They have only once stood in Scotland in one region during the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, where George Galloway stood as the lead candidate on the Glasgow list ( Solidarity agreed not to stand in Glasgow and contested the remaining seven regions ), and have in all other elections urged voters to support the Scottish Socialist Party ( SSP ).

However, Pitt the Elder, amongst other prominent Britons and North Americans such as Joseph Galloway, debated and circulated plans for the creation of a federally representative British Parliament or imperial structure with powers of taxation that was to consist of American, West Indian, Irish and British Members of Parliament.

He was also partners with William Goddard and Joseph Galloway the three of whom published the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British monarchy in the American colonies.

Although attributed to Burns, the Selkirk Grace was already known in the 17th century, as the " Galloway Grace " or the " Covenanters ' Grace ".

Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising efforts.

A few months after becoming Chancellor, Jenkins was defeated in his Hillhead constituency by then-Labour politician George Galloway.

Ninian's major shrine was at Whithorn in Galloway, where he is associated with the Candida Casa ( Latin for ' White House ').

It is also noted that Ailred wrote his Life of S. Ninian at a time when he was living under Scottish rule and had close connections both to Fergus of Galloway ( who would resurrect the Bishopric of Galloway ), and to the Scottish royal family, all of whom would have been pleased to have a manuscript with such a glowing description of a Galwegian and Scottish saint.

In 1724 there was a rising against enclosures in Galloway, and a number of men who took part in it were called “ Levellers ” or “ Dykebreakers ”.

The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent, a role he also played for the rulers of medieval Galloway in Scotland, home to the Roman-era Novantae whose territory was also made independent of Roman rule by Maximus.

He was born between 1248 and 1250 at an unknown location, possibilities include Galloway, Picardy and Barnard Castle, County Durham.

He was the son of John, 5th Baron Balliol, Lord of Barnard Castle, and his wife Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway and granddaughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon.

The private memorial was attended by Robert Benevides, Barbara Hale, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Barbara Anderson, Elizabeth Baur, Dean Hargrove, William R. Moses, and Christian I. Nyby II.

In September 2005, Fonda was scheduled to join British politician and anti-war activist George Galloway at two stops on his U. S. book tour, Madison, Wisconsin and Chicago.

This was done on the proposal and the draught of Christopher Galloway from England, who was summoned to design the new tower's clock ( clock watch it there with the 1585 ) and suggested the arrangement of the tent roof over the clock.

It was situated between the Doon and the wild district of Galloway in the adjoining Stewartries, an area that was little else than a vast tract of hills and mosses.

There was criticism of his five-in-the-morning results interview with George Galloway.

Referring to Oona King, whom Galloway had just defeated, Paxman asked more than once whether he was proud of having got rid of " one of the very few black women in Parliament.

On December 21, 1988 the aircraft flying this route, a Boeing 747 – 121,, named Clipper Maid of the Seas, was blown up as it flew over Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, when approximately of plastic explosive was detonated in its forward cargo hold, triggering a sequence of events that led to the rapid destruction of the aircraft.

Eight of the poems, however, are addressed to Urien Rheged, whose kingdom was centered in the region of the Solway Firth on the borders of present-day England and Scotland and stretched east to Catraeth ( identified by most scholars as present-day Catterick in North Yorkshire ) and west to Galloway.

* Abraham Lincoln Galloway ( March 3, 1901 — August 17, 1961 ) was a rancher in San Saba County.

In the first years of the twenty-first century the paper has carried contributions from Uri Avnery, John Pilger, Green activist Derek Wall, ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas, Respect MP George Galloway, former MP Alan Simpson, the cartoonist Martin Rowson, and many trade union general secretaries.

What is now the City of Absecon was originally incorporated as a town by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 29, 1872, from portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township.

The area was originally incorporated as Brigantine Beach Borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 14, 1890 from portions of Galloway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on June 3, 1890.

Egg Harbor City incorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 14, 1858, from portions of Galloway Township and Mullica Township.

Galloway was incorporated as one of the initial group of 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Galloway Township was incorporated by the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as one of the state's initial group of 104 townships under the Township Act of 1798.

Galloway Township has adopted the Council-Manager form of New Jersey municipal government under the Faulkner Act.

