" He was appointed to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904, and early in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the committee of engineers which subsequently reported in favor of a sea-level canal ... In 1904 Parsons was also appointed, together with the famous British engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, to membership on a board to pass on the plans of the Royal Commission on London Traffic.

Sir Robert Peel was a member of the historic Tamworth Castle Bowls club, founded in 1814, which still has an active membership.

" Sir Alan Budd, the Treasury's Chief Economic Adviser during the period and later appointed by Gordon Brown to the Monetary Policy Committee, in an economic assessment of Britain's membership of the ERM, has written, " although it was certainly a political disaster, the case can be made that it was an economic triumph and marked the turning point in our macro-economic performance.

However, since membership requires swearing allegiance to a foreign Head of State ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ), these titles are officially considered " honorary ", and the person is not entitled to be referred to as Sir or Dame.

* Sir Shankaran Nair resigned his membership of the Viceroy's Executive Council in the Legislative Council of Punjab.

Recently, Sir Ian McKellen was awarded honorary membership when he addressed the Union Society in January 2011, as were Lord Coe in May 2010 and former British Prime Minister John Major in April 2010.

Captain Britain, having inherited club membership from his father, Sir James Braddock, was asked by Shinobi Shaw to infiltrate the London Inner Circle, as the branch's mysterious agenda surely ran counter to both their interests.

The wide reaching critiques that this conspiracy theory utilised meant that the LEL won membership from various sectors of right-wing opinion including former BUF activists like Chesterton himself and Barry Domvile, traditionalist patriots like General Sir Richard Hilton and young radicals like John Tyndall, John Bean, Colin Jordan and Martin Webster.

He was elected as a member of the select Anacreontic Society which boasted amongst its membership such persons as Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Henry Purcell.

By the 1850s, Jameson and his partner Sir David Brewster lost their influence and the society once again could unify its membership under one journal.

Namier's obsession with collecting facts such as club membership of various MPs and then attempting to co-relate them to voting patterns led his critics such as Sir Herbert Butterfield to accuse him of " taking ideas out of history ".

Since 1965, membership had increased to over 1500 and in 2003, the society was turned into a college and named in honour of the Chancellor of the University ( 1992 – 2004 ), Sir Peter Ustinov.

Amongst the Club's membership were writers such as William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, Duke of Somerset, the Earl of Burlington, Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, The Earl of Stanhope, Viscount Cobham, Abraham Stanyan and Sir Robert Walpole.

She also sits on the Select Committees for Education and Science ; Local Government and Environment as well as the Parliamentary Service Commission ; Roy has also taken charge of a bill submitted by Sir Roger Douglas, The Education ( Freedom of Association ) Amendment Bill ( Voluntary Student Membership ), which It proposes to make membership of student associations and unions voluntary ; at present this bill is in the House Committee Stage with an aim to be effective as of 2012.

The membership was: New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes ( Premier ) and William McMillan ( Colonial Treasurer ); Victoria, Duncan Gillies ( Premier ) and Alfred Deakin ( Chief Secretary ); Queensland, Sir Samuel Griffith ( Leader of the Opposition ) and John Murtagh Macrossan ( Colonial Secretary ); South Australia, Dr. John Cockburn ( Premier ) and Thomas Playford ( Leader of the Opposition ); Tasmania, Andrew Inglis Clark ( Attorney-General ) and Stafford Bird ( Treasurer ); Western Australia, Sir James George Lee Steere ( Speaker ); New Zealand, Captain William Russell ( Colonial Secretary ) and Sir John Hall.

Sir George Martin received an honorary membership ( inducted by the then British Chancellor of the Exchequer and future Prime Minister Gordon Brown ).

He gradually reverted to formal membership of the Liberal party and, in January 1906, unsuccessfully contested Edinburgh West as a supporter of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman at the general election.

Sir Maurice and Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, together with their son, Mark, are to be found amongst the early membership, which included many leading members of London society.

