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William James Hope-Johnstone KCB (1798–1878), Royal Navy officer, became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore


2009–10 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season

On 15 August 2009, the First Round draw for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy 2009–10 was made on Soccer AM, where Oldham was drawn against League Two club Accrington Stanley.

Aaron James Sorensen

Sorensen played guitar and aspired to be a musician from a young age, and eventually studied acting—first with Keith Johnstone at the University of Calgary, and later in Los Angeles with Milton Katselas at the famed Beverly Hills Playhouse.

Abbey, Renfrewshire

Abbey or sometimes Abbey Paisley is a civil parish in Renfrewshire, Scotland traditionally centred on the towns of Paisley and Johnstone and including the smaller settlements of Elderslie, Inkerman, Hurlet, Nitshill, the Dovecothall area of Barrhead, and the hamlets of Thorn and Quarrelton, now subsumed into Johnstone.

Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester

He married firstly, in 1934, Moyra Joan, daughter of Douglas Crossley, and with her had two sons and one daughter (divorced, 1947); secondly, in Rhodesia in 1947, Vera Haigh (died 1984); thirdly, in 1985, Elizabeth Hope Johnstone, daughter of Clifford Arthur Johnstone, of Addo, Eastern Province, South Africa.

Antony Costa

From 10 April 2006, Costa played the lead role of Mickey Johnstone in the London production of the long-running musical Blood Brothers, directed and produced by Bill Kenwright; his contract ran to February 2007.

Bob Johnstone

After service in the United States Merchant Marine in the last 18 months of World War II, he resumed his singing career (changing his name to Johnstone).

In 1946-7, Johnstone sang with the orchestras of Larry Clinton and Harry Soznick, and played an extended engagement at the Copacabana night club as featured singer for headliners such as Frank Sinatra.

Dalry and North Johnstone Line

The Dalry and North Johnstone Line (also known as the Lochwinnoch Loop Line or Kilbarchan Loop Line) was a branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, Scotland, connecting the stations in Elderslie and Dalry via a route running parallel to the existing line built by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.

Davey Johnstone

It was during his work with Magna Carta that he caught the attention of producer Gus Dudgeon who asked Johnstone to play on Bernie Taupin's eponymous 1970 solo album, which resulted in a meeting with Elton John and Johnstone playing on his 1971 album Madman Across the Water.

Drew Rutherford

Playing in the centre of defence for St. Johnstone over a span of nine seasons, he made more appearances for the team than any player who had gone before him and his record number of appearances stood until 2009 when it was surpassed by St. Johnstone goalkeeper Alan Main.

Edward Huggins Johnstone

Johnstone was born on April 26, 1922, in São Paulo, Brazil, the son of William Johnstone, a noted horticulturalist.

George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar

Coats was the son of Thomas Coats and Margaret Glen, daughter of Thomas Glen, of Thornhill Johnstone, Renfrewshire.

Graeme Johnstone

Upon his retirement, Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls praised Johnstone for his outstanding commitment to investigating deaths in custody.

Johnstone will be coming out of retirement in February 2008 for the conclusion of the inquest into the disappearance and death of Louise and Charmian Faulkner who went missing in 1980.

Halothane

This halogenated hydrocarbon was first synthesized by C. W. Suckling of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1951 and was first used clinically by M. Johnstone in Manchester in 1956.

Hope-Johnstone

Percy Wentworth Hope-Johnstone (1909–1983), de jure British peer and soldier in the British Army

Hugo Johnstone-Burt

A week before he graduated from NIDA, Johnstone-Burt was approached to play the brain damaged Fish Lamb in the television adaptation of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet.

Inside Passage

It includes the narrow, protected Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland, the Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits between Vancouver Island and the mainland, as well as a short stretch along the wider and more exposed Hecate Strait near the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Jim Leighton

James "Jim" Leighton MBE (born 24 July 1958 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish former football goalkeeper.

Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the Wing

The garden was opened by Jimmy Johnstone's wife, family and some of the surviving members of the 'Lisbon Lions' team.

Johnstone Street, Bath

Johnstone Street in the Bathwick area of Bath, Somerset, England was designed in 1788 by Thomas Baldwin, with some of the buildings being completed around 1805-1810 by John Pinch the elder.

Johnstone's Paint

Johnstone's Paint is a British manufacturer of paint and current sponsors of the Football League Trophy.

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

The senior executive producer was Paula S. Apsell, the executive producer was Richard Hutton, and the producers were Joseph McMaster, Gary Johnstone, and Vanessa Tovell.

Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight

It is based on the actions of John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell, who killed Sir James Johnstone in 1608 as the culmination of a family feud.

