In April and May 2009, the next episode ensued as the Oliphant Commission inquiry began.

The principle of law, that a Peerage of Scotland of unknown origin shall be presumed to be limited to the heirs male of the body of the Grantee, had not been established by a decision or otherwise in the seventeenth Century ; and Lawrence Lord Oliphant, having no son but having a daughter Anne who became the wife of Sir James I Douglas of Mordington, by a Procuratory of Resignation purported to resign his Peerage in favour of Patrick Oliphant his next heir male, desiring to ensure the continuance of his Dignity in the male line of his family ; but his Resignation does not appear to have been accepted by the King, and certainly no regrant followed upon it.

Lawrence Oliphant of Gask, descended from William Oliphant, the younger son of the first Lord Oliphant, appears to have been the next heir male after William, and it is stated that William acknowledged him as his rightful successor, but having taken the part of Prince Charles Edward in the insurrection of 1745 he did net assume the Title.

His male heir, or in default of male issue from him, the nearest heir male of his ancestor William, the founder of the Gask branch of the family, would be entitled to the Dignity, and failing issue from William, the male representative descending from George the younger brother of William, if any, would be the next heir to the Oliphant Peerage.

In 1939, Oliphant also visited Berkeley, California, where he met Ernest Lawrence, who gave him a complete set of specifications for his 60-inch cyclotron.

" Laurence Oliphant, who visited the ' Akko Sanjak ' valley area in 1887, then a subprovince of the ' Beirut Wilayah ', wrote that the Valley of Esdraelon ( Jezreel ) was " a huge green lake of waving wheat, with its village-crowned mounds rising from it like islands ; and it presents one of the most striking pictures of luxuriant fertility which it is possible to conceive.

Laurence Oliphant also visited Meron sometime in the latter half of the 19th century.

Building upon the nuclear transmutation experiments by Ernest Rutherford, carried out several years earlier, the laboratory fusion of heavy hydrogen isotopes was first accomplished by Mark Oliphant in 1932.

In 1925, Oliphant heard a speech given by the New Zealander physicist, Ernest Rutherford, and he decided to work for him – an ambition that he fulfilled by earning a position at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1927.

Oliphant then contacted Ernest Lawrence, James Conant, Enrico Fermi and Arthur Compton and managed to increase the urgency of the American research programmes.

As an Elizabethan scholar, his only rival in Australia in his day was Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant.

The University of Adelaide graduates include prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to their fields nationally and internationally, and include Howard Florey, Lawrence Bragg, Mark Oliphant and Hugh Cairns.

* Russel Lawrence Barsh & James Youngblood Henderson, The Betrayal: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe and the Hunting of the Snark, 63 Minn. L. Rev.

He married Elizabeth Oliphant, a daughter of Lawrence, 4th Lord of Oliphant, in spring 1585, and they had three sons and two daughters.

# In Touch-Starting from an attempt for cheaper fusion power using superconductivity, which was discovered by Onnes, with liquid gas provided by Louis-Paul Cailletet, who carried out experiments on a tower built by Gustave Eiffel, who also built the Statue of Liberty with its famous poem by the Jewish activist Emma Lazarus, helped by Oliphant, whose boss Elgin was the son of the man who stole the Elgin Marbles and sold them with the help of royal painter Thomas Lawrence, whose colleague Dr. Hunter had an assistant whose wife's lodger was Benjamin Franklin, who charted the Gulf Stream with a thermometer Fahrenheit borrowed from Ole Rømer, whose friend Picard surveyed Versailles and provided the water for the fountains and the royal gardens and all the trees that inspired Duhamel to write the book on gardening that was read by the architect William Chambers, who hired the Scottish stonemason Thomas Telford, whose idea for London Bridge was turned down by Thomas Young, whose light waves travel in ether, as do Hertz's electricity waves, with which Helmholtz prods a frog to disprove the vitalists, whose leader, Klages, analyzes handwriting so individual zip codes have to be capital letters to get your mail to a jungle village to keep you " In Touch ".

Sir Lawrence Oliphant was created a Lord of Parliament by King James the Second or King James the Third, but it is uncertain in what year the Honour was conferred.

The Dignity descended in regular succession to Lawrence the fifth Lord Oliphant, who succeeded his grandfather, Lawrence the fourth Lord, in 1593, his father, the Master of Oliphant, perished at sea in 1584.

In 1641 the King created Sir James Douglas, the husband of Anne, the daughter and heir of Lawrence Lord Oliphant, Lord Mordington, and, granted him the precedency due to the former Lords Oliphant ; and it appears from the records of Parliament that Lord Mordington sat above the Lord Oliphant.

Patrick Oliphant of Newtyle, ( afterwards Lord Oliphant ), the heir male, was the son of John Oliphant of Newtyle, the second son of Lawrence the fourth Lord Oliphant.

