Merchant took her stage name as a composite of the actress Vivien Leigh and her brother, who was a merchant seaman ( cited by Michael Billington ).

Critic Michael Billington recalled: " In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity.

In the 1991 – 92 NHL season, he was called up to the Devils on an emergency basis for four games when Devils goaltenders Chris Terreri and Craig Billington became injured.

Part of Billington parish was transferred in 2003 to Leighton-Linslade, and the revised census result including this area was 32, 753.

The Greenacres Caravan site, a quarter of a mile outside the Slapton boundary at Little Billington, was raided by police on 11th September 2011, following intelligence that people were being enslaved there.

On 26 April 2005, Harold Pinter, who was to win the Nobel Prize in Literature later that year, gave a public reading and was interviewed by his official authorised biographer, Michael Billington, in the studio named for Pinter and located as part of the Faculty of Arts ( School of English and Drama ) in the Mile End campus, to celebrate its refurbishment.

Colonel Paul Foster ( portrayed by Michael Billington ) is a former test pilot whose plane was critically damaged when SHADO's Sky One intercepted and destroyed a UFO in close proximity to Foster's jet.

Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Billington was educated in the public schools of the Philadelphia area.

From 1973 to 1987, Billington was director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the nation ’ s official memorial in Washington, D. C. to America ’ s 28th president.

Billington was sworn in as the Librarian of Congress on September 14, 1987.

Billington was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985.

Davey Boy Smith started competing on ITV's World of Sport when he was only 15, wrestling under the name Young David with his slightly older cousin Tom Billington ( Dynamite Kid ).

While Rougeau was playing cards backstage, from behind, Billington smacked Jacques in the ear and then punched and kicked him in the face several times and also struck Raymond, who was on crutches at the time.

" After no disciplinary action was taken against Jacques, Billington quit the WWF, and Smith followed suit.

The production received good reviews, but the critic Michael Billington believed that it was more suggestive of Fletcher than Shakespeare.

This was when Billington was first recorded as a parish in its own right.

In the 1990s, there was a campaign by villagers to use the name " Great Billington ", with a claim that it was always used historically.

built by Arthur Macnamara at Billington, Bedfordshire | BillingtonArthur Macnamara ( 1831 – 11 February 1906 ) was squire of Billington near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, where he turned a ruinous village into a model Victorian Estate.

Billington created the Library ’ s first national private-sector advisory group, the James Madison Council, whose members have supported the NDL Program, many other Library outreach programs, and acquisitions for the Library ’ s collections.

During this appearance, Linehan took issue with Today programme presenter Justin Webb over what he saw as the attempted staging of an artificial argument between himself and the critic Michael Billington.

Today Billington is a small village with no facilities straddling a busy main road.

Dr. Billington and his daughter Susan are the first father and daughter to both be awarded Rhodes Scholarships and use them to earn DPhils ( at Oxford University ).

* 1929 – James H. Billington, American educator and librarian

* 1942 – Rachel Billington, English author

* November 16 – Michael Billington, British drama critic

* Billington Heights – A location in the south part of the town.

* Michael Billington – Critic, author and radio presenter.

* Francelia Billington ( 1895 – 1934 ), actress

* August 25 – Elizabeth Billington, opera singer ( b. 1768 )

* John Billington ( 1580s – 1630 ), an immigrant on the Mayflower and first Englishman to be hanged in New England

* Michael Billington ( actor ) ( 1941 – 2005 ), the popular British film and television actor

* Teddy Billington ( 1882 – 1966 ), US Olympic cyclist

* Elizabeth Billington ( 1765 – 1818 ), British opera singer

* Francelia Billington ( 1895 – 1934 ), American actress

* Fred Billington ( 1862 – 1917 ), English singer and actor

* Ray Allen Billington ( 1903 – 1981 ), American historian

* Thomas Billington ( composer ), English composer ( 1754 – 1832?

* James Billington ( executioner ) ( 1847 – 1901 ), executioner for the British government

* Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, " Meg and Her Daughters: Some Traces of Goddess Beliefs in Megalithic Folklore ," in Sandra Billington and Miranda Green eds., The Concept of the Goddess ( 1996 ): pp. 78 – 90.

# Lady Rachel Billington – 1998 – 2000

*" No Man's Land " – BBC Four online feature for Pinter at the BBC, hyperlinked ; includes link to RealVideo clip of Michael Billington discussing No Man's Land ( 2 mins., 17 secs.