She also served on the Labour National Executive Committee for seven years, from 1981 to 1988, collaborating closely with Betty Boothroyd.

Betty Boothroyd, a Labour MP who had been Deputy Speaker, was known to be extremely interested in becoming the first woman Speaker ( and in doing so, finished the chances of fellow Labour MP Harold Walker who had also been Deputy Speaker ).

In addition, former Speakers of the House of Commons ( such as Lord Martin and Baroness Boothroyd ) and former Lord Speakers of the House of Lords ( such as Baroness Hayman ), who by convention are not aligned with any party, also sit as Crossbenchers.

Adam Walker, Luke Boothroyd, Carl Graham and Adam Summerfield were also confirmed as having been re-signed from the 2008 / 09 roster.

The club also announced the return of a few popular players such as Steve Fone, and Luke Boothroyd.

She also toured Britain in Billy Liar in the role of Florence Boothroyd and performed at the National Theatre in The Voysey Inheritance.

Some of Gardner's original recurring characters are also not present including Ann Reilly ( aka Q ' ute ) who by the end of Gardner's era had taken over Q Branch from Major Boothroyd.

Pistone also went on trial with Championship but could not convince Aidy Boothroyd to offer him a contract.

In thanks, Fleming gave the MI6 Armourer the name Major Boothroyd in Dr. No and M introduces him to Bond as " the greatest small-arms expert in the world ".

After Diamonds are Forever was published in 1956 Fleming received a letter from Bond enthusiast and gun expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising his choice of firearm for Bond.

After Diamonds are Forever had been published, Fleming received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising the author's choice of firearm for Bond: his suggestions came too late to be included in From Russia, with Love, but one of Boothroyd's guns – a. 38 Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver modified with one third of the trigger guard removed – was used as the model for Chopping's image.

Fleming later thanked Boothroyd for his suggestions by making him Major Boothroyd, the armourer in Dr. No.

The William Henry Smith residential SEBD School is on Boothroyd Lane.

Betty Boothroyd announced her retirement shortly before the summer recess in 2000, which left a long time for would-be Speakers to declare their candidature but little opportunity for Members of Parliament to negotiate and decide on who should be chosen.

( The House instead elected the Labour MP Betty Boothroyd to the role, with several Conservative MPs voting against Brooke on the grounds that he had too recently been in the Cabinet and was thus not sufficiently close to the backbenches.

Two years later, on 23 October 2000, he stood for the job of Speaker of the House of Commons in succession to Betty Boothroyd but was unsuccessful ( 192 votes in favour, 257 against ) and his backbench colleague, Michael Martin MP was elected.

The squad building continued on 24 May when the club announced that Luke Boothroyd and Ladislav Harabin would be returning for the 2011-2012 season.

* Hartung – Boothroyd Observatory, an observatory affiliated with Cornell University on Mount Pleasant, New York

Martin was elected Speaker on 23 October 2000, succeeding Betty Boothroyd to become the first Roman Catholic to serve in the role since the Reformation.

In 2000, a further estate of residential houses was build on the opposite side of Meanwood Road, centered around Boothroyd Drive.

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.

Boothroyd trained as a mechanical engineer and went on to study industrial design at the Royal College of Art.

Adrian Neil " Aidy " Boothroyd ( born 8 February 1971 in Baildon, West Yorkshire ) is an English former footballer and is currently managing Northampton Town after being sacked as manager of Coventry City on 14 March 2011.

Boothroyd added another loan signing with Franck Queudrue arriving on loan from Birmingham.

His first game in charge was on 7 August, in which Boothroyd led Coventry City to an opening day victory over Portsmouth with both goals from Freddy Eastwood.

Boothroyd was appointed as manager of Northampton Town on 30 November 2011 on a one year, rolling contract.

Mackay was picked up on a free transfer by Aidy Boothroyd as part of his rebuilding of Watford and soon become one of the key figures in Boothroyd's side.

He took over as caretaker manager at Watford on 4 November 2008 following the departure of Aidy Boothroyd.

The first floor houses a number of conference suites and committee rooms, which are named after famous politicians Betty Boothroyd, Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, and Jo Grimond.

DFMA is the name of the integrated set of software products from Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc. that are used by companies to implement the DFMA methodology.

The case was designed by industrial designer Allen Boothroyd of Cambridge Product Design Ltd

< li > Case: Designed by industrial designer Allen Boothroyd of Cambridge Product Design ( designer of the BBC Micro case ).

It was reopened by Betty Boothroyd and was renamed after Howard Piper, a Maths student of the college who died shortly after graduating.

The case was designed by industrial designer Allen Boothroyd of Cambridge Product Design Ltd.

' Boothroyd III ( voiced by Jeff Bennett )-A scientific genius and one of James ' best friends.

By the precedent set by Betty Boothroyd, a female speaker of the house of commons is Madam Speaker or Miss Boothroyd.

She was appointed a member of the panel of chairmen by Speaker Betty Boothroyd in her last term in the Commons, from 1997 to 2001.

Starting in the summer of 2007, teenager Malkolm Boothroyd and his parents, Ken Madsen and Wendy Boothroyd, attempted a big year without the use of fossil fuels by planning to bicycle over 10, 000 miles to get over 400 species for the year.

However, this was not a normal constituency, since this was the constituency of then House speaker Betty Boothroyd, which major parties by convention do not contest.

One of these, Palmers of Connecticut, managed by entrepreneur Julius Briner, had produced over 60000 two-stroke engines before 1912 .< ref name =" Boothroyd " >

Translated, from the Italian, by R. H. Boothroyd, it was first published in English, in a 532-page harcover, by Pantheon Books in 1969.

The board backed their decision despite initial scepticism by Watford fans and the club entered a new era under Boothroyd.

At the beginning of the 2005 – 06 season, Boothroyd signalled his intentions by declaring that his aim for the forthcoming campaign would be promotion to the Premier League.

On 14 March 2011, Boothroyd was sacked by Coventry City after a run of poor results which saw the club win only once in sixteen league games.