* 1951 – Gerry Francis, English football player and manager

In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

These new signings were in addition to home-grown talent such as Dave Clement, Ian Gillard, Mick Leach and Gerry Francis.

Gerry Francis, a key player in the 1970s QPR side who had proved himself as a successful manager with Bristol Rovers, was appointed manager in the summer of 1991.

* First Team Coaches: Adrian Pennock, Mark O ' Connor & Gerry Francis

And after a poor start to the 1998 – 99 season, Harford was sacked in September and replaced by Gerry Francis.

From then until he died twenty years later Hines recorded endlessly both solo and with jazz notables like Cat Anderson, Harold Ashby, Barney Bigard, Lawrence Brown, Dave Brubeck ( they recorded duets in 1975 ), Jaki Byard ( duets in 1972 ), Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Wallace Davenport, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington ( duets in 1966 ), Ella Fitzgerald, Panama Francis, Bud Freeman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Gonsalves, Stephane Grappelli, Sonny Greer, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Peanuts Hucko, Helen Humes, Budd Johnson, Jonah Jones, Max Kaminsky, Gene Krupa, Ellis Larkins, Marian McPartland ( duets in 1970 ), Gerry Mulligan, Ray Nance, Oscar Peterson ( duets in 1968 ), Russell Procope, Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Rushing, Stuff Smith, Rex Stewart, Maxine Sullivan, Buddy Tate, Jack Teagarden, Clark Terry, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Venuti, Earle Warren, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson ( duets in 1965 & 1970 ), Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Woode and Lester Young.

In nearly a decade at Loftus Road, he played under four different managers-Jim Smith, Trevor Francis, Don Howe and Gerry Francis.

Dowie also had a brief spell as caretaker manager of QPR in the autumn of 1998, between the dismissal of Ray Harford and appointment of Gerry Francis.

Gerry Fiennes ( full name: Gerard Francis Gisborne Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes OBE, MA ) ( 7 June 1906 – 25 May 1985 ) was a British railway manager who rose through the ranks of the London and North Eastern Railway and later British Rail following graduation from Oxford University.

In October 2010, 15 years after this transfer saga, Anderton revealed that he had decided against a move to Manchester United because he had been happy at Tottenham and manager Gerry Francis was not happy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer ; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough.

On recovery from the injury, he accepted an offer from QPR to become their new player-manager after Gerry Francis left in November 1994.

He played 23 times in the Premier League and scored three goals as Spurs ( who changed manager from Ossie Ardiles to Gerry Francis a few weeks after Popescu arrived ) finished seventh in the league-their highest finish for five years.

Wegerle continued to thrive at QPR until the arrival of new manager Gerry Francis who had little use for Wegerle and sold him in March 1992.

With a team containing the likes of Stan Bowles and Gerry Francis, as well as players recruited from ex-club Chelsea, John Hollins and David Webb, Sexton took Rangers to within a point of the League title in 1975 – 76.

* Gerry Francis ( Leeds United & York City )

In September 1998, Gerry Francis was named as QPR manager for the second time.

Back at Rovers, who were now playing " home " games at Twerton Park in Bath, and under the wing of new Rovers manager Gerry Francis, Holloway flourished.

He returned to work with Jim Sheridan on In the Name of the Father, in which he played Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four who were wrongfully convicted of a bombing carried out by the Provisional IRA.

Only West Belfast returned a pro-Sunningdale MP ( Gerry Fitt ).

When Smith returned to parliament, however, he found himself challenged for the deputy leadership by Gerry Brownlee.

Gerry and Cookie returned home to Florida and were overcome with attention after the victory.

He returned to the pages of " the Galaxy's Greatest Comic " in the early 1980s to create Rogue Trooper with writer Gerry Finley-Day and produce an acclaimed early run on that feature, before handing it over to a succession of other artists.

In September, Rothley became the centre of international media attention when McCann's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, returned to their home after being formally named as suspects in the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

Kiefer returned at the 2007 Gerry Weber Open, losing in the first round to eventual champion Tomáš Berdych.

Major production credits were unchanged from the first film: while Gerry and Sylvia Anderson scripted the film in three months and returned as producers, David Lane filled the position of director.

Whelan returned to the role of filling in for Gerry Ryan whenever Ryan was on holiday from 30 July until 3 September 2007.

Gerry has returned to his normal, old age, but still looks healthy enough, while Mrs. Markham is still young but now in an advanced state of pregnancy.

Gerry Conway briefly returned to co-write ( with Roy Thomas ) Barbara's next appearance where she finally meets Ka-Zar and is reunited with her fiancé ( whose name is revealed as " Paul ").

In 1998 a concert was given at the original site and this helped ignite the vision of philanthropist Alan Gerry and daughter Robyn to acquire the land and build what was to become Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Following the death of his mother Marie in 1998 of breast cancer, the family home, which Keating had bought at the age of eighteen, was sold, rendering his father Gerry homeless and resulting in a bitter feud between father and son – Gerry was not invited to his son's wedding, which took place in Nevis.

* Gerry Smith ( 1995 – 1998 )

Manon Rhéaume was married to Gerry St-Cyr, a roller hockey player and minor league hockey player in June 1998, whom she later divorced.

* 1998 – Stephen Harper becomes President of the NCC, Gerry Nicholls becomes Vice-President.

* Gerry Finn-guitar ( 1998 – 2002, various shows )

They were presented by Gerry Adams to the 1998 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis as ‘ our Nelson Mandelas ’, and were released together with Brendan Dowd and Liam Quinn in 1999 as part of the Good Friday Agreement.

He was elected to the legislature in a by-election on October 1, 1998, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Gerry Courtemanche by 1, 364 votes.

More recent work has included the Gerry Anderson science-fiction series Space Precinct ( 1994 ), the Canadian film Conquest ( 1998 ) and various one-off TV dramas such as Cold Enough For Snow ( 1997 ) and The Hunt ( 2001 ).

: 1998: Gerry Malone

In 1998 Gerry Douglas and Sharon Day were made partners in this privately owned company ; however, Frank Butler remains active to this day.

In 1998, Gerry Boudreau, Chris Perry and Ray Zinck, all former employees of CJLS purchased CJLS.

* Sliding Doors ( 1998 ) Gerry

This sound was popularized by the famous record by Gerry Mulligan: The Original Quartet with Chet Baker ( Blue Note, 1998 ).

He also worked as the artistic designer on Gerry Anderson's 1998 TV series Lavender Castle.

It was produced between 1996 and 1998 through a collaboration between Carrington Productions International, Gerry Anderson Productions and Cosgrove Hall Films, and was first broadcast on CITV between 1999 and 2000.