Yet there were a few recruits, such as Clement Davies, who had deserted to the National Liberals in 1931 but now returned to the party during the World War II and who would lead it after the war.

As the early modern period commenced in the late 15th century, many changes began to shock Europe that would have an effect on the production of grimoires ; the historian Owen Davies classed the most important of these as being the Protestant Reformation and subsequent Catholic Counter-Reformation, the witch-hunts and the advent of printing.

Lineker would pair up with Alan Hansen, fellow MOTD pundit to voice the post match comments on the game, with Barry Davies voicing the commentary.

Russell T Davies once mentioned that he would never make the sonic screwdriver the solution to an episode.

Ambassador Joseph Davies, author of Mission to Moscow, wrote that " It is generally accepted by members of the Diplomatic Corps that the accused must have been guilty of an offense which in the Soviet Union would merit the death penalty ".

From Davies ’ perspective the Tahitian were placed under detention at Tongatapu: “ The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed.

While Kennett acceded to their demands, his perceived poor treatment of Savage and Davies in the previous parliament meant that they held a position that they would never agree to support a Liberal Party minority government while Kennett remained leader.

In 1984 Sykes played the Genie in the children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman, which also featured Windsor Davies ( who would also appear with Sykes in the BBC's Gormenghast in 2000 ), Bob Todd, Lynsey De Paul and Gareth Hunt.

The group would also employ newer production techniques to achieve a more refined studio sound on the albums Sleepwalker ( 1977 ) and Misfits ( 1978 ), as Davies ' focus shifted to wistful ballads of restless alienation (" Life on the Road ", " Misfits "), meditations on the inner lives of obsessed pop fans (" Juke Box Music ", " A Rock & Roll Fantasy "), and exhortations of carpe diem (" Life Goes On ", " Live Life ", " Get Up ").

As a result of Channel 4's decision, Davies pulled out of a deal that would have seen a series of Queer as Folk short stories published on the broadcaster's website, and vowed never to work with Channel 4 again.

Other London-based bands included the Yardbirds ( who would number their ranks three key guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page ), the Kinks ( with the pioneer songwriter Ray Davies and rock-guitarist Dave Davies ) and, Manfred Mann ( considered to have one of the most authentic sounding vocalists in the scene in Paul Jones ) and the Pretty Things, beside the more jazz-influenced acts like the Graham Bond Organisation, Georgie Fame and Zoot Money.

However Davies refused to elaborate on what he called the " suicide theory of enigmatic death ," as he feared that " some of the old guard would be furious if they thought I was trying to prove it.

For many years until 1979, Shrewsbury coracle maker Fred Davies achieved some notability amongst football fans ; he would sit in his coracle during Shrewsbury Town FC home matches at Gay Meadow, and retrieve stray balls from the River Severn.

Notable programmes produced by Southern Television over the years included the flagship regional news magazine Day by Day presented by an able team of presenters including Barry Westwood, Peter Clark, and long-serving weatherman Trevor Baker ; Out of Town, a countryside programme introduced by Jack Hargreaves, who would later join Southern's board of directors ; How, a children's science programme also featuring Hargreaves along with Fred Dinenage, Bunty James ( later replaced by Marian Davies ) and Jon Miller ; Freewheelers, a children's spy series ; Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years and Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee as the eponymous walking scarecrow.

Esher and Duncannon proposed forming a new “ National ” party of 20-30 MPs, which would include David Davies who had been on the mission to Russia.

Activities in the Davies household centred around this front room, culminating in large parties, where Davies ' parents would sing and play piano together.

Davies would make occasional contributions on Kinks records as lead vocalist and songwriter, with classics such as " Party Line " ( the lyrics were written by Ray Davies and the song has been attributed to Ray on many editions of " Face to Face "), " Death of a Clown " and " Strangers ".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic. com would later comment that the album " represented an artistic dead end for the Kinks, as Ray Davies continued to crank out a series of competent, but undistinguished hard rockers.

Guitarists like Lonnie Mack, Jimi Hendrix, Albert King and Davies himself helped stir interest in the instrument, and it would eventually become one of the signature guitars of the heavy metal era.

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the need for bombardiers was evident, soon after an announcement was made by Lieutenant Colonel Isaiah Davies, Commanding Officer of Midland Army Air Field ( MAAF ), that Midland AAF would be used exclusively to train bombardiers in the AT-11 Kansan for eventual assignment to bomber aircraft such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder and B-29 Superfortress.

The second attempt, also by Renwick, was for Whoopi Goldberg and would have included Alan Davies.

Several general properties of physical laws have been identified ( see Davies ( 1992 ) and Feynman ( 1965 ) as noted, although each of the characterizations are not necessarily original to them ).

* " London Song " by Ray Davies: " If you're ever up on Highgate Hill on a clear day, You can see right down to Leicester Square ".

Thompson and Davies see the entire Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ) as the imaginative creation of a small community of Jews at Jerusalem during the period which the Bible assigns to after the return from the Babylonian exile, from 539 BCE onward.

In 1966 author John D. Davies published a biography of Baker, where he noted a relative of Baker's could not see a future for him in the post-war world.

Davies made several attempts at solo albums throughout the ' 70s, but he never felt enough enthusiasm or interest to see the projects through.

