At this point Charles C. Hanch, long an advocate of patent peace in the industry, became chairman of the patents committee of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, successor to the Automobile Board of Trade.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

The great figures of reformist Whiggery were Charles James Fox ( died 1806 ) and his disciple and successor Earl Grey.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency takes over the ruling of Sweden until 1672.

In the reign of Philip's developmentally disabled son and successor Charles II ( 1665 – 1700 ), Spain was essentially left leaderless and was gradually being reduced to a second-rank power.

Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

His son and successor, Charles I, took matters further, introducing an English-style Prayer Book into the Scottish church in 1637.

Emperor Joseph and his successor Emperor Charles VI were descendants of Spanish kings who were heirs of Albert VII.

In the Divisio Regnorum of 806, Charlemagne had slated Charles the Younger as his successor as emperor and chief king, ruling over the Frankish heartland of Neustria and Austrasia, while giving Pepin the Iron Crown of Lombardy, which Charlemagne possessed by conquest.

At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with the Dutch ruler — he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the Dauphin Louis, thus allying his realms with Catholic France and strengthening the odds of a Catholic successor in Britain ; but later, under pressure from Parliament and with a coalition with the Catholic French no longer politically favourable, he approved the union.

His successor raised Benedict XIII's nephew, Prince Beroaldo Orsini, to the dignity of Prince Assistants to the Papal Throne ( title held until 1958 ), after the emperor Charles VI had already, in 1724, made him a prince of the Holy Roman Empire.

Charles Mason Remey, one of the Hands, declared himself the successor to Shoghi Effendi in 1960.

When Charles Bluhdorn died unexpectedly, his successor Martin Davis dumped all of G + W's industrial, mining, and sugar-growing subsidiaries and refocused the company, renaming it Paramount Communications in 1989.

On 6 January 1285, Charles of Anjou died, leaving his captive son Charles as his natural successor.

He was the eldest son and successor of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, and King of Hungary and Croatia ; his mother was Maria of Spain, a daughter of Charles V and Isabella of Portugal.

Cinchona plants were introduced in 1868 by Charles Elliot ( 1863 – 1870 ) with a view to exporting quinine but the experiment was abandoned by his successor Governor C. G. E. Patey ( 1870 – 1873 ), who also embarked on a programme of reducing the civil establishment.

Much to the consternation of their Spanish ruling cousins, the Habsburg emperors who followed Charles V ( especially Ferdinand I and Maximilian II, but also Rudolf II, and his successor Matthias ) were content for the princes of the Empire to choose their own religious policies.

His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor Charles V. Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brethren of the Common Life in Brussels to learn Greek and Latin according to standards of the era.

In 1933, incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis announced the election of House Speaker John Nance Garner as his successor, while Garner was seated next to him on the House dais.

He is the successor of Charles VII Albert of Bavaria, an enemy of Habsburg, who died on January 20 of this year.

One of his sons, Henry, sometimes called margrave and duke in Franconia under King Charles the Fat of East Francia, fell fighting against the Normans in 886 ; another, Poppo, was margrave in Thuringia from 880 to 892, when he was deposed by King Charles successor Arnulf of Carinthia.

After being knocked out of the tournament, Ponting resigned his position as captain at both Test and ODI levels, endorsed Michael Clarke as his successor, and indicated his intention to continue playing.

In the absence of a clear successor, President Ellis Clarke was left to choose the new Prime Minister from among the three Deputy Political Leaders of the party.

Arthur C. Clarke has said of Stapledon's 1930 book Last and First Men that " No other book had a greater influence on my life ... and its successor Star Maker ( 1937 ) are the twin summits of literary career ".

Clarke would have few regrets about his decision, and informed his successor, George Sutherland, that the latter was embarking on " a dog's life "

Through it, Clarke quickly emerged as Wilson's successor in the campaign for League membership.

In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.

The kingdom of Alba was too new to be said to have a customary rule of succession, but Pictish and Irish precedents favoured an adult successor descended from Kenneth MacAlpin.

" And remember when your Lord said to the angels, ' Verily I am going to place a successor ( khalifa ).

Nonetheless, legal experts from the mainland said it is a convention a successor will only serve the remainder of the term if the position is vacant because the predecessor resigned.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

We had differences from the time we became co-workers and yet I have said for some years and say so now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor.

According to the Christian historian Sozomen, Libanius was supposed to have said on his deathbed that John would have been his successor " if the Christians had not taken him from us ".

Vladimir Lenin said that cinema was “ the most important of the arts .” His successor, Joseph Stalin, also recognized the power of cinema in efficiently spreading Communist Party doctrine.

The wife of this ' Minos I ' was said to be Itone ( daughter of Lyctius ) or Crete ( a nymph or daughter of his stepfather Asterion ), and he had a single son named Lycastus, his successor as King of Crete.

At the Computer History Museum TX-0 alumni reunion in 1984, Gordon Bell said DEC's products developed directly from the TX-2, the successor to the TX-0 which had been developed at what Bell thought was a bargain price at the time, about.

He was then about seventy-nine years of age ; and Clement IX, when making him a member of the Sacred College, said to him: " You will be our successor.

His supporters said he was Lyons's natural successor ; his critics accused Menzies of wanting to push Lyons out, a charge he denied.

" We choose then ", they said to the people, " our Archdeacon Hildebrand to be pope and successor to the Apostle, and to bear henceforward and forever the name of Gregory " ( 22 April 1073 ).

It is said too that he attended the courses of Arcesilaus and his successor Lacydes, in the Platonic Academy.

The tortuous nature of the chronology is indicated by Rhea Silvia's ordination among the Vestals, whose order was traditionally said to have been founded by the successor of Romulus, Numa Pompilius.

His successor, Doug Anthony, said that the Country Party's objections to McMahon no longer held, finally freeing the Liberals to replace Gorton with McMahon within two months.

Under Hyarmendacil I's successor, Atanatar the Glorious, The kingdom enjoyed such wealth and splendour that, according to The Lord of the Rings, " men said precious stones are pebbles in Gondor for children to play with ".

Enmebaragesi's successor, Aga, is said to have fought with Gilgamesh of Uruk, the fifth king of that city.

In this way, she could be said to be the first successor to the earldom of Pembroke since her grandfather Gilbert, the first earl.

It is said that the automaton makes one copy of itself for each successor and each such copy starts running on one of the successor symbol from the state according to the transition relation of the automaton.

However, Perpich's activist vision of the governor's role was later cited as an important contribution to the Minnesota economy even by unlikely admirers like his 1990 rival and successor Arne Carlson, who said in 2005 that Perpich " was the first person that I was aware of to focus on the international role that states are going to have to play.

It has been said that he bore a striking resemblance to John Thaw, who was the star of Inspector Morse, which, perhaps coincidentally, was a television series about a detective in the Thames Valley Police Force ( the modern-day successor to Buckinghamshire Constabulary ).

It is said that the Fallout series is the spiritual successor to Wasteland.

Friedrich Hayek said: " Perhaps the government of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ... should be regarded as the last Liberal government of the old type, while under his successor, H. H. Asquith, new experiments in social policy were undertaken which were only doubtfully compatible with the older Liberal principles ".