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Jimmie Macgregor: 70 today

... er and composer; 1915 Sir Charles Groves, conductor. Deaths: 1966 Frank O’Connor, writer; 1993 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and author of Parkinson’s Law; 1981 Sir Maurice Oldfield, spymaster; 1984 Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, politician; 1986 ...

Published: Friday 10 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

9 March 1566: David Rizzio, confidential secretary to Queen Mary, murdered in Palace of Holyroodhouse Juliette ..

... novelist; 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak statesman and minister; 1966 Frank O’Connor, writer; 1993 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and author of Parkinson's Law; 1969 Jimmy Wilde, Welsh flyweight world champion from 1916 to 1923, 1981 Sir Maurice Oldfield ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 361 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Report shows public bodies are mushrooming

... has not achieved more. Prof Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and Cambridge scholar in public administration, had some answers. He explained: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Parkinson's Law shows more than 211,000 ...

Published: Sunday 21 May 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1019 | Page: 25 | Tags: none