In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the " misfortunes " of Edmund Blackadder ( played by Atkinson ), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues.

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.

The use of the English language in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was inherited from British colonisation.

" Roache was the only remaining member of the original cast until Dennis Tanner ( Philip Lowrie ) returned on 12 May 2011, and is currently the longest-serving actor in Coronation Street and in British and global soap overall.

Ronald later became a member of parliament, during World War II became a link between the British and United States governments, and lent his country house, Ditchley Park near Oxford, to Churchill for weekend visits when the official residences were considered unsafe.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Thompson's older brother William Frank Thompson ( 1920 – 1944 ), was also a member of the British Communist Party during World War Two.

In 1873 she gained membership of the British Medical Association and remained the only woman member for 19 years, due to the Association's vote against the admission of further women – " one of several instances where Garrett, uniquely, was able to enter a hitherto all male medical institution which subsequently moved formally to exclude any women who might seek to follow her.

* Walter Freud, Sigmund's grandson, chemical engineer, member of Royal Pioneer Corps and British Special Operations Executive

He was appointed a member of the British Academy in 1970 and CBE in 1993.

In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour ( CH ) by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on the advice of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.

The British proposed establishing an international parliament to enact labour laws which each member of the League would be required to implement.

British economist John Maynard Keynes imagined that the IMF would be a cooperative fund upon which member states could draw to maintain economic activity and employment through periodic crises.

The film tells the story of a woman desperate to escape her abusive marriage to a member of the British aristocracy.

Under the London Declaration, India agreed that, when it became a republic in January 1950, it would join the Commonwealth of Nations and accept the British monarch as a " symbol of the free association of its independent member nations and as such the Head of the Commonwealth ".

As shown on British Channel 4 news, Spann asks Lindh, " Are you a member of the IRA?

He became a Commander of the British Empire CBE in 1990, and a member of the Companions of Honour in 2003.

British and French leaders believed that the deterrent value of the “ peace front ” could be increased if Turkey were a member and if the Turkish Straits were open to Allied ships.

As a member of the Council of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem ( BSAJ ), Kenyon was involved in the efforts to reopen the School after the hiatus of the Second World War.

As a member of the British Union of Fascists he sat on the party's Policy Directorate and was considered one of Mosley's closest allies.

Several announcers who became well known in their countries included British Union of Fascists member William Joyce, who was one of the two " Lord Haw-Haw " s ; Frenchmen Paul Ferdonnet and Andre Olbrecht, called " the traitors of Stuttgart "; and Americans Frederick William Kaltenbach, " Lord Hee-Haw ", and Mildred Gillars, one of the two announcers called " Axis Sally ".

Of German descent himself, like his wife, he was also a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship and a prominent member of the British Union of Fascists.

* Frank McLardy, member of the British Union of Fascists and Waffen-SS British Free Corps

* Frank McLardy, member of the British Union of Fascists and Waffen-SS British Free Corps

Later, after her release, Elam had the further distinction of being the only former member of the British Union of Fascists to be granted a visit with Oswald Mosley during his period of detention there with his wife Diana Mosley ( née Mitford ).

One of the founders of the Soil Association was Jorian Jenks, a former member of the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ), closely associated with Oswald Mosley.

The only evidence offered at his trial that he had begun broadcasting from Germany while his British passport was valid was the testimony of a London police inspector who had questioned him before the war while he was an active member of the British Union of Fascists and claimed to have recognised his voice on a propaganda broadcast in the early weeks of the war ( he already had previous convictions for assault and riotous assembly as a result of street fights with communists and anarchists ).

By 1928, having become disillusioned with the British Fascists, Leese became a founding member of the Imperial Fascist League.

Notable supporters of Social Credit or " monetary reform " in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s included A. V. Roe the aircraft manufacturer, Frederick Soddy the scientist, and Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1928-30 a member of the Labour Government but later the leader of the British Union of Fascists.

Leese had originally been a member of the British Fascists and indeed had been one of only two members ever to hold elected office for them ( as a councillor in Stamford ).

A member of the British Fascists, Gilligan came to the notice of the Australian secret service ; it is possible he helped to establish small fascist groups in Australia during the tour.

* Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter and member of the British Union of Fascists

In 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, a member of the PSU, was assassinated by Fascists and shortly afterwards a Fascist dictatorship was established in Italy.

Some contributors were so sympathetic to the grievances of Nazi Germany that one sceptical member found it difficult to distinguish between letters to Peace News and those in the newspaper of the British Union of Fascists.

As noted by Oswald Mosley biographer Stephen Dorril, Sewell was himself a member of the Distributist League and the British Union of Fascists.

The League sought to unite leading figures from across the far right, as demonstrated in April 1939 when a meeting addressed by Ramsay was chaired by a member of the British Union of Fascists who was supported by former British Fascists president R. B. D.

Some PPU supporters were so sympathetic to German grievances that one member, Rose Macaulay, claimed she found it difficult to distinguish between the propaganda of the PPU and that of the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ), saying, " Occasionally when reading Peace News, I ( and others ) half think we have got hold of the Blackshirt by mistake.

In the 1930s, he was a member of Oswald Mosley's short-lived British Union of Fascists, and gave out leaflets and sat in on meetings.

Thomas P. " Tommy " Moran was a leading member of the British Union of Fascists and a close associate of Oswald Mosley.

During his late teens Schurch was a member of the British Union of Fascists.