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4 unusual facts about Beaconsfield


Beaconsfield

Dominic Grieve is the Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield, first elected in 1997, and now the Attorney General.

Edward William Davies

His obituary mentioned only his business successes, his election to public office, and that he died at his residence in Beaconsfield on 25 January after a long illness.

Madurodam

Missis Boon-van der Starp heard about a miniature park in Beaconsfield, England.

Now I Run

Noll performed the song during a special episode of the Nine Network's The Footy Show in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, to celebrate the rescue of trapped miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb.


Battle of Bakenlaagte

The 73 dead Commonwealth troops were buried on Gun Hill but later reinterred in Primrose Cemetery, Corner of Cemetery road and Beaconsfield road, Germiston in the 1960s.

Bingfield Park

The Park has existed since about 1970 when the Beaconsfield Buildings (built by the Victoria Dwellings Association — Patron Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, the Earl of Beaconsfield.) were purchased by the Greater London Council and demolished.

Cardinia Transit

926 PakenhamWestfield Fountain Gate via Lakeside, Beaconsfield station & Berwick (Daily)

Denis Crossan

Towards the end of his course at Beaconsfield he was asked to film a music video for Frankie Goes To Hollywood called "Relax", which was quickly followed by work for UB40, U2 and many others.

Division of La Trobe

It includes the suburbs of Boronia, Belgrave and Ferntree Gully in the north-west, the suburbs of Berwick, Beaconsfield and Officer in the south, and the towns of Gembrook, Emerald and Cockatoo.

Earl of Beaconsfield

His choice of title might have been partly influenced by the fact that in 1794 the conservative political philosopher and parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whom Disraeli admired, had turned down King George III's offer to raise him to the peerage as Lord Beaconsfield.

Edmund Waller

He actually died, however, at Hall Barn, with his children and his grandchildren about him, on 21 October 1687, and was buried in woollen (in spite of his expressed wish), in the churchyard of St Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield.

Frank Linsly James

The 1871 census shows him again living at his parents home, but now at Beaconsfield House, Woolton, occupation "Under Graduate, Cambridge".

Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken

His writings on English history have been translated by S. J. Macmullan and published as The British Empire, with essays on Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Palmerston, Beaconsfield, Gladstone, and reform of the House of Lords (1889).

Hughenden Valley

Benjamin Disraeli (later Earl of Beaconsfield) lived at Hughenden Manor, a Georgian mansion, altered by the Disraelis when they purchased it in 1848.

Peter Melesso

Melesso had been working in the bottle shop of the Beaconsfield Hotel in St Kilda where Micevic was accused of an assault which resulted in the death of cricketer David Hookes.

Richard Hoskins

Richard was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire where he went to Uppingham School and Bedford School, before RMA Sandhurst and a Special Short Service Commission in 3rd Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment.


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