A playing card form was published by an official of Britain's Consular Service named William Henry Wilkinson, author of " Chinese origin of playing cards ," under the name of Khanhoo.

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn ( 12 September 1914 – 19 December 1999 ) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.

Hamilton has been a major endorser of ESP Guitars since the early 1990s, and is best known for playing ESP Horizon guitars with a Wilkinson Tremolo, Sperzel locking tuners, and DiMarzio Airzone pickups.

The first new member to be recruited was Keith O ' Neill who had previously played in The Empty Hours, The Windmills and Tommy Scott's pre-Space band The Australians and who Power had seen playing in local band The Windmills, fronted by Howie Payne later of The Stands and then guitarist Liam ' Skin ' Tyson, who Wilkinson knew from college and had previously played in Pyramid Dream.

Professional baseball declined in London after the war, with mostly amateur teams playing at Labatt Park in the following decades, until 1989 when an AA Eastern League affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, the Glens Falls Tigers relocated from Glens Falls, New York to London by investors / Board of Directors, President Dan Ross, Vice President Mike Tucker, Vice President and General Manager Bob Gilson, Vice President and Assistant General Manager General Manager Bill Wilkinson and Vice President Brian Costello.

Wilkinson drew players from his All Nations barnstorming team, which had been inactive during World War I, and the 25th Infantry Wreckers, an all-black team recruited into the U. S. Army almost exclusively for their playing talent.

West Ham United winger Trevor Sinclair takes the pressure off his manager Glenn Roeder by scoring the only goal in an away league win over Sunderland, who are playing their first game under the management of Howard Wilkinson.

Despite having a low profile playing career, Wilkinson embarked on a successful managerial career.

Born in the Netherthorpe district of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Wilkinson began his playing career with local team Sheffield United, before joinging cross-city rivals Sheffield Wednesday.

After retiring from playing football, Johnston found success as a businessman and innovator, designing and creating the prototype for Adidas ' Predator football boot, worn by many of the world's top players of both football and rugby including Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Xavi, Jonny Wilkinson and Ronan O ' Gara.

* John Wilkinson ( Singaporean footballer ) ( born 1979 ), Singaporean / British footballer playing in the S. League

Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson first noticed Speed in a youth team game while the player was playing in a left back position.

In 2012, Brolin claimed in Swedish magazine Offside that his poor performance in the game against Liverpool that led to his being dropped had been a protest against Wilkinson playing him out of position on the wing, leaving him " to run up and down the right like an idiot " as opposed to the centrally lying playmaker role he believed that he had been signed for.

Despite playing a major role in the Lexington real estate market, Wilkinson was fiercely protective of his privacy ; for a time, he even refused to allow newspapers to publish pictures of him.

* Tom Wilkinson for playing Ruth " Roy " Applewood in Normal

During the late 19th and early 20th century mail was used as a material for bulletproof vests, most notably by the Wilkinson Sword Company.

On September 8, 1974, Tom Wilkinson, quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos, unsuccessfully attempted a drop kick field goal in the final seconds of a 24-2 romp over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The difficulty of the manufacture of a large cylinder with a tightly fitting piston was solved by John Wilkinson who had developed precision boring techniques for cannon making at Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales.

Recognition of organometallic chemistry as a distinct subfield culminated in the Nobel Prizes to Ernst Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson for work on metallocenes.

Wilkinson suggests that the first cards may have been actual paper currency which were both the tools of gaming and the stakes being played for, as in trading card games.

Ellen Wilkinson, Minister for Education, introduced taxpayer-funded milk in schools, saying, in a 1946 Labour Party conference: " Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoreditch, in Eton and Harrow.

* Wilkinson, Tony, The Lost Art of Being Happy-Spirituality for Sceptics Findhorn Press 2007, ISBN 978-1-84409-116-4

* D. W. Davies, K. A. Bartlett, R. A. Scantlebury, and P. T. Wilkinson, A digital communications network for computers giving rapid response at remote terminals ( ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.

