1241 indicates that Apollonius was succeeded in the position by Eratosthenes ; this must have been after 247 / 246 BCE, the date of the accession of Ptolemy III Euergetes, who was probably tutored by Apollonius and who appointed Eratosthenes.

The Suda says that Apollonius succeeded Eratosthenes, but this doesn't fit the evidence either.

In 1006 Ælfheah succeeded Ælfric as Archbishop of Canterbury, taking Swithun's head with him as a relic for the new location.

He was succeeded as team president by his daughter, Marguerite, the first ( and as of the 2006 – 07 season, only ) woman to head an NHL franchise.

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

Soga no Umako, who succeeded his father as Ōomi of the Soga clan, eventually killed Mononobe no Moriya at the Battle of Shigisan, the head of the Mononobe clan, which led to its decline.

He died 12 September 1500, and was succeeded in his German territories by George as the head of the Albertine line, while George's brother Heinrich became hereditary governor of Friesland.

A head of state can be empowered to designate his successor, such as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, who was succeeded by his son Richard.

When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.

Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.

Euler succeeded him as the head of the mathematics department.

In September, Beria was appointed head of the Main Administration of State Security ( GUGB ) of the NKVD, and in November he succeeded Yezhov as NKVD head ( Yezhov was executed in 1940 ).

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner succeeded Louis Jacobs as head of the New London Synagogue, but when Weiner was appointed head of the new European Masorti Beth Din in 2005, Jacobs returned.

Henry Clay Folger was head of the company until 1923, when he was succeeded by Herbert L. Pratt.

Fard's assistant minister Elijah Muhammad succeeded him as head of the movement in 1934.

| 75pxWalther Funk || I || G || G || G || Life Imprisonment || Hitler's Minister of Economics ; succeeded Schacht as head of the Reichsbank.

When George I succeeded to the British throne in 1714, his German ministers advised him to leave the office of Lord High Treasurer vacant because those who had held it in recent years had grown overly powerful, in effect, replacing the Sovereign as head of the government.

Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.

The Wuchang Uprising succeeded on October 10, 1911, which led to the creation of the new central government, the Republic of China, in Nanjing with Sun Yat-sen as its provisional head.

But on the death of John he was away in Egypt for the practice of magic, and one Dositheus, by spreading a false report of Simon's death, succeeded in installing himself as head of the sect.

** Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell resigns as head of the Conservative Party, to be succeeded by Jean Charest.

* November 11 – Mary McAleese is elected the 8th President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.

After residing in Leipzig for a time, he returned to Edinburgh where in January 1757 he succeeded David Hume as librarian to the Faculty of Advocates ( see Advocates ' Library ), but soon relinquished this office on becoming tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute.

From 1863 to 1867 he was librarian of the University of Cambridge, and in 1872 succeeded HAJ Munro in the professorship of Latin, which he held for 28 years.

The current librarian is Anne Jarvis — the first woman to hold the post — who succeeded Peter Fox on 1 April 2009.

In 1602 he started lecturing, in 1603 he was appointed professor of poetics, in 1605 professor of Greek, and at the death of Merula in 1607 he succeeded that illustrious scholar as the 4th librarian of Leiden University Library.

That year, he succeeded Jonas C. Dryander as Sir Joseph Banks ' librarian, and on Banks ' death in 1820 Brown inherited his library and herbarium.

He was the librarian of the library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium in that role.

In 1829 he succeeded Christian Carl Reisig as ordinary professor and director of the philological seminary at Halle, and in 1844 was appointed chief librarian of the university.

In 1751 he succeeded Muratori as ducal archivist and librarian of Modena, but was removed in 1768, owing to his Antifebronio, in which he strenuously defended the rights of the Holy See.

Between 1880 and 1900, Dresden librarian Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann succeeded in deciphering the calendar section including the Maya numerals used in the codex.

Immediately on taking his degree in 1833, he began work in the manuscript department of the British Museum, became in 1838 sub-librarian of the Bodleian, at Oxford, and in 1860 succeeded Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel as head librarian, an office he held until his death in 1881.

At sixty years of age he stopped teaching, but retained his office of librarian, in which he had succeeded Fronton du Duc ( 1623 ), and devoted the rest of his life to his great work, the Dogmata theologica.

Black's short book (" about an even shorter book ," as he put it ) was succeeded — as an E-book published in 20l1 at the online Anarchist Library — by " Nightmares of Reason ," a longer and more wide-ranging critique of Bookchin's anthropological and historical arguments, especially Bookchin's espousal of " libertarian municipalism " which Black ridiculed as " mini-statism.

The Załuski Library was succeeded by the creation of the National Library of Poland ( Biblioteka Narodowa ) in 1928.

In 1833, he succeeded Angelo Mai as Custodian-in-Chief of the Vatican Library, and in 1838 was made cardinal of the title of St. Onofrio al Gianicolo and director of studies in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.

In his editorial capacity he closely adhered to this dictum. Upon Lomax's departure this work was continued by Benjamin A. Botkin, who succeeded Lomax as the Project's folklore editor in 1938, and at the Library in 1939, resulting in the invaluable compendium of authentic slave narratives: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B.

He succeeded Robert Haas as music director of the music collection of the Austrian National Library in 1946, and is credited with helping preserve documents about Bruckner.

He succeeded Natalie Ceeney, formerly Director of Operations and Services at the British Library, who was Chief Executive from 2005 to 2010.

In 1824 he entered the department of oriental manuscripts in the Royal Library at Paris, and in 1838, on the death of De Sacy, he succeeded to his chair in the School of Living Oriental Languages.

He succeeded Étienne Fourmont at the Royal Library as secretary interpreter of the Eastern languages.

In 1867 he succeeded Henry Longueville Mansel as Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy, and in 1884 was appointed curator of the Bodleian Library.

Foster was succeeded in 1945 by Edward William O ' Flaherty Lynam, Superintendent of the Map Room at the British Library and the first of a long line of post-war presidents whose terms of office were restricted to a period of five years: Malcolm Letts ( 1950 – 54 ); Professor J. N. L. Baker ( 1955 – 59 ); Sir Alan Burns ( 1959 – 64 ); Sir Gilbert Laithwaite ( 1964 – 69 ); C. F. Beckingham ( 1969 – 72 ); Esmond S. de Beer ( 1972 – 78 ); Glyndwr Williams ( 1978 – 82 ); David Beers Quinn ( 1982 – 87 ); Sir Harold Smedley ( 1987 – 92 ); Professor Paul E. H. Hair ( 1992 – 97 ); Sarah Tyacke ( 1997 – 2002 ); Professor Roy Bridges ( 2002 – 08 ); Professor Will Ryan ( 2008 – 11 ); and Captain Mike Barritt ( 2011 -).