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George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, ( born 12 April 1946 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and early January 2004 ; he succeeded Javier Solana in that position.
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* Baron Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, FRSA, FRSE, PC ( born 12 April 1946, George Islay MacNeill Robertson ,) is a British Labour politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and January 2004.
* The Rt Hon Lord ( George Islay MacNeill ) Robertson of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, PC, Hon FRSE is the current Chairman of The Ditchley Foundation.
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, the members of the Ridgefield Park Board of Commissioners, whose terms of office all end in 2012, are Mayor George D. Fosdick ( Commissioner of Public Safety ), John H. Anlian ( Commissioner of Public Affairs ), Maggie Boyd ( Commissioner of Revenue and Finance ), Adam MacNeill ( Commissioner of Parks and Public Property ) and Hugo R. Poli ( Commissioner of Public Works ).
< center > Members of the First Dáil, 10 April 1919First row, left to right: Laurence Ginnell, Michael Collins ( Irish leader ) | Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, George Noble Plunkett | Count Plunkett, Eoin MacNeill, W. T. Cosgrave and Ernest Blythe.
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Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.
One notable Manifesto Group exception was its secretary, future Defence Secretary George Robertson, who was the only officer to remain.
Former Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Atlantic Club of Bulgaria founding president Solomon Passy owned a famous Trabant, which he used to take NATO Secretaries General Manfred Wörner, George Robertson and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for a ride.
In June 1916 Lloyd George succeeded Kitchener ( drowned en route to Russia ) as Secretary of State for War, although he had little control over strategy, as General Robertson had been given direct right of access to the Cabinet so as to bypass Kitchener.
In a letter to Haig, Robertson called Lloyd George " an awful liar " who lacked the " honesty and truth " to be Prime Minister, claiming he had misled the Cabinet in his claim that the French had originated the proposal.
The War Policy Committee, which included Lloyd George, Milner, Curzon, Jan Smuts, Law, and the government's chief military adviser General Robertson, was also formed and first met on 11 June 1917.
In the winter of 1917 / 18 Lloyd George secured the resignations of both the service chiefs, Admiral Jellicoe and General Robertson.
Relations with the latter had not improved despite Lloyd George inviting him to a meal and arranging him to be served apple pudding ( his favourite dish ) and he was eventually forced out over his insistence that the British delegate to a new inter-Allied co-ordination body at Versailles be subordinate to Robertson as CIGS in London.
Robertson accused President George W. Bush of " undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country.
" I think George Bush is going to win in a walk ," Robertson told viewers of his " 700 Club " program.
* Article Baal ( PDF format ) by W. Robertson Smith and George F. Moore in Encyclopædia Biblica, edited T. K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, MacMillan: London, 1899.
Its chief affluent is the Minjan, which Sir George Robertson found to be a considerable stream where it approaches the Hindu Kush close under the Dorab.
* Lewis W. Tucker, George G. Robertson, " Architecture and Applications of the Connection Machine ," Computer, vol.
After Lloyd George ’ s Paris speech ( 12 November ) at which he said that “ when he saw the appalling casualty lists he wish ( ed ) it had not been necessary to win so many (“ victories ”)” Asquith ( briefed by Robertson ) debated the matter in the Commons ( 19 November ).
Asquith was also active in Parliament when Lloyd George, keen to refocus British efforts against Turkey rather than on the Western Front, removed Robertson as CIGS early in 1918.
In an article of J. J. O ' Connor and E. F. Robertson, devoted to George Atwood, there is the following passage:
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.
The garrison, led by George Augustus Eliott, later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, survived all attacks and a blockade of supplies.
By now the siege was over, and George Augustus Eliott was awarded the Knight of the Bath and was created 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar.
Benjamin West's depiction of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | William Johnson sparing Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau | Lord Dieskau's life after the Battle of Lake George.
Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba.
It was granted as a colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton.
* George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore of England ( 1579 – 1632 ), nobleman, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State, and English colonizer of the North America ( most notably the founder of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and future founder of Maryland )
* January 3 – In the court of James I of England, the king's favorite George Villiers becomes Master of the Horse ; on April 24 he receives the Order of the Garter ; and on August 27 is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £ 80, 000.
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