* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.

The party was saved after Salisbury's retirement in 1902 when his successor, Arthur Balfour, pushed a series of unpopular initiatives such as a new education bill and Joseph Chamberlain called for a new system of protectionist tariffs.

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

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

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.

Joseph Ratzinger, then a member of the faculty at the University of Tübingen but later a much more conservative figure as the head of the successor to the Holy Office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and later still Pope Benedict XVI.

Page remained dominant in the party until 1939 and briefly served as an interim Prime Minister between the death of Joseph Lyons and the election of Robert Menzies as his successor, but Page's refusal to serve under Menzies led to his resignation as leader.

In the spring of 1938, just after the annexation of Austria into Greater Germany, eighty-four year-old Prince Franz I abdicated, naming his thirty-one year-old third cousin, Prince Franz Joseph II, as his successor.

During his early meetings with Mullá Husayn, the Báb described himself as the Master and the Promised One ; he did not consider himself just Siyyid Kazim's successor, but claimed a prophetic status, with a sense of deputyship delegated to him not just from the Hidden Imam, but from Divine authority ; His early texts, such as the Commentary on the Surih of Joseph, used Quranic language that implied divine authority and identified himself effectively with the Imam.

Wedgwood was chairman ; also present were William Townsend Aiton ( successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens ), Sir Joseph Banks ( President of the Royal Society ), James Dickson ( a nurseryman ), William Forsyth ( Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville ( a Lord of the Admiralty ) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become the Secretary of the new society.

( A seventh volume was commissioned by his successor as society president, Joseph Rutherford, and published in 1917.

Winsløw was born in Denmark, later he became a pupil and successor of Guichard Joseph Duverney, as well as a convert to Catholicism, naturalized in France, and finally became professor of anatomy at the Jardin du Roi in Paris.

Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the RCP, became Lenin's successor and continued as " Head of State " for the Soviet Union clear into the 1950s.

Formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, this denomination regards itself as a reorganization of the church organized in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr., and it regards Joseph Smith III, the eldest surviving son of Smith Jr., to have been his legitimate successor.

In contrast, a third middle opinion held by Hirsch's descendants ( his son-in-law and successor Rabbi Solomon Breuer, his grandson Rabbi Joseph Breuer and the latter's successor Rabbi Shimon Schwab ), Rabbi Joseph Elias in his commentary to the Nineteen Letters ( Feldheim 1995 ) and some Jewish historians, says that both of these understandings of Hirsch's philosophy are misguided ; they refer to these readings of Hirsch as improper historical revisionism.

The reforms initiated by Joseph II were continued to varying degrees under his successor Leopold and later successors, and given an absolute and comprehensive " Austrian " form in the Allgemeine Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch of 1811.

When his successor, Maximilian III Joseph, hesitated over peace proposals, the Austrians launched a rapid campaign, culminating in April with the Franco-Bavarian defeat at the decisive Battle of Pfaffenhofen.

His theory states that a first " Reuben version " of the story originated in the northern kingdom of Israel and was intended to justify the domination of the “ house of Joseph ” over the other tribes ; this was followed by a later “ Judah-expansion ” ( chapters 38 and 49 ) elevating Judah as the rightful successor to Jacob ; and finally various embellishments were added so that the novella would function as the bridge between the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob material in Genesis and the following story of Moses and the Exodus.

An excellent example is Joseph Stalin's claim that Vladmir Lenin had designated him to be his successor as leader of the USSR.

In 1984, with the support of Cooke's successor, Archbishop ( and future cardinal ) John Joseph O ' Connor, the Cardinal Cooke Guild was established.

*" Hommage à Gaston Paris " ( 1903 ), the opening lecture of his successor, Joseph Bédier, in the chair of medieval literature at the College de France ;

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

In the absence of a UAP deputy, the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, appointed Country Party leader Earl Page as his temporary replacement, pending the selection of Lyons ' successor by the UAP.

At the 1934 election the ambitious and talented Robert Menzies entered Parliament, and was immediately seen as Lyons's successor, although he denied that he was seeking to displace Lyons.

He also served as Minister for the Navy, Minister for Industry and Attorney-General at various times under Lyons ' successor, Robert Menzies.

Pope Clement IV, another Frenchman, called him to the pontifical court as a chaplain and auditor of the palace, and in 1274 he accompanied Clement's successor, Pope Gregory X, to the Second Council of Lyons, the constitutions of which he helped draw up.

In 1939 Lyons died, and the Country Party leader, Dr Earle Page, refused to serve under his successor, Robert Menzies.

In 1781, he obtained the rich priory of Lyons, near Pronne ; and in 1785 he was elected to the Académie française as Lefranc de Pompignan's successor.

Lyons reported he " conducted himself with sobriety and entirely to my satisfaction ", but his successor as captain of Monarch, George Tryon, described him as " a very promising young officer in every respect ".

Instead they appointed Sir Frederick Bruce, who was Lyons ' hand-picked successor.

In 1617, as Emperor Matthias lay dying, his cousin Ferdinand-a fiercely devout Catholic and proponent of the Counter-reformation-was named his successor as Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia.

Religious orthodoxy would only play an important role during the reign of Shah Jahan's son and successor, Aurangzeb, a devout Sunni Muslim.

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.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

Subsequent holders of the title have included her successor as Irish president Mary McAleese, Professor John F. Larkin Q. C., Irish Human Rights Commissioner and prominent pro-choice activist Senator Ivana Bacik.

That subsidies were actually given was very much out of character for the political times ; Peel's successor, Lord John Russell, received more criticism than Peel on Irish policy.

Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.

Owain then designated Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd as his successor, but after his death Hywel was first driven to seek refuge in Ireland by Cristina's sons, Dafydd and Rhodri, then killed at the battle of Pentraeth when he returned with an Irish army.

In Irish mythology, Bodb Derg ( Old Irish: ) or Bodhbh Dearg ( Middle Irish and Modern Irish, ) was a son of Eochaid Garb or the Dagda, and the Dagda's successor as King of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

The name Grim / Gryme for his successor Kenneth III probably derives from " greimm " ( Middle Irish: authority ).

It found itself overshadowed by the more aggressively marketed Irish Independent, the successor to the Daily Irish Independent.

The Irish Independent was formed in 1905 as the direct successor to the Daily Irish Independent, an 1890s pro-Parnellite newspaper, and was launched by William Martin Murphy, a controversial Irish nationalist businessman, staunch anti-Parnellite and fellow townsman of Parnell's most venomous opponent, Bantry's Timothy Michael Healy.

For most of its history, the Irish Independent ( also called simply the Independent or, more colloquially, the Indo ) was seen as a nationalist, Catholic newspaper, which gave its political allegiance to Cumann na nGaedheal and later its successor party, Fine Gael.

Northumbria's conversion to Christianity was mainly achieved by Irish missionaries brought into the region by Edwin's eventual successor, Oswald.

His successor, John Dillon, claimed that Redmond had removed all the obstacles to Irish unity except those of the Ulster unionists.

The Labour Party, led by Thomas Johnson from 1917, as successor to such organisations as D. D. Sheehan's ( independent Labour MPs ) Irish Land and Labour Association, declined to contest the 1918 general election, in order to allow the election to take the form of a plebiscite on Ireland's constitutional status ( although some candidates did run in Belfast constituencies under the Labour banner against Unionist candidates ).

It is the successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary which, in turn, was the successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary in Northern Ireland.

In 1998 O ' Donoghue became a director of the Irish Central Bank, serving with this and its successor body until the end of April 2008.

Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.