Mullica Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 13, 1838, from the western section of Galloway Township.

Port Republic was Incorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1905, from portions of Galloway Township.

However, in July 2008 the Dumfries and Galloway Council decided to seek an Empowerment Order under the Harbours Act 1964 which would enable the Council to take over the harbour land and operations, following the pattern of a number of successful harbours along the Solway coast.

Royal forces crushed a revolt in Galloway in 1235 without difficulty ; nor did an invasion attempted soon afterwards by its exiled leaders meet with success.

* John Debo Galloway ; The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific ( 1950 )

From his mother he inherited significant lands in Galloway and claim to Lordship over the Gallovidians, as well as various English and Scottish estates of the Huntingdon inheritance ; from his father he inherited large estates in England and France, such as Hitchin, in Hertfordshire.

As well as the Damnonii, Ptolemy lists the Otalini, whose capital appears to have been Traprain Law ; to their west, the Selgovae in the Southern Uplands and, further west in Galloway, the Novantae.

J. E. Galloway was the first mayor ; Perry Rodkey, first postman ; E. D. Dexter, first hotel operator ; W. H. Dill ran the first telephone company ; John D. Richards had the first hardware store ; McGee Brothers put in the first cotton gin and E. E. Shook established the first lumber yard.

Dumfries ( ; possibly from ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland.

The reporter in the Statistical Account noted that in Wigtown, as in almost all the other towns in Galloway, there was a want of industry ; however, ‘ something of a manufacturing spirit has arisen in this part of the county ’.

Kirkcudbright, ( ;, ) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

David I invited Anglo-Norman lords into Scotland in the early 12th century to help him colonise and control areas of his kingdom such as Galloway ; the new lords brought castle technologies with them and wooden castles began to be established over the south of the kingdom.

Viscount Montgomery's harbour ( 1626 ; improved 1640 ), superseding what had hitherto been probably only a small jetty, was built and maintained as a result of the Royal Warrant of 1616 which limited travel between the Ards and the Rhins of Galloway to this port, and that at Portpatrick also owned by Montgomery.

In 2009 Freeview coverage increased: The south-west of England switched to digital between April and August ; Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway and the Isle of Man switched in June.

Breeds include Gloucester, Kerry, Irish Moiled, Red Poll, White Park, British White, Beef Shorthorn and Belted Galloway cattle ; Kerry Hill, Whitefaced Woodland and Portland sheep, and Golden Guernsey goats

This provoked the wrath of Wimund, Bishop of the Isles, who had previously had jurisdiction over Galloway ; but the new bishopric survived, and York had a new suffragan, an important step in the battle between York and Canterbury over the primacy, which was mainly a battle over the prestige of their respective sees.

John of Fordun ( IV, ii ) calls Kenneth's father " Alpin son of Achay " ( Alpín son of Eochu ) and has him killed in war with the Picts in 836 ; Andrew of Wyntoun's version mixes Fordun's war with the Picts with the Chronicle version which has him killed in Galloway.

South-east of this line graptolitic Silurian shales of Llandovery age prevail ; they are found around Dalry, Creetown, New Galloway, Castle Douglas and Kirkcudbright.

When Scotland consolidated under Kenneth MacAlpine ( crowned at Scone in 844 ), Galloway did not form part of the kingdom ; but in return for the services rendered to him at this crisis Kenneth gave his daughter in marriage to the Galloway chief, Olaf the White, and also conferred upon the men of Galloway the privilege of marching in the van of the Scottish armies, a right exercised and recognized for several centuries.

The Galloway chiefs hesitated for a time whether to throw in their lot with the Northumbrians or with Malcolm ; but language, race and the situation of their country at length induced them to become lieges of the Scottish king.

Several of the lords or " kings " of Galloway, a line said to have been founded by Fergus, the greatest of them all, asserted in vain their independence of the Scottish crown ; and in 1234 the line became extinct in the male branch on the death of Fergus's great-grandson Alan.

Even when the crowns of Scotland and England were united in 1603 turbulence continued ; for trouble arose over the attempt to establish episcopacy, and nowhere were the Covenanters more cruelly persecuted than in Galloway.