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2 unusual facts about Blandford


Blandford-Blenheim

In 1890, a body was found in a Princeton swamp that would lead to the Reginald Birchall murder trial that took place in Woodstock, Ontario.

Blandford, Nova Scotia

Many of his guests were celebrities; one such guest was Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.


1970 National League Championship Series

-- Please don't link Game 1 names other than Morgenweck; minor league umpires, non-notable - User:MisfitToys -->John Grimsley, Fred Blandford, Hank Morgenweck, George Grygiel (Game 1); Stan Landes, Paul Pryor, Doug Harvey, Bob Engel, Harry Wendelstedt, Nick Colosi (Games 2–3)

Bastard brothers

Pevsner describes the Bastards works at Blandford as providing "One of the most satisfying Georgian ensembles anywhere in England".

Blandford fly

The Blandford fly's English common name derives from a major outbreak of people being bitten around the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England, in the 1960s and 1970s.

Christopher Lawne

Christopher Lawne was an English merchant and Puritan of note, born in Blandford, Dorset, who emigrated to Virginia Colony on the Marygold in May 1618 and died the following year.

Defence College of Communications and Information Systems

The College consists of a headquarters based at Blandford Camp in Dorset, the Royal Navy CIS Training Unit at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, Hampshire, The Royal School of Signals at Blandford Camp and the Royal Air Force Number 1 Radio School, collocated with the headquarters of the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at Cosford, of which the Aerial Erector School at RAF Digby is a part.

Hanna Kay

Since 1989 she has been living, working and exhibiting in NSW, Australia, and since 2000, living in Blandford, a small country village near Murrurundi, in the Upper Hunter.

John Blandford Jr.

Blandford had been deputy chief of U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in Greece and a consultant to president Harry Truman on the Marshall Plan.

Marble Hill House

but more commonly thereafter, and provided a standard model for the English villas built throughout the Thames Valley and further afield, for example New Place, King's Nympton, Devon, built between 1746–9 to the design of Francis Cartwright of Blandford in Dorset.

Turlin Moor

The two railway bridges at the end of the estate on Blandford Road, form the meeting point between Hamworthy, Turlin Moor and Upton Park.

William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford

Lady Blandford's sister Isabella was wife of the Earl of Denbigh.

On 25 April 1729 Lord Blandford married Maria Catherina de Jong, the daughter of Peter de Jong, a Burgomaster of Utrecht.


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