"from its formation by Ted Heath's Conservative government in 1971 under the Industrial Relations Act 1971 until it was abolished in 1974. The trades unions, pointing to his Tory inclinations in his youth, nicknamed him ""Black Jack"", and 181 Members of Parliament (MPs) signed a House of Commons motion calling for his dismissal. Two months after Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal, thus was automatically appointed to the Privy Council. He replaced Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England in 1982, becoming the presiding officer of"
"he held until his retirement in 1979. During his academic career, Professor Donaldson wrote or co-wrote over thirty books, and numerous articles and addresses. He also served at various times as President of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, the Scottish Church History Society, the Scottish History Society, the Scottish Record Society, the Scottish Records Association, and the Stair Society. In 1978 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Norman Gash, Geoffrey Barrow, Sir Fraser Noble, and John Cameron, Lord Cameron. He was also an Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society, and in 1992"
"Liam Donaldson Sir Liam Joseph Donaldson FMedSci (born 3 May 1949, Middlesbrough, England, UK) is a British doctor and the current Chancellor of Newcastle University. He was previously the Chief Medical Officer for England, the 15th occupant of the post since it was established in 1855. As such he was principal advisor to the United Kingdom Government on health matters and one of the most senior officials in the National Health Service (NHS). In the 2002 New Year Honours, Liam Donaldson received a knighthood in recognition of his achievements in health and health care. It was announced in December 2009"
"now archived as one of the special collections of Newcastle University. Liam Donaldson Sir Liam Joseph Donaldson FMedSci (born 3 May 1949, Middlesbrough, England, UK) is a British doctor and the current Chancellor of Newcastle University. He was previously the Chief Medical Officer for England, the 15th occupant of the post since it was established in 1855. As such he was principal advisor to the United Kingdom Government on health matters and one of the most senior officials in the National Health Service (NHS). In the 2002 New Year Honours, Liam Donaldson received a knighthood in recognition of his achievements"
"after the SDP merger with the Liberals. From 1968 to 1971 he was Chairman of the National Consumer Council. The United Kingdom's National Portrait Gallery holds the following portrait featuring Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge as a sitter: Exhibit number P528: ""John George Stuart Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge and Frances Annesley (née Lonsdale), Lady Donaldson of Kingsbridge"" by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda. Painted in 1992; medium: colour print; measurements: 14 7/8 in. x 12 in. (379 mm x 305 mm). See http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?search=ap&npgno=P528 for more information. Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge John (Jack) George Stuart Donaldson, Baron Donaldson"
"a letter to the Lord Chancellor detailing his resignation, effective as of 29 September. On 5 July George Thomas held a dinner in Denning's honour at the Speaker's House. Attending were Margaret Thatcher, Robert Runcie, Quintin Lord Hailsham, Geoffrey Howe, Geoffrey Lord Lane, Willie Whitelaw, Michael Havers and Christopher Leaver. On 30 July 1982, his last day in court, Denning prepared four judgments and, dressed in his official robes and in the company of the Lord Chief Justice, delivered his farewell speech to over 300 lawyers crowded into the court. He delivered his last judgment on 29 September in ""George"
"Younger was later selected for Ayr, which he represented from 1964 to 1992. On 23 October, Home executed an instrument of disclaimer under the Peerage Act 1963, becoming Sir Alec Douglas-Home. The new session of Parliament was delayed to await the outcome of the by-election. The Labour Party chose Andrew Forrester, a schoolteacher from Glasgow who was 25 and Chairman of Scotstoun Young Socialists. The Liberal Party nominated Alistair Duncan Millar, who farmed in Perthshire. The Scottish National Party leader Arthur Donaldson, a 62-year-old journalist who had fought Dundee in the 1945 general election, was also nominated. With a sitting"
"1944 he was made an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple in 1972, Gray's Inn in 1979 and Inner Temple in 1982, making him the only person to be elected a Bencher or Honorary Bencher of all four Inns of Court. In 1963 he was made a Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire on 2 June 1978. Throughout his career Denning travelled to a variety of foreign countries to lecture and learn more about other legal systems. In 1954 he was sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation to travel to South"
