Franklin retired from editing and publishing at the age of 42, and for the next forty-two years devoted himself to public, scientific, and philanthropic interests.

The 1958 military pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6% increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1, 1958.

Mr. Reama, far from really being retired, is engaged in industrial relations counseling.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

One of the local callers, a retired brigadier apparently left over from Kipling's tales of India, does not approve of the way Larkin gets his birds.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne and Justin Langer retired from Test cricket after that series, while Damien Martyn retired during the series.

Andrew Flintoff retired from Test cricket soon afterwards.

Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.

He declined offers from German bishops and finally retired to the monastery of Cluny, where he died at a high age, leaving behind a solid reputation for piety and intelligence.

When Absalon retired from military service in 1184 at the age of fifty-seven, he resigned the command of fleets and armies to younger men, like Duke Valdemar, the later king Valdemar II.

Spalding retired from playing baseball in 1878, although he continued as a major force as owner of the White Stockings and major influence on the National League.

The holdings were incorporated in the United States Steel Corporation, a trust organized by Morgan, and Carnegie retired from business.

Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.

He formally retired in 1988 and within a few years moved to the Pyrenees, where he currently lives in isolation from human society.

He retired from scientific life around 1970, after having discovered the partly military funding of IHÉS ( see pp. xii and xiii of SGA1, Springer Lecture Notes 224 ).

Blank retired from the company in 2001 as co-chairman.

In that year he became Kappellmeister of the Imperial Chapel upon the death of Giuseppe Bonno ; as Kappellmeister he conducted the music and musical school connected with the chapel until shortly before his death, being official retired from the post in 1824.

When Salieri retired from the stage, he recognized that artistic styles had changed and he felt that he no longer had the creative capacity to adapt or the emotional desire to continue.

She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.

In 1805, aged 67, he retired from the Navy with the rank of Admiral of the Blue, and spent most of the rest of his life at Bath.

For example, when he " officially " retired from the CSIRO in 1979 he was given a just-released pocket edition of an Australian dictionary.

The diplomacy and political strategy that Wild had first used to major advantage in negotiations with the International Civil Aviation Organization, combined with his intellectual rigour and a deeply ingrained focus on doing what was right, served CSIRO and Australia well until he retired from CSIRO, aged 62, in 1985.

Wild retired from CSIRO in October 1985, but CSIRO continued to support pre-feasibility studies until October 1988.

He was Chief of the Division of Land and Water, CSIRO ( Australia's premier government research organisation ), in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, when he retired in 2004.

Many Labour MPs felt Attlee should have retired after the 1951 election and allowed a younger man to lead the party.

In 1996 Persson was chosen over Mona Sahlin, the Deputy Prime Minister, to lead the country after Carlsson retired.

The Canucks have retired three players ' jerseys in their history — Stan Smyl ( 12 ), Trevor Linden ( 16 ) and Markus Naslund ( 19 ), all of whom served as team captains and held the all-time team point-scoring lead at the end of their respective careers.

In San Marino, Hill again impressed by taking the lead at the start, though he was passed by Prost and Senna and ultimately retired with brake failure.

However, Hill took the lead at the start and won both the race and the championship after the Canadian retired.

* Virgil Johnson, lead singer of The Velvets, and a retired educator was born in Cameron.

Angry at his father, who had long since retired to a contemplative life in southwestern Anatolia, Mehmed II wrote, " If you are the Sultan, come and lead your armies.

In late 2005, Carl's son Carl Gardner, Jr. took over as lead with the group when his father retired.

He retired from the lead of the Hungarian GP due to a broken driveshaft.

Parnelli retired with mechanical issues, leaving Gurney and Foyt to contest the lead.

Amy Christine Dumas ( born April 14, 1975 ), best known by her stage name Lita, is the lead singer for the band The Luchagors as well as a retired professional wrestler and WWE Diva active from 1999 to 2006.

Burger retired on September 26, 1986, in part to lead the campaign to mark the 1987 bicentennial of the United States Constitution, at which time he commissioned the construction of the Constitution Bicentennial Monument ( The National Monument to the U. S. Constitution ).

However, at the Swedish Rally he retired from the lead due to an engine failure.

Shipley continued to lead the Party until October 2001, when Bill English took over the leadership and the role of Leader of the Opposition, and she subsequently retired from Parliament in 2002.

In it, the lead character, a career soldier who had retired from the active list, joins the Home Guard and rises to a leadership position in it.

When Platini retired in 1987, Laudrup was expected to lead the team in his place, playing alongside newly bought Welsh forward Ian Rush.

The lead was played by Jim Brown, who had only recently retired as a professional football player.

He did not lead a lap and retired at 104 laps with a blown engine.

One of the sport's dominant relievers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he became the only pitcher to lead the National League in saves five times ( 1979 – 1982, 1984 ), and retired with exactly 300 saves – at the time, the third highest total in history, behind Rollie Fingers ( 341 ) and Rich " Goose " Gossage ( 302 ), and an NL record until broken by Lee Smith in ; Sutter had set the NL record in with his 194th save, surpassing the mark held by Roy Face.

On 7 April 2007, Rusedski officially retired from tennis after partnering Jamie Murray to a doubles victory over the Netherlands in a Davis Cup match, a result which gave Great Britain a winning 3 – 0 lead in the tie.

Sigeberht abdicated in favour of his co-ruler Ecgric and retired to lead a monastic life, but soon afterwards the East Angles were attacked by Mercian forces, led by their king, Penda.

He inherited the lead when Vettel retired with brake problems and maintained his lead to the end without changing his tyres again.

Luce lead the charge and through his efforts, an act was passed by Congress in 1874 that enabled individual states to request from the Navy retired or obsolete vessels to train seamen.

However, by the time of the April 2004 legislative election, retired General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had taken the lead from Megawati after resigning from her cabinet in March.