Following his election, Sir Graham said: " I am honoured that ELDR has chosen me to lead our great party.

Following a suggestion by Sir Richard Threlfall, the United States Navy sponsored three small experimental helium plants during World War I.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Following the 1919 Nickle Resolution, however, it was against non-binding policy for the sovereign to grant such honorific titles to Canadians ; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir Robert Borden, who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the House of Commons.

Following Edward's return to England, the remaining leaders of the Scots resistance chose Sir Andrew Murray as Guardian.

Following the Assize held at Oxford in 1577, later deemed the Black Assize, over 300 died from Epidemic typhus, including Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

Following the Partition of India, the bulk of the archaeological finds were inherited by Pakistan where most of the IVC was based, and excavations from this time include those led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1949, archaeological adviser to the Government of Pakistan.

Following the publication of Sir Walter Scott's Anne of Geierstein in 1829, however, opal acquired a less auspicious reputation.

" Following Stanton, Thomas M ' Clintock read several passages from Sir William Blackstone's laws, to expose for the audience the basis of woman's current legal condition of servitude to man.

Following their 1947 divorce he married the British ballerina and actress Diana Gould, whose mother was the pianist Evelyn Suart ( who had played with artists such as Eugène Ysaÿe and Karel Halíř ), and whose stepfather was Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, the ownership of Bushmead Priory became the subject of a dispute between the St. John family of Bletsoe and Sir William Gascoigne of Cardington, the latter being Cardinal Wolsey's controller of the household.

Following Jasper Tudor's attainder, Sir William Herbert, a zealous Yorkist, was raised to the peerage as Baron Herbert by Edward IV.

Following an investigation into the future of universities, the July 1997 report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, chaired by the then Sir Ronald Dearing recommended the ending of universal free higher education, and that students should pay £ 1, 000 towards the cost of their tuition fees, which would be recovered in the form of a graduate tax.

Following the rebellion of Shane O ' Neill in 1567, Downpatrick fell briefly into Irish hands before being re-taken by Sir Richard Morrison ( Moryson ).

Following the Michael Bettaney case, Sir Philip Woodfield was appointed as a staff counsellor for the security and intelligence services.

Following the destruction by fire of the Palace of Westminster in 1834, Pugin was employed by Sir Charles Barry to supply interior designs for his entry to the architectural competition which would determine who would build the new Palace of Westminster.

Following General Sir Charles James Napier's 1843 conquest of Sindh, the satirical magazine Punch published a cartoon in which Napier dispatched to his commanders, " Peccavi ," Latin for " I have sinned " ( and a pun of " I have Sindh ").

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-16th century, Henry VIII of England sold it to Sir William Sharington, who converted it into a house starting in 1539, demolishing the abbey church.

Following Leland's death or ( more probably ) his descent into madness, King Edward VI arranged for Leland's library ( including many medieval manuscripts ) to be placed in the custody of Sir John Cheke.

Following a promotion to Attorney General he led the prosecution in several notable cases, including Robert Devereux, Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.

Following the death of Sir Edward Fitton, 2nd Baronet in 1643, the estate passed to Sir Charles Gerard, later the first Earl of Macclesfield.

Following Dorab ’ s death in 1932, Sir Nowroji Saklatwala became the group ’ s chair.

Following earlier work by Samuel Bentham, his first major commission was to build a series of 42 woodworking machines to produce wooden rigging blocks ( each ship required thousands ) for the Navy under Sir Marc Isambard Brunel.

Following the death of Hugo Hirst in 1943, his son-in-law, Leslie Gamage, along with Harry Railing took over as joint Managing Directors.

Following the annulment, Buchan lost all claim to Euphemia's lands which returned to her and to her son Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross who was also contracted to marry Fife's daughter.

Following Hibbert's release from jail towards the end of 1967, the Maytals began working with the Chinese Jamaican producer Leslie Kong, a collaboration which yielded a string of hits throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Following the breakup of WBL, in late 1973 Leslie West briefly reunited with Felix Pappalardi in a new line-up of Mountain.

Following his governorship Leslie became a founder, and eventually the president, of Standard Life Insurance Company in Indianapolis.

Following Stephen's death, his nephew Peter Urseolo ( his appointed heir ) and his brother-in-law Samuel Aba contended for the crown.

Following a car accident outside Stephen's home in which William is killed and Anna is severely disoriented, she is obliged to remain with Stephen although his wife is out of town.

Following Nicol Stephen's election as party leader and succession as Deputy First Minister of Scotland in 2005, Brown was appointed Deputy Minister for Education and Young People in the Scottish Executive.

Following an unsuccessful operation to fit him with an artificial voice box, he died at St Stephen's Hospital, Fulham Road, London, on 18 July 1973.

Following Stephen's death in 1867 without issue, his half-brother Archduke Joseph August of Austria inherited the title, though the post by that time was symbolic only.

Following Nicol Stephen's election as party leader and succession as Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Lyon was appointed Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business in the Scottish Executive.

Following Nicol Stephen's election as party leader and succession as Deputy First Minister of Scotland in 2005, Scott was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister for Transport.

Following the dissolution of St Albans Abbey he himself purchased the grounds of the abbey ( the abbey church itself was sold by King Edward VI to the people of St Albans in 1553 ), with Sopwell Priory and the rectorship of St Stephen's church ( both of which were nearby ).

Following King Stephen's death, Béla ascended the throne, but during his reign he had continuously struggle with King Coloman's alleged son, Boris who tried to acquire the crown with the military assistance of the neighbouring countries.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

Following the tumultuous events leading to and including the English Civil War, another major revision was published in 1662.

Following the publication of the 1552 Prayer Book, a revised English Primer was published in 1553 ; adapting the Offices and Morning and Evening Prayer, and other prayers, for lay domestic piety.

Following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ( including the English Civil War ), the Church of Scotland was re-established on a presbyterian basis but by the Act of Comprehension 1690, the rump of Episcopalians were allowed to hold onto their benefices.

Following in the footsteps of legendary English Joseph Grimaldi, Fox popularised the Humpty Dumpty stories throughout the land in the first half of the 19th century.

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

Following business school, Madero traveled to the University of California, Berkeley to study agricultural techniques and to improve his English.

Following are his five axioms, somewhat paraphrased to make the English easier to read.

Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.

Following the English tradition, US juries have usually been composed of 12 jurors, and the jury's verdict has usually been required to be unanimous.

" Following in 1968, Walter Jackson Bate called the poem " haunting " and said that it was " so unlike anything else in English ".

Following the Roman occupation and the conquest by the English, education in Wales was at a very low ebb in the early modern period ; in particular, formal education was only available in English while the majority of the population spoke only Welsh.

Following the success of this tour, a number of other English teams also visited in subsequent years.

Following pairs prove existence of various distinct phonemes in English.

Following the release of Ruby 1. 3 in 1999 the first English language mailing list ruby-talk began, which signalled a growing interest in the language outside of Japan.

Following commercial rivalries between the original English East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the “ United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies ”.

Following is a table of the pieces with their Japanese representations and English equivalents.

Following a series of post-Vatican II reforms, his feast day was changed and his name was added to the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1970 for celebration on 22 June jointly with St John Fisher, the only remaining bishop ( owing to the coincident natural deaths of eight aged bishops ) who, during the English Reformation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope.

Following encounter by the English with the Tuscarora and other tribes, the colonists used the same interpreters to translate with each of the peoples, which meant the languages were closely related.

* July 13 – Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions.

* Following the death of Sweyn I, Ethelred II returns to England and reclaims the English crown.