Wellington, 1957, Lionel Cosgrove ( Timothy Balme ) lives with his domineering mother ( Elizabeth Moody ).

Other stars included Jon Finch as the long-suffering Mr Lamb ( a role first offered to Timothy Dalton ), Laurence Olivier as the Duke of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King George IV.

* 1916 – Wellington Mara, American businessman ( d. 2005 )

Following the game, Wellington Mara fired coach Allie Sherman, and replaced him with former Giants fullback Alex Webster.

The Giants ' front office operations were complicated by a long-standing feud between Wellington Mara and his nephew, Tim Mara.

In 2005, Wellington Mara, who had been with the team since its inception in 1925 when he worked as a ball boy, died at the age of 89.

Wellington Mara always felt this was the Giants oldest and truest rival and after passing away in 2005 the Giants honored their longtime owner by defeating the Redskins 36 – 0 at home.

Some notable people whose Requiem Masses were said at the cathedral include New York Yankees greats Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, and Billy Martin ; legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, singer Celia Cruz, former Attorney General and U. S. Senator from New York Robert F. Kennedy, New York Giants owner Wellington Mara, and former Governor of New York Hugh Carey.

He was the only candidate put forward for the job by a six-owner search committee ( Wellington Mara, Lamar Hunt, Art Modell, Robert Parins, Dan Rooney, and Ralph Wilson ), however, a group of eleven newer owners who wanted more of a voice in the selection process abstained from voting, preventing Finks from receiving the nineteen votes necessary to become Commissioner.

* Wellington Mara ( 1916 – 2005 ), owner of NFL New York Giants

Upon his release, co-owner Wellington Mara called it " a day of overwhelming sadness.

This draft saw the emergence of Wellington Mara as a savant, as he had been subscribing to magazines and local and out-of-town papers to build up dossiers of college players across the country, which resulted in the Giants ' drafting of Tuffy Leemans.

In 1930, Tim Mara split his ownership interests between Wellington ( then 14 ) and his older brother Jack.

The grave of Wellington Mara in Gate of Heaven Cemetery He had surgery in May 2005 to remove cancerous lymph nodes from his neck and under his armpit, but was initially given a good prognosis by his doctors who said the cancer had not metastasized, according to his son, John Mara, who is the Giants ' co-chief executive officer.

Wellington Mara succumbed to lymphoma later that year at age 89.

* New York Giants Owner Wellington Mara

* Wellington Mara Memorial at Find A Grave

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Sheppard retired from his position with the Giants, a fifty-year handshake agreement with Giants owner Wellington Mara, at the end of the 2005 season, when the commute from his home on Long Island to East Rutherford, New Jersey became too strenuous.

* Wellington Mara ( 1995 )

* Wellington Mara, former owner, New York Giants NFL team

However, there was little pressure they could bring to bear on the people who could ultimately make changes, longtime team owners Wellington Mara and his nephew Tim, who inherited his father Jack's stake in the team after Jack Mara had died in 1965.

The first official celebration will take place in Wellington in August 2012, with the planting of pohutukawa and Norfolk pines along Thorndon Esplanade.

* August 21 – Battle of Vimiero: British troops under Duke of Wellington defeat the French under General Junot.

* August 12 – Peninsular War: The combined English and Portuguese army under the command of Wellington enters Madrid following the Battle of Salamanca.

During this time, Richardson took on five more apprentices: Thomas Verren ( 1 August 1732 ), Richard Smith ( 6 February 1733 ), Matthew Stimson ( 7 August 1733 ), Bethell Wellington ( 7 May 1734 ), and Daniel Green ( 1 October 1734 ).

When the voyage resumed in June 1874, the route went east from Sydney to Wellington in New Zealand, followed by a large loop north into the Pacific calling at Tonga and Fiji, and then back westward to Cape York in Australia by the end of August.

On the night of 3 / 4 August 1943 a Wellington bomber with engine problems diverted to but crashed 1½ miles short of the Dumfries runway.

Hobson travelled to Wellington in August 1841, where he heard the complaints of settlers and selected magistrates.

Moore took command of the British forces in the Iberian peninsula following the recall of Harry Burrard of Lymington ( 1 June 1755 – 17 October 1813 ), Hew Dalrymple ( 1750 – 1830 ), Governor of Gibraltar from November 1806 to August 1808, and Arthur Wellesley ( 1769 – 1852 ), later Duke of Wellington, who all faced an inquiry over the Convention of Cintra on the French troops ' evacuation from Portugal.

At the outbreak of World War II the primary equipment of the RNZAF was 30 Vickers Wellington bombers, which the New Zealand government had offered to the United Kingdom, in August 1939, together with the crews to fly them.

No. 75 Squadron RAF, was formed by RNZAF aircrews and Vickers Wellington bombers in August 1939.

Stores were opened in the Auckland suburb Mt Wellington in early August 2006 in the new Sylvia Park shopping mall, and on 5 December 2006 in Hawera.

The RSC production with McKellen and McCoy was staged in Melbourne, Australia during late July / early August 2007 and Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand during mid to late August 2007.

On 1 August 1808, the British General Arthur Wellesley ( later Duke of Wellington ) landed a British army in Lisbon and thus initiated the Peninsular War.

Image: Andrewbodega. jpg | Andrew @ Bar Bodega, Wellington 22 August 2008

Image: juliabodega. jpg | Julia @ Bar Bodega, Wellington 22 August 2008

On 12 August 2002, in a speech at the opening of the Specialised Applied Research Centre of the Victoria University of Wellington, Dame Silvia questioned whether longer sentences would reduce criminal reoffending rates.

After a dispute over the privatisation of Wellington International Airport, Peters was sacked from Cabinet again on 14 August 1998.

Staff and collections from 14 different sites around Wellington were centralised in a new National Library building, officially opened in August 1987.

On 3 August 1943, at 11: 50 pm, a Wellington Bomber on a training exercise crashed in Walton Park in the south-west of the town.

The 7th Gloucesters and the 8th Royal Welch Fusiliers were sent to support the Wellington battalion of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade when it made the decisive assault on Chunuk Bair on the morning of 8 August.

Lieutenant-General Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington KG, PC ( 3 February 1807 – 13 August 1884 ), styled Lord Douro between 1812 and 1814 and Marquess of Douro between 1814 and 1852, was a British soldier and politician.

Wellington died at Brighton Railway Station, Brighton, Sussex, in August 1884, aged 77, and was buried at the family seat Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire.

The Duchess of Wellington died at Bearhill Park, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in August 1903, aged 83, and was buried at Stratfield Saye House.