The first ophthalmic surgeon in Great Britain was John Freke, appointed to the position by the Governors of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1727, but the establishment of the first dedicated ophthalmic hospital in 1805 ; now called Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, England was a transforming event in modern ophthalmology.

Smothers was born at the Fort Jay army post hospital on Governors Island in New York City, the son of Ruth ( née Remick ), a homemaker ; and Major Thomas B. Smothers, an army officer.

A purpose-built lecture theatre was constructed at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1791 and in 1822 the Governors approved the provision of medical education within the hospital.

The current system, under the Seventeenth Amendment, allows Governors to appoint a replacement only if their state legislature has previously decided to allow the Governor to do so ; otherwise, the seat must remain vacant until the special election is held to fill the seat, as in the case of a vacancy in the House.

Wanting to keep the ' APU ' abbreviation, a suggestion put forward by the governors was ' Anglia Prior University ' ( after a former Chancellor ), but the Governors decided to keep ' polytechnic ' in the title.

The increase of the size of the Inn led to a loss of its partially democratic nature, first in 1494 when it was decided that only Benchers and Governors should have a voice in calling people to the Bar, and by the end of the sixteenth century Benchers were almost entirely in control.

Simpson, writing at a later date, decided based on the Black Books that the Benchers were not the original governing body, and that the Inn was instead ruled by Governors ( or gubernatores ), sometimes called Rulers, who led the Inn.

The Board of Governors decided to honour Dr. Lam by expanding the planned auditorium into a much larger scale project-the development of the Lam Chi-fung Memorial Building.

The basic condition for membership is that the prospective member country should be a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ), pay its contribution to the capital of the Bank and be willing to accept such terms and conditions as may be decided upon by the IsDB Board of Governors.

At its December 2008 public meeting, the Board of Governors of the CSU System decided it was in the best interest of all CSU system campuses to separate what had previously been a conjoined position of CSU System chancellor and CSU Fort Collins president.

After the IAEA Board of Governors reported Iran's noncompliance with its safeguards agreement to the UN Security Council, the Council demanded that Iran suspend its nuclear enrichment activities while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has argued that the sanctions are " illegal ," imposed by " arrogant powers ," and that Iran has decided to pursue the monitoring of its self-described peaceful nuclear program through " its appropriate legal path ," the International Atomic Energy Agency.

On the expiration date of the old agreement, the NHL Board of Governors, representing ownership, met and unanimously decided that the 2004 – 05 NHL season would be delayed until a new collective bargaining agreement was in place.

By resolution of the Board of Governors, the society decided to start a new unit.

In 1874 The London Board of Governors decided to send a representative, named Andrew Doyle, to Canada to visit the homes and the children to see how they were faring.

However, it was decided by the Board of Governors of the college to discontinue Class 7 from 1999 onwards.

The Governors of the East India Company had at first intended to present the Tiger to the Crown, with a view to it being displayed in the Tower of London, but then decided but to keep it for the Company.

The failure to report was reported by the IAEA Secretariat to the IAEA Board of Governors ; however, the IAEA Board of Governors decided to not make a formal finding of noncompliance.

The Board of Governors decided to not make a formal finding of noncompliance, and the matter was not referred to the Security Council.

Since the founding of the Federal Reserve banking system, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan's Financial District has been the place where monetary policy in the United States is implemented, although policy is decided in Washington, D. C. by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Whilst Phase 1 was under construction, the Board of Governors decided to proceed with the construction of Phase 2, a new purpose built 3-storey building for the primary school.

As a result, the Board of Governors decided to make the final a best-of-five series.

* Alan Greenspan ( born 1926 ), 13th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

Arthur Harry Moore ( July 3, 1879 – November 18, 1952 ) was a Democrat who was the 39th Governors of New Jersey, serving three terms between 1926 and 1941.

Cushing was the first chairman of the Mount Royal College Board of Governors, holding the post from 1910 until 1926, when he was designated Honorary Chairman.

* Alan Greenspan ( born 1926 ), economist, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

The team won the Governors ' Cup four times: 1934, 1960, 1965, and 1966 ( finalists in 1943, 1955, 1956, 1958 ), and won the Junior World Series in 1907 and 1926 ( finalists in 1917, 1934, and 1960 ).

