At the Versailles peace conference in 1919, Canada's prime minister Sir Robert Borden, chatted to Britain's David Lloyd George about taking over the West Indian colonies.

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After all, it spawned George and Robert Stephenson's railway engines, Joseph Swan's electric light bulbs, and Sir Charles Parson's steam turbines and electricity generators.

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George Bush's was Robert Mosbacher, the finance chairman of the 1988 Bush campaign.

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George Zimmerman's brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr.

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Dr. S. Robert Lichter is Professor of Communications at George Mason University, where he also directs the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media, and the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), which works to improve the quality of statistical and scientific information in the news.

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"We're confident the medical records are going to explain all of George's medical history, " Robert Zimmerman Jr. said at the time.

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This idea has been championed by conservative policy entrepreneurs such as Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review and Robert Stein, a veteran of George W. Bush's Treasury Department, yet it has met with fierce resistance from The Wall Street Journal editorial board, which sees it as an unjustifiable tax giveaway that is an unhelpful distraction from the need to cut marginal tax rates.

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Robert Stephenson, son of George and one of the principal figures behind the expansion of Britain's railways, reckoned that a network that was just as productive could have been built for a third less than the actual cost.

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The site where the hotel stands now was the London home of King George III's brother, the Duke of Gloucester, before it was bought by Robert Grosvenor, the first Marquess of Westminster, in 1806.

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