Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

Having reached the requisite standard, Prince Harry attended the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury, where he joined brother Prince William.

Having thus become a Privatdozent, Weber joined the University of Berlin's faculty, lecturing and consulting for the government.

Having joined Ibrahim in 1534, Suleiman made a push towards Persia, only to find the Shah sacrificing territory instead of facing a pitched battle, resorting to harassment of the Ottoman army as it proceeded along the harsh interior.

Having joined the Council of Europe as a full member in 1988, San Marino held the rotating chair of the organisation during the first half of 1990.

Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.

Having joined Brabham in 1978 for a $ 1 million salary, Lauda endured two unsuccessful seasons, notable mainly for his one race in the Brabham BT46B, a radical design known as the Fan Car: it won its first race, but Brabham did not use the car in F1 again, not wanting the car to be banned outright.

Having now changed his appearance to mimic that of the CAT captain, Horza witnesses a game of " Damage ", which Kraiklyn has joined in the hopes of winning enough to make up the losses from his foolhardy expeditions with the crew.

Having heard of Sweyn's defeat by Magnus, Harald met up with his fellow exile in Sweden ( who was also his nephew ), as well as with the Swedish king Anund Jacob, and the three joined forces against Magnus.

Having joined up with Stig O ' Hara ( a guitarist of no fixed hairstyle ), they started playing as a trio.

Having already appeared as a musical guest and then host of Saturday Night Live, McKean joined the cast in 1994 and remained a cast member until 1995.

Having defeated the Fara Sabakh and Fara Sandial, he joined the two countries together ( hence: Sabakh-Sandial ) and ruled it.

Having entered the Capuchin order, after a brief period of service at Kilkenny, he joined the mission in Cork.

Having been defeated twice in recent memory by France, and being keen on revenge, Austria joined the coalition a few months later.

Having at last returned to complete his college degree, he earned the Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922, and joined the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Having joined the Fourth Crusade in about 1201, he distinguished himself at the sieges of Constantinople and elsewhere.

Having obtained a solid grounding in Talmud, Hutner joined a group of the Slabodka yeshiva that established a new yeshiva in Hebron.

Having been joined by the River Etherow, the Goyt joins the River Tame at Stockport, forming the River Mersey.

Having briefly joined the Royalist army, he went abroad to avoid further involvement in the English Civil War.

* Having a skeleton of phalanges, joined by hinge-like joints that provide flexion toward the palm of the hand

Having buried his wife Jane ( Purdon ) and two sons ( of their 20 children ) in the family vault at St. Patrick ’ s, Adam Loftus died at his Episcopal Palace in Kevin Street “ worn out with age ” and joined his family in the same vault.

Having been named as his father's representative in England in 1345 and again in 1346, Lionel joined an expedition into France in 1355, but his chief energies were reserved for the affairs of Ireland.

Having been engaged in continual warfare in the field for two years, without holiday or accommodation, he was showing considerable signs of strain, and was joined in South Africa by his wife.

Having agreed to a set of policies, the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists formed a government on 24 June 1895.

Having previously turned down a DBE offered to her by the then-Prime Minister Jim Callaghan, Williams was created a life peer as The Baroness Williams of Crosby, of Stevenage in the County of Hertfordshire, in 1993 and subsequently served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords from 2001 to 2004.

Having earlier served as counsellor of the Romanian legations in Paris and Petrograd, by 1914 Prince Antoine was First Secretary of the Romanian Legation in London and by 1918 had entered the circle of Herbert Henry Asquith ( former Liberal Prime Minister ).

Having studied under Runeberg he belonged to Liberal, anti-tsarist circles that agitated for Finland's liberation from Russia by the Swedes during the Crimean War ; and an unguarded speech at a convivial entertainment in 1855 drew the attention of the Imperial Russian authorities to his political views, and led to a dismissal from the university.

Having been Liberal candidate in Rochdale at the 1970 general election when he took the party to second place, Smith won the seat at the 1972 by-election with a large swing from Labour to the Liberals.

Having joined the Liberal Party in 1960 and become a councillor the following year, Lubbock won a sensational by-election victory at Orpington on 15 March 1962, with a majority of 7, 855.

Having been for 15 years a little-known Liberal backbencher, Andrew became Speaker of the House after the October 1998 elections.

Having formed an ambition to become a politician, she joined the Liberal Party at the age of 17.

Having received arms and funding from Mexico, the Liberal army of Gen. Moncada seemed on the verge of seizing the capital.

Having been in power for much of the early 20th century under Prime Ministers Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith and Lloyd George, the Liberal party suffered a sharp decline from 1922 ; the newly-formed Labour party, whose leader Ramsay Macdonald led two minority governments, swiftly became the Conservatives ' main opposition, and Britain's largest party of the left.

Having chaired the Liberal Government Task Force on gasoline pricing in 1998, McTeague challenged the premium prices Canadians were forced to pay for gasoline in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ( Aug 2005 ) For 10 weeks Canadian refiners added several cents a litre to the price of gasoline even over prices in the most affected markets in the US.

Having been a Liberal deputy during the 1917 conscription crisis, Lapointe knew how much a new crisis like the last one would destroy the national unity that Mackenzie King had tried to build since 1921.

Having been a Conservative supporter as a young man, Brett began his political career in 1880, as Liberal Member of Parliament for Penryn and Falmouth.

Having been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) in 1921, he was also elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1925, defeating former Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith.

Having secured election, however, Wilson moved quickly to align himself with the Liberal Party and existing Lib – Lab Members of Parliament ( MPs ) such as Thomas Burt and John Wilson.

Having been appointed chief of the Carrara arsenal at Cádiz, he was elected a deputy and joined the Union Liberal of O ' Donnell and Serrano.

Having already announced his intention of retiring from Parliament at the next election, he resigned from the Liberal Party in October 1977.

Having lost Streatham in 1992, the Conservatives were beaten into third place by the Liberal Democrats in 2001, and there have been further significant swings from Labour to the Liberal Democrats at the two subsequent General elections with only a marginal improvement in the Conservative share of the vote in 2010.