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Shirley Bassey: 64 today

... cricketer, 77; Karen Whitefield, MSP, 31 . Anniversaries Births: 1824 Wilkie Collins, detective story writer; 1868 Sir Frank Dyson; Viscount Craigavon (James Craig), statesman; 1897 Dennis ‘Wheatley, novelist; 1902 Georgl ‘Malenkov, Soviet leader; 1910 ...

Published: Monday 08 January 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

RSTEVEN

... American jazz trumpeter and composer. Deaths: 1675 Gaspard Poussin, painter; 1934 Gustav Holst, composer of ilie ;1939 Sir Frank Dyson, astronomer and director of Gi ich Observatory; 1948 Jacques Feyder, film director; 1954 Robert Capa, war photographer (killed ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

1989: British Midland 737 crashed into M 1 embankment near Kegworth, Leicestersire, killing 47 people. 1992: ..

... writer, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone; 1830 Hans von 1836 Sir Lawrence Alma-~ - Tadema, artist; 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, astronomer; 1871 Viscount Craigavon (James Craig), statesman; 1897 Dennis ‘Wheatley, novelist; 1902 Georgi Malenkov, Soviet ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 180 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Birthdays

... -- - Moonstorie; 1830 Hans von- - Bulow, ‘pianist and conductor; . . 11836 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; ‘artist; 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, . - - astronomer; 1871 Viscount-* ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

25 May 1768: Captain Cook set off on his first voyage, to explore the Antipodes. 1871: The House of Commons

... jazz trumpeter and composer. Deaths: 1675 Gaspard Poussin, painter; 1934 Gustav Holst, composer of The Planets; 1939 Sir Frank Dyson, astronomer and director of Greenwich Observatory; 1948 Jacques Feyder, film director; 1954 Robert Capa, war photographer ...

Published: Friday 25 May 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 339 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Somerset Superb setting

... for £25. Ironically, the First 'pips' on BBC Radio The six-pip signal was the brainchild of the 9th Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Dyson. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has recently embarked on a £l5- million redevelopment, which will include a state-of-the-art ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 17619 | Page: 49 | Tags: none