* Ian MacGregor ( 1980 – 1983 )

Coal mining had been nationalised by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 and was in 1984 managed by the National Coal Board ( NCB ) under Ian MacGregor and, as in most of Europe, was heavily subsidised.

In 1983, the Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appointed Ian MacGregor as head of the National Coal Board ( the UK statutory corporation that controlled coal mining ).

He began to prepare the many nationalised industries for privatisation by bringing in private sector managers such as Ian MacGregor, but was still forced to give large subsidies to those industries making losses.

In what the NUM considered a confrontational move, Ian MacGregor, who had overseen cutbacks and closures at British Steel, was appointed head of the National Coal Board by Thatcher in 1983.

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Instead, Ian MacGregor was appointed.

In 1964 there was an Edinburgh Folk Festival, with appearances by The Corries, The Dubliners, the Ian Campbell Folk Group and Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor.

* Ian MacGregor, metallurgist and industrialist, antagonist in the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ), Chairman from 1983-86 of the National Coal Board, and Chief Executive from 1980-83 of the British Steel Corporation

A television miniseries adaptation aired beginning on February 19, 1984, starring Dyan Cannon as Kate Blackwell, Ian Charleson as Jamie MacGregor, David Birney as David Blackwell, Harry Hamlin as Tony Blackwell, Johnny Sekka as Banda, Cherie Lunghi as Margaret MacGregor, and Fernando Allende as George Mellis, with several notable but uncredited cameos, including Alan Dobie ( as MacMillan ) and Stratford Johns ( as Zimmerman ).

Galston found that excessive usage of the compound caused catastrophic defoliation — a finding later used by his colleague Ian Sussex to develop the family of herbicides used in Operation Ranch Hand.

On March 3, 1923, in Havana, Cuba, Nin married her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiler ( 1898 – 1985 ), a banker and artist, later known as " Ian Hugo " when he became a maker of experimental films in the late 1940s.

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

His record of three Brownlow victories ( 1934, 1937, 1938 ), equalled Haydn Bunton, Sr ( 1931, 1932, 1935 ), and later equalled by Bob Skilton ( 1959, 1963, 1968 ), and Ian Stewart ( 1965, 1966, 1971 ).

Critic Jon Savage would later say that their singer Ian Curtis wrote " the definitive Northern Gothic statement ".

In the late 1990s, Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh founded the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and later they founded one in Los Angeles, each with an accompanying improv / sketch comedy school.

Trouser Press critic Ian McCaleb later described the record as the " archetype for the musical explosion that was about to occur ".

* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.

On 9 June 2009 Mani stated that the band would reform if they were offered enough money but admitted that he's " very nearly given up " on trying to orchestrate a reunion and two months later told BBC Newsbeat how Ian Brown " isn't up for it at all ".

A decade later, John Barton's 1974 production for the RSC ( with assistance from Clifford Williams ) featured Sebastian Shaw in the title role, Tim Pigott-Smith as Posthumus, Ian Richardson as Jachimo, and Susan Fleetwood as Imogen.

Melling portrays Ní Mháille in her novel The Summer King ( part two of the Chronicles of Faerie ) as a ghost who haunts Achill Island, and later as her live self when heroes Laurel and Ian go back in time to win her as an ally.

Years later, and moments before his death, Gull has an extended mystical experience, where his spirit travels through time, observing the crimes of the London Monster, instigating or inspiring a number of other killers ( Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady ), causing Netley's death, as well as serving as the inspiration for both Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and William Blake's painting " The Ghost of a Flea ".

In fact, Niven had been Bond creator Ian Fleming's first choice to play Bond in Dr. No. Casino Royale co-producer Charles K. Feldman said later that Fleming had written the book with Niven in mind, and therefore had sent a copy to Niven.

In 1962, Greenaway began studies at Walthamstow College of Art, where a fellow student was musician Ian Dury ( later cast in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ).

In 1974, Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco alternated the roles of Richard and Bolingbroke in a production from John Barton at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre: thirty years later this was still a standard by which performances were being judged.

On 4 April 2007 in a sign of improving relations between unionist and nationalist groups, the newly-elected First Minister of Northern Ireland, the Reverend Ian Paisley, was invited to visit the battle site by the Taoiseach ( Prime Minister ) Bertie Ahern later in the year.

Dalton portrays Darnley as a bisexual who even beds the Queen's advisor, David Rizzio ( Ian Holm ), but later falls out with Rizzio and has him murdered by other plotters ( referred to in the film as the Lords of the Congregation ).

The post-hardcore style first took shape in Chicago, with bands such as Big Black, The Effigies and Naked Raygun, while later developed in Washington, DC within the community of bands on Ian MacKaye's Dischord Records with bands such as Fugazi, The Nation of Ulysses, and Jawbox.

