His authorised biography argues that Williams did not take his own life but died of an accidental overdose.

An authorised biography, Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams, by Christopher Stevens, was published in October 2010.

On 24 January 2011 a new, authorised, biography – Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster by Stephen Jacobs – was published in the UK by Tomahawk Press.

As John Carey has summed up with regard to John Coldstream's authorised biography however, " it is virtually impossible that he ( Bogarde ) saw Belsen or any other camp.

The authorised biography ( published in 2006 ), was titled Wild Mary, a reference both to her childhood nickname, and to her sex life as a young woman, when she had many lovers.

From Sheridan Morley's authorised biography: " Accustomed as we have now become to ... the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, it is almost impossible to conceive how revolutionary John's idea was for the West End of 1937, where there had simply been nothing like it since the heyday of Henry Irving and the actor-managers more than fifty years earlier.

In 2000, the popular New Zealand historian Michael King published his authorised biography of Frame, Wrestling with the Angel.

The Dutch aircraft designer Anthony Fokker was heavily involved in this process but the story of his conception, development and installation of a synchronisation device in a period of 48 hours ( first found in an authorised biography of Fokker written in 1929 ) has been shown to be not factual.

Une Baladine ( in English, a wandering minstrel ), an authorised pictorial biography by Francoise Piazza, was published in France and Switzerland in October 2007, and the following month Clark promoted it in bookshops and at book fairs.

An authorised biography, The Player: The Life of Tony O ' Reilly, was produced by Ivan Fallon, a journalist and biographer in the early 1990s, now a senior executive at one of O ' Reilly's companies, and is the only study of any length.

* London, UK, 1994: Hodder & Staughton ; Fallon, Ivan: " The Player, The Life of Tony O ' Reilly " ( HB, 1995, Coronet Books paperback edition )-The authorised biography

The 6th Marquess of Salisbury commissioned Andrew Roberts to write Salisbury's authorised biography, which was published in 1999.

Although his was not an authorised biography, Aitken was one of the few biographers from whom Nixon accepted questions and to whom he granted interviews.

After his death in 1892, Lady Tennyson devoted herself to helping her son write the authorised biography.

The second volume of the authorised biography of John Stott, covering 1960 onwards.

In 2007, Lloyd's authorised biography, Supercat, was published.

He is currently writing an authorised biography of Lord Carrington.

In 1998, Collins published his first book, Still Suitable for Miners, an authorised biography of the singer / songwriter Billy Bragg.

A former editor of The Spectator ( 1984 – 90 ), the Sunday Telegraph ( 1992-5 ) and The Daily Telegraph ( 1995 – 2003 ); he resigned from the last post to spend more time writing Margaret Thatcher's authorised biography, which will be published after her death.

In 1990 he wrote Bare, an authorised biography of pop-star George Michael.

Over a decade after having written The Life and Work of Harold Pinter ( London: Faber, 1996 ), the first edition of his authorised biography of Pinter, Billington discusses his critical perspective on the play in his videotaped discussion for Pinter at the BBC, broadcast on BBC Four television from 26 October through 9 November 2002.

* Hiddins ' authorised biography on the Pandanus Park website

* Bedford, Sybille, Aldous Huxley: A biography-1973-the standard, two-volume authorised biography of Huxley

Evans also co-operated on his authorised biography, called Ghost On The Wall, which was released at the end of 2004.

However, he succeeded in publishing the first officially authorised vernacular service, the Exhortation and Litany.

Carte travelled to New York in the summer of 1879 and made arrangements with theatre manager John T. Ford to present, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the first authorised American production of Pinafore.

He soon made arrangements with D ' Oyly Carte to present the opera's first authorised production in Australia, opening on 15 November 1879 at the Theatre Royal, Sydney.

To that end, in the first week of September 1944, Eisenhower authorised ( U. S ) First Army to cross the Rhine near Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz while ( U. S .) Third Army crossed near Mannheim, Mainz and Karlsruhe.

It is the first authorised building in the main square which was made of stone to avoid fire incidents. It was built in 1530 in Gothic style, for the rich family Malapert.

At first, Hitler rebuffed Soviet diplomatic hints that Stalin desired a treaty, but in early August 1939, Hitler authorised Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to begin serious negotiations.

The greatest of them was Robert Guiscard, who captured Benevento in 1053 after the Emperor Henry III had first authorised its conquest in 1047 when Pandulf III and Landulf VI shut the gates to him.

In Australia, its first authorised performance was on 20 April 1889 at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, produced by J. C. Williamson, which gave regular performances thereafter in Australasia until the 1960s.

It was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1766 and the first sod was cut by Josiah Wedgwood in July that year at Middleport.

Only the first was authorised, but the economic downturn caused by the Napoleonic Wars meant that construction did not begin immediately.

The sonnets were well-circulated in manuscript before the first ( apparently pirated ) edition was printed in 1591 ; only in 1598 did an authorised edition reach the press.

Not all the land traversed by the wagonway belonged to Brandling, and it was the first railway to be authorised by Act of Parliament, since this would give him power to obtain wayleave.

The line was opened in 1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain authorised by Act of Parliament to carry passengers using steam haulage.

During the first half of 1866, the various changes required were made and construction of the line was finished, and in October 1866 the railway began an unofficial passenger service, despite not being authorised by the Board of Trade.

The abandoned section is the subject of a restoration project and is the first canal where a new section has been authorised under the Transport and Works Act 1992.

Although a number of railway projects had previously been authorised under this legislation, the Ashby Canal Order obtained by Leicestershire County Council was the first time that construction of a canal had been authorised in this way.

The first book, headed Primus liber electionem edocet iuniorum, ex quibus locis uel quales milites probandi sint aut quibus armorum exercitiis imbuendi, explains the selection of recruits, from which places and what kinds ( of men ) are soldiers to be authorised and with what exercises of arms they are to be indoctrinated.

The comptroller and auditor-general ( C & AG ) role was first created in the United Kingdom by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866 which combined the functions of the comptroller-general of the exchequer, ( who had authorised the issue of public monies to departments since 1834 ) with those of the commissioners of audit, ( who had traditionally presented the government accounts to the treasury ).

In July 2002, Bombardier Aerospace selected Adria as the first authorised heavy maintenance facility for CRJ aircraft in Europe.

In Australia, its first authorised production opened on 22 May 1886 at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, produced by J. C. Williamson, starring Frank Thornton, Nellie Stewart and Alice Barnett, conducted by Alfred Cellier, although unauthorised productions had appeared by 1879.

It is unclear from the ancient sources whether 100 or 200 ships initially authorised ; both Fine and Holland suggest that at first 100 ships were authorised and that a second vote increased this number to the levels seen during the second invasion.

The company pioneered rail electrification in the UK, authorised in 1903, and the first electric train ran on 1 December 1909.