"the Hunting Act 2004, which was passed under the provisions of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949. John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington John Francis Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, PC (6 October 1920 – 31 August 2005) was a senior British judge who served as Master of the Rolls for ten years, from 1982-92. He is best known in some circles for his role as presiding judge in the infamous Guildford Four miscarriage of justice, especially his closing remarks where he regretted his inability to hang those wrongly convicted. He was born at 6 King Street, St Marylebone, London,"
"Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington Dorothy Mary Donaldson, The Lady Donaldson of Lymington, (née Warwick, 29 August 1921 – 4 October 2003), previously known as Dame Mary Donaldson, was the first female Lord Mayor of London (1983–84). Born at Wickham, Hampshire, the daughter of an ironmonger and a school teacher, Donaldson trained as a nurse during the war and qualified in 1946. From 1967–69, she chaired the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign, and then the Vice President of the British Cancer Council. In 1966, she was elected a Member of the City of London Court of Common Council, and"
"UK general election and in 2007 was appointed to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, making him The Right Honourable Jeffrey Donaldson, MP, MLA, PC. In 2009, Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) deputy leader Alasdair McDonnell demanded an apology from Donaldson and a retraction of his claim that Catholics owed allegiance in the first instance to the Pope and the Holy See. Donaldson was appointed to government by First Minister Peter Robinson, and held the position of Junior Minister in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister from 2008 to 2009. He lost his position as"
"Painters in 1964. The University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow both conferred honorary degrees upon him. Donaldson was commissioned to paint the Queen in 1966. He was appointed Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland in 1977. Amongst his other notable subjects were Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and many prominent figures in Scottish public life. His work is held in public collections worldwide. David Donaldson died during his 80th Birthday Retrospective Exhibition when it had been moved from the University of Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery to the Glasgow School of Art in August1996. This was"
"Tom Denning, Baron Denning Alfred Thompson “Tom” Denning, Baron Denning, (23 January 1899 – 5 March 1999) was an English lawyer and judge. He was called to the bar in 1923 as a barrister, and became a King's Counsel in 1938. Denning became a judge in 1944 with an appointment to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, and transferred to the King's Bench Division in 1945. He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1948 after less than five years in the High Court. He became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in"
"Baron Denman Baron Denman, of Dovedale in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1834 for the prominent lawyer, judge and Whig politician Thomas Denman. He served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1832 to 1850. His son, the second Baron, assumed in 1876 by Royal licence the additional surname of Aitchison, which was that of his father-in-law. He was succeeded by his grandnephew, the third Baron. He was the grandson of Hon. Richard Denman, younger son of the first Baron. Lord Denman notably served as"
"1957 and after five years in the House of Lords returned to the Court of Appeal as Master of the Rolls in 1962, a position he held for twenty years. In retirement he wrote several books and continued to offer opinions on the state of the common law through his writing and his position in the House of Lords. Margaret Thatcher said that Denning was “probably the greatest English judge of modern times”. Mark Garnett and Richard Weight argue that he was a conservative Christian who ""remained popular with morally conservative Britons who were dismayed at the postwar rise in"
"Alexander Denton (Royalist) Sir Alexander Denton (1596 – 1 January 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1644. He supported the Royalists during the English Civil War. Denton was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Denton of Hillesden and his wife Susan Temple, daughter of John Temple of Stowe. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1612, was knighted in 1617 and inherited Hillesden manor when he succeeded his father in 1633. He entered Parliament in 1624 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wendover. In the two parliaments of 1625 Denton"
"John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington John Francis Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, PC (6 October 1920 – 31 August 2005) was a senior British judge who served as Master of the Rolls for ten years, from 1982-92. He is best known in some circles for his role as presiding judge in the infamous Guildford Four miscarriage of justice, especially his closing remarks where he regretted his inability to hang those wrongly convicted. He was born at 6 King Street, St Marylebone, London, the son of Malcolm Donaldson (1884-1973), consultant gynaecologist, and his first wife, Evelyn Helen Marguerite, née Gilroy."