* Ian Wright, former Arsenal footballer and later a television personality, born and raised in Woolwich.

Following rumours and a marked change in his appearance, it was confirmed in July 2004 that Paisley had been undergoing tests for an undisclosed illness and in 2005 Ian Paisley, Jr. confirmed that his father had been gravely ill. Paisley himself later admitted that he had " walked in death's shadow.

Janet Baker, Julian Bream, Osian Ellis, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Shirley-Quirk and Robert Tear were amongst the regular performers in the early days, followed later by Alfred Brendel, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge and Ann Murray.

Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome ( erotomania ) in fiction include Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called Enduring Love ; the American movies Fatal Attraction and The Bodyguard, the Portuguese film O Fantasma ( 2001 ) and the French films Anna M. ( 2007 ) and Laetitia Colombani's À la folie ... pas du tout ( 2002 ).

Ray Wilson, lead singer of Stiltskin and later Genesis was born in Dumfries as were fellow musicians Geoffrey Kelly and Ian Carr.

* Ian Posgate, one of Lloyd's leading underwriters, was charged with skimming money from investors and secretly trying to buy a Swiss bank ; he was later acquitted.

In February 1997, cloning became the focus of media attention when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced the successful cloning of a sheep, named Dolly, from the mammary glands of an adult female.

In 2008, Ian Thompson Jr. became the first driver from Northern Ireland to win the Brisca F2 Stock Car World title since 1972 when he took the honours at Bristol in 2008.

It soon became famous for promoting " Method ," a style of theater and acting involving " total immersion of actor into character ," writes film author Ian Freer.

By Ian Fleming's widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, he had a daughter, Amaryllis Fleming ( 1925 – 1999 ), who became a noted cellist.

During the summer of 1992 Southampton's manager, Ian Branfoot, became " the most popular manager in English football ", as he took telephone calls from clubs " trying to bargain with players they don't want plus cash ".

Film historian Ian Freer calls Wyler a " bona fide perfectionist ", whose penchant for retakes and an attempt to hone every last nuance, " became the stuff of legend.

Having returned to Myer, Kennett became impatient with his work, and so with Ian Fegan and Eran Nicols, he formed his own advertising company ( KNF ) in June 1971.

Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.

In 1995 Ian Roberts became the first high-profile Australian sports person and first rugby footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay.

Ian MacDonald, in his book Revolution in the Head, argues that The Beatles was the album in which the band's cryptic messages to its fan base became not merely vague but intentionally and perhaps dangerously open-ended, citing oblique passages in songs like " Glass Onion " ( e. g., " the walrus was Paul ") and " Piggies " (" what they need's a damn good whacking ").

Two of these pilots, Open All Hours ( written by Roy Clarke ) and Prisoner and Escort ( written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ) became series.

Charismatic former player Ian Holloway became manager but was unable to stop Rangers from being relegated to England's third tier for the first time for more than thirty years.

Ian Stewart became the fifth St Kilda player to win the Brownlow Medal.

He was married to Anna Dora Gaitskell from 1937, who became a Labour life peer one year after his death, but it is widely known that he had a number of affairs, even during his time in public life with the socialite Ann Fleming, the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Raymond later became the mother of actor Ian Ogilvy.

Within the post-processual movement, Ian Hodder became " the leading exponent of a structuralist approach ".

In 2003 he released the fourth single of his album, Hypnotized which became successful enough to be included on Paul's next compilation from the " Perfecto Presents ..." series, " Perfecto Presents: Great Wall " included the Deepsky remix of the song as well as tracks like Motorcycle's " As the Rush Comes ", Björk's " Pagan Poetry ", UNKLE's remix of Ian Brown's " F. E. A. R.

In 1965, Price became popular with television audiences for his performance, described by The Times as " an outstanding success " as Jeeves opposite Ian Carmichael as Bertie Wooster in The World of Wooster based on the novels and short stories of P. G.

Between 1991 and 2001 she was married to Sir Ian Holm ( and in 1998 after he was knighted she became Lady Holm ) and they appeared together as Pod and Homily in the BBC's 1993 adaptation of The Borrowers.

A sign of the changing times was the rise to prominence of such diplomatic historians such as the Japanese historian Chihiro Hosoya, the British historian Ian Nish, and the Japanese historian Akira Iriye, which was the first time that Asian specialists became noted diplomatic historians.

Ian Buruma notes that Yoshitsune was considered by contemporaries to be not physically prepossessing, but that his legend later grew and due to this, he became depicted with good looks.

After meeting Ian MacKaye in 1980, Johnson later became friends with the members of Fugazi, and Beat Happening was the opening band on one of Fugazi's first tours.

Their son Colin Dunross became the eight tai-pan, and their grandson Ian Dunross the tenth.