** David Davies, 1st Baron Davies ( 1880 – 1944 ), Liberal MP for Montgomershire 1906 – 1929, grandson of the industrialist David Davies ( see above )

Re-elected in 2001, Davies was appointed NSPCC Parliamentary Ambassador in 2003 (- 2005 ) following his proposed Regulation of Childcare Providers Bill in April 2003 which meant childminders were no longer permitted to smack children and parents had the right to see records of complaints about prospective childminders in respect of child safety.

While some critics see the work as disjointed " Peter Maxwell Davies, for example, regards it as Brown's greatest achievement.

The sixties also see Goehr founding the Wardour Castle Summer School with Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle in 1964, and most importantly, the beginning of Goehr's preoccupation with opera and music theatre.

While it had been Charles Fisk's dream to build a monumental concert organ ( the firm unsuccessfully bid on the contract for San Francisco's Davies Hall ), and despite years of planning and design, he never lived to see it built, dying in 1983.

: For other persons with similar names, see Samuel Davis ( disambiguation ), Sammy Davis ( disambiguation ) and Sam Davies ( disambiguation ).

The cover artwork ( see image at right ), designed by Davies and Kretschmer, depicts a human figure holding three different coloured flowers.

* George Llewelyn Davies, see Llewelyn Davies

* Jack Llewelyn Davies, see Llewelyn Davies

* Michael Llewelyn Davies, see Llewelyn Davies

* Nicholas Llewelyn Davies, see Llewelyn Davies

* Peter Llewelyn Davies, see Llewelyn Davies

In 1961, Korner and Davies formed Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R & B music.

Although Cyril Davies left the group in 1963, Blues Incorporated continued to record, with Korner at the helm, until 1966.

The historicist school of thought persisted well in to the 20th century, represented in the works of scholars such as David Carrasco, Miguel León Portilla, Nigel Davies and H. B. Nicholson which all held the Toltecs to have been an actual ethnic group.

* 1987 — David Burstein, Roger Davies, Alan Dressler, Sandra Faber, Donald Lynden-Bell, R. J. Terlevich, and Gary Wegner claim that a large group of galaxies within about 200 million light years of the Milky Way are moving together towards the " Great Attractor " in the direction of Hydra and Centaurus,

Between 1976 and their break-up twenty years later, Davies and the group reverted to their earlier mainstream rock format and enjoyed a second peak of success, with other hit songs, like " Destroyer ", " Come Dancing " and " Do It Again ".

His last public appearance was at his 80th birthday, in 1986, when a group of his former students, including Sir Martin Gilbert, Alan Sked, Norman Davies and Paul Kennedy, organised a public reception in his honour.

While there he met fellow composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, who, together with pianist John Ogdon and conductor Elgar Howarth, formed the New Music Manchester group, dedicated to the performances of serial and other modern works.

In his introduction to The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse Alastair Fowler makes a case for the existence of a third group centering around Michael Drayton and including William Browne, William Drummond of Hawthornden, John Davies of Hereford, George Sandys, Joshua Sylvester and George Wither.

Part of the reason why the company was targeted was that the management buy-in group that had taken over Channel Television earlier in the same year was led by two former HTV executives-Huw Davies ( chief executive ) and David Jenkins ( finance director ).

The first group that Edmunds fronted was the Cardiff-based 1950s style rockabilly trio The Raiders formed in 1961, along with Brian ' Rockhouse ' Davies on bass and Ken Collier on drums.

Towards the end of 1969, the group released its next album, Turtle Soup, a critically well-received LP produced by Ray Davies of the Kinks.

Melbourne drummer Ashley Davies ( ex-Wild Pumpkins At Midnight ) joined Bois, Smith, Stockley and Tolhurst in the reformed group which recorded Tracks in late 2009 and early 2010.

The Stokes Institute, originally founded by Cambridge graduate Prof. Mark Davies to work on thermofluids problems, is now a large mechanical engineering research group working not only in fluid mechanics, but also in areas such as reliability physics, microfluidic cancer diognostics and energy management.

* The main theme of this movie, the song " Sing As We Go " ( written by Harry Parr Davies ), was used by the comedy group Monty Python in a parody song called " Sit on My Face " and is one of two signature songs of The Kampen Janitsjarorkester Symphonic Band ( The Kampen Band ) of Oslo Norway.

Ray Davies of The Kinks took an initial interest in the group, although tracks produced by Davies did not surface commercially until decades later.

Throughout the 1970s, the group was managed by Roger Davies.

Hugh Sykes Davies ( 19091984 ) was an English poet, novelist and communist who was one of a small group of 1930s British surrealists.

Gary Daniels, Steve Brophy, Bill Bateson, Geraint Davies, and Peter Kettle headed this group, running European development operations.

Due to controversy over the tone of a series of emails he exchanged with a pro-Israeli constituent, Davies was forced to resign as leader of the Liberal Democrats group in the European Parliament.

In an interview at the festival, the group confirmed that they are going to continue without Miller and are planning on writing new music in the near future with Daniel Davies, as well as touring the United States and elsewhere.

Davies left in 1990 and the group continued as a duo for a while, before being augmented by a series of musicians, notably drummer Al Edwards.

After Davies ' death in 1916 his estate sold the property to a group of investors from Baltimore, Maryland who built the Thorncliffe Park Raceway racetrack.