John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje are among its founding members.

The founding members of the rock band Stereophonics originated from the nearby village of Cwmaman.

The International Badminton Federation ( IBF ) ( now known as Badminton World Federation ) was established in 1934 with Canada, Denmark, England, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales as its founding members.

The founding members or ' Gang of Four ' were Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, all leading figures within the Labour Party, and all ' moderates '.

He installed members of his family on the thrones of client states, founding the dynasty.

Over time, the group's founding members began leaving.

In 2005, Americheer became one of the founding members of the NLCC.

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.

Charles Weingartner, one of the founding members of the NCTE committee on Public Doublespeak mentioned: “ people do not know enough about the subject ( the reality ) to recognize that the language being used conceals, distorts, misleads ”.

Dalhousie is also one of the founding members of the Halifax Marine Research Institute, founded on 2 June 2011.

Today's EFTA members are Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland — the latter two being founding members.

He was one of the 32 founding members of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1880.

Lynne, Wood and Bev Bevan were the founding members of Electric Light Orchestra.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

Early Green party board members gather at founding congress of the Greens in Karlsruhe, 1980

The 75 existing GATT members and the European Communities became the founding members of the WTO on 1 January 1995.

Since the founding of the WTO, 21 new non-GATT members have joined and 29 are currently negotiating membership.

The founding members of this group include Brundtland, Graça Machel, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt, Jimmy Carter, Li Zhaoxing, Mary Robinson and Muhammad Yunus.

It was one of the founding members of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact and Comecon, and it was the first central European country to withdraw from those organizations, now defunct.

Three of the board members include a founding father of modern chemistry Antoine Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin and an expert in pain control Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

India was one of the founding members of several international organizations, most notably the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, G20 industrial nations and the founder of the Non-aligned movement.

* Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Sukarno of Indonesia were two of the five founding members of the Non-aligned Movement.

A number of Compass members were also founding members of The Second City.

The city has produced or been home to musicians that have been extremely successful in modern times, particularly Ian Anderson, frontman of the band Jethro Tull ; Wattie Buchan, lead singer and founding member of punk band The Exploited ; Shirley Manson, lead singer for the band Garbage ; The Proclaimers ; the Bay City Rollers ; Boards of Canada and Idlewild.

The admiral's daughter, Selina Shirley, was instrumental in the founding of Dartmouth College.

Their founding members were Shirley Lee ( lead vocals, guitar ), Simon Calnan ( vocals, keyboards ), Martin Talbot ( bass ), and Ronan Larvor ( drums ).

Following six years as a backbench Member of Parliament and latterly Parliamentary Private Secretary to Shirley Williams, Cartwright himself left the Labour Party in 1981 to become one of the founding members of the SDP.

Returning to Zaire, Owens participated in Nkemi's revolutionary founding of the Republic of Mabili, now independent from Zaire.

Since founding the Gap in 1969, Fisher and his wife Doris began collecting contemporary Western art.

Now a fugitive, founding SLA member Emily Harris disguised herself and visited Soliah, who was on the job at a bookstore.

In 1974 Norman and Kenn Gulliksen started a Bible Study in the living room of Norman's apartment at Doheny and Sunset in Los Angeles that was only for musicians and actors, including regulars Jerry Houser and Julie Harris, which after six months, was named " The Vineyard ", and later, with another Bible study at the home of Chuck Girard, became part of the founding congregation of the Association of Vineyard Churches.

The founding partners were David H. Mount of Rocky Hill, and three Princeton men: Edward Howe, his brother Leavitt Howe and William Harris.

In the mid-18th century, the area known as New Market was owned by John Harris, founding father of Harrisburg and a trader with the large Shawnee Indian settlement at the mouth of Yellow Breeches Creek.

Harris became known as " Father of the Orchardists " in Minnesota and was also a founding member of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society.

In 1987 Professor Martin Harris was appointed Vice-Chancellor, taking over from the founding Vice-Chancellor, Albert Sloman.

* Steve Harris ( musician ) ( born 1956 ), founding member and bassist of the band Iron Maiden

The Institute has attracted some well-known individuals to its ranks, including founding member Friedrich Hayek and politicians such as former Reform Party of Canada leader Preston Manning, former Progressive Conservative Ontario premier Mike Harris, former Progressive Conservative Alberta premier Ralph Klein, and former Liberal Newfoundland & Labrador premier Brian Tobin.

With a number of line-up changes by the mid 1970s the band membership included Jimmy Ellis, Barrington McDonald ( guitarist and a founding member ), Norman Harris and Earl Young with Stanley Wade plus Robert Upchurch joining later on.

To establish the label the company hired former Columbia Records president James B. Conkling ; its founding directors of A & R were Harris Ashburn, George Avakian and Bob Prince.

The group was formed in the early 1990s as a side project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen ( the latter as one of the founding members of the band in 1981 ).

Harris was one of the 30 founding members of the Simplified Spelling Board, founded in 1906 by Andrew Carnegie to make English easier to learn and understand through changes in the orthography of the English language.

The updated CD also added the song Brave New World from the album of the same name and the booklet included a new foreword by Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood, replacing the original foreword by founding member Steve Harris.

Harris ' recording debut was as Napalm Death's second drummer, joining after founding member Miles " The Rat " Ratledge left the band in November 1985.

* William Harris ( settler ) ( 1610 – 1681 ), founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island

As it further entered the 20th century, Dallas transformed from an agricultural center to a center of banking, insurance, fashion retailing and other businesses, including the founding of Neiman Marcus and the now-defunct A. Harris and Sanger Brothers ready-to-wear stores.

The founding president was Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan, who broke away from the ruling Parti Berjaya because of his differences with party president Harris Salleh, the Chief Minister in whose cabinet Pairin served before the break.

The three primary members of the band are: John Zorn on saxophone, Bill Laswell on electric bass and Mick Harris ( formerly of Napalm Death and founding member of Scorn ) on drums.

Notable residents in this early period included Atlanta mayor Dennis Hammond, Evan Howell, governor James Smith ( 1872 – 77 ), John Conley ( son of Governor Benjamin Conley ), Thomas Stokes ( founding partner of Davison's Department Store ), L. Z. Rosser ( president of the Atlanta Board of Education ), J. P. Allen ( clothing store owner ), T. D. Longino ( medical doctor and alderman ), J. N. McEachern ( insurance executive ), as well as several authors such as Frank L. Stanton, Madge Bigham and Joel Chandler Harris, known for his Uncle Remus Tales.

On graduating from high school, Harris attended Cleveland State University, where he was a founding member of the Black Student Union.