His grandfather, Simon Fraser, emigrated from Nova Scotia in 1853, becoming a successful pastoralist and speculator, as well as a member of the Victorian Parliament, the Federation Conventions of 1897 – 98 and the Australian Senate.

* Pennsylvania State University, MIT and Simon Fraser University are carrying on a project called LionShare designed for facilitating file sharing among educational institutions globally.

Simon Fraser University ( commonly referred to as SFU ) is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey.

The university was named after Simon Fraser, a North West Company fur trader and explorer.

In 2007, Simon Fraser University was the first and remains the only university to be awarded the Prix du XXe siècle from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada recognizing the " enduring excellence of nationally significant architecture ".

Simon Fraser University was founded upon the recommendation of a 1958 report entitled Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future, by Dr. J. B. Macdonald, who recommended the creation of a new university in the Lower Mainland.

Once completed, the transition will move all 19 Simon Fraser Clan teams into the NCAA.

The Higher Education Strategy Associates ranked Simon Fraser University 6th nationally in Science and Engineering and 10th nationally in Social Sciences and Humanities.

SFU's student union is known as the Simon Fraser Student Society ( SFSS ), which includes undergraduates who study at SFU.

There are eight faculties at Simon Fraser University:

Simon Fraser University has three campuses, each located in different parts of Greater Vancouver.

UniverCity is an urban community located on top of Burnaby Mountain, adjacent to Simon Fraser University.

Development of the community began in early 2000, when Simon Fraser University commenced construction on a new residential and commercial area occupying approximately adjacent to the campus.

The Simon Fraser Student Society provides funding for over 100 campus clubs.

The university's varsity sports teams are called the Simon Fraser Clan, and the mascot is a Scottish Terrier named McFogg the Dog.

There are also teams at Simon Fraser University that compete against other university teams at the varsity level.

Carole Taylor, Chancellor of Simon Fraser University

* Simon Fraser Student Society

* The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University

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** The US 11th Armored Division liberates the prisoners of Mauthausen concentration camp, including Simon Wiesenthal. American soldiers fighting in the Pacific War | Pacific theater listen to radio reports of Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945.

* April 9 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief ( b. c. 1667 )

On September 11, 2011, Paul Simon performed " The Sound of Silence " at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, site of the World Trade Center, on the 10th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

In 1746 he painted actor David Garrick as Richard III, for which he was paid £ 200, “ which was more ,” he wrote, “ than any English artist ever received for a single portrait .” In the same year a sketch of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, afterwards beheaded on Tower Hill, had an exceptional success.

* Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat ( 1667 – 1747 ), Scottish Jacobite and Chief of Clan Fraser

The last beheading of a peer for high treason was that of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat in 1747.

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat

* Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat ( c. 1667 – 1747 ) ( Lordship forfeited in 1747 )

In a Comrades first, the 11th place finisher, Simon Williamson, was months later officially elevated to tenth place and awarded the last gold medal by then South African president FW de Klerk.

After the disaster of Culloden, he remained in hiding on an islet in Loch Morar, where he had for a while as companion in misfortune Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat.

His brother John joined the famous Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, at Stirling, and accompanied him to Inverness.

He encouraged the Jacobites by his undecided attitude on the question of the settlement, and was deluded into unconsciously furthering the Jacobite designs of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat.

She was voted Best Songwriter in Rolling Stone's 11th annual poll, along with Phil Collins, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.

Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell.

We are told also, that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “ the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire ,” a text used also by Simon.

Ferdinand Christian Baur ( 1792 – 1860 ), founder of the Tübingen School, drew attention to the anti-Pauline characteristic in the Pseudo-Clementines, and pointed out that in the disputations between Simon and Peter, some of the claims Simon is represented as making ( e. g. that of having seen the Lord, though not in his lifetime, yet subsequently in vision ) were really the claims of Paul ; and urged that Peter's refutation of Simon was in some places intended as a polemic against Paul.

Simon envisions the pig head, now swarming with scavenging flies, as the " Lord of the Flies " and believes that it is talking to him.

He has an extreme aversion to the pig's head, the " Lord of the Flies ", which derides and taunts Simon in a hallucination.

The final words that the Lord of the Flies had said to Simon vaguely predicted that his death was about to occur in this manner.

** Simon de Burley, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

* July 23 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( b. c. 1660 )

** Simon de Burley, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

This decree was issued by the new king and unanimously supported by the Dominion governments, The king's authority to withhold from the lawful wife of a prince the attribute thitherto accorded to the wives of other modern British princes was addressed by the Crown's legal authorities: On 14 April 1937, Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell submitted to Home Secretary Sir John Simon a memorandum summarising the views of Lord Advocate T. M. Cooper, Parliamentary Counsel Sir Granville Ram, and himself:

He was the son of Brigadier General Archibald Stirling, of Keir and Margaret Fraser, daughter of Simon Fraser, the Lord Lovat, ( a descendant of Charles II, King of Scots ).

His cousin was Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and his grandparents were Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet and Lady Anna Maria Leslie-Melville.

At the same time, a group of rebels led by Johanna Ferrour stormed the Tower of London and summarily executed those hiding there, including the Lord Chancellor ( Simon of Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was particularly associated with the poll tax ), and the Lord Treasurer ( Robert de Hales, the Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitallers of England ).

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

* John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, former Lord Chancellor

The board was initially made up of eight forestry commissioners and was chaired by Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat from 1919 to 1927.

The Castle contains a variety of paintings, including portraits by Alexis Simon Belle of Queen Mary of Modena and her daughter Princess Louisa Maria., Lady Edeline Sackville who was later to marry Lord Strickland.

Simon Sudbury, also called Simon Theobald of Sudbury and Simon of Sudbury ( born circa 1316 ; killed in the Peasants ' Revolt 14 June 1381 ) was Bishop of London from 1361 to 1375, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1375 until his death, and in the last year of his life Lord Chancellor of England.