When the deadline came, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch was negotiating to buy the paper and save it.

Frank Thompson was also a friend and confidant of Iris Murdoch, the philosopher and novelist.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

Though others made a similar innovation elsewhere, the large scale introduction of this was the work of William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham steam engine pioneers.

Demon bowler Fred Spofforth refused to play because wicket-keeper Billy Murdoch was not selected.

In his April 2012 appearance before the Leveson Inquiry Rupert Murdoch stated that the " notorious " headline was both " tasteless and wrong " and led to the editor Kelvin MacKenzie receiving a reprimand.

But Diller believed strongly in the concept, and so took his fourth-network idea with him when he moved to 20th Century Fox in 1984, where Fox's then freshly installed proprietor, Rupert Murdoch was a more interested listener.

Pneumatic capsule transportation was originally invented by William Murdoch.

It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

In 2003, Turner challenged Murdoch to a fistfight, and later accused Murdoch of being a " warmonger " as Murdoch was backing President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq.

The rivalry between English captain WG Grace and his opposite number Billy Murdoch was hotly anticipated.

It was because of gamesmanship and insistence on his rights, as he saw them, that Grace never enjoyed good relations with Australians in general, though he had personal friends like Billy Midwinter and Billy Murdoch.

* Richard Murdoch, Murdoch Close, off Cherry Orchard was named after him

ONdigital also failed to realise that Sky had cast off its downmarket image and believed there was considerable public antipathy towards Sky ( and Rupert Murdoch ); but this appeared to matter much less than they had hoped.

Also, Murdoch was more than willing to open his wallet to get and keep programming and talent.

He was twice a castaway on Desert Island Discs – first in April 1954 in tandem with Richard Murdoch and then on his own in January 1961.

The Duke of Albany's son, Murdoch, held a prisoner in England following his capture in 1402, was traded for Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, in 1416.

By the time James was ransomed in 1424, Murdoch had succeeded his father to the dukedom and the governorship of Scotland.

These included Douglas himself, Albany's son Murdoch, and the earls of Moray, Angus and Orkney ( Orkney was quickly ransomed ).

James maintained some contact with his subjects during his captivity including his cousin Murdoch Stewart, Albany's son, who was captured in 1402 — initially they were held apart but from 1413 until Murdoch's release in 1415 they were together in the Tower of London and at Windsor Castle.

Pressure from these advocates for the king almost certainly compelled Murdoch to agree to a general council in August 1423 when it was agreed that an embassy should be sent to England to negotiate James's release.

The actions of News International and Rupert Murdoch, together with the EETPU and the police were criticised — in particular the policing methods that were employed.

Later in the eighteenth Century William Murdoch would state: " the gas obtained by distillation from coal, peat, wood and other inflammable substances burnt with great brilliancy upon being set fire to … by conducting it through tubes, it might be employed as an economical substitute for lamps and candles.

Lieutenant William " Will " McMaster Murdoch RNR ( 28 February 1873 – 15 April 1912 ) was a Scottish sailor who died on board the, where he was employed by the White Star Line, serving as First Officer.

The riot was sparked by a controversial umpiring decision, when star Australian batsman Billy Murdoch was given out by George Coulthard, a Victorian employed by the Englishmen.

Initially successful, the colonists were driven out by local forces commanded by Murdoch and Neil MacLeod, who based their forces on Bearasaigh in Loch Ròg.

William Bloye's gold-covered statue Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, in central Birmingham. Among memorials to the Society and its members are the Moonstones ; two statues of Watt and a statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch by William Bloye ; and the museum at Soho House – all in Birmingham, England.

* Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires that Control What We Read and Watch Each Day by Richard Hack ( New Millennium Press, 2003 ) ISBN 1-893224-60-0

The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times ( founded in 1821 ) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch.

On May 1, 2007, Dow Jones released a statement confirming that News Corporation, led by Rupert Murdoch, had made an unsolicited offer of $ 60 per share, or $ 5 billion, for Dow Jones.

With the coming of peace, the supposed RAF station became a civil airport, and the show continued much as before, written by and starring Horne and Murdoch, with Sam Costa and Maurice Denham.

Murdoch remained an employee and later a partner of Boulton & Watt until the 1830s, and his reputation as an inventor has been obscured by the reputations of Boulton and Watt and the firm they founded.

Murdoch also learned the principles of mechanics, practical experimentation and working in metal and wood by assisting in his father's work.

On his first solo job erecting an engine at Wanlockhead Mine, Murdoch made the first of many improvements to the standard Boulton and Watt engine by rearranging the gears to enable the steam valve to be worked automatically by the action of the exhaust shaft.

While based in Cornwall Murdoch had to deal with a wide range of mechanical problems related to steam engines, and this led him to make practical improvements to the basic steam engine designs used by Boulton and Watt.

There is, however, a dearth of letters from Murdoch to Watt from 1780 until 1797 in the Watt archive, possibly, as argued by John Griffiths, due to an attempt by Watt's son, James Watt Junior, to uphold his father's reputation by removing any evidence of the origin of some of the inventions he patented.

This system of achieving rotary motion was patented in his own name by James Watt in October 1781 although Samuel Smiles, biographer of Boulton and Watt, attributes this to Murdoch and there also exists a drawing of the sun and planet system in Murdoch's hand dated August 1781.

Murdoch also carried out a number of experiments with compressed air and developed the first pneumatic message system which worked by using compressed air to propel a message in a cylinder through a tube to its intended destination.

This model was not the only one made by Murdoch as he continued experimenting with the design and by August 1786 had made at least one other model, of a different size, which we know of.

Murdoch sold the paper in 1986 ( to buy its former sister television station WFLD to launch the Fox network ) for $ 145 million in cash in a leveraged buyout to an investor group led by the paper's publisher, Robert E. Page, and the New York investment firm Adler & Shaykin.

The firm also hosted an annual gathering for media executives called Foursquare, where speakers included Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.

He was Resident Partner for the Newark office of Bayard Handleman and Murdoch, becoming Managing Partner for that firm in 1990.