He commissioned a local shipbuilder, one Septimus Meiklejohn to construct a small flat-bottomed sailing barge named the Lake Erie which was built at Omaha, not far from Mahurangi.

Alexander Meiklejohn ( February 1, 1872 — December 17, 1964 ) was a philosopher, university administrator, and free-speech advocate.

Meiklejohn was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England of Scottish descent, being the youngest of eight sons.

Meiklejohn is known as an advocate of First Amendment freedoms and was a member of the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ).

Major Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn VC ( 27 November 1870 – 4 July 1913 ) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Meiklejohn was educated at Fettes College.

President Gross's defense of academic freedom was honored by the American Association of University Professors, who presented him and Rutgers with its Alexander Meiklejohn Award in 1966.

Exchange anisotropy was discovered by Meiklejohn and Bean of General Electric in 1956.

During his undergraduate years, Buchanan became personally close to Amherst's president Alexander Meiklejohn and was strongly influenced by Meiklejohn's ideas about educational reform.

According to Meiklejohn, democracy will not be true to its essential ideal if those in power are able to manipulate the electorate by withholding information and stifling criticism.

The University of Wisconsin – Madison's Meiklejohn House ( home to the Integrated Liberal Studies program ) continues to espouse the ideals of Meiklejohn's experimental college by engaging students in interdisciplinary liberal education.

* Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom, by Cynthia Stokes Brown.

* The Experimental College ( 1932 ), by Alexander Meiklejohn.

* Free Speech and its Relation to Self-government, by Alexander Meiklejohn.

* Remembering Alexander Meiklejohn A tribute by Joseph Tussman, a former student

In his inaugural moderatorial address, John Meiklejohn made it clear that the ecclesiastical union consciously reflected the union of the colonies: " We have, by forming this Assembly, formed a Court whose jurisdiction is, as regards territory, equal to, and coterminous with that of the Federal Parliament, and like it, is representative in its character.

DI Robbie Ross ( John Michie ) joined the team in 1998 ( Michie had made an early appearance in Taggart in 1990, when he played a suspect called Robby Meiklejohn in an episode called " Love Knot ").

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

McDaniel hired one of the few white agents who would represent black actors in those days, William Meiklejohn, to advance her career.

* Davie Meiklejohn Former Rangers captain and Scotland international.

She is the founder and the Executive Director Emerita of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley.

The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute ( MCLI ) is a Berkeley, California-based non-profit corporation.

The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute carries on a wide range of activities, including research, publication, advocacy, and education.

The organization is named after Alexander Meiklejohn, a philosopher, university administrator, and free-speech advocate.

Meiklejohn is one of the most notable proponents of the link between freedom of speech and democracy.

Meiklejohn acknowledges that the desire to manipulate opinion can stem from the motive of seeking to benefit society.

Although Meiklejohn died in 1964 his ideas are still informing the ongoing discussion about how the United States " experiment " in democracy is best understood.

See Eugene H. Perry, A Socrates for all Seasons-Alexander Meiklejohn and Deliberative Democracy, ( Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse Press, 2011 ).

The American Association of University Professors ( AAUP ) established the Alexander Meiklejohn Freedom Award to honor his work.

The Meiklejohn Advising Program is Brown University's advising program for incoming first-year students.

Meiklejohn Advisors ( known as Meiklejohns for short ) are student advisors who are paired with each first-year, along with a faculty advisor, to provide academic advice and help the transition to college.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological conditions.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

A unified set of regulations, applicable to all areas, was issued in 1929, and a complementary series of demographic inquiries in selected areas was instituted at the same time.

An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

The control sample was selected by taking the bottom name of each of the two columns of names on each page of the alphabetical listing of manufacturers in the Thomas Register.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

A formulaic element need not be held meaningless merely because it was selected with little conscious reflection.

Then there is a matchmaker, one Mikeen Flynn, a role for which Eddie Foy was happily selected.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

This announcement followed a five-year standardization process in which fifteen competing designs were presented and evaluated, before the Rijndael cipher was selected as the most suitable ( see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details ).

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

As was customary among the Lombards, Alboin took the crown after an election by the tribe's freemen, who traditionally selected the king from the dead sovereign's clan.

He was selected by the executors of Vieta to revise and edit Viete's manuscript works.

The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.