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unusual facts about John White, 1st Baron Overtoun



1963 European Cup Winners' Cup Final

Tottenham won the match 5–1 thanks to goals by Jimmy Greaves (2), John White and Terry Dyson (2).

American Pie Presents: Beta House

John White stars as Erik Stifler, a college freshman who pledges the Beta House fraternity led by his cousin, Dwight Stifler (Steve Talley).

Aylmer Bourke Lambert

Contributors included Governor Arthur Phillip, Surgeon-General John White, Colonel William Paterson, Major Robert Ross, Major Francis Grose and Philip Gidley King.

Glen Milliner

Along with former Tasmanian Labor minister John White, Milliner was a director of the Tasmanian Compliance Corporation, the since-shuttered company at the centre of the political scandal that led to the resignation of Tasmanian deputy premier Bryan Green.

Grevillea

The timber from which the veneer was made, referred to as 'beef wood', was sent from Port Jackson by Surgeon-General John White, who arrived in the new penal colony of Australia with the First Fleet.

Gusty Spence

Flanked by his PUP colleagues Jim McDonald and William "Plum" Smith, as well as Ulster Democratic Party members Gary McMichael, John White and Davy Adams, Spence read out the statement from Fernhill a former Cunningham family home on their former Glencairn estate in Belfast's Glencairn area, an important training centre for members of Edward Carson's original Ulster Volunteers.

John White, 1st Baron Overtoun

He declined to stand as the Liberal candidate for Dunbartonshire in 1889 but took an active part in supporting John Sinclair candidature in the 1892 general election, where 50 years of Conservative domination in the constituency was broken.

After his death citizens of Glasgow erected a statue of him at Cathedral Square, Glasgow.

Johnny Adair

He invited the five other brigadiers from the Inner Council to attend along with leading loyalist Michael Stone and politicians John White and Frank McCoubrey.

Marian B. Tasco

She was elected to the seat in 1987, defeating two other challengers in the Democratic primary, after incumbent Democratic Councilman John White resigned from Council that January.

Persoonia hirsuta

First collected by John White in the vicinity of Port Jackson (Sydney) in 1794, Persoonia hirsuta was described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in his 1805 work Synopsis Plantarum.

Roanoke Island

John White, father of the colonist Eleanor Dare, and grandfather to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, left the colony to return to England for supplies.


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