* R. A. Scantlebury, P. T. Wilkinson, and K. A. Bartlett, The design of a message switching Centre for a digital communication network ( IFIP 1968 )

More recently, the question has changed: Precision observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) give an independent value for the baryon-to-photon ratio.

Succeeding a Dr Wilkinson on 14 October 1609, he became the Physician in charge at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which enjoined him, " in God's most holy name " to " endeavor yourself to do the best of your knowledge in the profession of physic to the poor then present, or any other of the poor at any time of the week which shall be sent home unto you by the Hospitaller ... You shall not, for favor, lucre or gain, appoint or write anything for the poor but such good and wholesome things as you shall think with your best advice will do the poor good, without any affection or respect to be had to the apothecary.

Some early critics were quick to dismiss the band as clones of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis due to musical similarities, such as their extended songs, a prominent and Mellotron-influenced keyboard sound, vivid and fantastical lyrics and the equally vivid and fantastical artwork by Mark Wilkinson used for the sleeves of their albums and singles.

The first of these friendships began when Margaret Wintringham was elected after Astor had been in office for two years, but the most surprising might have been her friendship with " Red Ellen " Wilkinson, a former Communist representative in the Labour Party.

Searching for a different sound, the band replaced Bentley with bassist Keith Wilkinson from the Difford & Tilbrook sessions.

Wilkinson spoke off campus, while more than 1, 500 students viewed Aptheker's speech across a low campus wall at the edge of campus, christened " Dan Moore's Wall " by The Daily Tar Heel for Governor Dan K. Moore.

Acton has four secondary high schools, Acton High School, Twyford Church of England School, The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls and Barbara Speake Stage School.

Wilkinson County is named for military leader James Wilkinson.

Analysis of data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) looks for multiple " back-to-back " images of the distant universe in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

Wilkinson reconstructs the Annals as giving Djoser " 28 complete or partial years ", noting that the cattle counts recorded on Palermo Stone register V, and Cairo Fragment 1 register V, for the beginning and ending of Djoser's reign, would most likely indicate his regnal Years 1 – 5 and 19 – 28.

* Eric Wilkinson, ( 1976 –), poet / musician who wrote Black Through A Distortion Pedal ( San Francisco Bay Press ) and started indie, social theoretical hip-hop band, The Dialectics, noted for their EP " Bicycle: A Transportation Communique ," which advocates bicycle riding as a form of social justice.

Wilkinson farm, where they remained for some time.

* Laura Wilkinson, winner at the 2000 Olympics of the first gold medal for a female American platform diver since 1964

As a result, Wilkinson with partner Jack Pickard then started a separate company, TVR Engineering, with a name derived from Wilkinson's name – TreVoR.

Wilkinson has also recorded and toured with a number of other artists including Ian McCulloch and The Hours and more recently has started composing music for TV commercials.

When building started Wilkinson sold his shares to Abraham Darby III in 1777, leaving the latter to steer the project to its successful conclusion in 1779 and be opened in 1781.

Wilkinson has also toured twice with the British and Irish Lions, in 2001 to Australia and 2005 to New Zealand, scoring 67 Test points in the 6 Lions test matches he has started.

The origins of Team Sleep started when Moreno and his friend Todd Wilkinson bought a cassette tape Portastudio-type four-track recorder in 1994.

In 2003 under the leadership of then Chief Executive Officer J. Patrick Mulcahy, Energizer Holdings started expanding into the personal care product sector by buying razor brands Schick and Wilkinson Sword from Pfizer.

He was one of only four players to have started both the 2003 and 2007 RWC Finals, the other three being Jonny Wilkinson, Jason Robinson and Ben Kay.

WH Smith, Wilkinson and supermarket chains Morrisons and Tesco have started to provide ranges from Candyking.

KQAL was started by faculty members Jacque Reidelberger and Brice Wilkinson and student manager, the late Bruce Hittner.

Wilkinson dropped out of college at the University of Kentucky in 1962 to attend to a book retail business he started.

Based in Leeds, it was started by local businessman and multi-millionaire Peter Wilkinson and Paul Sykes in July 1995.