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2 unusual facts about Benson, Oxfordshire


Bensington

The former name of Benson, Oxfordshire, England, a village where the battle possibly took place

Driving club

One of the first driving clubs was the Bensington Driving Club, founded in February 1807 at Bensington, Oxfordshire, also known as the Benson Driving Club when Bensington became Benson, and commonly referred to as "the B.D.C.".


Air Seychelles

Air Seychelles ended its contract in the third quarter of 2011 with the UK Ministry of Defence to provide service from RAF Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire, England, to RAF Ascension Island and then on to RAF Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic.

Bartholomew Tipping IV

Bartholomew was the son of John Tipping of Chequers at Stokenchurch in Oxfordshire (now Buckinghamshire) and Woolley Park at Chaddleworth in Berkshire and his wife, Mary Spire.

Battle of Danes Moor

The Battle of Danes Moor (or 'Dunsmoor') occurred between the Danes and the Saxons in 914 on Danes Moor between Culworth and Edgecote, north-east of Banbury, Oxfordshire, at a crossing of a tributary of the River Cherwell.

Benson Commission

The Royal Commission on Legal Services, commonly known as the Benson Commission (after its chairman Sir Henry Benson) was a Royal Commission set up the by Labour government of Harold Wilson to "examine the structure, organisation, training and regulation of the legal profession and to recommend those changes that would be desirable to the interests of justice".

Benson Mates

Benson Mates (May 19, 1919, Portland, Oregon – May 14, 2009, Berkeley, California) was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism.

Benson Medal

The Benson Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in the UK.

Benson, Arizona

Benson then served as a rail junction point to obtain ore and refined metal by wagon, in turn shipping rail freight back to the mines at Tombstone, Fairbank, Contention and Bisbee.

Brad Benson

He currently operates the Brad Benson Auto Group in South Brunswick, New Jersey, selling Hyundais and Mitsubishis.

Building 20

Coordinated by Benson R. Snyder, Donald A. Schon and Seymour Papert, the DSRE was an innovative interdisciplinary center for “learning about learning” at the individual, institutional and societal levels.

Coal Measures Group

In those coalfields to the south of the former Wales-Brabant High i.e. the South Wales, Bristol, Somerset, Forest of Dean and concealed Oxfordshire and Kent coalfields, the corresponding group is the South Wales Coal Measures Group.

Crimplesham

In 1854 a Mrs Elizabeth Doyle, living at Crimplesham Hall, invited Benjamin Benson, a former slave, to address the schoolchildren on the horrors of slavery.

Fettiplace baronets

The Fettiplace Baronetcy, of Childrey in the County of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), was a title in the Baronetage of England.

First Battle of Dragoon Springs

On May 5, 1862, a small mounted Confederate foraging party was gathering stray cattle in the area around an abandoned Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach station and spring in the Dragoon Mountains, about sixteen miles from the present-day town of Benson and near Dragoon, Arizona.

Frank Underwood

Underwood was commissioned to write and perform music to honour the 1980s UK visit of Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, and has become known as a performer at festivals and cultural events in Oxfordshire.

Frederic Deane

Frederic was born at Stainton le Vale in Lincolnshire on 19 September 1868, the son of Francis Hugh Deane, Rector of Horsington and Stainton, and his wife and 2nd cousin, Emma Anne, the daughter of Robert Micklem Deane of Caversham in Oxfordshire (now Berkshire).

Gentry McCreary

Thomas Whitfield - Hold Me (1983 Released Onyx Int'l Records/Benson Records)

George Collingridge

He was born in Oxfordshire, England, educated in Paris, served in the Papal Zouaves (alongside his brother Alfred, who died in the Battle of Mentana), and migrated to Australia in 1879 aboard the Lusitania (not the ship of the same name that sank in 1915).

George Parker, 7th Earl of Macclesfield

In 1909 Macclesfield married Lilian Joanna Vere Boyle, the daughter of Major Charles Boyle, of Great Milton, Oxfordshire.

Godric the Sheriff

Henry de Ferrers had acquired lands at Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) belonging to Godric the Sheriff, probably between 1055 and 1067.

