In July 1600 Oxford wrote requesting Sir Robert Cecil's help in securing an appointment as Governor of the Isle of Jersey, once again citing the Queen's unfulfilled promises to him.

The then Leader of the Opposition, Robert Menzies, called McKell's appointment " shocking and humiliating ".

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

In March 1824, Robert Lee received his appointment to West Point, but due to the large number of cadets admitted, Lee would have to wait a year to begin his studies there.

Passed in 1967, this law was a congressional response in delayed dismay about John F. Kennedy's appointment of his brother Robert F. Kennedy to the office of the Attorney General.

The most important of these was the appointment of Robert Burnell as chancellor, a man who would remain in the post until 1292 as one of the king's closest associates.

When his brother Robert Neville, Bishop of Durham died in 1457, the new appointment was Laurence Booth.

Robert Gates served as Deputy National Security Adviser under Scowcroft until his appointment as Director of Central Intelligence in 1991.

Adams was joined by Josiah Quincy II after the latter was assured that the Sons of Liberty would not oppose his appointment, and by Robert Auchmuty, a Loyalist.

Together with Robert Smirke and Sir John Soane, he became an official architect to the Office of Works in 1813, ( the appointment ended in 1832 ) at a salary of £ 500 per annum, following the death in September of that year of James Wyatt, this marked the high point in his professional life.

Only one former Solicitor General has been nominated to the Supreme Court unsuccessfully, that being Robert Bork ; however, no sitting Solicitor General has ever been denied such an appointment.

When Haldeman's appointment to the White House was announced, Robert Rutland, a close personal friend and eminent presidential scholar, urged him to start keeping a daily diary recording the major events of each day and Haldeman's thoughts on them.

Although not known as a reformer before his appointment, Robert returned from Rome in 1051, where he had gone to be confirmed by the papacy, and opposed the king's choice for Bishop of London on the grounds that the candidate was not suitable.

On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipotentiary for the peace conference in England.

His successors were again clerics until the appointment of Robert Thorpe in 1371, probably due to pressure from Parliament.

The appointment was not wholly satisfactory: in his parish Hall had an opponent in a Mr Lilly, whom he describes as a " witty and bold atheist ", he had to find money to make his house habitable, and he felt that his patron Sir Robert underpaid him.

Smith's young assistant Robert Moses built the nation's first state park system and reformed the civil service, later gaining appointment as Secretary of State of New York.

The deputy headmaster, Keith McGregor, BA ( Cantab ), took over as acting headmaster until the appointment of Robert Northcott, MA.

His brother's appointment as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in Sir Robert Peel's administration may have opened some doors.

Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey discussed with Iacocca an appointment to the U. S. Senate in 1991 after the death of Senator H. John Heinz III, but Iacocca declined.

The British phrase ' Bob's your uncle ' is thought to have derived from Robert Cecil's appointment of his nephew, Arthur Balfour, as Minister for Ireland.

The appointment caused political problems as Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden had not been consulted on the matter, contrary to practice well established by that time.

Katherine Marcia Forbes, wife of Harding's Veterans Bureau appointment Charles R. Forbes, had unprecedented access to the White House.

Taft's spouse was determined to gain the White House and pressured him not to accept a court appointment ; other family members also strongly favored the Presidency for him.

( The following year White accepted Taft's appointment to head a delegation to the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires.

Bowles had not survived conflicts with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and his appointment to the White House was partly compensatory.

Prior to her appointment, she was Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Yet the appointment was delayed when a faction developed supporting the appointment of Andrews that included two members of the White House staff, press secretary Stephen Early and military adviser Col. Edwin M. Watson.

White was a controversial choice for Government service despite his long military service due to his most recent appointment at the Enron Corporation.

Although Murdoch pushed for the appointment of Major General Brudenell White as the new corps ' head while denigrating Major General John Monash, the latter was given command when the combined corps was formed in 1918.

The indictment also charged that Kerik made several false statements to the White House ( in his background information statement regarding his Department of Homeland Security appointment ) and other federal officials.

From 1998 to 2003, White served as Arkansas Banking Commissioner, an appointment from Governor Huckabee.

There was still an appointment to be made for a replacement for Sandra Day O ' Connor, and on October 3, 2005 Bush nominated Harriet Miers, a corporate attorney from Texas who had served as Bush's private attorney and as White House Counsel.

On December 4, 2006, the White House announced that Bolton would no longer seek the appointment, and would resign within a matter of weeks.

) In accepting this appointment, Baker chose to skip another bid for the White House in 1988.

The President's Commission on White House Fellowships then interviews the thirty candidates and recommends 11-19 outstanding candidates to the President for a one-year appointment as Fellows.

On March 23, 2009, the White House announced the appointment of Koh to the United States Department of State as the Legal Adviser of the Department of State.

The Wall Street Journal later editorialized about the appointment, saying: " Mr. Rudman, the man who helped put liberal jurist David Souter on the high court " and who in his " Yankee Republican liberalism " took " pride in recounting how he sold Mr. Souter to gullible White House chief of staff John Sununu as a confirmable conservative.

On November 27, 1978, White went to San Francisco City Hall to meet with Moscone and make a final plea for appointment.

This policy led to England's appointment alongside other leading industrialists including James Roche and Thomas E. White.

With a new Republican administration in the White House, Jackson was a likely contender for a federal appointment, especially since he had known George W. Bush, the Texas governor declared the winner of the 2000 presidential election, since 1989, when both lived in the same Dallas neighborhood.

The " special circumstances " in this case were that Mayor Moscone had been killed in order to block the appointment of someone to fill the City Supervisor seat from which Dan White had resigned, and also that multiple people were killed.

Chief Justice White was one of thirteen Catholic justicesout of 111 total through the appointment of Justice Sonia Sotomayorin the history of the Supreme Court.

" Bean favoured the appointment of the Australian Chief of General Staff, Brudenell White, the meticulous planner behind the successful withdrawal from Gallipoli, or General Birdwood, the British commander of the Australian forces at Gallipoli.