Robinson asked Herford to escort him to the club's lavatory before they sat down for a highball and a game of cards.

The only question asked was whether Robinson would beat Currie and come second.

In 1928, Melville Marks Robinson of Canada was asked to organise the first British Empire Games.

Jackson asked for number 42, in memory of Jackie Robinson.

It marked the first time in 44 career fights that Fullmer had been knocked out, and when someone asked Robinson after the fight how far the left hook had travelled, Robinson replied: " I can't say.

He could have asked President Mary Robinson to dissolve the Dáil and call new elections, though Robinson has since stated she would have refused such a request, thereby forcing Reynolds to resign.

In 1970, Yuri Matiyasevich proved ( using results of Julia Robinson ) Matiyasevich's theorem, which implies that Hilbert's tenth problem has no effective solution ; this problem asked whether there is an effective procedure to decide whether a Diophantine equation over the integers has a solution in the integers.

In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a " Philip Marlowe of the Old West.

According to Robinson, the practice of recipients being asked to sell their gifts " is of long standing ".

* StickDar Robinson asked to play the part of the albino killer so the audience would be more shocked by the villain's death.

Under strain from the financial crisis, Robinson asked Liverpool for a change of post.

In 1947, Veeck gave a speech in an Ohio town and afterward was asked a question regarding Jackie Robinson's chances of making it as a major leaguer, to which Veeck responded he did not believe Robinson would fare well.

Doby had played the position before with the Eagles but was without a proper glove for first base and met much resistance when attempts were made to borrow one from teammates, including first baseman Eddie Robinson, for whom Boudreau had asked Doby to replace that day.

Boudrea recounts an incident where Robinson refused the glove to Doby, but when asked by Indians traveling secretary Spud Goldstein, Robinson obliged.

On 11 January 2010 Robinson confirmed that he had asked both the House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly to carry out an inquiry into his conduct.

Impressed with the script, Home asked Davies to write the second episode, and when Tony Robinson decided to take a break from producing Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, a slot opened up in the Children's BBC schedules for late 1991 and Home decided to use Dark Season to fill it, commissioning Davies to write the remaining episodes of the serial.

Those shows featured the top performers of the era and introduced new acts, such as Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Zombies, Little Anthony & The Imperials, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Gene Pitney, Ben E. King, the Tymes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Bobby Vinton ( who was the leader of the house band when he asked for a chance to perform as a singer ), The Lovin ' Spoonful, Cream, and The Who, among many others.

After much consideration, head coach John Robinson asked Lott to play defense because he was a better tackler than Allen.

* On July 11, former FBI Tampa bureau chief Al Robinson was quoted in the St. Petersburg Times as saying that Castor " asked for more information but was not told anything.

When the manager suggested that it might be better if Robinson leave, he smiled and asked, " Have you got a ten dollar bill?

Robinson informed Hank that he was forming a group called the Sugar Hill Gang and asked if Hank would like to join.

* 8: Arcudi, writer / Andrew Robinson, pencils / Jim Royal, inks.

Conan Doyle stayed at the Royal Duchy Hotel in the town whilst writing and researching the story with his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.

Too young to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Robinson instead studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

pre WWI memorial plaque dedicated to Royal Military College of Canada ex-cadets William Grant Stairs, Huntly Brodie Mackay, and William Henry Robinson

In late 1830, as the infamous ' Black Line ' ( also known as the Black War ) was being disbanded elsewhere in Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson spent a week in north-east Tasmania, searching without success, for the " Ben Lomond-Penny Royal Creek people ".

After a string of a dozen hit records, by November 1963 Burke had agreed to be crowned the " King of Rock ' n ' Soul " in a ceremony at the Royal Theatre in Baltimore by local deejay Fred Robinson, known professionally as " Rockin ' Robin ", who also gave him a cape and crown that he always wore on stage.

The photograph of 24 year old Corporal Peter Robinson was taken in June 1982 as the Royal Marines proceeded along the Moody Brook track towards Port Stanley.

Goring Great Garden, as the garden was then, was the scene of defensive Parliamentarian earthworks – a situation whose irony Tony Robinson savoured, given the current Royal ownership.

New writings have arisen from the involvement of cris cheek, Bridgid Mcleer, and Alaric Sumner, under the direction of Caroline Bergvall and John Hall through the Performance Writing programme at Dartington College of Arts including Kirsten Lavers, Andy Smith, and Chris Paul ; from the involvement of Redell Olson in the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London, including Becky Cremin, Frances Kruk, Ryan Ormond, Sophie Robinson, John Sparrow and Stephen Willey ; and Keith Jebb at University of Bedfordshire's Creative Writing programme, including Alyson Torns and Allison Boast.

* The " Chaleur Bay Route "— surveyed in the 1840s by Major Robinson ( Royal Engineers ), running from " The Bend " ( Moncton ), north to Newcastle on the Miramichi River, Bathurst and Campbellton, to Canada East.

* Peter Robinson ( chancellor ), Chancellor of Royal Roads University

* All For Love: The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson, a novel by Amanda Elyot ( 2008 )

After attending Cotham Grammar School, Robinson served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter plotter, during his National Service.

The current CRSM is WO1 ( SCC ) Glyn Robinson ( RMR ) and is also the Royal Marines Cadets Training Officer ( RMCTO ).

A memorial tablet was erected in 1902 to the memory of three officers, graduates of the Royal Military College of Canada, who died while serving in Africa: Huntly Brodie Mackay, Captain Royal Engineers ; William Henry Robinson, Captain Royal Engineers ; and William Grant Stairs, Captain the Welsh Regiment.

In 1709 Robinson returned to England, and was appointed Dean of Windsor and of Wolverhampton ; in 1710 he was elected bishop of Bristol, and among other ecclesiastical positions he held that of dean of the Chapel Royal.

The treaty was negotiated for the U. S. by Albert Gallatin, ambassador to France, and Richard Rush, minister to the UK ; and for the UK by Frederick John Robinson, Treasurer of the Royal Navy and member of the privy council, and Henry Goulburn, an undersecretary of state.

* Arthur E. Robinson, " Some Notes on the Regalia of the Fung Sultans of Sennar ", Journal of the Royal African Society, 30 ( 1931 ), pp. 361 – 376

* Piece of Cake ( novel ), a 1983 novel by Derek Robinson about a Royal Air Force fighter squadron during the first years of World War II

It attracted widespread interest at the time and made Knox internationally famous, influencing Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as well as sparking a friendship with Robert Hooke of the Royal Society.

Donohoe's stage roles include replacing Jerry Hall in the role of Mrs Robinson in The Graduate in London's West End in the spring of 2001, and the title role in Hedda Gabler at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2005.

Robinson was 19 years old, and an able seaman in the Royal Navy, serving in the Naval Brigade from HMS Shannon during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: