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

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.

Bo Diddley achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.

He is best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, principal songwriter and the founding and sole constant member of the rock band Motörhead as well as a former member of Hawkwind.

" John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk magazine, recalls feeling " punk rock had to come along because the rock scene had become so tame that like Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkel were being called rock and roll, when to me and other fans, rock and roll meant this wild and rebellious music.

Fairport Convention released Liege and Lief in 1969, turning away from American-influenced folk rock toward a sound based on traditional British music and founding the sub-genre of electric folk, to be followed by bands like Steeleye Span and Fotheringay.

* Kerry Livgren, a founding member of the progressive rock band Kansas

* Nick Simper, founding member of rock band Deep Purple, lived in Hayes

* Songwriter Peter Sinfield, founding member and lyricist for progressive rock act King Crimson, currently resides in Aldeburgh.

Black Oak is the hometown of the founding members of the 1970s Southern rock band, Black Oak Arkansas.

* Jonathan Brightman, Grammy nominee and founding member of rock group, Buckcherry

* Matt Malley, Oscar nominated songwriter and founding member of multi-platinum rock group, Counting Crows

The drummer in that band was Joey Kramer, who left in October, 1970, to be a founding member of the rock band Aerosmith.

English musician Andy Parker, founding drummer of the legendary English rock group UFO resides in Granbury when he's not touring the world.

His father, guitarist Elias Amabilis Palma, was one of the founding members of the Mexican rock ' n ' roll band Los Rockin Devil's.

About the same time he became a singer with the Australian rock band Midnight Oil in 1973, after responding to an advertisement placed by one of the band's founding members, Rob Hirst.

The founding of Whiskeytown saw Adams move to alt-country, describing punk rock as " too hard to sing " in the title track of Whiskeytown's debut album Faithless Street.

John Davies Cale, OBE ( born 9 March 1942 ) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.

After recording " Private Doberman " for inclusion on a Coyote Records compilation entitled Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood, Rick left the band and was replaced by Mike Lewis, the founding bass player of Boston garage-punk bands DMZ and Lyres, who was also a member of Brooklyn garage rock band The A-Bones throughout his tenure in YLT.

Writing for music website Allmusic, Mark Deming described Vincebus Eruptum as " a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army ", praising the band's " sound and fury " as one of the founding movements of heavy metal.

Her father, Solomon Feldthouse, was one of the founding members of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Kaleidoscope, and also a traveling folk musician.

Mick Pointer ( born 22 July 1956 ), originally from Brill in Buckinghamshire, England, was the original drummer and founding member of the progressive rock band, Marillion.

In these films they are joined by Nicky Tesco, founding member of the UK punk rock band The Members.