Alan Ross McWhirter (12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975) was, with his twin brother, Norris, the cofounder of the 1955 Guinness Book of Records (known since...

Norris Dewar McWhirter CBE (12 August 1925 – 19 April 2004) was a British writer, political activist, co-founder of The Freedom Association, and a television...

McWhirter and Macwhirter, MacWhirter (also spelled McWherter and Macwherter, MacWherter) are Anglicisations of the Scottish Gaelic Mac an Chruiteir, meaning...

Castle with Guinness World Records founders twin brothers Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter. The programme was a spin-off series from Blue Peter which had...

Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in August 1955. The first edition topped...

his death in 1994, alongside Norris and (until his murder in 1975) Ross McWhirter, Fiona Kennedy and Cheryl Baker. From then on, hosting was taken over...

IRA gunmen assassinated political activist and television personality Ross McWhirter in Enfield Town, London. 1975, 6–12 December: Balcombe Street siege:...

Publishers. pp. 556–571. ISBN 1-56000-901-2. Andrew Sanders and F. Stuart Ross (January 2020). "The Canadian Dimension to the Northern Ireland Conflict"...

Colombia Three are three men – Niall Connolly, James Monaghan, and Martin McCauley – who are currently living in the Republic of Ireland, having fled from...

McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1970). New Guinness Book of Records. Guinness Superlatives. p. 17. Retrieved 9 August 2016. Mcwhirter, Norris; McFarlan...

gentler sex. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7734-6000-3. Ross McWhirter; Norris McWhirter (1972). Guinness Book of World Records. Sterling Publishing...

Audrey Edgson and John Francis Bately - all killed by bombs - and Ross McWhirter - shot at his home. On 10 February 1977, Judge Joseph Cantley sentenced...

of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican...

addition to bombings, they carried out several assassination attempts. Ross McWhirter, a right wing politician who had offered a £50,000 reward for information...

Guinness Book of Records co-founder and conservative political activist Ross McWhirter was assassinated; he had offered a £50,000 reward to anyone willing...

James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (Irish: Séamus Máirtín Pacelli Mag Aonghusa; 23 May 1950 – 21 March 2017) was an Irish republican politician and statesman...

Swallow and was often frequented by celebrity diners. 27 November 1975: Ross McWhirter was shot at his home Village Road, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, Middlesex...

Swithun's Day". Weather Online. Retrieved 23 May 2012. Norris and Ross McWhirter. Guinness Book of records (1973 ed.). p. 76. Andrew Godsell "Saint Swithin...

from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2018. McWhirter, Ross; McWhirter, Norris, eds. (1964). "Earliest successful manned satellite"....

joined an elite group within the IRA called "The Unknowns" commanded by Pat McClure.: 103–4  The Unknowns were tasked with various secretive activities and...

Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – December 1972) was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional...

ships clash, marking the beginning of the third Cod War. 27 November – Ross McWhirter, 50, co-founder with his twin of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot...

387–35). 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those...

cimetière du vieux château at Menton in Alpes Maritimes was rediscovered by Ross McWhirter in 1958, was renovated by the Riviera Hash House Harriers in 2003 and...

William "Frenchie" Marchant Martin McBirney Jerry McCabe Robert McConnell Jean McConville Columba McVeigh Ross McWhirter Stephen Melrose Lord Mountbatten...

Freedom (NAFF) by the Viscount De L'Isle, Norris McWhirter, Ross McWhirter and John Gouriet. Ross McWhirter had drawn up a fifteen-point Charter of Rights...

other republican prisoners, including Tom McFeely, John Nixon, Sean McKenna, Tommy McKearney and Raymond McCartney, refused food and started a hunger...

William "Frenchie" Marchant Martin McBirney Jerry McCabe Robert McConnell Jean McConville Columba McVeigh Ross McWhirter Stephen Melrose Lord Mountbatten...

Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most...

England and being implicated in the deaths of eight people including Ross McWhirter and Gordon Hamilton-Fairley. Keenan was sentenced to eighteen years...