Major General Alfred Nelson-Williams is currently the Chief of the Defence Staff.

Ashdown announced his intention to resign as leader of the Liberal Democrats on 20 January 1999finally departing on 9 August that year after 11 years in the role, to be succeeded by Charles Kennedy. He was knighted ( KBE ) in 2000 and became a life peer as Baron Ashdown of Norton Sub Hamdon in the House of Lords after retiring from the Commons in 2001.

Brown succeeded Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, who had planned on retiring from office after serving two terms.

He participated in the Greenland expedition of Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh in 1932 and was appointed assistant in the Department of Palaeozoology of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in 1937 ; he eventually succeeded Erik Stensiö as professor and head of the department in 1960, retiring in 1972.

He briefly succeeded his father Ali ibn Abi Talib as the righteous Caliph following the latter's death, before retiring to Madinah and entering into an agreement with the first Umayyad ruler, Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, who assumed the Caliphate.

Martin succeeded a retiring Jean Chrétien in 2003 and initially polls predicted that the Liberals could expand their control of Parliament in the next election, as Martin sought inroads in Quebec and Western Canada, while the newly created Conservative Party was besought by controversy over its merger.

After retiring from the Hebrew University and being succeeded by his former student Abraham Robinson, Fraenkel continued teaching at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan ( near Tel Aviv ).

Bridget Jackson was appointed Head of College in 1993, retiring in 1997 to be succeeded by Professor Colin Cina who led the college until his retirement in 2003.

John Tulloch succeeded the retiring David Sutherland as IPSCO president and became an executive vice president of SSAB.

After the division of the Department into three sections in 1837 he became keeper of the Department of Zoology, retiring in 1840 and succeeded by his assistant John Edward Gray.

He succeeded the Rev Martin Smyth of the Ulster Unionist Party, who had sat for the seat from a by-election in 1982 until retiring at the 2005 election.

He turned to politics and succeeded the retiring William Kingston Flesher as MP of Grey East in the 1878 election as a Conservative MP.

In November 1919 he succeeded William Robert Ogilvie-Grant as Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum, retiring on his sixty-fifth birthday in 1935.

Early in the 1934 season, he succeeded Lew Fonseca as White Sox manager ; he was a player-manager from 1934 through 1939, and after retiring as a player continued as manager until early 1946.

Creagh succeeded Lord Kitchener as Commander-in-Chief, India in 1909, retiring in 1914.

Cardinal Scola had succeeded the retiring Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, who had been in office since 2002 and had been a possible conservative papabile-or favorite-in the April 2005 Papal Conclave after Blessed Pope John Paul II's death that selected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI.

In November 2006, Close announced that he was retiring from politics In the 2007 election he was succeeded as Alliance Party Lagan Valley Assembly representative by current Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Trevor Lunn.

In 1912 he also succeeded where his predecessors had failed in the introduction of a series of anti-looting laws, before retiring in 1914.

Invited to become the Times public editor two months after retiring from the Journal, Calame succeeded Daniel Okrent in the ombudsman-like position and was followed by Clark Hoyt.

The youngest abbot ever elected to the order, Hsin Pei was elected by the members of Fo Guang Shan worldwide in 2004 and succeeded retiring abbot Hsin Ting in 2005.

On April 23, 2008, Alex Wynaendts succeeded the retiring Donald J. Shepard as Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Aegon N. V. following the Group's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders: Donald Shepard announced his retirement in November 2007, after six years as Chairman.

He received the title of professor in 1822 and succeeded Carl Adolph Agardh as professor of botany and practical economy in 1836, retiring as emeritus in 1853.

On December 3, 2010, Blankenship announced that he was retiring as CEO at the end of the year, and would be succeeded by Massey President Baxter F. Phillips Jr ..

This change was more a result of eight-term conservative Democrat Earl Hutto retiring than of a Republican upsurge ; for some time, it had been taken for granted that Hutto would be succeeded by a Republican once he retired.

The Continental League folded before it ever started, but if its real object was to secure Houston a Major League franchise, it clearly succeeded.

After the defeat, Major resigned as the leader of the party, and was succeeded by William Hague.

Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.

Kinnock was also perceived as scoring in debates over Margaret Thatcher in the Commons — previously an area in which he was seen as weak — and finally Conservative MPs challenged Thatcher's leadership and she resigned on 22 November 1990 to be succeeded by John Major.

In 1988, Thailand became more democratic after General Prem Tinsulanonda decided to step down and was succeeded by Major General ( later, General ) Chatichai Choonhavan, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand since 1976.

The battalion second-in-command was killed when his tank was hit in front of Whitelaw's eyes and Whitelaw succeeded to this position, holding it, with the rank of Major, throughout the advance through the Netherlands into Germany and until the end of the war.

In July the US Army Service of Supply, SWPA succeeded the former command for the US Army Forces in Australia and he became Commanding General, with promotion to Major General.

In March 1849 Major Warden was succeeded at Bloemfontein as civil commissioner by Mr C. U. Stuart, but he remained British resident until July 1852.

Truscott was succeeded in command of 3rd Infantry Division by Major General John " Iron Mike " O ' Daniel.

A younger brother, John Blackwood succeeded to the business ; four years later he was joined by Major William Blackwood, who continued in the firm until his death in 1861.

John succeeded his brother as head of the business in 1834, on William's death ; four years later he was joined by Major William Blackwood, who continued in the firm until his death in 1861.

On 20 August Major General Innis P. Swift succeeded General Eichelberger as commander of the corps.

Rear Admiral Snelson was succeeded by Major General Tony Milton, Commandant General Royal Marines as maritime forces commander on 16 April 2003.

On 11 July 2003, 1st Armoured Division handed control over south-east Iraq to 3rd Mechanised Division, Major General Wall was succeeded by Major General Graeme Lamb as commander of British ground forces in Iraq.

At the end of 2004 General Rollo was succeeded by Major General Jonathan Riley and in November of that year 4 Armoured Brigade rotated to replace 1 Mechanised Brigade.

British Maritime Component Commander-Rear Admiral David Snelson ( succeeded by Major General Tony Milton 16 April 2003 )

* GOC 1st Armoured Division-Major General Robin Brims ( succeeded by Major General Peter Wall )

This visit was made necessary because Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who had succeeded Brock as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, was ill and unable to perform his various duties.

He was succeeded by Major General Guy Simonds, whose lack of experience was offset by an impressive career and a formidable military intellect.

Nevertheless, the detachment pressed on and, under the command of the Regimental Sergeant Major, they succeeded in securing one of the barracks buildings near the redoubt that formed the key to defence of the position.

Vaughan left shortly afterwards to take over command of the Commando Depot at Achnacarry and was succeeded by Lord Lovat with Major Derek Mills-Roberts becoming the 2IC.

Finally, Major Wickham succeeded in getting Collis Huntington interested helping to complete the line.

In 1828, when Zafar was 53 and a decade before he succeeded the throne, Major Archer reported, " Zafar is a man of spare figure and stature, plainly apparelled, almost approaching to meanness.