Since 1993, Lord Mayors have not received any automatic honours upon appointment ; instead, they have been created Knights Bachelor upon retirement, although Gordon Brown's government broke with tradition by awarding Ian Luder the CBE after his term of office in 2009, and the following year Nick Anstee declined the offer of any national honour.

* Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown's former spin doctor

Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown's press officer, was often in conflict with Campbell because of the former's attempts to brief the press by his own initiatives ; this continued until his resignation in 1999.

Peter Hain was the first person to resign from Gordon Brown's cabinet.

He resigned from the cabinet in 2007 following Gordon Brown's appointment as Prime Minister, and did not seek re-election as an MP at the 2010 general election.

Under Gordon Brown's premiership there were two renamings of the role and three re-alignments of responsibility.

From 2007 until 2010 he was Secretary of State for International Development in Gordon Brown's cabinet

From 2007 to 2010 he was the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Secretary of State for Justice, appointed as part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's first Cabinet.

On 25 March 2007, Straw announced he was to run Gordon Brown's campaign for the Labour leadership.

Straw was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice on the first full day of Gordon Brown's ministry, 28 June 2007.

Following Gordon Brown's accession to the position of Prime Minister, Falconer was replaced as Minister of Justice.

Falconer was replaced in his ministerial posts by Jack Straw in Gordon Brown's inaugural cabinet reshuffle.

On 7 June 2009 on the BBC Falconer called for an urgent debate on Gordon Brown's leadership, as Labour braced itself for " terrible " election results at the 2009 European Parliament Elections, having been humiliated at the 2009 County Council elections.

In 2007 under Gordon Brown's new premiership, the DfES was split into two new departments ; the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and a Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, under two new Secretaries of State.

On 27 June 2007 it was announced that Hewitt would not be Health Secretary in Gordon Brown's new cabinet, an announcement which had been widely expected.

On 28 June 2007 the department was split in two by Gordon Brown's government.

During new Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet reshuffle, two new government departments were created to take over the work of the DfES, the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Some observers saw this as a way for Gordon Brown's political opponents to create an axis against him.

On 4 September 2008, Clarke once again attacked Gordon Brown's performance as leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, claiming that he only had " months " to improve or else should face a leadership contest.

On 1 May 2009, Clarke joined David Blunkett in criticising Gordon Brown's leadership and declared that he was " ashamed " to be a Labour MP, citing the Damian McBride scandal.

Following Gordon Brown's announcement of new constitutional arrangements for public appointments, Sir Michael also became, on 18 July, the first such nominee to appear before the House of Commons Treasury Committee and to have his nomination subject to confirmation by the House.

Gordon Brown followed Blair as Prime Minister, after Brown's long tenure as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Originally elected the Commons in the same year as Gordon Brown and Tony Blair he was initially close to both men but over time he became his namesake Brown's staunchest ally, though the two are unrelated.

Caborn served as the Minister of Sport at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport ( 2001 – 7 ), holding the position longer than anyone else to date, before being appointed as Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Ambassador for England's 2018 World Cup Bid.

Moreover, in the autumn of 1902 Sir Gordon Sprigg, the prime minister, nominally the leader of the Progressives, sought to maintain his position by securing the support of the Bond party in parliament.

In autumn 2005 Coren appeared as a regular correspondent on Gordon Ramsay's The F-Word.

The following twelve members have been promoted to the status of " Legend " since 1996: Ian Stewart ( 1997 ), Gordon Coventry ( 1998 ), Peter Hudson ( 1999 ), Kevin Bartlett ( 2000 ), Barrie Robran ( 2001 ), Bill Hutchison ( 2003 ), Jock McHale ( 2005 ), Darrel Baldock ( 2006 ), Norm Smith ( 2007 ), Alex Jesaulenko ( 2008 ), Kevin Murray ( 2010 ) and Barry Cable ( 2012 ).

* Air Commodore Gordon Moulds ( 2008 )

After Jacobs ' death, Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer served as interim Rabbi of New London Synagogue until Rabbi Jeremy Gordon was appointed in January 2008.

* Noble, Gordon ; Poller, Tessa & Verrill, Lucy ( 2008 ) Scottish Odysseys: The Archaeology of Islands.

** Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader ( d. 2008 )

In January 2008 the Graduate School of Management was formally replaced by the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

* Gordon, Yefim ( 2008 ).

Ben Gordon signed a one-year contract on October 2, 2008.

Gordon Goldstein's 2008 book Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam was reported to be, in late September, 2009, the " must-read-book " amongst President Barack Obama's war advisers, as they contemplated the alternative courses ahead in Afghanistan.

* Goldstein, Gordon M., Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2008. pp. 300.

* Gordon Holmes ( 2008 )

In 2008 Gordon Reed published The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which explored the extended family, including James and Sally's lives in France, Monticello and Philadelphia during Thomas Jefferson's lifetime.

" The pageant, which launched the career of Gordon County native Marla Maples, former spouse of real estate magnate Donald Trump, has been held intermittently since the mid-1980s, most recently in 2008.

A second petition to dissolve the Gordon Heights Fire District was filed on December 31, 2008.

< font size = 2 > A young fisherman at Gordon Lake in Oscar Park ( Summer 2008 )</ font size = 2 >

In 2008 Gibb publicly stated that he continued to get on " like a house on fire " with Blair, and claimed that the then Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown regularly listened to the Bee Gees.

For his 2008 album Act Your Age, Gordon Goodwin wrote a new big band arrangement to accompany Zenph ’ s re-performance of “ Yesterdays ,” and the track was recognized with a Grammy Nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

In the spring of 2007 and 2008, Peter and Gordon were featured performers in the Flower Power concert series at Disney's EPCOT in Florida.

Gordon Brown, then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Queen Rania of Jordan at the 2008 annual meeting.

In the 81st Academy Awards ( 2008, presented in February 2009 ), Catmull was awarded with the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, which honors " an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry.

In 2008 he was a co-recipient of the Gordon Bell Prize from the Association of Computing Machinery.

As of July 2008, the Bear Battalion had commissioned 1, 721 Army officers including ten General Officers: LTG Neal T. Jaco, LTG John E. Miller, MG Fred F. Marty, MG Robert L. Gordon, MG Robert F. Pennycuick, MG David E. White, MG Jarrett J. Robertson, BG William A.