Jackman would later reveal on Parkinson in the UK that he was drawn to Bixby's story because it was one of tremendous courage and determination against the odds.

While still a graduate student in 1934, Parkinson was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a member of the 22nd London Regiment ( The Queen's ), was promoted Lieutenant later the same year, and commanded an infantry company at the jubilee of King George V in 1935.

The original Singapore campus, where Parkinson taught, later became the University of Singapore.

According to Parkinson, Hornblower in later life became a director of P & O, Governor of Malta ( 1829 – 1831 ), Commander in Chief at Chatham ( 1832 – 1835 ) a Viscount ( in 1850 ), and an Admiral of the Fleet, dying aged 80 on 12 January 1858.

In 2010, ex-Premiership footballer Gary Parkinson suffered a massive stroke and was later diagnosed with locked-in syndrome.

" In Washington, some guy threw a pipe and it hit me right between my eyes ", he told Michael Parkinson two years later.

The son of a railway worker, Parkinson was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, a state-run day and boarding school for boys, from where he won a scholarship to Cambridge University, where he read English at Emmanuel College, later switching to read Law.

After leaving university, Parkinson worked as a manager for the MetalBox Company, later becoming a consultant.

Parkinson, who alleged that she was extorted by threats of firing, later dropped her lawsuit, claiming the stress from the ordeal was damaging her health.

Holness joined the BBC as a presenter on Late Night Extra, initially on the BBC Light Programme and later on BBC Radio 1 and 2, presenting alongside people like Terry Wogan, Michael Parkinson and Keith Fordyce.

Despite this, Parkinson has since asserted that then as now, "... there was just as much plugging in the seventies as at any time later.

Parkinson later revealed to the press that he felt her behaviour to his earlier guests, Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, whom she turned her back on, was " unforgivable ".

In 1915, Frank Norman Wilson ( 18901952 ) became the first to describe the condition which would later be referred to as Wolff – Parkinson – White syndrome.

Four days later, Mark Parkinson, former chair of the Kansas Republican Party, switched his party affiliation to Democrat ; the following day Sebelius announced that Parkinson would be her running mate for Lieutenant Governor.

In later years, Parkinson lamented the fact that despite all the star guests he had interviewed during his career, he would always be remembered for " that bloody bird ".

This happens in a tape recording of the eldest daughter Suzanne, later in a ' live ' section to the same character and eventually Michael Parkinson himself is seen to be possessed.

Her character is replaced in Series 2-4 by new receptionist and later phlebotomist Pauline Lamb ( played by Katherine Parkinson ).

He later became permanent presenter of the morning show, replacing Michael Parkinson.

Bruce Allen later toured &/ or recorded with The Allniters, Eurogliders, The Eddys, Glenn Shorrock, Doug Parkinson and Ross Wilson, and currently performs with a number of Sydney-based bands including The Bellhops and The Hollywood Hombres.

Parkinson later went back and wrote a prequel, The Guernseyman, set during the American Revolution.

In 1973 she was cast as the lead in Decameron ' 73 at the Roadhouse in London She was then inertviewed on the Michael Parkinson Show, and later appeared in the pilot of The Sweeney with John Thaw.

In the first book ( A Touch Of Daniel ), Parkinson stays with Uncle Stavely, but Stavely only has fleeting appearances in the later books.

Interestingly, Parkinson worked in the lab of Charles Stark Draper, the namesake for the prestigious Draper Prize which Parkinson went on to win later in his life.

Morecambe headed back to his hotel, and recounted in an interview with Michael Parkinson in November 1972 that, as the pains spread to his chest, he became unable to drive.

Cardiologists Louis Wolff ( 18981972 ), John Parkinson ( 18851976 ) and Paul Dudley White ( 18861973 ) are credited with the definitive description of the disorder in 1930.

* February 4-James Parkinson gives the first description of human injury from lightning strikes, in a paper read to the Medical Society of London.

This James Parkinson is best known as the first scientific description of a disease he called the Shaking Palsy, now referred to as Parkinson's disease in his honour.

** James Parkinson ( 1755 – 1824 ), physician, provided first complete description of Parkinson's disease

Part II of the book begins by going around the world, time zone to time zone, showing what different characters are doing all at the same time: Morris Zapp travelling ; Australian Rodney Wainright trying to write a conference paper ; Zapp's ex-wife Désirée trying to write a novel ; Howard Ringbaum trying to convince his wife Thelma to sleep with him on an airplane so he can join the Mile High Club ; Siegfried von Turpitz talking to Arthur Kingfisher about the new UNESCO chair of literary criticism ; Rudyard Parkinson plotting to get that chair ; Turkish Akbil Borak reading William Hazlitt to prepare for a visit by Swallow ; Akira Sakazaki translating English novelist Ronald Frobisher into Japanese ; Ronald Frobisher having breakfast ; Italian Fulvia Morgana ( a reference to Morgan le Fay ) meeting Morris Zapp on a plane ; and more .`

Richard B. Parkinson and Ludwig D. Morenz write that ancient Egyptian literature — narrowly defined as belles-lettres (" beautiful writing ")— were not recorded in written form until the early Twelfth dynasty of the Middle Kingdom.

