Captain Harry Stafford found four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies ( who became club president ), each willing to invest £ 500 in return for a direct interest in running the club and who subsequently changed the name ; on 24 April 1902, Manchester United was officially born.

Brimble ( who in 1958 became the sole editor ), then to John Maddox in 1965, and finally to David Davies in 1973.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

Jocelyn Davies became Deputy Minister for Housing, and later, Regeneration.

IR only emerged as a formal academic ‘ discipline ’ in 1918 with the founding of the first ‘ chair ’ ( professorship ) in IR-the Woodrow Wilson Chair at Aberystwyth, University of Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), from an endowment given by David Davies, became the first academic position dedicated to IR.

W. H. Davies ( 1871 – 1940 ), born in Newport, became famous principally for his The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp which was set mostly in North America.

This became possible as San Francisco now had two major classical venues, Davies Hall and the War Memorial Opera House.

Davies and Korner, having already split with Barber, now plugged in and began to play high powered electric blues that became the model for the sub-genre, forming the band Blues Incorporated.

Later in 2003, along with members of his original bands and other music professionals, Shaw was extensively interviewed by Russell Davies for the BBC Television documentary, Artie Shaw — Quest for Perfection, which became his last major interview.

Initially he worked in the lace trade, and then, moving to London in 1896, became a banker, whilst continuing his piano studies with Fanny Davies and others.

Distortion became more popular from the mid-1960s, when The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies produced distortion effects by connecting the already distorted output of one amplifier into the input of another.

" He became the fourth sitting Member of Parliament to do so after Svend Robinson, Réal Ménard and Libby Davies.

Working with Camm at Hawker were Sir Frederick Page ( later to design the English Electric Lightning ), Leslie Appleton ( later to design the advanced Fairey Delta 2 and Britain's first air-to-air missile, the Fairey Fireflash ), Stuart Davies ( joined Avro in 1936 and later to be chief designer of the Avro Vulcan ), Roy Chaplin ( became Chief Designer at Hawker in 1957 ) and Sir Robert Lickley ( Chief Project Engineer during the war, and later to be Chief Engineer at Fairey ).

Davies decided that the best means of paying the debt was to write a new series, which became A Very Peculiar Practice.

Davies became a favourite of the queen, to whom he addressed his work, Hymns of Astraea, in 1599.

Davies became heavily involved in government efforts to establish a plantation in the lately rebellious province of Ulster.

Queen Elizabeth became an admirer of Davies ' work, and these poems contain acrostics that spell out the phrase Elisabetha Regina.

However, when Palin decided not to take the job, the producers opted to change the format ; Fry became the host, with Davies as the only regular panellist.

Davies left the Conservative Party to join the Labour Party benches on 26 June 2007, the night before Gordon Brown became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Davies became Director of Pure Crete Ltd, described as a ' Green tour operator ', in 1989.

When Labour won control of Croydon Borough Council in the 1994 election, Davies became Chairman of the Housing Committee, and in 1996 was chosen as Leader of the Council.

On his re-election for Swansea West in 2010 Davies became the first newly elected MP to present a private bill-The Credit Card Regulation ( child pornography ) Bill July 2010 that received national media coverage and cross party support including an Early Day Motion signed by 203 MPs.

According to Theosophist Josephine Maria Davies Ransom, she became part of a progressive " Back to Blavatsky movement, led mainly by Mr. and Mrs. Foster Bailey ".

As Welsh society became further influenced by feudal Europe, the princes of Gwynedd would in turn use feudalism to strengthen their own authority over lesser Welsh lords, a " two-edged sword " for the King of England, wrote Davies.

Born in Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, Bennett made his Wales debut on the 22 March 1969 against France in Paris at the age of 20 when he became the first ever Welsh substitute in international rugby, replacing an injured Gerald Davies.

One of the most popular versions of the Chief Inspector was that played by British actor Rupert Davies who made his debut on October 31, 1960.

ISBN 0-297-77550-2 reprint of London, P. Davies, 1932, old, popular biography

Elgar's successor, Sir Walford Davies, a popular broadcaster, was the first Master of the King's Music to be well known to the public by this title.

After Davison left Doctor Who in 1984, he did not work on another popular series until 1986, when he played Dr Stephen Daker, the ingenuous hero of A Very Peculiar Practice, written by Andrew Davies.

Davies was already building a reputation as a popular film comedienne when Hearst took over her career, promoting her heavily through his newspapers, and pressuring the studios to cast her in historical dramas to which she was not suited.

A few popular music artists have used elements of the Merry England story as recurring themes ; The Kinks and their leader Ray Davies crafted The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society as a homage to English country life and culture: it was described by Allmusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine as an album " lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions "; Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) also contains similar elements.

Ryan Davies ( 22 January 1937 — 22 April 1977 ) was a popular Welsh entertainer of the 1960s and 1970s.

Hate ( 1982 ) had a score by noted Australian composer Carl Vine, and his successful 1985 production Boxes featured original music by composer and musician Iva Davies, who was then the lead singer with popular Australian rock band Icehouse.

It was widely expected, and generally hoped ( probably even by Davies himself ), that he would be only a ' caretaker ' leader until the more dynamic and popular Sinclair could get back into the House of Commons.

Hall is a guest on popular BBC panel quiz shows, most notably as a regular guest on QI, for which he has received much critical acclaim and is known as the game's most frequently victorious guest panellist with ten victories ( only permanent panellist Alan Davies has won more shows ), and also with appearances in 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

The serial was very popular, and led to two sequel serials in 1998 and 1999, although these were not written by Abbott or Davies.

Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (" Love in Motion ", 1981 ), Linn drum machine (" Hey Little Girl ", 1982 ) and Fairlight CMI ( Razorback trailer, 1983 ) in Australian popular music.

* Karl Davies is now a popular actor who attended Marple Hall School.

Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time.

Many writers on popular science, such as Fred Alan Wolf, Paul Davies and Michio Kaku, have used quotations from Adams ' work in their books to illustrate facts about cosmology or philosophy.

Giles then went to Ipswich to join Roland Davies, who was setting up a studio to produce animated versions of his popular newspaper strip " Come On Steve ".

In 2005 and 2006, DeVille starred in a popular TV series South of Nowhere on The N. He played the role of Raife Davies, the father of Ashley Davies and Kyla Woods.

From its inception, Davies considered the album for stage presentation and its general theme served to inspire the Kinks ' more ambitious, but less popular, two-part theatrical work Preservation in 1972 – 1974.

She received 423 votes ( 1 % of the popular vote ) in the October 2008 federal election, losing to Libby Davies of the New Democratic Party.

Sir Henry Walford Davies wrote a popular choral arrangement that is often performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and by choirs around the world.

Richard Davies ( born 25 January 1926 ) is a Welsh actor whose film and TV work covers many years but is probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr Price in the LWT popular situation comedy Please Sir !.