The volume was critically acclaimed and won a contest run by the Sunday Referee, netting him new admirers from the London poetry world, including Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir.

Indeed, as Edward Muir points out, “ by the sixteenth century virtually every word, gesture and act that the doge made in public was subject to legal and ceremonial regulation ”.

Their daughter, Sarah was married to Montague Muir Mackenzie, barrister.

He was known locally as ' the little general ' as he was a man of short stature and the poet Edwin Muir recalled in a memoir of his childhood seeing the little general walking around his estates.

This type of story was a major feature of the radio program My Word !, with a contest between Denis Norden and Frank Muir to see whose story was the most outrageous ending to each show.

He was previously offered X-Men membership, but he declined, opting instead to work at the Muir Island research centre.

He referred to his Liverpudlian son-in-law as " Shirley Temple " or a " randy Scouse git " ( Randy Scouse Git as a phrase caught the ear of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees who heard it while on tour in the UK-and who co-opted it as the title of the group's next single-though their record label renamed it " Alternate Title " in the UK market to avoid controversy ) and to his wife as a " silly moo " ( a substitute for " cow " which was vetoed by the BBC's head of comedy Frank Muir ).

It was a Scot, John Muir, who had initiated one of the first national parks in the world, at Yosemite in the United States.

Muir was instrumental in the creation of Yosemite national park in 1890.

Muir was also personally involved in the creation of Sequoia, Mount Rainier, Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon national parks.

Environmentalism was the third position, led by John Muir ( 1838 – 1914 ).

Muir preached that nature was sacred and humans are intruders who should look but not develop.

By 2011, the school was ready for new quarters, moving into the newly renovated Muir Hall at Fort Leavenworth on 30 August 2011.

Muir was attempting to express that under the Union Flag the British and French were united as Canadians.

A script for a Flashman film adaptation was written by Frank Muir in 1969, to star John Alderton, and is mentioned in his autobiography A Kentish Lad.

In 1938, 14-year-old Leslie Phillips appeared with Graeme Muir in the West End play Dear Octopus where Muir was the juvenile lead.

This in part reflects the absence of wilderness areas in heavily cultivated Europe, as well as a longstanding interest in laissez-faire government in some countries, like the UK, leaving it as no coincidence that John Muir, the British-born founder of the National Park movement ( and hence of government-sponsored conservation ) did his sterling work in the USA, where he was the motor force behind the establishment of such NPs as Yosemite and Yellowstone.

S. Hall Young was a friend and companion of the naturalist John Muir, who lived in Wrangell in 1879-1880.

John Muir House. Martinez was the home of John Muir from 1880 until his death in 1914.

He was buried about a mile south of the building that is now the John Muir National Historic Site.

Naturalist and author John Muir said of Mount Shasta:

On September 11, 2002, Muir posted a message on the band's official website, stating that they would be in the studio " working on new ST songs ", although he said the band was already in the studio before their European tour and were " really happy with the results ".

Writing in his book Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, the commentator Gregor Muir said: The second part of ' Lucky Kunst ', featuring a group of young artists from New York, opened some weeks later.

John Muir said of them, " These workhorses featured a mast that angled, or raked, forward sharply, and a large triangular sail hanging down from a long, two-piece yard ".

The Hetch Hetchy project was strongly opposed by many conservationists, led by John Muir, who said, " Dam Hetch Hetchy!

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.

Responding to a question by The Times film critic Kate Muir about his German roots and his comments in a Danish film magazine about the Nazi aesthetic, von Trier claimed to have some sympathy for and understanding of Adolf Hitler, and then jokingly claimed to be a Nazi himself:

Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots ; King James VI of Scotland ; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ; documentary film pioneer John Grierson ; film music composer Muir Mathieson ; animation pioneer Norman McLaren ; TV presenter Kirsty Young ; and footballers Billy Bremner ( captain of Leeds United and Scotland ) and Frank Beattie ( captain of Kilmarnock ).

2 ( 2001 ), Year of the Cycos ( 2008 ), No Mercy Fool !/ The Suicidal Family ( 2010 ) and The Mad Mad Muir Musical Tour ( 2011 ), Suicidal Tendencies have released no new material in the way of albums or singles since their last album, Free Your Soul and Save My Mind, came out in 2000.

However, in May 2011, Muir told KillYourStereo. com that the new album will likely be released in 2012 as he will begin working on a Cyco Miko album in October, which will have a " taste of new Suicidal, old unreleased Suicidal, new Infectious Grooves, old Infectious Grooves and a bunch of other stuff as well.

According to Mike Muir, Suicidal Tendencies have completed three new albums and they are " just putting them together in a time frame.

The third crew member, Campbell Muir, may also have taken the controls.

While the humour was undoubtedly parochially British, in his autobiography Frank Muir expressed gratification and wonder that the show was so well received in Australia — where TIFHs subtlety, and the show's implied confidence in the listeners ' level of intelligence, were commented on in the Australian press as characteristics one would have expected to lead to the show's failure there!

But in maturity, Muir may have changed his orthodox beliefs.

Some historians have linked this with the 1916 National Parks Act, which included the ' use without impairment ' clause, sought by John Muir.

Famous residents born or who have lived in the area include the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the actor and writer Dirk Bogarde, former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP, TV and National Lottery draw presenter Jenni Falconer, singers Amy Macdonald and Lena Martell, as well as former Miss Scotland and Miss United Kingdom Nieve Jennings and actor and rock singer Steve Valentine.

Kurt seems to have nearly fully recovered from his injuries since he, along with Beast, the entire New X-Men team are teleported to Muir Island by Pixie.

Marvel stationed the team on the fictitious Muir Island, off the coast of Scotland, and tied the series closer to the X-Men family, casting off most Captain Britain-related elements entirely, in addition to the characters that did not have close ties to the X-Universe ( like Kylun and Feron ).

They have a son, Miles William Muir ( born September 22, 2001 ).

Those that may have thought that after the notoriety of his abrupt departure from Glasgow University, Muir would choose a life of quiet respectability, were soon to have their illusions shattered.

Muir ’ s term of confinement at the penal colony appears to have been pretty uneventful.

Skirving and Muir both seem to have acquired the services of some time-served convicts as servants.

Only Margarot might have availed himself of Muir ’ s plan ; however he was absent at a farm deep in the hills at Parramatta, and in any case he had been sent to coventry by his former colleagues because of his part in supporting the mutiny allegations.

Accordingly, Borica was directed to have Muir conducted with all haste to the capital ‘ without open sign of his being under arrest ’.

For some time, Muir appears to have regained his liberty in Havana, for he spoke to several American merchants explaining his plight.

Whatever misgivings or fears Muir may have had for his safety at the hands of his Spanish jailers, there was one danger which had not occurred to him-that of confrontation with an English fleet.

One of the crew under interrogation appears to have revealed the fact of Muir ’ s presence on board, and a careful search was made for his body.

YMBB members are frequently featured in online media and local newspapers, and a have a long term commitment at the Spier's Old School Grounds on Barrmill Road, working towards the stages of the John Muir Trust Awards.