not on the short list ; the candidates were Frick, Farley, Hannegan, Vinson, Lausche, and Patterson.

The name, previously Pont d ' Austerlitz and Mazas, refers to the Quai de la Rapée, named for the Sieur de la Rapée, commissioner of war under Louis XV.

In 1877 the offices of lieutenant-governor of the North-Western Provinces and chief commissioner of Oudh were combined in the same person ; and in 1902, when the new name of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was introduced, the title of chief commissioner was dropped, though Oudh still retained some marks of its former independence.

* Fay Vincent ( born 1938 ), full name Francis Thomas Vincent, American former entertainment lawyer and sports executive, commissioner of Major League Baseball 1989 – 1992

Between 1939 and 1945, Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed by the Government of the Republic of China as commissioner of Gannan Prefecture (), then the name of the surrounding regions of Ganzhou.

Haripur once bore the official name of Haripur Hazara and was the capital of Hazara until 1853 when the new capital Abbottabad was built, named after Indian Army officer James Abbott, the first deputy commissioner of Hazara ( 1849 – 1853 ).

Gorton was chosen as a commissioner during a majority of the years from 1651 to 1663, and his name appears on a list of Warwick freemen in 1655.

When the colony received the name of New York, Willett was appointed the first mayor ( 12 June 1665 ) and a commissioner of admiralty on August 23, with the approval of English and Dutch alike.

However, the Park Board attorney wrote an opinion stating that only the state's commissioner of natural resources can change the name of a lake, and also that state law prohibits the commissioner from changing a lake name that has existed for 40 years.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

And little Zeme North, a Dora with real spirit and verve, was fascinating whether she was singing of her love for Floyd, the cop who becomes sewer commissioner and then is promoted into garbage, or just dancing to display her exuberant feelings.

Ajmer-Merwara was directly administered by the British Raj, by a commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General's agent for Rajputana.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

His administration of Ajmer-Merwara was controlled by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the British agent for the Rajputana Agency.

In time Étienne was back in good graces with the cardinal, and in 1639 had been appointed the king's commissioner of taxes in the city of Rouen — a city whose tax records, thanks to uprisings, were in utter chaos.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

Bud Selig was a close friend of the late Bart Giamatti, who was the commissioner when Rose was first banned from the sport in 1989.

He further decided against retirement, and after a two-year extension for the previous deal was agreed to on January 12, 2012, it was announced that Selig would remain commissioner until the end of the 2014 season.

In 1843 he was named a county commissioner in Platte County, where he then lived.

Erastus, mentioned in, also lived in Corinth being the city's commissioner for public works and city treasurer at various times, again indicating that the letter was written in Corinth.

In condominiums, sovereignty is shared between two external powers: e. g. Andorra ( president of France and bishop of Urgell, Spain, co-princes ), and the former Anglo-French New Hebrides ( each nation's head of state was represented by a high commissioner ).

The transition to independence was overseen by the Dutch UN commissioner Adriaan Pelt who was appointed on 10 December 1949.

Alexander would have been seen in this event by two of his Canadian viceregal successors: Vincent Massey, who was then the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Massey's secretary, Georges Vanier, who watched the procession from the roof of Canada House on Trafalgar Square.

He served over 4 years, rising to the rank of Major and was an advisor to the high commissioner of the Occupation government.