With the help of his underling, Tim Stamper, Urquhart goes about making sure his competitors drop out of the race: Peter MacKenzie, secretary of health, accidentally runs his car over a protester at a demonstration staged by Urquhart and is forced to withdraw by the public outcry, while Harold Earle, secretary for education, is blackmailed into withdrawing when Urquhart anonymously sends pictures of him in the company of a rentboy he had paid for sex.

Born in Wallacetown, Dunwich Township, Elgin County, Ontario, a son to Alexander Cameron Urquhart and Sarah McCallum, he attended public school in Wallacetown until 13 years of age and then spent years working with his father, a pioneer tailor and storekeeper in Wallacetown, who, born in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, came to Canada in 1847.

Though initially blind to the truth of matters thanks to her relations with Urquhart, Mattie eventually deduces that Urquhart and his associates are behind the unfortunate downfalls of Collingridge and all of Urquhart's rivals.

" Silvers asserted in 2004: " The pieces we have published by such writers as Brian Urquhart, Thomas Powers, Mark Danner and Ronald Dworkin have been reactions to a genuine crisis concerning American destructiveness, American relations with its allies, American protections of its traditions of liberties ....

He eliminates Woolton by a prolonged scheme: At the party conferences, Urquhart pressures O ' Neill into persuading his personal assistant and lover, Penny Guy, to have sex with Woolton in his suite, with the encounter recorded through a bugged ministerial red box.

Urquhart mixes O ' Neill's cocaine with rat poison, causing him to kill himself when taking the cocaine in a motorway lavatory.

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The antihero of House of Cards is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart played by Ian Richardson.

After the general election, which the party wins by a reduced majority, Urquhart makes his suggestions for a cabinet reshuffle.

Subsequently, the TV series has Urquhart defeating Samuels in the second leadership ballot and ends with him being driven to Buckingham Palace to be invited to form a government by the Queen.

* Urquhart threatens to kill Mattie Storin by hitting her with a chair, but refrains in a fit of cowardice, and jumps to his own death after she leaves the roof garden.

" It was used by Urquhart whenever he could not be seen to agree with a question, with the emphasis on either the ' I ' or the ' possibly ' depending on the situation.

In October " knocks " and " clicks " were recorded by another hydrophone in Urquhart Bay, indicative of echolocation.

* The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart

Alexander escaped probably to Islay but James continued his assault on the Lordship by taking the strongholds of Dingwall and Urquhart castles in July.

Family Matters is a consideration of the difficulties that come with aging, which Mistry returned to in 2008 with the short fiction The Scream ( published as a separate volume, in support of World Literacy of Canada, with illustrations by Tony Urquhart ).

Juried by Mordecai Richler, David Staines, and Jane Urquhart.

Juried by Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, and Jane Urquhart.

The assassination of McGee is also a major component of Away, a novel about Irish immigration to Canada by Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart. McGee funeral procession in 1868

" In 2006, Professor John Urquhart noted the relevance of the Canon to modern medicine, comparing it to an influential medical work of the 19th century, The Principles and Practice of Medicine ( 1892 ) by Osler himself, and concluded:

Very few other strongholds remained in Scottish hands in the winter of 1333 — only the castles of Kildrummy ( held by Christian Bruce, elder sister of Robert I and wife of Andrew Murray of Bothwell ), Loch Leven, Loch Doon, and Urquhart held out against Balliol forces.

He was angered by the 1833 Treaty of Hünkâr Iskelesi, a mutual assistance pact between Russia and the Ottomans, but was annoyed and hostile towards David Urquhart, the creator of the Vixen affair, running the Russian blockade of Circassia in the mid 1830s.

* As Urquhart is led away by the police, Wimsey says, " Mithridates, he died old.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad, referring to King Mithridates VI of Pontus, who supposedly built tolerance against a whole range of deadly poisons by the same method ( known as Mithridatism ) as Urquhart.

Later, Urquhart blames Party Chairman Lord Billsborough for the leak of an internal poll showing a drop in Tory numbers, leading Collingridge to sack him.

Fearing that 1st Airborne Division might be in grave danger if it landed at Arnhem the chief intelligence officer of the division, Major Brian Urquhart, arranged a meeting with Browning and informed him of the armour present at Arnhem.

With him dead, Urquhart would inherit the estate and hence his fraud would not be revealed.

Urquhart followed him there but subsequently would not be able to return to Divisional HQ for two days.

Browning downplayed evidence brought to him by his intelligence officer, Major Brian Urquhart, that the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen and the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg were in the Arnhem area, but was not as confident as he led his subordinates to believe.

Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood was Constable of Urquhart Castle in 1329, and his grandson Robert Chisholm succeeded him in 1359.

Finally, Urquhart poses as Collingridge's alcoholic brother Charles in order to trade in a chemical company about to benefit from the government.

Brian Urquhart — who had done so much to warn his superiors about the dangers of Arnhem and later became Undersecretary-General of the United Nations — described the British general's actions as both grotesque and shameful.

The parish of Urquhart is virtually the original Ferintosh estate and was part of Nairnshire until about 1895 as the owner, Forbes of Culloden, was also a major landowner in Nairnshire

It appears Michael Dobbs did not envisage writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel.

Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.

Urquhart frequently talks through the camera to the audience, breaking the fourth wall like a Shakespearian soliloquy.

Francis Urquhart MP, the Chief Whip of the House of Commons, introduces viewers to the contestants, from which the popular and decent Henry Collingridge emerges victorious.

Urquhart is secretly contemptuous of Collingridge, but expects promotion to a senior position in the Cabinet.

Urquhart resolves to oust Collingridge, with encouragement from his wife, Elizabeth.

At the same time — with his wife's blessing — Urquhart begins an affair with the junior political reporter, Mattie Storin.

Mattie, while talented, is naïve and apparently somewhat unstable ; she has an apparent electra complex and declares that she will only refer to Urquhart as ' Daddy ', a word that later figures prominently in Urquhart's painful flashbacks of her.

Meanwhile, Urquhart encourages ultraconservative Foreign Secretary Patrick Woolton and newspaper tycoon Benjamin Landless to support Collingridge's removal.

After Collingridge's resignation, Urquhart — in imitation of Shakespeare's Richard of Gloucester — at first feigns unwillingness to stand before announcing his candidacy.

The first ballot leaves Urquhart to face Samuels and Woolton.

When the tape is sent to Woolton, he is led to assume that Samuels is behind the scheme and backs Urquhart in the contest.

Urquhart also receives support from Collingridge, who is unaware of Urquhart's role in his own downfall.