Harry Benson

Other celebrities Benson has photographed include Bobby Fischer, Michael Jackson, who allowed him access to his bedroom, and Elizabeth Taylor, whom Benson photographed before and after her brain surgery.

Henry Benson, Baron Benson

In 1963 Benson submitted his report, which recommended closing all railways in Northern Ireland except the Belfast commuter lines to Bangor, County Down and Larne and the main line between Belfast and the Republic of Ireland, and the reduction of the main line between Portadown and the Republic to single track.

Holly Benson

On December 28, 2006, Florida's Governor-elect Charlie Crist appointed Benson to the position of Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

Jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures

Another is God L, who is "the primary lord of the underworld" and often is shown with a jaguar ear or jaguar attire, and atop a jaguar throne (Benson 1998: 64-65).

Jason Falkner

Falkner also collaborated as a songwriter, producer, instrumentalist and backup vocalist with singer-songwriter Brendan Benson on Benson's first two albums, One Mississippi (1996) and Lapalco (2002).

John Dunch

John was the second son of Samuel Dunch of Pusey in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and his wife, Dulcibella, the daughter of Sir John Moore of East Ilsley in Berkshire.

Judge Henry L. Benson House

The Judge Henry L. Benson House built in 1892 is an historic octagon house located at 137 High Street in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Kelmscott House

Originally called The Retreat, Morris renamed it after the Oxfordshire village of Kelmscott where he had lived at Kelmscott Manor from June 1871.

Kingham Hill School

The school is located in Oxfordshire near the village of Kingham and the town of Chipping Norton.

Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons

Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons ("Four Seasons Manor", aka Le Manoir) is a luxury hotel-restaurant in the village of Great Milton near Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England.

London Parachute School

The London Parachute School is a BPA affiliated parachuting centre and skydiving drop zone at Chiltern Park Aerodrome at Ipsden, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire

No. 6 Air Experience Flight RAF

From 26 November 1995 it was parented by London University Air Squadron but when London UAS moved to RAF Wyton, 6 AEF remained at RAF Benson with parenting being taken over by Oxford University Air Squadron, both units being equipped with Grob Tutor T Mk 1s.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had."

Nora Nicholson

In April 1912 Nicholson made her professional stage debut, playing Dolly Clandon in Benson's production of Shaw's You Never Can Tell at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Peter's Friends

Rita Rudner as Carol Benson, an actress, and Andrew's American wife.

Philip Watson

Before his retirement to Oxfordshire he was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Bath and County Club.

Randy Horton

A top level cricketer offered trials to play for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Horton turned down the opportunity to play English County cricket and Football League football for Huddersfield Town to stay in a warmer climate following completing his Oxford University Institute of Education Teacher Training Certificate from Culham College in Oxfordshire, England.

Segsbury Camp

Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.

Sonning Regatta

Sonning Regatta is the regatta of the village of Sonning in Berkshire and the hamlet of Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England, on the north and south banks of the River Thames.

Stradey Park Cricket Ground

The ground was used in 1991 by Wales Minor Counties when they played Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship.

Sylva Foundation

It is based in a rural location in the small village of Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire, England.

The Prospect Studios

Many other classic television shows were also produced there including The Lawrence Welk Show, Barney Miller, Fridays, Mr. Belvedere, Welcome Back, Kotter, Benson, and Soap.

The Writing on the Hearth

The events of the novel take place in the 15th century and primarily in the village of Ewelme in Oxfordshire, England.

This Providence

In September 2005, This Providence announced that drummer Paul Benson was leaving the band to pursue new career paths, eventually with Apple Inc..

Thomas Percy Plowden

Thomas Percy Plowden (born at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, 1672; died at Watten, 21 September 1745) was an English Jesuit administrator.

Titan Airways

Titan Airways' Boeing 767 operated to the Falkland Islands on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence for two years until September 2012; with twice weekly flights departing from RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, to RAF Mount Pleasant via RAF Ascension Island.

Wendy Benson

Benson was born in New York City, the daughter of Scottish photographer Harry Benson.

William Benson

William Sol Benson (1877–1945), American esperantist, author of "Benson's Universal Method" for Esperanto's (self-)teaching

William Cartwright

William Cornwallis Cartwright (1825–1915), British Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, 1868–1885


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