An agreement was reached after the British Defence Secretary Tom King assured his West German counterpart Gerhard Stoltenberg that the British government would underwrite the project and allow GEC to acquire Ferranti Defence Systems from its troubled parent.
He left the Cabinet after the 1992 general election, and returned to the backbenches where he served as Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Select Committee from 1994–2001, during which time KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin defected to reveal 87-year-old Melita Norwood as a Soviet spy.
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King was educated at Rugby School (Sheriff House), an independent school for boys in Warwickshire, before attending Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Fielding mentions it in both The Covent Garden Tragedy and Pasquin and Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Roderick Random.
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The shacks can be seen in many of the contemporary depictions of the piazza and features prominently in William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day (although it is rotated from its true position for the artistic effect of contrasting it with Inigo Jones' Church of St Paul).
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Tom King was born in 1694 to Thomas King, a squire from Thurlow, Essex, and Elizabeth Cordell, the daughter of Baronet Sir John Cordell.
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31 March - Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces decision to ban the Apprentice Boys Easter Monday Parade, resulting in rioting in Portadown and other parts of the North, police homes attacked with petrol bombs, and 11 Catholic homes petrol-bombed in Lisburn.
Those present at the meeting included John Major, David Mellor, Douglas Hurd, Tom King, Norman Lamont, Peter Lilley, John Wakeham, Robin Butler, David Craig, Patrick Mayhew, Percy Cradock, Charles Powell and Gus O'Donnell.
Emmerdale Series Producer Kathleen Beedles signed off the much-anticipated reveal episode in which Tom King's killer would finally be uncovered.
Not all highwaymen were well-born like French aristocrat Claude Duval or James MacLaine, who was the second son of a minister, but this romanticized portrayal extended to such working-class robbers as MacLaine's partner William Plunkett, as well as Richard Ferguson, George Lyons, Richard Ferguson, Tom King, John Nevison, and John Rann.
The back of the sleeve shows a photo of His Royal Highness Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, and his longtime friend and advisor Happy-Tom, King of Bass-guitar chatting it up at an Oslo hot spot.
The two opening tracks, "Please Don't Leave Me" and "I Love You 'Cause I Love You" are probably original songs; each has lyrics that mainly repeat the titles with some variations – e.g., "I need you 'cause I need you". On the CD, the tracks are evidently taken from a broadcast on a local radio station in Cleveland (along with a brief interview of Tom King by the disk jockey) in an on-air contest to see which song the listeners like the best.