Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

It appeared in Europe in such critical movements as Dada and then in constructive movements such as surrealism, as well as in smaller movements such as the Bloomsbury Group, which included British novelists Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster.

The Bloomsbury Group — or Bloomsbury Set — was an enormously influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

Other writers with whom Forster associated included the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the Belfast-based novelist Forrest Reid.

Other alumni of King's College have included prime ministers, archbishops, presidents and the novelist E. M. Forster.

Forster's heirs, however, were forced to sell the ranch in 1882 because of a string of bad luck, which included a series of droughts and a fence law that forced Forster to construct fencing around the extensive rancho lands.

Early medical and sanitary engineering reformers included Henry Austin, Joseph Bazalgette, Edwin Chadwick, Frank Forster, Thomas Hawksley, William Haywood, Henry Letheby, Robert Rawlinson, Sir John Simon and Thomas Wicksteed.

Short term cast members included: Peter Adams, Briony Behets, Pat Bishop, Aileen Britton, Chelsea Brown, Carlotta, Anne Charleston, Chantal Contouri, Lynette Curran, Lorrae Desmond, Carmen Duncan, Paula Duncan, Judi Farr, Jill Forster, Joseph Furst, Arianthe Galani, Vivienne Garrett, Pamela Garrick, Deborah Gray, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Wendy Hughes, Chris King, Josephine Knur, Anne Louise Lambert, Margaret Laurence, Joanna Lockwood, Judy McBurney, Diana McLean, John McTernan, Vince Martin, Ray Meagher, Julieanne Newbould, John Orcsik, Shane Porteous, Candy Raymond, Tristan Rogers, June Salter, Justine Saunders, Mary Ann Severne, Henri Szeps, Malcolm Thompson, Rowena Wallace and Norman Yemm.

Later cast additions included Lynda Keane, Vanessa Leigh, Delvene Delaney, Luigi Villani, Tracy Mann, Jill Forster, John Stanton, Geraldine Turner, Davina Whitehouse, Syd Heylen, Tony Barry, Cheryl Rixon, Tristan Rogers, Noni Hazelhurst, Barbara Llewellyn, Anne Louise Lambert, Maurie Fields, Don Barker, Penny Downie, Christine Broadway, Ross Skiffington, Gary Day, Tom Richards.

Others in the cast included Sonny Blake, John Hamblin, Victoria Nicholls, Jill Forster, Joy Chambers, Peter Mochrie, Kim Lewis, Penny Cook, Shane Porteous, Sheridan Jobbins, Rosalind Speirs, Queenie Ashton, Vince Martin, Ivar Kants, Lenore Smith, Noel Trevarthen, Michael C Smith, Tom Burlinson, Jan Kingsbury, Joanne Stanley, Todd Boyce, Simon Burke, Jacqui Gordon, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Bunney Brooke, Lisa Crittenden, Marty Morton, John Ewart, Benita Collings, Rebecca Rigg, David Franklin, Peter Cousens, Robyn Gibbes, Deborah Kennedy, David Argue, Alita Fahey, Martin Sacks.

It obtained immediate recognition, making Forster a prominent figure in a distinguished circle of literary men which included Leigh Hunt, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Albany Fonblanque, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.

Older people he proposed included Herbert Read, T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, and " their lot ," E. M. Forster (" who has seen and likes PR "), William Empson, Jack Common, Hugh Slater, Ahmed Ali, and Roy Campbell.

* some letters to Benjamin Furly, his sons, and his clerk Harry Wilkinson, included, in a volume entitled Original Letters of Locke, Sidney and Shaftesbury, which was published by T. Forster in 1830, and again in an enlarged form in 1847 ;

The children's tutors at Nassenheide included E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole.

Proposals included a new railway station on the line between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square, and a discounted bus service.

Other Alexander triumphs included The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, by Pinero ( 1893 ); The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope ( 1896 ); As You Like It ( 1896 ); Much Ado About Nothing ( 1898 ); Paolo and Francesca, by Stephen Phillips ( 1902 ); If I were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy ( 1902 ); Old Heidelberg, by Meyer Forster and Bleichmann ( 1903 ) and His House in Order, by Pinero ( 1906 ), to name only a few of the plays still remembered.

Other members of this group included Michael O ' Connell, Robert Forster, Claire McKenna, Gary Warner, Peter Adams, Sue Welch, Colin Bloxsom and Tony Childs

Her friends included the Huxley, Kingsley, Rossetti, and Browning families, W. E. Forster ( with whom she visited revolutionary Paris in 1848 ), John Bright, John Ruskin and G. H. Lewes.

Festival discoveries have included directors such as Christopher Nolan ( Memento ), Marc Forster ( Monster's Ball ) and Jared Hess ( Napoleon Dynamite ).

First trained as a violinist, Maestro Chan graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, where his teachers included eminent British conductors Christopher Adey, John Forster, and the late Norman Del Mar, as well as renowned British concertmasters John Ludlow and Hugh Bean.