Parkinson is celebrated for his two monumental works, the first Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris in 1629: this was essentially a gardening book, a florilegium for which Charles I awarded him the title Botanicus Regius Primarius — Royal Botanist.

TV-am was spearheaded by ' The Famous Five ' who were not only lined up as presenters on the station, but were also shareholders — Michael Parkinson, David Frost ( 1983 – 92 ), Angela Rippon ( 1983 ), Anna Ford ( 1983 ) and Robert Kee.

Ivan Alexander Getting ( January 18, 1912 — October 11, 2003 ) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited ( along with Roger L. Easton and Bradford Parkinson ) with the development of the Global Positioning System ( GPS ).

* Thomas Ryan — Tom Parkinson

* Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour by Louise Baring, ( 2009, Rizzoli ) ISBN 978-0-8478-3342-9 – a tie-in with the exhibition of the same name at Somerset House, Oct 9, 2009 — Jan 31, 2010

During the making of The Ascent of Man, Bronowski was interviewed by the popular British chat show host Michael Parkinson.

In his final programme, broadcast 22 December 2007, Parkinson stated that his favourite interview was with Jacob Bronowski in 1973.

Parkinson and his wife divorced in 1952 and he married the writer and journalist Ann Fry ( 1921 – 1983 ), with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

In 1958, while still in Singapore, Parkinson published his most famous work Parkinson's Law, a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first published in the Economist magazine in November 1955, satirizing government bureaucracies.

Parkinson had spent less than any other manager on purchasing players since Lennie Lawrence in the 1980s and was able to maintain a top six status despite only having the opportunity to bring in lower level players on loan.

Sutherland has drawn the majority of the strips since then, except for a period from 1998 to 2000, when Nigel Parkinson took over the strip, drawing it in a style similar to how David Parkins was drawing Dennis the Menace by that point ( the strips have had closely connected visual styles since the early 1970s, when Sutherland started drawing them both ).

Nigel Parkinson continued as artist, as Ivy had been reprinted before the team up.

In 2003, when Constantine and Woodall were interviewed for the first time on Parkinson, actress Meg Ryan had a controversial interview with Michael Parkinson, which resulted in negative publicity for Ryan.

Upon Flora turning 18, it was noted in the press that Parkinson had never met his child and presumably had no intention of doing so.

Parkinson, who partnered Paul Merton on the episode, took considerable ribbing ( although the injunction prevented any reference to his major scandal ) but emerged from the programme intact: even opposing captain and satirist Ian Hislop admitted afterwards that he had come across very well.

Parkinson also published his memoirs in 1992, in which he claimed that, with a determined campaign, Thatcher would have won the second ballot of the Conservative Leadership election in 1990 – which her Cabinet had warned her she would lose and persuaded her to stand down.

In the late 1980s, when Parkinson had objected to Norman Tebbit's treatment of the issue in his memoirs (" Upwardly Mobile "), the front cover had shown each man telling the other " I told you not to stick it in ".

" Langford herself told interviewer Michael Parkinson on his television chat show that Coward had said the best way to improve the play was to " cut the second half and the child's throat!

In addition to his flourishing medical practice, Parkinson had an avid interest in geology and paleontology, as well as the politics of the day.

Thomas B. Evans, Jr., the incumbent Republican was running again, and although he had been caught in a compromising " association " on a golfing trip with the young lobbyist Paula Parkinson, he was still a formidable and well-connected politician.

Parkinson, had to resign through lack of funds, and the Rev.

On July 7, 2011, Tom Parkinson reported that Nelson had said that Congress “ starved ” the space program of funding for several years, but suggested that the situation was turning around and called on the Obama Administration to push for NASA funding.

However, Parkinson and his producer, Richard Drewett ( who had worked on Late Night Line-Up ), envisioned a combination of guests whose celebrity had been achieved in different fields.

Michael Parkinson always sought guests who, besides being well known, had some sort of story to relate.

Parkinson had always lamented the fact that despite all the star guests he had interviewed over the years, he would probably be remembered for " that bloody bird ".

* Sir Michael Parkinson had always lamented the fact that, despite all the star guests he had interviewed on television over the years, he would probably be remembered for " that bloody bird " ( the glove puppet Emu, which had attacked him during an interview with " owner " Rod Hull ).