The Journal, decoded and transcribed by Leslie Linder in 1958, does not provide an intimate record of her personal life, but it is an invaluable source for understanding a vibrant part of British society in the late 19th century.

" Bloom did not respond to the offer, but his referral to Dick James's partner Leslie Conn led to Bowie's first personal management contract.

In a press conference held hours before the suit was filed, Stern said it was nothing more than a " personal vendetta " against him by CBS president Leslie Moonves.

Councilwoman Leslie Becker resigned on June 15, 2012, also citing personal reasons.

From 1856 to 1874 Norton spent much time in travel and residence on the continent of Europe and in England, and it was during this period that his friendships began with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Edward FitzGerald and Leslie Stephen, an intimacy which did much to bring American and English men of letters into close personal relation.

Maine's personal teaching of jurisprudence, as well as the example of his writings, led Cliffe Leslie to look at the present economic structure and state of society as the result of a long evolution.

On May 7, Montrose was ferried across Dornoch Firth to Tain, where General David Leslie took personal command of the procession.

Despite their ideological differences, MacLeod was a personal favourite of Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario Leslie Frost who gave MacLeod an office on the fourth floor of the legislative building at Queen's Park following his defeat and made him a paid adviser and one of Frost's speechwriters.

Most Beloved or Beloved ( 寵愛 ) is a Cantopop album by Leslie Cheung released in 1995 after a long personal struggle between deciding to make a comeback or to make good his retirement vow.

Doug Nye recorded motor racing photographer Guy Griffiths ’ s personal recollection of Leslie Johnson:

On December 27, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt, a personal friend of Saint-Gaudens, wrote to his Secretary of the Treasury, Leslie Mortier Shaw: " I think the state of our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness.

A Swedish-allied army under general Johan Baner decisively defeated a combined Imperial-Saxon army, led by Count Melchior von Hatzfeld and the Saxon Elector John George I. Baner was helped by Swedish Count Lennart Torstenson and Scottish professional soldiers Alexander Leslie, later first Earl of Leven, James King, later first Lord Eythin, and John Ruthven.

Field Marshal Johan Baner commanding the main Swedish army was joined by Field Marshal Alexander Leslie commanding the Army of the Weser which comprised German, Scottish and ( at least one ) English regiments.

After this event the peace of Prague placed the Swedish army in a very precarious position, but the victories won by the united forces of Banér and Field Marshal Alexander Leslie, commander of the Army of the Weser, at the Battle of Wittstock ( October 4, 1636 ), restored the paramount influence of Sweden in central Germany.

Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven ( 1582 – 4 April 1661 ) was a Scottish soldier in Dutch, Swedish and Scottish service.

In 1627 the Swedish monarch knighted Alexander Leslie, by now a full colonel.

In 1631, Leslie organized English and Scottish troops raised for the Swedish army by James, 3rd Marquis of Hamilton and was promoted Major-General.

Despite his injury, Leslie was appointed Field Marshal in 1636 and was one of the Swedish commanders at the Battle of Wittstock in the same year.

Leslie intimated to Oxenstierna that he would stand down from Swedish service but was persuaded to remain and restructure the Army of the Weser.

However, by 1637, Leslie was in Scotland preparing the way for his final retirement from Swedish service.

This took place after careful negotiations in the Swedish Riksråd ( state council ) in which Leslie worked behind the scenes to ensure Chancellor Oxenstierna allowed up to 300 officers to be decommissioned along with an unknown number of ordinary soldiers.

Alexander Leslie was married in 1637 to Agnes Renton ( died 29 June 1651, daughter of David Renton of Billie ), and in due course his eldest son, Gustav Leslie became a colonel in the Swedish Army.

A son of Patrick Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores, he fought for the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus as a professional soldier during the Thirty Years ' War.

Gingold played Mayor Shinn's ( Paul Ford ) snooty wife Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man ( 1962 ) ( in which her son Roy Dean ( Leslie Joseph ) also had a small role ), starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, and was part of the original 1973 Broadway cast of A Little Night Music in the role of the elderly Madame Armfeldt, a former courtesan, this time Swedish, which she reprised in London ( 1975 ) and in the unsuccessful film version of the musical ( 1977 ).

In October 2006, team owner Leslie Alexander ( who also owns the NBA's Houston Rockets team ) announced he was selling the Comets, and longtime Head Coach Van Chancellor resigned in January 2007.

Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, PC QC ( born 19 November 1951 ) is a British Labour politician and barrister, who became the Lord Chancellor and the first Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs ( a position created originally to replace the position of Lord Chancellor ) in 2003.

A portrait of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenham ( Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, 1781 – 1851 ), by Charles Robert Leslie.

* Leslie Peterson, former Attorney General of BC and Chancellor of UBC.

The War Cabinet included Chamberlain, Hoare, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, Churchill, Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister for Coordination of Defence Lord Chatfield, Lord Hankey ( as Minister without Portfolio ) and Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha.

Although the overall commander was Johan Banér, the spectacular victory was largely the work of Leslie and his subordinate, a fellow Scotsman, Lieutenant-General James King, a fact related by Banér himself in his report of the battle to Axel Oxenstierna.

Stayed with the morning show through its various changes: The Morning X with Barnes, Leslie and Jimmy ; The Don Miller Morning Show ; The Toucher, Jimmy, and Leslie Morning Show ; and Mornings with Axel, Jimmy, and Leslie.

* Leslie Peltier was a prolific discoverer of comets and well-known observer of variable stars.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

It was to originally star Kristin Scott-Thomas ( Désirée ) and Leslie Caron ( Madame Armfeldt ).

At this time, Lerner was hired by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, Doctor Dolittle, but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse.

( One of her classmates was Leslie Caron ; fellow ballerinas nicknamed Bardot: Bichette Doe ).

Guest's paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and Guest's paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.

* In 1988, the prison played host to a storyline in EastEnders, where Den Watts ( played by Leslie Grantham ) was being held on remand for arson.

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie () ( 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925 ; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 ) was a French composer and pianist.

Satie was the son of Alfred Satie and his wife Jane Leslie ( née Anton ), who was born in London to Scottish parents.

In 1920 the short-lived company Minerva Films was founded in London by the actor Leslie Howard ( also producer and director ) and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel.

Bogarde was later replaced by Michael Craig and Leslie Phillips, and the series continued until 1970.

It was given explicit statement by Robert Leslie Ellis in " On the Foundations of the Theory of Probabilities " read on 14 February 1842, ( and much later again in " Remarks on the Fundamental Principles of the Theory of Probabilities ").

Leslie was equally skeptical about the role of adhesion proposed by Desaguliers, which should on the whole have the same tendency to accelerate as to retard the motion ..

A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s the distinctive sound of the B-3 organ ( often played through a Leslie speaker ) was widely used in blues, progressive rock bands and blues-rock groups.

The 1988 elections led to Professor Leslie Manigat becoming President, but three months later he too was ousted by the military.

De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).

Leslie Howard though, was the star.

Botham was born in Heswall on the Wirral, to Herbert Leslie Botham ( who worked for Westland ) and Violet Marie, née Collett ( a nurse ).

* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.