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He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.
The government, headed by Tony Blair, however, blocked all attempts to revise the succession laws, claiming it would raise too many constitutional issues and it was unnecessary at the time.
This word was first used by Robert Blair ( d. 1828 ), professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh University, to characterize a superior achromatism, and, subsequently, by many writers to denote freedom from spherical aberration.
In 2004 there was a limited-run revival at the Royal National Theatre starring Desmond Barrit as Pseudolus, Philip Quast as Miles Gloriosus, Hamish McColl as Hysterium and Isla Blair as Domina ( who had previously played Philia in the 1963 production ).
Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.
Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.
Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.
However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.
The announcement was made along with US President Bill Clinton, and U. K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In 1992 John Smith made him Shadow Social Security Secretary and three years later Dewar was made a Chief Whip for the Labour Party by Tony Blair,
Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.
Eastman Kodak made celluloid film commercially available in 1889 ; Thomas Henry Blair, in 1891, was its first competitor.
When the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project was released, the extensive marketing campaign claimed it to be a real documentary, compiled from footage discovered abandoned in a forest.
Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.
Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in India.
His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of slave plantations in Jamaica.
His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was a clergyman.
His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.
Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in the summer of 1907, they did not see the husband and father Richard Blair until 1912.
But an Eton scholarship did not guarantee a place, and none was immediately available for Blair.
Blair was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley.
Stephen Runciman, who was at Eton with Blair, noted that he and his contemporaries appreciated Huxley's linguistic flair.
His father had retired to Southwold, Suffolk by this time ; Blair was enrolled at a crammer there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his classics, English and History.

Blair and delegate
The county is named after John Blair Smith Todd ( April 4, 1814 – January 5, 1872 ) who was a delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
* John Blair Smith Todd ( 1814 – 1872 ), delegate to US Congress from Dakota Territory

Blair and from
They also scoured the minor leagues for selections in the Rule 5 draft ( Paul Blair from the Mets in 1962, Moe Drabowsky from the Cardinals in 1965 ) and claims off waivers ( Curt Blefary, 1965 AL Rookie of the Year, from the Yankees in 1963 ).
Its membership, which had fallen to 32, 000 from a peak of 110, 000 in 1983, increased threefold after Prime Minister Tony Blair made a commitment to nuclear energy.
" But the town was near Rangoon, a cosmopolitan seaport, and Blair went into the city as often as he could, " to browse in a bookshop ; to eat well-cooked food ; to get away from the boring routine of police life.
Later Blair was expelled from the crammer at Southwold for sending a dead rat as a birthday present to the town surveyor.
Blair had an enduring interest in natural history which stemmed from his childhood.
In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.
His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty ( 1955 ), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.
The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.
Prime Ministers Callaghan and Blair have been amongst the many in Britain of part-Irish ancestry, with Blair's mother coming from County Donegal.
Image: Blair MOF. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush on January 13, 2009
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, for example, represented Sedgefield in County Durham from 1983 to 2007.
Jenkins is seen by many as a key influence on " New Labour ", as the Labour Party marketed itself after the election of Tony Blair ( who served as prime minister from winning the first of three successive general elections in 1997 ) in 1994, when the party abandoned many of its long-established policies including nationalisation, nuclear disarmament and unconditional support for the trade unions.
In the 1990s, released from the Left's pressure, the British Labour Party, under Tony Blair, posited policies based upon the free market economy to deliver public services via private contractors.
There are often invitations for readers to submit pictures, such as the request for examples of " Insincere Smiles ", whereby people sent in pictures cut from newspapers and brochures of celebrities and politicians caught smiling in a manner which looks utterly insincere and forced ( Tony Blair featured at least twice ).

Blair and Michigan
Blair Township is a civil township of Grand Traverse County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
The Traverse City Beach Bums are a minor league baseball team who play their home games at Wuerfel Park in nearby Blair Township, Michigan.
This appointment fell through, but Sheridan was subsequently aided by friends ( including future Secretary of War Russell A. Alger ), who petitioned Michigan Governor Austin Blair on his behalf.
The Kewpie doll is the mascot of Kewpee Hamburgers, a chain of fast-food restaurants originally founded in 1923 in Flint, Michigan by Samuel V. Blair under the name " Kewpee Hotel Hamburgs ".
* Governor Austin Blair, Michigan State Capitol, Lansing, Michigan ( 1895 – 98 ).
File: Austin Blair statue 1. jpg | Governor Austin Blair, Michigan State Capitol, Lansing, MI ( 1895-98 ).
On December 9, 1982, outgoing Republican Governor William Milliken appointed Dorothy Comstock Riley to the Michigan Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Blair Moody on November 26.
After the product was designed, Richard A. Meyers Realty, Inc. and Urban Investment and Development took an entire floor in the Blair Building, 645 N. Michigan Avenue, and built several full-scale condominium units, several blocks away from the site.
Austin Blair ( February 8, 1818 – August 6, 1894 ), also known as the Civil War Governor, was a politician from the U. S. state of Michigan.
A statue of Austin Blair is located in front of the Michigan State Capitol building.
While the third and fourth regiments were being raised, Blair received directions from the U. S. Secretary of War, limiting the number of regiments that would be accepted from Michigan to four and asked Blair not to raise more than that number.
In 1883, Blair was nominated for Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court Republican party, but was defeated.
* Austin Blair: The War Governor of Michigan
* Governor Blair on Michigan Government Television
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Sperling received a BA from Michigan State University after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Arthur Edson Blair Moody ( February 13, 1902July 20, 1954 ), known as Blair Moody, was a Democratic U. S. Senator from the state of Michigan.
Blair Moody, Jr., was a Wayne County Circuit Court Judge, and a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
An elementary school in Taylor, Michigan, is named for Senator Blair Moody.
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