Leo Amery, who is well known for his later career as a senior Conservative politician and Cabinet minister, was originally elected as a Liberal Unionist at a Birmingham South by-election in 1911.

Baker, who stands 3 ft 8 in ( 112 cm ) tall, was educated in Birmingham, Warwickshire, and at boarding school in Kent.

It was developed by the industrialist and former Mayor of Birmingham and Bewdley, George Baker.

Chiltern Main Line diesel-express trains from Marylebone station, London, via Harrow-on-the Hill, to Aylesbury – change for Birmingham – and fast, electric Metropolitan trains from the City of London, via Baker Street, to Amersham-on-the-Hill ( all stopping at Rickmansworth station ) together with the rural surroundings, have all contributed to the growth of Rickmansworth.

Engineering and Production -- Mahler: Symphony No. 2, " Resurrection "; Arleen Augér, Janet Baker ; City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra ; Simon Rattle

Orchestral ( Record of the Year ) -- Mahler: Symphony No. 2, " Resurrection "; Arleen Augér, Janet Baker ; City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra ; Simon Rattle

His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.

Baker worked for a time as an apprentice electrician then through Morse's influence he managed to secure a position with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1944.

The T Stock was originally built in various batches by Metropolitan-Vickers and Birmingham RC & W for the Metropolitan Railway in 1927-31 for use on electric services from Baker Street and the City to Watford and Rickmansworth, though rarely some worked on the Uxbridge branch.

Baker was born into a staunch Methodist family, the youngest son of Birmingham Gas Department's chief accountant, Wilfred Baker and Emily.

Baker studied architecture at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham and graduated in 1937, aged 20, in a period of political unrest in Europe.

The St. George Defence ( also known as the Baker Defence or Birmingham Defence ) is an unorthodox chess opening for Black.

The series features well known performers including Josh Brolin, Gary Busey, Michael Spears, Tonantzin Carmelo, Skeet Ulrich, Steve Reevis, Rachael Leigh Cook, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, Alan Tudyk, Christian Kane, Russell Means, Jay Tavare, David Midthunder, Keri Russell, Graham Greene, Tom Berenger, Gil Birmingham, David Paymer, Raoul Trujillo, Eric Schweig, Lance Henriksen, Simon R. Baker, Tyler Christopher, Tatanka Means, Tokala Clifford, Gordon Tootoosis, Sheila Tousey, and Will Patton.

The signatories of the early day motion were: N Baker ( Lib: Lewes ), J Austin ( Lab: Erith & Thamesmead ), P Bottomley ( Con: Worthing ), R Campbell ( Lab: Blyth ), M Caton ( Lab: Gower ), M Clapham ( Lab: Barnsley & Pennistone ) I Davidson ( Lab: Glasgow SW ) P Flynn ( Lab: Newport ), A George ( Lib: St. Ives ), J Goldsworthy ( Lib: Falmouth ), J Hemming ( Lib: Birmingham ), M Horwood ( Lib: Cheltenham ), B Iddon ( Lab: Bolton ), B Jenkins ( Lab: Tamworth ), L Jones ( Lab: Birminham ), C McCafferty ( Lab: Calder Valley ), A McDonnell ( SD & L: Belfast ), A McKechin ( Lab: Glasgow N ), M Oaten ( Lib: Winchester ), K Purchase ( Lab: Wolverhampton ), A Simpson ( Lab: Nottingham ), J Swinson ( Lib: Dunbartonshire ).

Born in Harborne, Birmingham, Baker was a student of Vincent Barber ( 1788 – 1838 ) at the Barber family's Charles Street Academy in Birmingham.

His diaries and notes – which contain an 800-strong list of his major works-are held in the Birmingham City Art Gallery while the art gallery at the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa has a collection of over sixty Baker landscapes, a couple of which are nearly always on display in the Art Gallery.

In terms of wider success, Baker exhibited four oil paintings at the Royal Academy between 1831 and 1858 with his work appearing more frequently at the British Institution ( where he exhibited 19 paintings ) and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

Edmund Smith-Baker ran a studio on Bristol Street in Birmingham together with his younger brother Thomas William, where – alongside the production of carte de visite photographs – he is believed to have completed new and previously unfinished Baker landscapes.

Bishop Robert J. Baker of the Diocese of Birmingham conferred the awards, and said the award was " a significant acknowledgment by our Holy Father, of Mother's labors of love in support of our Church.

Gray with Birmingham City.

Bill Gray is a former head football coach for Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.

