The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

Due to the death and subsequent turmoil of the sultanate at the time of Farquhar's arrival, Farquhar was compelled to sign the treaty not with the official head of the sultanate, but rather, the Raja Muda ( Regent or Crown Prince ) of Riau.

Members of Raffles ' party surveyed the island and proceeded to request the presence of the sultan, or whoever at the time had supreme nominal power, to sign a formal treaty, while Major Farquhar was ordered to do the same in Rhio.

Palade is survived by his wife Marilyn Farquhar, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Diego.

The Prince was baptised at his parents ' home and his godparents were King George V ( his maternal great-uncle ), The King of Spain ( for whom The Lord Farquhar, a Lord in Waiting to King George, stood proxy ), Queen Alexandra ( his maternal great-grandmother ), The Duke of Connaught ( his grandfather, for whom a Major Malcolm Murray stood proxy ), The Duchess of Argyll ( his grandaunt ), and The Princess Mary ( his cousin ).

A fop is also referred to as a ' beau ,' as in the Restoration comedies The Beaux ' Stratagem ( 1707 ) by George Farquhar, The Beau Defeated ( 1700 ) by Mary Pix, or the real-life Beau Nash, Master of Ceremonies at Bath, or Regency celebrity Beau Brummell.

Notable inhabitants of Bierton include architect Deborah Saunt of Channel 4 television's series Grand Designs, playwright Robert Farquhar, BBC fashion commentator Jerry O ' Sullivan, and the notable author and poet May Sinclair who lived at The Gables in Burcott Lane for the last ten years of her life.

Farquhar Oliver retired from the legislature in 1967, and died in 1989 at the age of 85.

* Farquhar Robert Oliver at The Canadian Encyclopedia

( Composition ) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, under the tutorship of composers David Farquhar and Jenny McLeod.

Thomas B. Farquhar is the Head of School as of the 2010-2011 school year, after the retirement of former Head of School Bruce Stewart at the end of the 2008-2009 school year.

Hook was born the son of James Hook, FRS and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar MD, in London on 13 March 1798, and educated first at Blundell's School in Tiverton, then Winchester College, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1821.

* John Farquhar Munro MSP official biography at the Scottish Parliament website

* John Farquhar Munro MSP profile at the site of Scottish Liberal Democrats

In 1925, he completed 53 climbs in the Sierra Nevada, and told Francis Farquhar that " I sometimes think I climbed enough peaks this summer to render me a candidate for a padded cell -- at least some people look at the matter in that way.

The names of settings include Faircloth Arena ( the " Buster Bowl "), Abbotsford Hall ( the dining hall ), Farquhar Fitness Center, Phipps Hall, Edgerton House ( Charlotte's co-ed dorm ), Ryland Reading Room at the Dupont Memorial Library, Ladding Walk, Marsden Hall, Fiske Hall, and Ladding Walk.

The 2nd Battalion returned to their barracks in Weeton, Lancashire during April, 2008 and were presented with their service medals at a parade there on 30 April 2008 by Major General Andrew Farquhar, Honorary Colonel of the Battalion, along with Brigadier Andrew Mackay, of 52 Infantry Brigade, and Brigadier Mike Griffiths, of 42 ( North West ) Brigade.

Born in Los Angeles, Regan Farquhar was introduced to hip hop at an early age, his father Ralph Farquhar being the screenwriter for the film Krush Groove, one of the earliest films focusing on hip hop culture.

Farquhar, fond of books and a student from his earliest years, completed his education with Hallowell in Alexandria, Virginia, at the Brimstone Academy.

On his way to England, for trial over the duel with Colonel Paterson, Macarthur's ship had put in for repairs in Indonesia, where he met and offered timely advice to the young and inexperienced British Resident at Amboyna, Sir Robert Farquhar, son of the Physician in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, Sir Walter Farquhar.

* University Centre – includes many administrative offices ( Accounting, Payroll, Advising, Record Services ) as well as the main public cafeteria, Maltwood art gallery and the Farquhar auditorium.

