More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

* One Knight Only-( Herself-Asia Tsunami Aid )-Theatre Royal, Haymarket, West End ( 20 March 2005 )

In the Nineteenth century, Fortress Bermuda would become Britain's Gibraltar of the West, heavily fortified by a Regular Army garrison to protect the Royal Navy's headquarters and dockyard in the Western Atlantic.

In 1885, British claims to a West African sphere of influence received international recognition ; and in the following year, the Royal Niger Company was chartered under the leadership of Sir George Taubman Goldie.

Its origins lie in the elements of the Royal West African Frontier Force that became Nigerian when independence was granted in 1960.

In 1956 the Nigeria Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force ( RWAFF ) was renamed the Nigerian Military Forces, RWAFF, and in April 1958 the colonial government of Nigeria took over from the British War Office control of the Nigerian Military Forces.

The club then merged with the Royal Southern and occupied that club's older premises which it had created from the regency public steam baths by the basin at West Hoe before the rejuvenated club moved in the late 1980s to Queen Anne Battery.

While stationed in St Kitts, West Indies, on, he had his first encounter with Clements Markham, then Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ), who would loom large in Scott's later career.

In 2011 the play was revived in a production directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, opening at Chichester Festival Theatre before transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End ( June-August 2011 ).

West sought to present the Jupiter at another Royal Academy exhibition, but Morse's time had run out.

The armed forces were formed after independence in 1961, on the basis of elements of the former British Royal West African Frontier Force, then present in the country.

The core of the army was based on the Sierra Leone Battalion of the Royal West African Frontier Force, which became the Royal Sierra Leone Regiment and later the Republic of Sierra Leone Regiment.

Most officers are graduates of the United Kingdom's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, with others having attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Royal Military College, Duntroon and St. Cyr, the military academy of France.

Today " Mercia " appears in the titles of two regiments, the new Mercian Regiment ( which recruits in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire and parts of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands ) and the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry.

European angst over colonialism inspired fictional treatments such as Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave ( 1688 ), about a slave revolt in Surinam in the West Indies.

Consequently, the very features that made Bermuda such a prized base for the Royal Navy ( its headquarters in the North Atlantic and West Indies ' til after the Second World War, also meant it was perpetually threatened by US invasion, as the US would have liked to both deny the base to an enemy, and use it as a way to extend its defences hundreds of miles out to sea, which would not happen ' til the Second World War.

Frederick II of Prussia was elated with his success ; Prussia took most of the Polish Royal Prussia that stood between its possessions in the Kingdom of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg, taking Ermland ( Warmia ), Royal Prussia without the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) ( which in 1773 became a new province called West Prussia ), northern areas of Greater Poland along the Noteć River ( the Netze District ), and parts of Kuyavia, ( also the Prussian city of Thorn ).

Hughes's short play The Sister's Tragedy was in the West End at the Royal Court Theatre by 1922.

( West Kensington station is not in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

It also served as the base for the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron which was charged with halting the slave trade.

* 1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.

Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.

This implicit threat to the viability of the Royal Navy became apparent in mid-September ( a month after the decision had been taken to settle Botany Bay ) and caused the Pitt Administration to begin an urgent search for new sources of supply, including from Norfolk Island, which was then added to the plan to colonise New South Wales.

In the 1880s, Prince Edward ( later Edward VII ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant.

* HMS Norfolk, six ships in the British Royal Navy

* Royal Norfolk Regiment, an infantry regiment of the British Army

The Royal Family of Norway waving to the welcoming crowds from HMS Norfolk ( 78 ) | HMS Norfolk at Oslo.

After the end of the war, Haakon and the Norwegian Royal Family returned to Norway aboard the cruiser HMS Norfolk, arriving with the First Cruiser Squadron to cheering crowds in Oslo on 7 June 1945 exactly five years after they had been evacuated from Tromsø.

National Nature Reserves in Norfolk, England are established by Natural England and managed by them or by non-governmental organisations such as the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the National Trust.

Mid-Yare NNR is a National Nature Reserve in Norfolk, east of Norwich, established by English Nature and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ).

After demonstrating his military prowess on the field during the Battle of Towton, he won the admiration of Edward IV of England who made him Constable of Norwich Castle, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk ( 1461 ), Treasurer of the Royal Household ( 1468 ) and a Knight of the Garter ( 1471 ).

The spread of interest beyond Norfolk can be attributed to H. R. H Prince Albert, Duke of York who gave a speech to the Royal Academy in 1920 promoting the wider use of village signs.

Snettisham RSPB reserve is a nature reserve in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, situated near Snettisham in the county of Norfolk, England, north of King's Lynn, and close to Sandringham.

After teaching at Watton County Secondary School in Norfolk he won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

The Royal Norfolk Golf Club was founded in 1888 and given royal status by the Prince of Wales in the same year.

Educated at All Hallows Convent School, Norfolk ( Anglican ) and the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England ( now part of English Heritage ) as a field archaeologist for Wessex.

The arms of the Dukes of Norfolk still carry an augmentation of honour awarded on account of their ancestor's victory at Flodden, a modified version of the Royal coat of arms of Scotland with an arrow through the lion's mouth.

The Prince of Wales showed the first signs of illness on 13 November 1871, while at the Royal residence at Sandringham, Norfolk.

Therefore, any member of the Royal Family who is not a peer, such as Prince Harry of Wales or Anne, Princess Royal, is ( technically ) a commoner, as is any member of a peer's family, including someone who holds only a courtesy title, such as the Earl of Arundel and Surrey ( eldest son of the Duke of Norfolk ) or Lady Victoria Hervey ( a daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol ).

*** 1st Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment, October 1951 – September 1952

Among twenty surviving manuscripts are those compiled at St Benet Holme, Norfolk, continued at Tintern Abbey ( Royal Mss 14. c. 6 ); at Norwich ( Cottonian Claudius E 8 ); Rochester ( Cottonian Nero D 2 ); St Paul's, London ( Lambeth Mss 1106 ); St Mary's, Southwark ( Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Mss B 177 ); and at St Augustine's, Canterbury ( Harleian Mss 641 ).

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