Mansewood

Famous past residents in the area include Kai Johansen, of Rangers FC and Chris Johnstone, famously named and shamed by The Sun, although now exiled to the Far East amid controversy and speculation.

Michael Martin Clancy

The plan involved gaining permission to construct a section of portable track to meet the existing CSR tram-track so that gravel could be collected from the North Johnstone River at Goondi and carted to the building site in boxed cane trams drawn along the track by horses.

Mid-Continent oil province

The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 (Bartlesville, Oklahoma) in 1897, Spindletop (Texas) in 1901, and the Ida Glenn No. 1 (Glenn Pool, Oklahoma) in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the central and southwestern United States.

Murray Davidson

In 2012-13 season, with St. Johnstone qualified for Europa League, thanks to Hearts, Davidson captained his first match, playing in Europe, in the second round of the Europa League against Turkish side Eskişehirspor, but they proved to be too strong and failed to win either legs losing 2-0 and drawing 1-1 respectively.

Paisley Canal Line

The line ran from St Enoch station to three stations in Paisley: Paisley Hawkhead Road, Paisley Canal station, and Paisley West; with intermediate passenger stations at: Shields, Bellahouston and Crookston and a terminus at North Johnstone.

Renée Houston

Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, as Katherina Houston Gribbin, she toured music halls and revue with her sister Billie Houston as the Houston Sisters.

Ronald Eric Johnstone

Ronald Eric Johnstone (born 1949) is an Australian ornithologist who worked for the Western Australian Museum for many years.

Sandy Johnstone

On 24 November 1939 George Pinkerton was promoted to Squadron Leader and given Command of No. 65 Squadron RAF, with Johnstone taking over command of ‘B’ Flight from Pinkerton.

Sergei Baltacha

Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha (born 1958), former USSR, Dynamo Kyiv, Ipswich Town and St Johnstone football player

Seth Fisher

Becker and Mayer publishers posthumously released a project titled Backpack Alarm, written by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone and featuring illustrations by Fisher.

Shar Levine

Levine, and her co-author, Leslie Johnstone, were co-recipients of the Eve Savory Award for Science Communication from the BC Innovation Council (2006) and their book, Backyard Science, was a finalist for the Subaru Award, (hands on activity) from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Books and Films (2005).

Siobhán McCarthy

Other roles include leads as Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, Svetlana in the original London production of Chess, Fantine in Les Misérables, Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar and Deborah Warner's Medea.

Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet

Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone married Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, daughter of the Most Reverend Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York.

Sir Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baronet

His mother was Charlotte, daughter of John van den Bempde of Hackness Hall in Hackness, near Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet

Lockerbie House was built for Sir William Douglas, his wife Dame Grace Johnstone and their children, of whom the eldest, Charles, succeeded as 6th Marquess of Queensberry.

St Benedict's RC High School

St Benedict's High School was formed by the amalgamation of St Cuthbert's High School in Johnstone and St Brendan's High School in Linwood.

St. Johnstone F.C. in European football

A Frazer Wright goal in Trondheim, the home city of Rosenborg, gave the Perth club a chance of proceeding to the next round and, despite an early goal by Rosenborg in the home leg at McDiarmid Park, a Stevie May goal in front of 7,850 supporters (almost all behind the home club) was enough for St. Johnstone to earn a place in the third qualifying round against FC Minsk of Belarus.

Strathclyde Buses

Whilst the SBG units began operating services within Glasgow's city limits, Strathclyde PTE started or extended services to places including East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, Balloch and Johnstone.

Style-shifting

In recent developments of stylistic variation analysis scholars such as Allan Bell, Barbara Johnstone, Natalie Schilling-Estes have been focusing on initiative dimension of style-shifting, which occurs when speakers proactively choose among various linguistic resources (e.g. dialectal, archaic or vernacular forms) in order to present themselves in a specific way.

Tait's Magazine

Christian Johnstone died in 1857; Tait's Magazine ceased publication in 1861.

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey

The painting was thought to have been destroyed in the disastrous Tate Gallery flood of 1928 during the 1928 Thames flood, and was only rediscovered in 1973 by Tate Gallery curator Christopher Johnstone.

Tom Herron

In the last lap of the last race, Herron had been fighting for third place along with Jeff Sayle, Steve Parrish and Greg Johnstone, when he crashed at Juniper.

William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny

Lord Abergavenny married Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet and Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, daughter of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, on 2 May 1848.

Woodleigh Replicas

It was started about 1945 by Ernest Johnstone, a veteran of World War I and his son Archibald Johnstone, a veteran of World War II.


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