Fonthill, with part of his collection was sold before the sale for £ 330, 000 to John Farquhar, who had made a fortune selling gunpowder in India.

Questions were raised about whether the elderly Conservative Party Treasurer, Lord Farquhar, had passed on to Lloyd George ( who during his premiership had amassed a large fund, largely from the sale of honours ) any money intended for the Conservative Party.

The earliest cultivation took place in 1823, when Francis Bernard, son-in-law of Lieutenant Colonel William Farquhar, the first Resident of Singapore, started a coconut estate in the district.

Maj .- Gen. William Farquhar ( 1774 – 1839 ), who served as Singapore's first Governors of Singapore # Resident of Singapore ( 1819-1826 ) | Resident from 1819 to 1823

Between 1819 and 1823 Farquhar commissioned unidentified Chinese artists to illustrate local flora and fauna.

At a farewell dinner with the principal merchants and British inhabitants on 27 December 1823, Colonel William Farquhar was presented with a plate valued at 3000 sicca rupees as a farewell gift.

Originally, William Farquhar who had governed Singapore from 1819 until 1823 had allowed the colony to flourish under the sheer volume of trade that passed through her port, but had not organised the colony, and thus it grew haphazardly.

The British administration, which began with Robert Townsend Farquhar as governor, was followed by rapid social and economic changes.

In 1840 he wrote introductory notices to the work of Sheridan and to Edward Moxon's edition of the works of William Wycherley, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar, a work which furnished the occasion of Macaulay's essay on the Dramatists of the Restoration.

Beckford's decidedly obsessive haste to erect the building as fast and as grandiosely as he could, coupled with the decision ( ultimately pushed by Beckford ), of reaching structurally unsound heights in the building's tower spire, and utilizing for this a method of building labeled " compo-cement " by Wyatt, which consisted in using timber stuccoed with cement, led to the eventual collapse of the tower — damaging the western wing of the building too — in 1825, when Beckford had already sold the building ( for a good price of £ 275, 000 ) to John Farquhar.

Dr Farquhar McCrae, a wealthy surgeon, purchased 600 acres ( 2. 4 km² ) in the area which he called Moreland.

The idea that it inspired the design of the American flag dates to the celebratory and patriotic climate of the year 1876, which saw the publication of “ Washington: A Drama in Five Acts ,” a drama in verse by the popular English poet Martin Farquhar Tupper.

The barracks has been a training centre for the Army since 1881 was home to Army Training Regiment Litchfield, which trained new recruits on their Phase 1 Common Military Training ( i. e. becoming soldiers ) from The Royal Signals and The Royal Engineers, from 2002 until 2008 when Major General Andrew Farquhar CBE, General Officer Commanding the Army's 5th Division, inspected the recruits and took the salute before the Army Training Regiment's flag was lowered for the very last time.

In 1996, South Central creator Ralph Farquhar cast Bentley in the series Moesha, which ran for six seasons on UPN.

Along the southern side of the park runs Farquhar Street which has a private residence, the Georgian Revival style Courthouse, built in 1934, the 1909 Federation style police station, Catholic Presbytery, St. Joseph's Catholic School, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Church, the Manning Valley Historical Society rooms and Museum and a dental surgery.

Farquhar was Chief Engineer in the expeditionary force which took Malacca from the Dutch on 18 August 1795.

Farquhar took a more laissez-faire approach, which suited the local traders who had followed him there.

Farquhar Atoll is notable for its high sand dunes, some of which reach to over in height.

Farquhar was commended for his fine handling of his ship during that disastrous 1889 hurricane at Apia, Samoa, in which she and a number of other American and foreign naval vessels were lost.

Farquhar also built a temporary home with an attap roof and kajang walls on the current Singapore Cricket Club site, on the edge which came to be known as Raffles Plain.

Interested, Farquhar asks if it is possible to sabotage the bridge, to which the soldier replies that he could burn it down.