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3 unusual facts about Winifred


Tonka

The Winifred Museum in Winifred, Montana, has a collection of more than 3,000 Tonka toys, possibly the largest collection in the world, according to the museum.

Winifred's Warbler

The genus Scepomycter has traditionally been considered monotypic, but in 2009 a closely related new species was described, the Rubeho Warbler.

Populations in the Rubeho-Ukaguru Mountains are the very similar Rubeho Warbler, and the status as vulnerable is for the "combined" species.


Charles Calthorpe

Calthorpe married firstly Winifred Toto, daughter of the Italian-born painter Anthony Toto, Serjeant Painter to Henry VIII and Edward VI.

Churchill, Victoria

The Churchill Newsagency opened in 1967 and was run by Ian and Winifred Jones who had previously run the Yinnar General Store.

Enid J. Wilson

She was the daughter of George Abraham the photographer/climber and Winifred Davies, a cousin of the Abrahams' climbing partner, O. G. Jones.

Francis Barrington

Barrington was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Barrington of Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broadoak, Essex (died 1586) and as her second husband Winifred Pole (b. aft. 1521 or in 1525), youngest daughter of the 1st Baron Montagu.

Gerald Dunn

After retiring as a Rugby League player at Hull Kingston Rovers joined coaching staff promoted in 1986 to Assistant coach to Roger Millward – then George Fairbairn – Ged was a PE teacher at Winifred Holtby School in Kingston upon Hull for over 30 years.

Haggerston, Northumberland

The Haggerstons married into many great families, such as the Cheswick family, gaining large amounts of land, but Haggerston eventually became a minor estate, connected to the Maxwell and Constable families, and passed to the Maxwell Lord Herries of Terregles, through Winifred Maxwell, who married William Haggerston-Constable, second son of the third Baronet.

Harold S. Gladwin

In 1928, Harold and his future wife, Winifred, founded the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation over the remains of a pueblo that the two had excavated together.

Harry McCalmont

He was married to Amy, daughter of Major John Miller, who died in 1889; and then in 1897 to Winifred, daughter of Sir Henry de Bathe.

Hathi

He is called "Colonel Hathi", and he leads his wife, Winifred Hathi (voiced by Verna Felton), and his son, Hathi Junior (voiced by Clint Howard), in a marching patrol similar to an Army that is so loud it makes some of his herd want to "transfer to another herd" while singing a deliberately silly song authored by the Sherman Brothers entitled "Colonel Hathi's March".

Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu

Winifred Pole (b. aft. 1521 or in 1525), married firstly Sir Thomas Hastings (1515–1558, buried Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, the brother of her sister Catherine's husband), son of George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, without issue, and secondly, Sir Thomas Barrington of Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broadoak, Essex (died 1586).

Impatient Maiden

The screenplay was written by Richard Schayer and Winifred Dunn, based on the novel The Impatient Virgin by Donald Henderson Clarke.

Jessie Franklin Turner

Turner worked for Bonwit Teller's custom salon between 1916 and 1922, and also designed under the name of Winifred Warren Inc. in the early part of her career.

John Meux

Meux was the son of Sir William Meux and his wife Winifred Barrington, daughter of Sir Francis Barrington, 1st Baronet of Barrington Hall, Essex.

Leo Boyle

While in Aldbourne, Boyle met an English girl called Winifred Hawkins and decided to marry her.

Levi Lapper Morse

He married Winifred, daughter of Isaac Humphries of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire and they had two sons and four daughters.

Lucinda Green

Lucinda Jane Prior-Palmer was born in Andover, Hampshire, England to Major-General George Erroll Prior-Palmer (died 1977) and Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Hope, a daughter of the second Marquess of Linlithgow, who served as Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.

Oscar Natzka

His widow, Winifred, later married the Oscar-winning American actor, Charles Coburn.

Saint Winifred

The moving of Winifred's bones to Shrewsbury is fictionalized in A Morbid Taste for Bones, the first of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, with the plot twist that her bones are secretly left in Wales, and someone else is put into the shrine.

Another spring supposedly arising from the laying down of Winifred's body is at Holywell Farm, midway between Tattenhall and Clutton, Cheshire.

Another well named after St Winifred is in the hamlet of Woolston near Oswestry in Shropshire.

Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet

On 28 June 1905 Madden married Constance Winifred, third and youngest daughter of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Baronet, and sister of Countess Jellicoe; and they had two sons (Charles and John) and four daughters (Conn, Joan, Hope and Mary).

Sir John Ellerman, 1st Baronet

Ellerman's daughter Annie Winifred Glover, later Annie Winifred Ellerman, was a published writer under the penname 'Bryher'.

Stalking the Unicorn

On his way Mallory meets Eohippus, a six-inch tall horse that helps him find the expert on unicorns, a former huntress still craving for adventure, Colonel Winifred Carruthers.

Studholme College

A search was conducted for a Lady Professor of Home Science and Professor Winifred Boys-Smith, a science and domestic science teacher at Cheltenham Ladies' College, was elected to the new chair.

Terregles House

In 1848 Winifred's grandson, William Constable-Maxwell, obtained an Act of Parliament restoring him as the descendent of William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, and ten years later the House of Lords declared him the 10th Lord Herries of Terregles.

Walter C. Lowdermilk

They had two children: Winifred Esther Lowdermilk (married Wilmot N. Hess) and William Francis Lowdermilk (deceased).

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker

Brouncker was born in Castlelyons, County Cork, the elder son of William Brouncker, 1st Viscount Brouncker and Winifred, daughter of Sir William Leigh of Newnham.

William Gerard Power

Born in the parish of Sillery, Quebec City, the son of William Power and Susan Winifred Rockett, Power was educated at the Commercial Academy of Quebec and the College Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal .

William Heminges

Together with Cuthbert Burbage, Richard Robinson and Winifred (d.1642), his wife, Joseph Taylor and John Lowin, William Heminges filed a Bill of Complaint on 28 January 1632 in the Court of Requests against the owner of the Globe, Sir Matthew Brend, in order to obtain confirmation of an extension of the 31-year lease originally granted by Sir Matthew Brend's father, Nicholas Brend.

Winifred Lamb

Winifred Lamb (1894-1963) was a British art historian, archeologist, and museum curator who specialised in Greek, Roman, Anatolian cultures and artifacts.

Winifred Selina Sturt Hardinge

Winifred Selina Sturt was the second daughter of Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington, and his first wife Lady Augusta Bingham, who was the first daughter of George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan.

Winifred Wells

Winifred Wells was a courtier at the Stuart Restoration court as a Maid of Honour to Queen consort Catherine of Braganza.

Yvonne Cartier

In 1946, following in the footsteps of Bettina Edward's student Rowena Jackson, she emigrated to England on scholarship to the Royal Ballet School, studying with Winifred Edwards, George Goncharov, Vera Volkova and Audrey de Vos.


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