Amalgamated Society of Steel and Iron Workers of Great Britain Amalgamated Society of Steel and Iron Workers of Great Britain The Amalgamated Society of Steel and Iron Workers of Great Britain was a trade union representing workers in iron- and steelworks, principally in Scotland. The union was founded in Glasgow in 1888 and was originally named the Associated Society of Millmen. John Hodge of the British Steel Smelters Association (BSSA) acted as the union's first secretary, but he stood down a year later, when members elected their own representative, John Cronin. The union grew rapidly, despite charging new members a one-off fee of 5 shillings, membership reaching 3,000 by 1892,
Lord John Grey (character) Lord John Grey (character) Lord John William Grey is a fictional character created by Diana Gabaldon. He is a recurring secondary character in Gabaldon's "Outlander" series of novels, and the main character of the "Lord John" series of historical mystery novels and novellas. Secretly homosexual "in a time when that particular predilection could get one hanged", the character has been called "one of the most complex and interesting" of the hundreds of characters in Gabaldon's "Outlander" novels. Grey first appears in the second "Outlander" novel "Dragonfly in Amber" (1992) as a sixteen-year-old English soldier who chances upon Jamie and Claire