George Mackay Brown from Orkney, and Iain Crichton Smith from Lewis, wrote both poetry and prose fiction shaped by their distinctive island backgrounds.

* June 2 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary ( born 1844 )

Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay in From far Formosa ( 1896 ) reported that " if a savage is killed inland, the heart is eaten, flesh taken off in strips, and bones boiled to a jelly and preserved as a specific for malarial fever ".

In 1981 Sykes wrote, directed and starred in the offbeat comedy If You Go Down in the Woods Today for Thames, with a cast including Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay and George Sewell.

Saint Magnus is the subject of the novel Magnus by Orcadian author George Mackay Brown, which was published in 1973, and St Magnus, Earl of Orkney by John Mooney.

Writer George Mackay Brown was born and lived most of his life in the town, and is buried in the town's cemetery overlooking Hoy Sound.

* 1872-First All-India Missionary Conference with 136 participants ; George Leslie Mackay plants church in northern Taiwan ; Lottie Moon appointed as missionary to China

* Article " Douglas Dunn: Finished Fragrance: The Poems of George Mackay Brown.

* October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet ( died 1996 )

* George Mackay Brown-Beside the Ocean of Time

* Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories

George Mackay Brown from Orkney, and Iain Crichton Smith from Lewis, wrote both poetry and prose fiction shaped by their distinctive island backgrounds.

1950 saw his appointment as Warden of Newbattle Abbey College ( a college for working class men ) in Midlothian, where he met fellow Orcadian poet, George Mackay Brown.

George Mackay ( Australian politician ) | George Mackay as Speaker ( 1932 – 1934 ), wearing the full traditional dress.

* George Mackay Brown ( 1921 – 1996 ), Scottish poet, author, and dramatist

This incident is recounted at length in the 1973 novel Magnus by Orcadian author George Mackay Brown, and in the 1977 opera, The Martyrdom of St Magnus by Peter Maxwell Davies.

* George Mackay Brown ( 1921-1996 ), ' Bard of Orkney ', whose mother was born in Strathy

But his rise ceased abruptly in 1854 after a controversial libel suit was brought against him by the Crown Prosecutor George Mackay whose evident drunkenness on duty Harrison had editorially deplored.

* George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay ( 1678 – 1748 )

* George Mackay, 5th Lord Reay ( c. 1735 – 1768 )

* George Mackay Brown, writer, ( Stromness )

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

George William Brown, the Mayor of Baltimore, and other suspect Maryland politicians were arrested and imprisoned, without a warrant, as Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.

He campaigned relentlessly for George Brown, owner of the Reformist paper The Globe in the 1851 election, helping him to win a seat in the assembly.

Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

* George W. Bush hosted dignitaries, including the then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in 2003 and hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, in 2007.

While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

In 1957, Brown was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

6: Frank Capra, George Cukor, Clarence Brown " by Allen Estrin, AS Barnes, 1980

* 1995 — George E. Brown, Jr. ( Democrat Representative )

During the 1972 presidential election, James Brown openly proclaimed his support of Richard Nixon for reelection of the presidency over Democrat candidate George McGovern.

When in 1864 no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform.

* John George Brown ( 1831 – 1913 ), American painter born Durham, England

" On June 26, 1860, Flora gave birth to a son, Philip St. George Cooke Stuart, but his father changed the name to James Ewell Brown Stuart, Jr. (" Jimmie "), in late 1861 out of disgust with his father-in-law.

George Brown, Canadian politician and editor of the Toronto Globe hit back at his striking employees, pressing police to charge the Typographical Union with " conspiracy.

* 1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga ( 8, 586 m .), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.

* Brown, Ryan A and Armelagos, George, " Apportionment of Racial Diversity: A Review ", Evolutionary Anthropology 10: 34 – 40 2001

The university is organized into eleven residential colleges and eight schools of academic study, including the Wiess School of Natural Sciences, the George R. Brown School of Engineering, the School of Social Sciences, and the School of Humanities.

* George H. Brown, research engineer who headed RCA's development of color television

Their defensive secondary was extremely hard hitting and talented, led by safeties Jack Tatum, George Atkinson, cornerback Skip Thomas and cornerback Willie Brown.

The group had hoped to cover a number of different artists, but only two albums from this period saw completion and release-1984's George and James ( dedicated to George Gershwin and James Brown ) and 1986's Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series ( featuring tributes to Hank Williams and John Philip Sousa ).