UVF membership grew to around 90, 000 members, led by retired officers of the British army, with the organisation under the charge of Lieutenant-General Sir George Richardson KCB, a veteran of the Afghan Wars.

In common with the other corresponding societies its membership was predominantly drawn from artisans and working men: early members included Joseph Gerrald, Francis Place, Edward Marcus Despard, Maurice Margarot and Olaudah Equiano.

The visits the Burts made to the Galton estate not only allowed the young Burt to learn about the work of Francis Galton, but also allowed Burt to meet him on multiple occasions and to be strongly drawn to his ideas ; especially his studies in statistics and individual differences, two defining characters of the London School of Psychology whose membership includes both Galton and Burt.

* Order of the Minims, the post-nominal letters indicating membership in a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Francis of Paola in the fifteenth century in Italy

He allegedly conferred membership of the " Order of the Burr or Thissil " on King Francis I of France.

As a consequence Francis Hawkins broke away and took much of the male membership of the group with him with the New Party becoming the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) soon afterwards.

For her part Lintorn-Orman would have nothing to do with the BUF as she considered Oswald Mosley to be a near-communist, although it was to this group that she lost much of her membership when Neil Francis Hawkins became a member in 1932.

This move generated large increases in game attendance, membership and revenue for the club.

The club boasts a membership of 400 senior and junior members and the club has won many Dublin Lawn Tennis Council titles, above the average for a club of their size.

Wells, as president of the International PEN ( Poets, Essayists, Novelists ), had already angered the Nazis by overseeing the expulsion of the German PEN club from the international body in 1934 following the German PEN's refusal to admit non-Aryan writers to its membership.

For instance, a club membership list may contain only a hundred or so member names, out of the very large set of all possible names.

Today there is a club called the " 100 Club ", membership of which is open to anyone who has found at least 100 letterboxes on Dartmoor.

Where a customer has provided sufficient identifying information, the loyalty card may also be used to access such information to expedite verification during receipt of cheques or dispensing of medical prescription preparations, or for other membership privileges ( e. g., access to a club lounge in airports, using a frequent flyer card ).

Through Manchester United Finance and the club's membership scheme, One United, those with an affinity for the club can purchase a range of branded goods and services.

However, it was the criticism of the Soviet Union that garnered support for the group, transforming it from a " vigilante club " to an activist organization with membership numbering over 15, 000.

In order to qualify for a membership card, applicants would have to be adult Dutch citizens, membership was only to be allowed in one club.

Neither the activities nor membership of the club are easy to ascertain.

Independent of the club, FSV has a membership of about 23, 000, as of 2006.

This membership organization, formed especially for the fair, charged $ 250 for membership and offered lounge, dining room, and other club facilities, as well as a gate pass for the duration of the fair.

Today, most chains issue store-specific " membership cards ," " club cards ," or " loyalty cards ".

The weekend is produced by Heart of the Flag Federation Inc. ( HOTF ), which is a not-for-profit membership club for sexual minorities in Toronto's Leather, Fetish and Kink Community.

After the failure to agree a settlement with creditors, Rangers ' assets were bought by a consortium which obtained the transfer of Rangers ' Scottish Football Association membership and relaunched the club with a new company structure.

Aside from his membership in the Muiderkring ( which was not as formerly supposed, an official club ), at the start of the 1630s he was also in touch with René Descartes, with Rembrandt, and the painter Jan Lievens.

The center was named for a quip from Radner, who said, " Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

The MFC's close association with the MCC allowed it to claim the MCG as its home ground and gave it access to a wealthy membership base, but Melbourne's reputation as an " establishment " club was not always an advantage.

This meant many potential members had a reduced incentive to join the football club, and Melbourne's membership remained one of the lowest in the competition.

The truth, however, is that he was named after Ernst Blofeld, the father of the author John Blofeld with whom Fleming was associated through club membership.