* Basil Stanlake Brooke ( 1888 – 1973 ), Irish Unionist politician

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, KG, CBE, MC, PC ( 9 June 1888 – 18 August 1973 ), was an Ulster Unionist politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in May 1943, holding office until March 1963.

* Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, 5th Baronet ( 1888 – 1973 ) ( created Viscount Brookeborough in 1952 )

* Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough ( 1888 – 1973 )

* Prime Minister Basil Brooke ( Northern Ireland )

Still, as long as the hardline Basil Brooke was Prime Minister of Northern Ireland there was little hope of a rapprochement.

* Basil Brook ( 1576 – c. 1646 ), English ironmaster, see Basil Brooke ( metallurgist )

Lord Brookeborough ( as Sir Basil Brooke, Bt, MP ) had previously held several ministerial positions in the Government of Northern Ireland, and has been described as " perhaps the last Unionist leader to command respect, loyalty and affection across the social and political spectrum of the movement ".

* Sir Basil Brooke produces steel using a reverbatory furnace in Coalbrookdale, England.

Brooke was the sixth son of Sir Victor Brooke, 3rd Baronet, and the uncle of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough.

Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Bt., P. C.

The Brooke family descends from Sir Basil Brooke ( b. 1567 ), a Captain in the English Army in Ireland and Governor of County Donegal in West Ulster, who was granted extensive lands in that county.

Arthur Basil Brooke ( 1847 – 1884 ), younger son of the second Baronet, was the father of Sir Basil Vernon Brooke ( 1876 – 1945 ), a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy, and of Sir Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke ( b. 1880 ), a Lieutenant-General in the British Army.

Basil Brooke may refer to:

* Basil Brooke ( metallurgist ) ( 1576 – 1646 ), English ironmaster and metallurgist

* Basil Brooke ( Royal Navy captain ) ( 1882 – 1929 ), Royal Navy officer

* Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough ( 1888 – 1973 ), former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies — one of his last acts was to publicly burn at the stake Basil, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological dispute.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

This was followed in the east by the Ecloga of Leo III the Isaurian ( 740 ) and the Basilica of Basil I ( 878 ).

Bruce Kent was warned by Cardinal Basil Hume not to become too involved in politics.

Choreographed by Toni Basil, and lavishly produced with theatrical special effects, the high-budget stage production was filmed by Alan Yentob.

Their first project was a soundtrack for the flop horror film Slaughterhouse Rock, starring Toni Basil.

After the death of his mother from emphysema when he was 14 years old, Jones rejected acting in favour of a career as a jockey, apprenticing with Newmarket trainer Basil Foster.

It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

Photios was deposed as patriarch, not so much because he was a protégé of Bardas and Michael, but because Basil was seeking an alliance with the Pope and the western emperor.

Basil, who had long displayed inclinations to the episcopacy, was elected bishop of the see of Caesarea in Cappadocia in 370.

Gregory was ordained Bishop of Sasima in 372 by Basil.

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

John Malalas reports that the supposed assassination was commanded by Basil of Caesarea.

Each book is illustrated with photographs by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was on the team.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

Mercenary-on-mercenary warfare in Italy led to relatively bloodless campaigns which relied as much on manoeuvre as on battles, since the condottieri recognized it was more efficient to attack the enemy's ability to wage war rather than his battle forces, discovering the concept of indirect warfare 500 years before Sir Basil Liddell Hart, and attempting to attack the enemy supply lines, his economy and his ability to wage war rather than risking an open battle, and manoeuvre him into a position where risking a battle would have been suicidial.

which featured Mad stalwart Sergio Aragonés and frequent cover art by Basil Wolverton, but was less slavish in its Mad mimicry, relying more on one-page gags and horror-based comedy.

He was visited once by Basil of Caesarea who took many of his ideas and implemented them in Caesarea, where Basil also made some adaptations that became the ascetic rule, or Ascetica, the rule still used today by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and comparable to that of the Rule of St. Benedict in the West.

* Basil Moreau, born 1799, a priest of Le Mans founded the Congregation of Holy Cross.

T. S. Eliot published two plays in the 1950s, while Basil Bunting, born in 1901, published his most important modernist poem Briggflatts in 1965.

* 1931 – Basil D ' Oliveira CBE, South African born cricketer

Basil Zaharoff, GCB, GBE ( October 6, 1849 – November 27, 1936 ), born Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff, was an arms dealer and financier.

* E. L. Konigsburg ( born 1930 ), American author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster ( 1976 – 1999 ) was born in the city in 1923.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Basil was born to peasant parents in late 811 ( or sometime in the 830s in the estimation of some scholars ) at Charioupolis in the Byzantine theme of Macedonia ( an administrative division corresponding to the area of Adrianople in Thrace ).

It is notable that when Leo was born, Michael III celebrated the event with public chariot races, whilst he pointedly instructed Basil not to presume on his new position as junior emperor.

Prunella Scales ( born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth ) CBE ( born 22 June 1932 ) is an English actress, known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in the British film A Question of Attribution.

Unlike his older brother Leo VI the Wise, his paternity was not disputed between Basil I and Michael III because he was born years after the death of Michael.

* Arms dealer Basil Zaharoff born in Muğla

Basil L. Plumley ( January 1, 1920 ) was born in Shady Spring, West Virginia, the second son and fifth child of coal miner Clay Plumley ( b. 1879 ) and his wife Georgia ( b. abt. 1895 ), both of West Virginian stock.

Basil Payne ( 1923 ) was born in Dublin on June 23, 1923.

Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman ( born 23 September 1923 ) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Pocklington was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, to Basil Pocklington, an insurance executive who had immigrated from England as a young man, and his wife, Eileen ( Dempsey ), and grew up in London, Ontario.

* The Hollywood-based British actor Nigel Bruce, best remembered for his portrayal of Doctor Watson opposite Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, was born in Ensenada in 1895 while his parents were on holiday in the city.

Together they had 2 sons Edmund " Ned " ( born in 1991 ) and Basil ( born in 1995 ).

John Basil Hennessy AO ( born 10 February 1925 ), is an Australian archaeologist of the Ancient Near East and Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney.

Sir Basil Blackwell ( 1889 – 9 April 1984 ) was born Basil Henry Blackwell in Oxford, England.