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unusual facts about Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield



Adam Hawkes

Sarah was born on December 7, 1650, in Reading (now Wakefield), Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Alfred Watson

Alfred "Alf" Watson from Portobello, Wakefield, is an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s, playing at representative level for England, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, and Leeds, he was a Prisoner of war in World War II.

Andrew Joron

Joron is also the translator of The Perpetual Motion Machine by the German fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011).

Arthur Carkeek

Arthur Wakefield Carkeek (1843 – 1897) was a member of the Armed Constabulary in the New Zealand Wars, and was one of only 23 recipients of the New Zealand Cross for gallantry.

Athersley

The adjoining estate of New Lodge is separated by Wakefield Road from Athersley North yet other estates surrounding the area have no noticeable separation, most notably Smithies and Monk Bretton.

Bennett Jones

1959 – Partners James V.H. Milvain and James H. Laycraft win the last Canadian appeal before the Privy Council in London, England (Wakefield v. Oil City 1959 29 W.W.R. 638)

CODAC Behavioral Healthcare

CODAC has offices located in the Rhode Island communities of Cranston, Providence, Newport, East Providence, and Wakefield.

Community 2: A NewOrderOnline Tribute

The idea of this 2nd edition of the project was to involved people that helped New Order in the years, so Howard Wakefield (of Saville Associates with Peter Saville) and Bill Holding (of Morph UK) gave their comments on the sleeves submitted in the sleeve competition, Michael Shamberg, who produced most of New Order's video gave his comments about the video competition, and David Potts also gave his own comments on all aspects of the competition.

Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School

The Dolphins eventually won the Division 2A State Championship against Wakefield by a score of 35-0, and completed an undefeated season at 13-0.

Dread Dragon Droom

Humberside was part of a consortium of LEAs (the others being Barnsley, Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and, for a time, Wakefield) which established a regional support centre called RESOURCE, based in Doncaster.

Ealing Community Transport

ECT entered the railway rolling stock hire and maintenance market, owning hire companies RT Rail and Mainline Rail and also RMS Locotec of Wakefield.

Edward Boddington

Edward Robert Boddington was born 29 April 1862 in Wakefield and died 4 March 1897 in Perth, Western Australia.

Frank Wakefield

Wakefield is known for his collaborations with a number of important and well-known bands, including Red Allen, Don Reno, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and the Greenbriar Boys.

George Schussel

Prior to founding DCI in 1983, Schussel was Vice President and CIO at the American Mutual Group of insurance companies in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Good Deeds

At the same time, on an impoverished side of town, Lindsey Wakefield (Thandie Newton), a single mother and cleaning woman for The Deeds Corporation, finds out that she will be evicted from her home if she doesn’t pay her bills soon.

H. Russell Wakefield

In 1968, BBC Television produced a dramatization of Wakefield's supernatural story "The Triumph of Death", starring Claire Bloom.

Humphry Wakefield

Wakefield's first wife was Priscilla Bagot (b. 1939), eldest daughter of Oliver Robin Gaskell, later Bagot (himself nephew and heir of Sir Alan Desmond Bagot, 1st and last Baronet and Annette Dorothy Stephens, whom he married on 17 September 1960 and divorced in 1964.

Isabel Jay

Her roles during these years included Olivia in Liza Lehmann's The Vicar of Wakefield (1906, based on the novel of the same name), Sally in Miss Hook of Holland (1906, running for a very successful 462 performances), Paulette in My Mimosa Maid (1908), Princess Marie in King of Cadonia (1908), Christina in Dear Little Denmark (1909), and Princess Stephanie in The Balkan Princess (1910).

John Bailey Langhorne

He died aged 60 on May 17, 1877 at Outwood Hall, near Wakefield where he was described as being the District Registrar of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

John Claypole

Claypole was appointed by his father-in-law one of the lords of his bed-chamber, clerk of the hanaper, and ranger of Whittlewood Forest) in Northamptonshire, where he built Wakefield Lodge, a magnificent house near Potterspury, (it came into the possession the Dukes of Grafton, the first duke having had a grant of the forest in 1685, with the title of hereditary ranger).

John Van Voorst

Born in Highgate to a family of Dutch descent, he served a six year apprenticeship in Wakefield from the age of 16 before returning to London to work for publishers Longman, Green, Orme, Hurst & Co. until he set up his own business in Paternoster Row in 1833.

Kathleen Wakefield

In 1970, Wakefield co-wrote the song "Feelin' Kinda Sunday" with Nino Tempo and Annette Tucker, which was recorded as a single by Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy.

Laurie Gough

Gough is married, has a little boy, and lives in both Guelph, Ontario, and Wakefield, Quebec.