The ensemble cast also included Robert Forster as Joe Litko, Denis Leary as Fireman, and Jack Wallace, a veteran of Mamet productions, as Fred.

Leonard Woolf and E. M. Forster drafted a letter of protest against the suppression of The Well, assembling a list of supporters that included Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Arnold Bennett, Vera Brittain and Ethel Smyth.

Cambridge Apostle friendships brought into the group Desmond MacCarthy, his wife Molly, and E. M. Forster.

Forster and his wife Rachel devoted themselves to charities, and Forster spent much time travelling to all the states and country areas, unveiling war memorials and making patriotic speeches.

He was born probably at Leominster, England, the son of William Hoby of Leominster by his first wife, Katherine Forster.

* George Forster murdered his wife and child by drowning them in Paddington Canal, London: he was hanged at Newgate on 18 January 1803.

Forster was born in Dublin, the son of Richard Forster and his wife Anne Webber.

While here he interested himself for the welfare of the family of his friend Georg Forster, who, favouring republican views, had gone to Paris, leaving his wife Thérèse Forster ( 1764-1829 ) and family in destitute circumstances.

Huber, enamoured of the talented young wife, gave up his diplomatic post, broke off his engagement to Dora Stock, removed with the Forster family to Switzerland, and on the death of her husband in 1794 married Thérèse Forster in Bôle.

George Forster ( or Foster ) was found guilty of murdering his wife and child by drowning them in Paddington Canal, London.

He also stated that Forster and his wife had not been on good terms because she wished to live with him.

Various witnesses saw Forster with his wife and child in public houses near Paddington Canal during the day on the Sunday.

Forster was born in Madras, India, the son of Thomas Forster, army surgeon, and his wife Eliza Blaxland, daughter of Gregory Blaxland.

Forster resigned and the new Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, was murdered by Irish terrorists on 6 May 1882, leaving the ' Kilmainham Treaty ' almost useless.

He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from April 1880 to May 1882, when soon after the resignation of William Edward Forster, Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, he was appointed to succeed him.

In May 1882, Gladstone's decision to release the Irish Nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell from prison led to the resignation of the hardline Chief Secretary for Ireland, W. E. Forster.

On 2 May 1882, Gladstone announced that the government intended to release Parnell and his fellow-prisoners in Kilmainham, and that both Lord Cowper-Temple and Forster had in consequence resigned ; on the following Saturday, Forster's successor, Lord Frederick Cavendish, was murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Forster, Ken " Letter from ' america '", in Stamp Magazine, May 1999, pp 94 – 95.

The acting-governor had sent for William Forster before parliament met, but he was unable to form a ministry, and in May 1872 Parkes formed his first ministry which was to last for nearly three years.

Margaret Forster ( born 25 May 1938 ) is a British author.

* Taylor, Annie, ' The difference a day made ( 14 May 1957 ) ... Margaret Forster was on a mission ', The Guardian, 6 June 1996

* Margaret Forster discusses her latest book Isa and May with The Interview Online

On arriving at the fort on 18 May, the British briefly exchanged fire before Forster parleyed with Bedel's successor, Major Isaac Butterfield, to request his surrender and warn him of the consequences should Indian warriors be committed to battle.

He was a member of Stephen Hack's expedition of May and June 1857 looking for grazing country north and west of Streaky Bay and a private expedition to Lake Gairdner with Anthony Forster ( later to become editor of The Register ) in 1858.

According to Xiao's autobiography, he met the English novelist E. M. Forster, on 9 May 1941 at the Tagore Memorial Meeting.

A statue of him now stands in Lister Park, in Heaton, Bradford, sculpted by Matthew Noble from a block of white Sicilian marble and unveiled on Saturday 15 May 1875 by W. E. Forster, then Member of Parliament for Bradford.

Forster and McLennan reformed the band in 2000 with a new line-up, McLennan died on 6 May 2006 of a heart attack and The Go-Betweens disbanded again.

Grant McLennan died on 6 May 2006 of a heart attack, and Robert Forster subsequently announced that The Go-Betweens were no more.

In May 2001 " Cattle and Cane ", written by McLennan and Forster, was selected by Australasian Performing Right Association ( APRA ) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

However, depressed meat prices in the early 1950s proved too much to handle and the Fuhrman and Forster Company was closed in May 1955.

In May 1934 Forster, who had been made Honorable Citizen of Fürth and of Danzig, married Gertrud Deetz.

* Image: " Aerial view of the Canyon Lake, looking eastward, May 21, 2009 " by Bruce Forster, Reed College Centennial Archives

* Image: " Aerial view of the Canyon Lake, May 21, 2009 " by Bruce Forster, Reed College Centennial Archives

Nick Forster replaced Scap in May, 1978, completing the band's classic lineup that recorded and performed nationally and internationally for 12 years, through April, 1990.

He died on the 29 May 1832 and the next year A Life ( by Henry Forster Burder ) was published.

In May 1840, the Darvalls leased Deniston Farm and 100 acres ( 40 hectares ) of land from a Dr Forster, for a period of 12 years.

On 19 May 2011, Forster announced his retirement from football to concentrate on management.