"Vice-President of Queen's University Belfast Law Society and a patron of the Legal Research Foundation, the United Law Clerks' Society and the Commonwealth Legal Education Association. He also spent time as the Vice-President of the Society of Genealogists, Honorary President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England and Honorary President of the Glasgow University Dialectic Society. From 1950 he acted as an administrator and fund-raiser for Cumberland Lodge. After being made aware of the Le Court charity for invalid ex-servicemen by Geoffrey Cheshire, Denning became the chairman of the organisation in 1952. In 1953 he was elected President"
"Thomas Denton (died 1558) Thomas Denton (before 1515 – 3 October 1558) was an English lawyer and politician, a Member of Parliament from 1536 until his death in 1558. He was elected, consecutively, by six parliamentary constituencies: Wallingford (1536), Oxford (1539), Berkshire (1547), Banbury (April 1554), Buckinghamshire (November 1554) and Oxfordshire (1558). Denton and Henry Stafford sponsored the creation of the parliamentary constituency in Banbury (1554). Denton's ""electoral mobility"" was, most likely, influenced by his speculation in land. Thomas Denton, second son of Thomas Denton of Caversfield, and junior brother to Sir John Denton, settled for a career in law."
"served throughout the Second World War, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel and being appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1943. He was created a life peer as Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, of Kingsbridge in the County of Buckinghamshire on 20 November 1967. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office from 1974 to 1976, and served as Minister for the Arts from 1976 until the end of James Callaghan's government three years later. He left the Labour Party for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981, and remained with the Liberal Democrats"
"as he had been unable to persuade the party to adopt a position of supporting devolution rather than independence, a split which Donaldson himself had put down more to a personality clash than to ideological differences. After the split of 1942, Donaldson became a leading SNP figure, along with McIntyre. Donaldson stood as SNP candidate for Dundee at the 1945 general election, coming bottom of the poll with 7,775 votes. In 1948 he moved to Forfar, where he soon became editor of the ""Forfar Dispatch"". He became active in local government in Angus, as a member of Forfar Town Council"
"Arthur Donaldson Arthur William Donaldson (13 December 1901 – 18 January 1993) was a Scottish journalist and Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He was leader of the Scottish National Party from 1960 to 1969. Donaldson was born in Dundee, the son of George Donaldson, a yarn dresser. He was educated at Harris Academy, leaving in 1917 with five higher leaving certificate passes. After working as an assistant registrar of births, deaths and marriages in Dundee from 1918 to 1920, he began a career in journalism as a reporter with ""The Courier"", a Dundee newspaper. In 1923 he decided to emigrate"
"of Parliament (MP), from 1727 to 1734. George Chamberlayne Denton was the maternal grandfather of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. Alexander Denton (Royalist) Sir Alexander Denton (1596 – 1 January 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1644. He supported the Royalists during the English Civil War. Denton was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Denton of Hillesden and his wife Susan Temple, daughter of John Temple of Stowe. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1612, was knighted in 1617 and inherited Hillesden manor when he succeeded his father in"
"Chief Medical Officer in 1998. Between 1994 and 1998 he was Regional Director for the NHS Region of Northern and Yorkshire, and prior to that Regional Medical Officer and Regional Director of Public Health for the Northern Regional Health Authority. He began his career as a surgeon before training in public health. Donaldson is Visiting Professor in the University of Leicester's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and also holds an honorary Chair of Applied Epidemiology at Newcastle University. On 1 August 2009 Donaldson became Chancellor of Newcastle University, replacing Lord Patten, who stood down after 10 years in office."