My Backyard Was A Mountain

My Backyard Was A Mountain is a 2005 multiple award winning AFI short film by Puerto Rican - American writer/director Adam Schlachter and produced by Austin Wakefield.

North Bridge, Halifax

A ceremony was then held which included the town's MP Sir James Stansfeld, Lord Frederick Cavendish, Colonel Akroyd, the mayors of Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield, the Master Cutler of Sheffield, the Town Clerk of Leeds and the bridge engineers.

Old Castle Swifts F.C.

One was soon located in fields beside Wakefield Street in East Ham, known as Temple Meadows, which lay in the grounds of Temple House, not far from East Ham railway station.

Outrageous Betrayal

Wakefield suggested that one of the reasons the press or "media" paints a negative view is because "nobody in the media bothers to speak to the people who value in his programs." Wakefield refers to a study done by opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich in which "seven out of ten participants in The Forum found it to be 'one of their life's most rewarding experiences,' while 94 percent felt the program had 'practical' and 'enduring' value."

Percy Metcalfe

Percy Metcalfe, CVO, RDI (Wakefield, 14 January 1895 - 1970), (often spelled Metcalf without "e") was an English artist sculptor and designer.

Philip Wheeldon

In retirement he served as an Assistant Bishop, firstly in the Diocese of Worcester and latterly at Wakefield.

Pontefract bus station

Buses run from the bus station around the town of Pontefract and as far a field as Leeds, Castleford, Tadcaster, Selby, Doncaster and Wakefield.

Princes Highway

From Port Wakefield it continues as the "Augusta Highway", and follows the coast, skirting Port Pirie to continue on to Port Augusta, where it terminates at the intersection of the Eyre Highway and Stuart Highway.

Royal Little

Royal Little (born March 1, 1896 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, died January 10, 1989, Nassau, Bahamas), was the founder and chair of Textron, and is considered to be the Father of Conglomerates.

Sandy Bashaw

In spring, 1998, the music was played as part of Lyons' twenty-year retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, England.

Shad Planking

The Shad Planking is an annual political event in Virginia which takes place every April near Wakefield in Sussex County.

Shrigley abduction

Edward Wakefield and Ellen had to follow them, and he took her to Calais.

Wakefield agreed to take her to Shrigley, but instead took her to Leeds.

Socialist Environment and Resources Association

Current members include Andrew Pakes, adviser to Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield and the shadow DEFRA secretary of state, Alan Whitehead, MP for Southampton Test and Daniel Zeichner, a member of Labour's National Policy Forum.

South County Newspapers

The South County paper covers South Kingstown (including the villages of Kingston, Peace Dale and Wakefield), Narragansett and Charlestown, Rhode Island.

St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury

Earl Warenne, Lord of the Manor of Wakefield built a church in the Norman style in 1106.

Sweetser House

Daniel Sweetser House, Wakefield, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington

The most prominent Robin Hood play of Munday's era was George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, registered in 1595 and printed in 1599.

The Old Man in the Corner

The Old Man in the Corner was featured in a series of twelve British two-reel silent films, made by the Stoll Film Company in 1924, written and directed by Hugh Croise and starring Rolf Leslie as The Old Man and Renee Wakefield as journalist Mary Hatley (Polly Burton in the book).

Thomas Zouch

Thomas Zouch (12 September 1737, Sandal Magna near Wakefield – 17 December 1815, Sandal Magna), was an English clergyman and antiquary, best known as a student of the works and life of Izaak Walton.

Wakefield Council election, 2003

The results saw Labour lose 2 seats to the Conservatives in Pontefract South and Wakefield Rural, and 1 seat to the Liberal Democrats in Ossett.

Wakefield Council election, 2008

Wakefield council joined with other councils from Yorkshire to run a television advertising campaign in an attempt to increase turnout.

Webster Street Station

The Swedes in Omaha used the Webster Street Station to connect with their ethnic communities in Oakland, Pender, Wakefield, and Wausa.

West Riding and Grimsby Railway

There were also three further lines: a triangular junction was created at Adwick, opened in November 1866, which made it possible, should it be required, to run from Doncaster to Grimsby by this route; secondly a line from Hare Park Junction, near Wakefield, to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway near to Wakefield Kirkgate, and lastly a connection to the Midland Railway at Oakenshaw Junction, south of Wakefield.

William Kilpatrick Stewart

In 1956, Stewart was awarded the Sir Charles Wakefield Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and in 1961 the Theodore C. Lyster award of the Aerospace Medical Association of the United States.

Willys baronets

John Walpole Willis and his descendants (some of whom became Willis-Bund, e.g. John William Willis-Bund) descended from this family through his grandfather Joseph Willis of Wakefield, Yorkshire .

Yorkshire Evening Post

Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well.


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