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Watt formed another partnership with Boulton ( who provided financing ) and James Keir ( to manage the business ) in a firm called James Watt and Co.
James Keir Hardie was an early democratic socialist, who founded the Independent Labour Party in Great Britain
However, in a follow up article in the same publication, others criticized the analysis, including Peter Flory, the U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, who began by writing " The essay by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press contains so many errors, on a topic of such gravity, that a Department of Defense response is required to correct the record.
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.
The band is an ongoing project of guitarist ( and occasional pianist ) Vini Reilly who is often accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell and Keir Stewart ( on bass, keyboards and harmonica ).
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.
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.
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.
In 1900, Henderson was one of the 129 trade union and socialist delegates, who passed Keir Hardie's motion to create the Labour Representation Committee ( LRC ), and in 1903, Henderson was elected treasurer of the LRC, and was also elected Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Barnard Castle following a by-election.
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.
The CPS is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions ( currently Keir Starmer QC ) who answers to the Attorney General for England and Wales ( currently Dominic Grieve, QC, MP ).
About 90 resolute sympathizers of the French Revolution came to celebrate on the 14th ; the banquet was led by James Keir, an Anglican industrialist who was a member of the Lunar Society.
About 30 " hard core " rioters attacked the home of William Withering, an Anglican who attended the Lunar Society with Priestley and Keir.
Land east of Doune was owned by the Stirling of Keir family ( who still own a lot of the land around Keir House, but sold the house itself ), and the current owner of the Keir Estates is the politician, Archie Stirling.
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 ).
It was directed by Roy Ward Baker and stars Andrew Keir in the title role as Professor Bernard Quatermass, replacing Brian Donlevy who played the role in the two earlier films.
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 ).
Nigel Kneale had mixed feelings about the end result: he said, “ I was very happy with Andrew Keir, who they eventually chose, and very happy with the film.

Keir and himself
Keir ultimately settled at Hill Top, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and devoted himself to chemistry and geology.
Shortly after the novel was released, Tom Hanks expressed great interest in producing a film adaptation, with himself cast in the role of Floyd, and Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain reprising their roles as David Bowman and HAL 9000.

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In the two movies, Bowman is played by Keir Dullea.
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.
In Britain, the democratic socialist tradition was represented in particular by the William Morris ' Socialist League, and in the 1880s by the Fabian Society, and later the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) founded by Keir Hardie in the 1890s, of which George Orwell would later be a prominent member.
An article by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press stated that the United States could carry out a nuclear first strike on Russia and would " have a good chance of destroying every Russian bomber base, submarine, and ICBM.
* 1776 – James Keir suggests that some rocks, such as those at the Giant's Causeway, might have been formed by the crystallisation of molten lava
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.
A 1974 revival by the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut featured Elizabeth Ashley, Keir Dullea, Fred Gwynne, Kate Reid, and Charles Siebert.
The original run starred Paul Scofield as Thomas More, as well as Keith Baxter as Henry VIII, George Rose as the Common Man, Leo McKern as the Common Man in the West End production and Thomas Cromwell in the Broadway show ( a role originated in London by Andrew Keir and later taken over by Thomas Gomez ), and Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk.
* De Sade ( 1969 ), directed by Cy Endfield and starring Keir Dullea and Senta Berger
It became extremely well known, and was advocated enthusiastically by the main spokesmen of the trade union and Labour movement-Ben Tillett and Keir Hardie for example.
" Keir ," as he was by now called, longed for a life outside the mines.
Portrait of J. Keir Hardie painted in 1893 by Scottish artist John Henry Dobson.
This trend was led by Keir Hardie, a Scot adhering to the intellectual tradition of ethical socialism rather than Marxism.
This party, led by Keir Hardie, was a big tent party of the left, more heavily influenced by Christian Socialism than by the atheistic Marxism of the SDF.
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.
" Arthur Henderson 1931-1932 ," in Leading Labour: From Keir Hardie to Tony Blair, edited by Kevin Jefferys, ( 1999 )

Keir and Darwin
Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.
In 1767 James Keir visited Darwin in Lichfield, where he was introduced to Boulton, Small, Wedgwood and Whitehurst and subsequently decided to move to Birmingham.
Small was Boulton's doctor and became a close friend of Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, James Keir, James Watt, Anna Seward and others connected with the Lunar Society.
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.
The Lunar Society included industrialists such as Samuel Galton, Jr. as well as intellectuals such as Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Priestley ; scientific lecturers such as John Warltire and Adam Walker communicated basic Newtonian principles widely to the town's manufacturing classes ; and men such as Matthew Boulton, James Keir, James Watt and John Roebuck were simultaneously highly regarded both as scientists and as technologists, and in some cases also as businessmen.

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