"gained his PhD in 1938 at the Institute of Historical Research in London, where he also won the David Berry Prize from the Royal Historical Society. Donaldson also has a DLitt degree. After working as an archivist at the General Register Office for Scotland 1938-1947, he was appointed to a lectureship in Scottish History at his alma mater in Edinburgh - largely through the offices of William Croft Dickinson. This marked the beginning of Donaldson's 32-year academic career at Edinburgh. He served as a Reader from 1955, before succeeding Dickinson as Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography in 1963, which"
"Jeffrey Donaldson Sir Jeffrey Mark Donaldson (born 7 December 1962) is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley representing the Democratic Unionist Party. He is best known for his opposition to Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader David Trimble during the Northern Ireland peace process, especially from 1998 to 2003. He is Northern Ireland's longest-serving current MP. Donaldson was born in Kilkeel, County Down, in Northern Ireland. He attended the Kilkeel High School then Castlereagh College. He joined the Ulster Unionist Party and the Orange Order as a young man and later worked for the MP Enoch"
"properties in London, Berkshire, Buckingamshire, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. He eventually settled in Hillesden, Buckinghamshire and passed his fortunes to his only son Alexander. The ""Dentons of Hillesden"" routinely represented Buckhinghamshire in the Parliament during the 17th century, were prosecuted as royalists and became extinct in 1714. Thomas Denton (died 1558) Thomas Denton (before 1515 – 3 October 1558) was an English lawyer and politician, a Member of Parliament from 1536 until his death in 1558. He was elected, consecutively, by six parliamentary constituencies: Wallingford (1536), Oxford (1539), Berkshire (1547), Banbury (April 1554), Buckinghamshire (November 1554) and Oxfordshire"
"Thomas Denton (died 1633) Sir Thomas Denton (died 1633) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1604 and 1629. Denton was the eldest son of Alexander Denton of Hillesden and his wife Mary Martin, daughter of Sir Roger Martin, Lord Mayor of London. He succeeded his father in 1576. Following his marriage in 1594, he lived at Stow. In 1601, he was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. He was knighted by the King at Salden, in July 1603. In 1604, Denton was elected Member of Parliament for Buckingham. He was re-elected MP for Buckingham"
"College, Oxford). He practised as a Chancery barrister, dealing with tax, trusts, wills and real estate. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1968, and became head of his chambers in 1972. He married fellow barrister Hazel Stuart, stepdaughter of Lord Denning, in 1954; later, as Lady Hazel Fox QC, she was director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from 1982 to 1989. They had three sons and a daughter together. He took early retirement in 1992 as a result of his failing eyesight, and he spent much time at Nuthanger Farm, near Watership Down, Hampshire. Diagnosed with"
"Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea, (born 17 June 1939, Swansea) is a British Labour Party politician, who was one of the longest-serving Members of Parliament in recent years, his service totalling 34 years. Anderson was educated at Brynmill Primary School in Swansea, Swansea Grammar School (now known as Bishop Gore School) and Swansea University. He entered the House of Commons in 1966 for Monmouth until being defeated in 1970. From 1971 to 1974, he was a resident in Kensington and Chelsea and councillor in a neighbouring borough. He then re-entered the Commons in"
"married to Sir Edmund Verney. Thomas Denton (died 1633) Sir Thomas Denton (died 1633) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1604 and 1629. Denton was the eldest son of Alexander Denton of Hillesden and his wife Mary Martin, daughter of Sir Roger Martin, Lord Mayor of London. He succeeded his father in 1576. Following his marriage in 1594, he lived at Stow. In 1601, he was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. He was knighted by the King at Salden, in July 1603. In 1604, Denton was elected Member of Parliament for Buckingham. He"
"son and heir apparent William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, married Kathleen Kennedy, daughter of Joseph Kennedy and sister of the future President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Lord Hartington was killed in the Second World War in 1944 shortly after the marriage. The couple had no children. Devonshire was therefore succeeded by his second and only surviving son, the eleventh Duke. He sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and held political office (under his uncle Harold Macmillan and later under Sir Alec Douglas-Home) from 1960 to 1964. Devonshire married the Hon. Deborah Mitford, the"
"He was a Canon of Westminster from 1924 to 1951; Sub-Dean, 1944–1951, Steward, 1927-1931, Treasurer, 1931-1951, and Receiver-General, 1938-1951. Donaldson was a founder member of the Church Socialist League, and chaired the organisation from 1913 until 1916. He was also an early member of the Christian Socialist Union, sat on the council of the Industrial Christian Fellowship. He was a leader of a march of unemployed workers from Leicester to London, in 1905. From 1931 to 1940, he was the chair of the League of Clergy for Peace. Frederic Donaldson Frederic Lewis Donaldson (born Ladywood 10 September 1860; died Westminster"