The Title of Oliphant was after the death of Francis assumed by William Oliphant of Langton, descended from Peter Oliphant, the second son of Lawrence the third Lord Oliphant.

* British — Burnaby, Davy: The Co-Optimists ( revue of 1921 — and revised continually up to 1926 — played in Pierrot costumes, with music and lyrics by various entertainers ; filmed in 1929 ); Cannan, Gilbert: Pierrot in Hospital ( 1923 ); " Cryptos " and James T. Tanner: Our Miss Gibbs ( 1909 ; musical comedy played in Pierrot costumes ); Down, Oliphant: The Maker of Dreams ( 1912 ); Drinkwater, John: The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot ( 1913 ; music by James Brier ); Housman, Laurence, and Harley Granville-Barker: Prunella: or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1906, rev.

* James PC, Smith AR, Oliphant LW & Warkentin IG.

* James Hogg ( 1899 ) Sir George Douglas in the " Famous Scots Series " published by Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier.

A biography of Robert Tannahill appears in the book, James Hogg by Sir George Douglas ( Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1899 ).

A biography of William Motherwell appears in the book, James Hogg by Sir George Douglas ( Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1899 ).

These were ; the Earls of Cassilis and Glencairn, Lords Somerville, Maxwell, Gray, Oliphant, and Fleming, with Oliver Sinclair, George Hume of Ayton, Robert Master of Erskine, William Seton, Patrick Hepburn, James Pringle, James Sinclair, Alexander Sinclair, John Maitland of Awencastle, Henry Maxwell brother of lord Maxwell, John Ross of Craigie, the laird of Moncrieff, John Leslie younger son of the earl of Rothes, and John Carmichael.

Sandeman established his first church in Portsmouth on 4 May 1765 accompanied by James Cargill, Andrew Oliphant, and his nephews.

The MAUD Committee consisted a chairman George Paget Thomson and had Marcus Oliphant, Patrick Blackett, James Chadwick, Philip Moon and John Cockcroft as its committee's members.

* James Oliphant Fraser ( 1826 – 1904 ), businessman and political figure in Newfoundland

* Simpson, Eve Blantyre, ( 1896 ), Sir James Y. Simpson, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, (" Famous Scots Series ").

A biography of William Thom appears in the book, James Hogg by Sir George Douglas ( Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1899 ) in the " Famous Scots Series ".

Its hypothetical existence was first proposed in 1934 by the Australian nuclear physicist Mark Oliphant while he was working at the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory.

* Mark Lunney, Ken Oliphant, Tort Law-Texts, Cases ( 2003 ) 2nd Ed.

* August 5 – Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada ( d. 2004 )

After Dickens ' death, Margaret Oliphant deplored the turkey and plum pudding aspects of the book but admitted that in the days of its first publication it was regarded as " a new gospel " and noted that the book was unique in that it actually made people behave better.

This simple morality tale with its pathos and theme of redemption significantly redefined the " spirit " and importance of Christmas, since, as Margaret Oliphant recalled, it " moved us all those days ago as if it had been a new gospel.

Researched and devised by Dr. Oliphant Jackson, the Jackson ratio is a method of determining whether a member of the tortoise species Testudo graeca or Testudo hermanni is maintaining its optimum bodyweight, which is necessary for a successful hibernation.

* A Brief History of Westford, by Robert W. Oliphant, Town Historian.

Another version from Ellis ' " History of Fayette County " states that one Fidelus Oliphant, who operated iron furnaces in the area, went to a bank in Uniontown to borrow money with the assurance that he had a " fair chance " of paying it back.

Newcomer, Oliphant Furnace, Haydentown, Ruble Mill, York Run, Shoaf, Amend, and Highhouse are villages within the township.

* Freddie Helper ( Peter Oliphant ) – Millie and Jerry Helper's son and Richie's closest friend.

At West Point, Casey played football as a halfback, substituting for Elmer Oliphant.

One of Casey's duties was keeping Oliphant proficient at mathematics.

The Walvisch and the Oliphant arrived later in 1652, having had 130 burials at sea.

* 1932-Mark Oliphant discovered helium 3 and tritium, and that heavy hydrogen nuclei could be made to react with each other.

Amongst the strongest critics of Froude's biographical work was novelist Margaret Oliphant, who wrote in the Contemporary Review of 1883 that biography ought to be the " art of moral portrait painting " and described the publication of Jane Carlyle's papers as the " betrayal and exposure of the secret of a woman ’ s weakness.

; 1880: Laurence Oliphant publishes The land of Gilead, with excursions in the Lebanon which proposes a settlement under British protection while respecting Ottoman sovereignty.

See Annals of a Publishing House ; William Blackwood and his Sons ... ( 1897 – 1898 ), the first two volumes of which were written by Mrs Oliphant ; the third, dealing with John Blackwood, by his daughter, Mrs Gerald Porter.

In 1943, Mark Oliphant made an early proposal for the construction of a proton-synchrotron, however he made no assurance that the machine would work.