Centuries later, a young man, Devon ( Keir Dullea ), a resident of Cypress Corners ( a biosphere with an Amish-like culture ), discovers that his world is far larger and more mysterious than he had realized.

In 1888 Pankhurst had met and befriended Keir Hardie, a socialist from Scotland.

While Rosebery neglected the topic of Home Rule, Chamberlain continued to form alliances with the Conservatives, and spoke warily about socialism and the Independent Labour Party, which had one MP, Keir Hardie.

In 1715 he was expelled on account of his correspondence with members of the Keir and Garden families, who were noted Jacobites, and had been accessory to the " Gathering of the Brig o ' Turk " in 1708.

During this time, Connolly became involved with the Independent Labour Party which Keir Hardie had formed in 1893.

She had a very close personal relationship with anti-war Labour politician Keir Hardie.

Out of these ideas and activities came a new generation of activists including, perhaps most notably Keir Hardie, a Scot who had become convinced of the need for independent labour politics whilst working as a Gladstonian Liberal and trade union organiser in the Lanarkshire coalfield.

In addition to the beloved party leader Keir Hardie came the Scot Bruce Glasier, elected to the NAC in 1897 and succeeding Hardie as Chairman in 1900 ; Phillip Snowden, an evangelical socialist from the West Riding, and Ramsay MacDonald, whose adhesion to the ILP had been secured in the wake of his disillusionment with the Liberal Party over its rejection of trade unionist candidate in the 1894 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election.

Rains also asserted that Murray had a conflict of interest in the poll, as Murray's son Keir was a political consultant working for Nick Lampson, DeLay's Democratic challenger in 2006.

The College had its fourth Principal, Alexander Keir, succeeding Frederick Joseph Morten.

This time the film was directed by Roy Ward Baker and starred Scottish actor Andrew Keir, after Morell had been offered and declined the chance to play the part again.

Of the actors who had previously played Quatermass, only Keir and Mills were still alive ; Keir took the role, his final professional performance before his death the following year.

When Joseph Priestley came to Birmingham in 1780, he found an able assistant in Keir, who had discovered the distinction between carbon dioxide gas and atmospheric air.

Keir had long studied the mineralogy of Staffordshire, and in 1798 wrote an article upon it for Stebbing Shaw, who was about to publish his " History of Staffordshire ".

In the 1892 general election Keir Hardie, another Liberal politician who had joined Cunninghame-Graham in the Scottish Labour Party, was elected as an Independent Labour MP, and this gave him the spur to found a UK-wide Independent Labour Party in 1893.

At the time of Baird ’ s tenure it had approximately 8000 staff, led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, firstly Sir Ken Macdonald QC then Keir Starmer QC.

By the second half of the century the town's leading thinkers – particularly members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham such as Joseph Priestley, James Keir, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, William Withering and Erasmus Darwin – had become widely-influential participants in the Republic of Letters, the free circulation of ideas and information among the developing pan-European and trans-Atlantic intellectual elite.

L. Keir Hett designed and built the Church of the Ascension, Peacehaven's Anglican church, to replace a temporary building which had been erected in 1922.

Sylvia Pankhurst had become disillusioned with parliamentary politics, particularly after the death of Keir Hardie, and instead championed soviets.

Andrew Keir, playing Quatermass, found making the film an unhappy experience, believing Baker had wanted Kenneth More to play the role.

* Andrew Keir as Quatermass: Nigel Kneale had long been highly critical of Brian Donlevy's interpretation of Quatermass and lobbied for the role to be recast, arguing that enough time had passed that audiences would not resist a change of actor.

The producers eventually settled on Scottish actor Andrew Keir who had appeared in supporting roles in a number of Hammer productions including Pirates of Blood River ( 1962 ), The Devil-Ship Pirates ( 1964 ) and Dracula: Prince of Darkness ( 1966 ).

In 1793 Keir published a pamphlet entitled ' The Martial Character of Nations ,' arguing that the French were not likely to become so pacific as to make national defense less necessary.

The Scottish Labour Party ( SLP ), also known as the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, was formed by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, the first socialist MP in the parliament of the United Kingdom, who later went on to become the first president of the Scottish National Party, and Keir Hardie, who later became the first leader of the Labour Party ( UK ).

The growing importance of the working classes was marked by Keir Hardie's success in the Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888, leading to the foundation of the Scottish Labour Party, which was absorbed into the Independent Labour Party in 1895, with Hardie as its first leader.

Various organisations, including the Independent Labour Party, joined to make the British Labour Party in 1906, with Keir Hardie as its first chairman.

Watt formed another partnership with Boulton ( who provided financing ) and James Keir ( to manage the business ) in a firm called James Watt and Co.

In 1974, he appeared in the role of Big Daddy Pollitt in the Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Elizabeth Ashley, Keir Dullea and Kate Reid.

When that organization broke apart, she attempted to join the left-leaning Independent Labour Party through her friendship with socialist Keir Hardie but was initially refused membership by the local branch of the Party on account of her sex.

Keir Hardie worked with the Pankhursts on a variety of political issues and later became a very close friend of Sylvia's.

When We Were Kids, which followed in 1998, was produced by Keir Stewart, who also played on the album and has frequently worked with Reilly since.

The Albion Colliery in the village of Cilfynydd in 1894 was the site of one of the worst explosions within the South Wales coalfield, with the death of 290 colliers ( see Keir Hardie ).

In April 2010, Mason co-starred with Keir Dullea and Matt Servitto in an Off-Broadway production of I Never Sang for My Father.

On 3 July 1879, Keir Hardie was appointed Corresponding Secretary of the miners, a post which gave him opportunity to get in touch with other representatives of the mine workers throughout southern Scotland.

None was elected, however, with even the popular party leader Keir Hardie going to defeat in a straight fight with the Conservatives.

He became a prominent speaker for the party and wrote a popular Christian socialist pamphlet with Keir Hardie entitled The Christ that is to Be in 1903.

While in the House of Commons Graham became increasingly more radical and went on to found the Scottish Labour Party with Keir Hardie.

In July 1889 he attended the Marxist Congress of the Second International in Paris with James Keir Hardie, William Morris, Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling.

In 1772, with others, Keir leased a long-established glassworks at Amblecote near Stourbridge, which he managed.

Early in the same year Keir completed his translation of Macquer's Dictionnaire de Chimie, with additions and notes, published at London in two quarto volumes.

In 1780 Keir, in conjunction with Alexander Blair ( then retired from the army ), established a chemical works at Tipton, near Dudley, for the manufacture of alkali from the sulfates of potash and soda, to which he afterwards added a soap manufactory.