In the United States, a reserve requirement ( or liquidity ratio ) is a minimum value, set by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, of the ratio of required reserves to some category of deposits held at depository institutions ( e. g., commercial bank including US branch of a foreign bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union ).

From 1670 to 1970 the HBC Governors were British and based in London, United Kingdom.

While the various colonies in Australia were either sparsely populated or penal settlements or both, executive power was in the hands of the Governors, who, because of the great distance from their superiors in London and the resulting very slow communication, necessarily exercised vast powers.

The Governors and London therefore set in motion a gradual process of establishing a Westminster system in the colonies, not so fast as to get ahead of population or economic growth, nor so slow as to provoke clamouring for revolutionary change as happened in America.

The Board of Governors was later established in An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Western University of London, Ontario, 1892.

Ex officio governors of the Board include the university's chancellor, president, the mayor of London, the warden of Middlesex County and the secretary of the Board of Governors.

In 1876 the company were legally established as trustees of the Colet estate and the management of the school was assigned to a Board of Governors consisting of the Master, Wardens and nine members of the company, together with three representatives each of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London.

He painted a famous portrait of Thomas Coram ( 1740 ; now Foundling Museum, London ; reproduced in stipple by William Nutter for R. Cribb in 1796 ), and, together with some of his fellow artists, decorated the Governors ' Court Room, which contains paintings by Francis Hayman, Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Wilson.

Amos has also been Deputy Chair of the Runnymede Trust ( 1990 – 98 ), a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research, a non-executive Director of the University College London Hospitals Trust, a Trustee of Voluntary Services Overseas, Chair of the Afiya Trust, a director of Hampstead Theatre and Chair of the Board of Governors of the Royal College of Nursing Institute.

The Secretary-General is held responsible by the Commonwealth's Board of Governors in London.

In 1911, the Governors commissioned Roger Fry to create a set of seven murals to decorate the student dining room with the theme of " London on Holiday ".

During this period the organisation of the governors of the People's Palace was rearranged, creating the separate People's Palace Committee and East London College Committee, both under the Palace Governors, as a sign of the growing separation of the two concepts within a single complex.

* Carrington, R. C. Two Schools: A History of the St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School Foundation ( London: The Governors of the St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School Foundation, 1971 ).

Howells was the first black woman to sit on the GLC's Training Board ; the first female member of the Court of Governors of the University of Greenwich and was the Vice Chair at the London Voluntary Services Council.

To ensure that state governments would be free from such extra-constitutional intervention or coercion, state Governors continued to be appointed by the King on the advice of the Colonial Secretary in London, usually after an informal consultation with the state government.

Deputy Principal ( Corporate ) / Deputy CEO / Clerk to Governors, Deborah Scully ; prior to joining Central, Debbie held a number of roles in the former Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ).

Grossman is a member of the Council and the Court of Governors at the London School of Economics.

He is a member of the Board of Governors of London South Bank University, a Trustee of the Open University Foundation, and the member of the Courts of the University of Northampton and the University of Bedfordshire.

He has also served as a Director of the Aitkin Bicentennial Exhibition Centre, Special Olympics Canada, Canadian Cancer Society National Public Relations, the Board of Advisors of the International Association for Students of Economic and Commerce, the National Committee on Lobbyists for the Canadian Bar Association ( CBA ), Life President and class Valedictorian of Dalhousie University, Friends of the London School of Economics and Goodenough College Trust, Board of Governors and Secretary, Patron of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria B. C.

He sat on that charity's original Court of Governors with such fellow Governors as the Duke of Bedford, the Lord Vere and the Lord Mayor of London.

Book of Governors, London, 1893, vol.

In 1930 the Mansion stood empty and was marked for demolition when it was bought, together with the Belvedere, the stables and of parkland, by the Governors of a south London school, later renamed Claremont School and since 1978 known as Claremont Fan Court School.

* Louis Arnaud Reid ( 1909-1912 ): writer on aesthetics ; foundation professor of the philosophy of education, London Institute of Education ; Leys Board of Governors.