This led to support slots with the likes of David Gray, Miles Hunt, Ben Christophers, Mark Eitzel, Cousteau, Elbow, I am Kloot, Turin Brakes, Ed Harcourt and Ryan Adams, who after she supported him in Birmingham, invited her to be his guest at his London shows.

* Jessica Gray Charles as Denise McNair was murdered in Birmingham Bombing.

Bantock's Hebridean Symphony was recorded by the CBO on 28 January 1925 at Riley Hall, Constitution Hill, Birmingham.

On February 2, 2011 both the Birmingham News and the Decatur Daily also ran stories speculating that Riley was considering running for President.

The Bulls would make the playoffs five out of their nine seasons in Birmingham, reaching the Riley Cup semifinals during the 1993-94 season.

His solo albums for Cantaloupe include " The Passing Measures " ( 2001 ) with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, " Child " ( 2003 ) played by Sentieri Selvaggi, and " Elevated " ( 2005 ) featuringing performances by Audrey Riley and A Change of Light, and Lisa Moore.

The most influential of these was the Birmingham Political Union, led by Thomas Attwood.

* EMI Classics: Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Thomas Allen ; CBSO Chorus ; Boys of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

* Thomas F. Birmingham, politician

The contract for the Haddiscoe Cut was signed with Thomas Townsend of Birmingham on 3 July 1832, and work began at once.

In Birmingham, the older Birmingham Political Union sprang to life under the leadership of Thomas Attwood.

He was born at Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Wright Hill, for long conducted the private schools Hazelwood and Bruce Castle.

She has recently exhibited at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam ; The Eastshire Museums in Scotland, Kilmarnock ; Camden Arts Centre, London ; Sculpture Center, New York ; Thomas Dane Gallery, London ; La Casa Encendida, Madrid ; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ; and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.

Born Thomas John Kummer in Birmingham, Alabama, Sebring was the son of an accountant, Bernard Kummer, and his wife Margarette.

There is a bronze statue of Hebe, by Robert Thomas ; ( 1966 ), in Birmingham city centre, England.

During the Birmingham Blitz, on the night of 11 December 1940, all but the fine tower and classical west portico of St Thomas ' Church, Bath Row, was destroyed by German bombs.

Thomas Dobbs ( actor ) of Birmingham invents a reaping machine in 1814, which consists of a circular saw or sickle, the grain is drawn or fed up to the saw by means of a pair of rollers.

Sutton did not establish itself as a market town like Birmingham was able to, and the market appears to have fallen out of use as a new charter was granted to Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick for a market to be held on the same day, as well as fairs on the eve of Holy Trinity and also on the eve of St Martin.

* Hospital of St Thomas of Canterbury, Birmingham, England United Kingdom

Bachus was born in Birmingham to Edith Wells and Spencer Thomas Bachus, Jr.

He is the son of Major Thomas Howarth MC ( headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham, Second Master of Winchester College and High Master of St. Paul's School and Margaret Teakle.

Finally 1652 marks the first record of a Birmingham bookseller and the first Birmingham-published book: The Font Guarded, by the local puritan Thomas Hall.

The march of the King and his army south from Shrewsbury in the days leading up to the Battle of Edge Hill in October 1642 met strong local resistance, with troops headed by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Earl of Derby being ambushed by local trainbands in Moseley and King's Norton, and the King's baggage train attacked by Birmingham townspeople and his personal possessions plundered and transported to Warwick Castle while the King stayed with the Royalist Sir Thomas Holte at Aston Hall.

Aston Hall, built in 1635 by the Cavalier | Royalist Thomas Holte | Sir Thomas Holte, still bears the scars from its attack by local Roundhead | Parliamentarian s in 1643Royalist revenge was exacted on Easter Monday, 3 April 1643, when Prince Rupert returned to Birmingham with 1, 200 cavalry, 700 footsoldiers and 4 guns.

A distinct and powerful " Birmingham interest " emerged decisively with the election of Thomas Skipwith at the Warwickshire by-election of 1769, and over following decades candidates for seats as far afield as Worcester, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leicester and Lincoln sought support in the town.

Thomas Attwood addressing the Birmingham Political Union during the Days of May, 1832Also in the 1830s, due to its growing size and importance, Birmingham was granted Parliamentary representation by the Reform Act of 1832.

When his chapel was cleared after his death, his chaplain, Fr Benjamin Hulme, discovered the box containg the relics, which were examined and presented to Bishop Thomas Walsh, ( RC ) Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District in 1837 and were enshrined in the new St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, opened in 1841, in a new ark designed by Augustus Pugin.