Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

* March 15 – Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Amstrad was founded in 1968 by Lord Sugar at the age of 21, the name of the original company being AMS Trading ( Amstrad ) Limited, derived from Lord Sugar's initials ( Alan Michael Sugar ).

* The Lord & Lady Frederick Windsor ( Prince Michael of Kent's son and his wife, known as Sophie Winkleman )

For example, the children of Prince Michael of Kent are known as Lord Frederick Windsor and Lady Gabriella Windsor, bearing courtesy titles as if they were the children of a duke.

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

In the BBC radio dramatizations, Gandalf has been voiced by Norman Shelley in The Lord of the Rings ( 1955 – 1956 ), Heron Carvic in The Hobbit ( 1968 ), Bernard Mayes in The Lord of the Rings ( 1979 ) and Sir Michael Hordern in The Lord of the Rings ( 1981 ).

The congregation of 1, 200 included Prince Michael of Kent, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, Sir John Mills, Sir Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Sir David Frost, Joanna Lumley, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Lord Olivier.

* David Torrence as Lord Michael Probert

In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, Sam was voiced by Michael Scholes.

In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Gríma Wormtongue was voiced by Michael Deacon ( and his name is pronounced as " Grime-a ").

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Michael Campbell: Lord Dismiss Us

In 1961, GEC merged with Sir Michael Sobell's Radio & Allied Industries Ltd, and with it emerged the new power behind GEC, Sobell's son-in-law Arnold Weinstock ( later Lord Weinstock ), who became Managing Director in 1963, moving the headquarters of the electrical giant from Kingsway ( in Holborn, London ), to a modern building at 1 Stanhope Gate ( near Hyde Park Corner, in Mayfair, London ).

Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

Sculptors both British and Europeans who were based in Britain and whose work is in the collection include: Nicholas Stone, Caius Gabriel Cibber, Grinling Gibbons, John Michael Rysbrack, Louis-François Roubiliac, Peter Scheemakers, Sir Henry Cheere, Agostino Carlini, Thomas Banks, Joseph Nollekens, Joseph Wilton, John Flaxman, Sir Francis Chantrey, John Gibson, Edward Hodges Baily, Lord Leighton, Alfred Stevens, Thomas Brock, Alfred Gilbert, George Frampton, Eric Gill.

** The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring-Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Gethin Creagh and Hammond Peek

** The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers-Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

* 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King-Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

* 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Michael Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

Other features quickly followed and, in 1981, he co-wrote ( with Michael Bakewell ) BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and has also adapted C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast for Radio 4, for which he received a Sony Radio Award in 1985.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

Three Rings Design, Inc. is an online game developer that was founded on March 30, 2001 by Daniel James and Michael Bayne.

During the battle, attention is deliberately kept off of the battle, with the Archangel Michael exclaiming the battle " Is even bigger than the final battle in the Lord of the Rings movie!

Two of the first films to be re-released as a director's cut were Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate ( first aired on the Los Angeles cable station Z Channel ) and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

Two further programmes followed on European painters ; Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse ( 2004 ) and Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi ( 2005 ), about the French artist Henri Matisse and Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi respectively.

* Two books about the attempted robbery of the De Beers diamonds from the Dome were published in 2004: Diamond Geezers-The Inside Story of the Crime of the Millennium ( ISBN 1843171228 ) written by Kris Hollington, published by Michael O ' Mara Books Ltd, and Dome Raiders-How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time ( ISBN 1852271949 ) written by Jon Shatford and William Doyle, published by Virgin Books

* William Daniels as the voice of KITT ( Knight Industries Two Thousand ) – The autonomous, artifical intelligent car with whom Michael Knight is partnered.

Two days later, Antonescu forced the king to abdicate and installed the king's young son Michael ( Mihai ) on the throne, then declared himself Conducător (" Leader ") with dictatorial powers.

At the same time Andrzej Wajda began his work as a director in theatre, including such as Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain ( 1959 ), Hamlet ( 1960 ), and Two for the Seesaw ( 1963 ) by William Gibson.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

* 1956 And All That: A Memorable History Of England Since The War To End All Wars ( Two ) Ned Sherrin and Neil Shand ( Michael Joseph, 1984 )

Two more members were added around this time, Tjay Cantrelli ( aka John Barberis ) on woodwinds and Michael Stuart on drums.

" Two Aotearoa Sketches for Bassoon and Piano " are two pieces composed by bassoonist Michael Burns.

Two especially well known productions are Michael Bogdanov's 1978 RSC production at the Aldwych, starring Jonathan Pryce and Paola Dionisotti and Gale Edwards's 1995 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Michael Siberry and Josie Lawrence.

Two years later, at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mulroney traveled to Washington, DC along with Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to the United States, as Canada's representatives at the state funeral of former president Gerald Ford.

Some areas such as Two Mile Hill in St. Michael or Mile and a Quarter are a reminder of the railway era, but the rail system itself and its infrastructure no longer exists in Barbados.

" Two years later he won the Royal Television Society's Interviewer of the Year Award for his somewhat notorious Newsnight interview ( see above ) with Michael Howard, as well as the Broadcasting Press Guild's award for best " non-acting " performer.

* Princess Michael of Kent, The Serpent and the Moon: Two rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King, 2005, ISBN 0-7432-5104-0.

Two of the videos directed by Romanek in 1995 are notable for being two of the three most expensive music videos of all time: Michael and Janet Jackson's " Scream ", which cost $ 7 million to produce, and Madonna's " Bedtime Story ", which cost $ 5 million.

Two people ( 0 percent ) voted for Michael Badnarik ( Libertarian ).

Two years later he was a star ( along with Michael Caine ) in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

He also starred as Chip Collyer in the comedy Week-End at the Waldorf ( 1945 ) and later as Colonel Michael S. ' Hooky ' Nicobar, who is given the difficult task of repatriating Russians in Post-World War Two Vienna in the drama film The Red Danube ( 1949 ).

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.