Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were amateur scientists who never held a position in their field of study.

In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for amateur championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights.

Cast parties are traditionally held for most theater performances, both professional and amateur.

By 1894, the year the Congress was held, he publicly criticised the type of amateur competition embodied in English rowing contests, arguing that its specific exclusion of working-class athletes was wrong.

Holland was an amateur radio operator and held the callsign DB4FA.

Carte also introduced the practice of licensing amateur theatrical societies to present works for which he held the rights, increasing the works ' popularity and the sales of scores and libretti, as well as the rental of band parts.

The tour is not held every year, mostly because the ice is not thick enough every Dutch winter, and also because about 15, 000 amateur skaters may take part, putting high requirements on the quality of the ice.

The various contests were thus held under amateur regulations with the exception of fencing matches.

Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean " training ") is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as " the highest expression of horse training ", where " horse and rider are expected to perform from memory a series of predetermined movements " Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games.

Some professional equipment is very large and too heavy to be hand held whilst some amateur cameras were designed to be very small and light for single-handed operation.

: The supposed conflict between Benedict's and Herskovits's call for tolerance and the untolerant passion with which they called for it turns out not to be the simple contradiction so many amateur logicians have held it to be, but the expression of a perception, caused by thinking a lot about Zunis and Dahomys, that the world being so full of a number of things, rushing to judgement is more than a mistake, it is a crime.

The amateur archaeologist Miloradovich's 1933 finds are held in the Arctic and Antarctic Museum in St. Petersburg Dmitriy Kravchenko visited the site in 1977, 1979 and 1980 – and sent divers into the sea hoping to find the wreck of the large ship.

He held a radio amateur license ( K3BYG ) for a short time.

LeMay was an active amateur radio operator and held a succession of call signs ; K0GRL, K4FRA, and W6EZV.

He is the only canonized saint to have held an amateur radio license, with the call sign SP3RN.

* Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup, soccer ( association football ) tournament held between American soccer clubs from MLS, minor leagues, and amateur associations

Rovers, originally composed entirely of amateur players, held home games at several locations in the town of Watford.

First held in 1948, the contest was initially only for amateur male bodybuilders — but a separate contest for professionals was added in 1952.

Two annual amateur cycling events are held in Solvang: the Solvang Century ( held in March ) and the Solvang Prelude ( held in November ).

At one time it held the headquarters building of the local amateur ham radio club, W4KVK.

Every fourth year the World Music Contest, a competition for amateur, professional, and military bands, is held in Kerkrade.

It is an adjudicated competition, held in the Opera House, comprising over a dozen amateur G & S troupes, while professional performances are given on the weekends.

The rider's legs will be held closely to the horses sides ; the leg to the inside of the turn should be held securely along the girth to support the horse's rib cage and give them a focal point for the turn.

Young horses are first taught to respond to a direct rein, with reins held in both of the rider's hands, turning the horse's head by tightening the rein on the side of the desired turn.

Because it is too short to reach behind the riders leg while still holding the reins, it is most often used by taking the reins in one hand and hitting the horse behind the rider's leg, using the crop, held in the other hand.

The reining hand should be bent at the elbow, held close to the rider's side, and centered over the horse's neck, usually within an inch of the saddle horn.

A fixed-gear bicycle is particularly well suited for track stands, a manoeuvre in which the bicycle can be held stationary, balanced upright with the rider's feet on the pedals.

The handlebars are held at approximately a 45 degree angle, converting the bike's forward and back motion into side-to-side motion beneath the rider's body.

If the rider's hands are held high, there is no leverage effect.

All other firearms held in custody remained there however, until the repeal of the Garda policy following a high court case taken by an Irish shooter ( Frank Brophy ) to obtain a licence for an Olympic target shooting pistol succeeded and the licence was granted.

In the early years, the race was open to almost anybody with a car that met ( considerably more relaxed ) regulations and held an Australian motorsport licence.

Copies of several compilations from the British 1960s comedy At Last The 1948 Show, held by many to be a forerunner of Monty Python's Flying Circus, were discovered in the archives of the Swedish broadcaster SVT, to whom the producers Rediffusion London had sold them upon the companies ' loss of its broadcasting licence ( the master tapes, along with much of Rediffusion's programming, having been wiped or disposed of by their successor Thames Television ).

the licence for the region being held by ITV Broadcasting Limited since November 2008.

The Lecture is held on or close to 6 July every year to mark the date in 1929 when Amy Johnson was awarded her pilot ’ s licence.

* TVR Motors – held the licence to the brands and intellectual property in the UK, as well as sales and marketing of the brand

These processes, including the associated cooling ponds, require considerable amounts of water and the licence to extract water from Wast Water, formerly held by BNFL, is now held by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

When he eventually did, Reverend John Strachan ( who held no official position other than Rector of York at the time ) first brusquely tried to force him to sign the articles for capitulation on the spot, then accused Chauncey to his face of delaying the capitulation to allow the American troops licence to commit outrages.

Milkins fails to establish whether Jones held a driving licence and / or owned a car or van which the real culprit must have done, and no link between Jones and Mungo Ireland is established.

The licence for Yorkshire is now held by ITV Broadcasting Limited, part of ITV plc.

For example, lack of traffic rights prevented BUA from running direct London ( Gatwick ) – Paris ( Le Bourget ) scheduled flights although it held a licence for that route, which the ATLB had awarded it in late-1961.

Local analogue radio broadcasting licences cover the Cardiff / Newport area ; the FM licence is held by Cardiff Broadcasting Co. Ltd., broadcasting as Capital FM South Wales from Cardiff Bay and the AM licence is held by Capital Radio plc, broadcasting as Capital Gold.

* Easy 103-held a licence for part of Wicklow and Horizon Radio held a licence for north Wicklow.

# while laws may reserve quotas for licences and permits for Bumiputras, they may not deprive any person of any right, privilege, permit or licence already enjoyed or held by him or authorise a refusal to renew such person's license or permit.

He came to Manilla in 1917 and held the licence of The Royal Hotel.

The NDA ( Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ) has taken over the licence once held by BNFL ( British Nuclear Fuels plc ) which allows them to extract a maximum of 18, 184. 4 m³ a day ( over 4 million gallons ) and 6, 637, 306 m³ a year from Wast Water to use on site for various processes including the cooling ponds and reprocessing ( electricity production has ceased ).

He held a licence from the government in 1707 permitting him to associate with those whose disloyalty was known or suspected, proving that he was at that date the government's paid spy.

Since MTV uses the same broadcasting licence CTV held for talktv, CTV is restricted by the following conditions of licence: