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19 unusual facts about Chatham


1874 FA Cup Final

Oxford University and the Chatham-based Royal Engineers were among 28 entrants to the competition in the 1873–74 season.

Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham

Upon returning to the United Kingdom in 1881, he continued teaching at military institutes in Chatham, Dublin and Shorncliffe.

Brownsburg-Chatham, Quebec

Later in the third quarter of the 19th century, a major arms factory run by the Dominion Cartridge Company was the major local industry.

Callahan Bright

Ineligible for college football, Bright briefly attended Hargrave Military Academy, a prep school in Chatham, Virginia, along with fellow Seminoles recruits Matt Hardrick and Justin Mincey.

Charles Grimes

He was appointed paymaster at the recruiting depot, Maidstone, in September 1833 and was transferred to Chatham, Kent in 1836.

Chatham, Kent

Chris Smalling, England international footballer, attended Chatham Grammar School for Boys.

Chatham, New Hampshire

Chatham was regranted in 1770 by his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, to a group including Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard College and creator of the "Blanchard Map" of the North Country.

Access to the town of Jackson continues to be partially through Maine, by taking Maine State Route 113 south to the Fryeburg area, then traveling west through Conway.

County-level city

Today, instead of each city having its own mayor and city councillors, there is a council with representatives from the various areas surrounding Chatham city.

Craig Benson

Benson attended Chatham High School in Chatham, New Jersey.

Douglas Kiker

He died at the age of 61 from a heart attack, while vacationing in Chatham, Massachusetts.

Edward Lawry Norton

Edward Lawry Norton (28 July 1898, Rockland, Maine–28 January 1983, Chatham, New Jersey) was an accomplished Bell Labs engineer and scientist famous for developing the concept of the Norton equivalent circuit.

Ernest Hutchinson

He was born in Douglastown, New Brunswick, the son of Richard Hutchison, a former member of the provincial assembly, and educated in Chatham.

Jancee Dunn

She grew up in Chatham, New Jersey and attended University of Delaware but dropped out 17 credits short of her Bachelor's degree in English.

Keiland Williams

He completed his eligibility at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, where he became the first running back in school history to rush for more than 1,000 yards a season, finishing with 160 carries for 1,325 yards and 12 touchdowns.

Martin Cranney

He was a resident of Chatham, New Brunswick and represented Northumberland County in the 14th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1847 to 1850.

Ted Roop

At the time, BEA-VER Communications owned and operated CKSY-FM and CFCO, its AM Oldies sister station, from their Chatham, Kent studios, but had an application in to the CRTC for a 3rd FM station.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).

Warren Training School

The Warren Training School was a boys-only day school in Chatham, Virginia founded in 1906 by Charles R. Warren.


Andrew Naismith Watson

He became farm director for CFCO radio in 1997, and was named to the Chatham-Kent Agricultural Hall of Fame in 2004.

Watson lost the Chatham—Kent seat to Liberal Maurice Bossy by 1,134 votes.

Asplenium oblongifolium

A. oblongifolium is found on the North, South, Chatham and Kermadec Islands, and is found from the coast to the mountains.

B-class blimp

The Navy set up airship stations along the East Coast, at Chatham, Massachusetts, Montauk, Long Island, Rockaway Beach in NY City, Cape May, New Jersey, Norfolk, Virginia, and Key West and Pensacola, Florida.

Black Robin

The team increased the annual output of Old Blue (and later other females) by removing the first clutch over every year and placing the eggs in the nest of the Chatham race of the Tomtit, a technique known as cross-fostering.

C-QUAM

Among those stations are CFCB/570: Corner Brook, NL; CFCO/630: Chatham, Ontario (covering SW Ontario, Eastern Michigan and Northern Ohio); WLS/890 (now during both day and night hours): Chicago, Illinois; WNMB/900: North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; WBLQ/1230: Westerly, Rhode Island; WIRY/1340: Plattsburgh, New York; WAXB/850: Ridgefield, Connecticut; and WLAD/800: Danbury, Connecticut.

Central Vermont Railway

On January 1, 1871, the Vermont Central leased the Rutland Railroad system, giving it routes from Burlington to Bellows Falls and Chatham, New York.

Charles Sherrard

In 1901 he was commanding the Chatham Sub-District and was a member of the United Service Club.

Chatham Center

The complex was built between 1964 - 1966 by Chatham Center Inc, of which the principal investors were Morton S. Wolf and Leon Falk Jr.

Chatham Central High School

Chatham Central High School is a public high school located in Bear Creek, North Carolina with a student population of around 450 students.

Chatham Memorial Arena

Ryan Jones (Chatham Maroons, Junior B - Miami University, NCAA - Nashville Predators, NHL - Edmonton Oilers, NHL)

Chatham Township, New Jersey

The village of Chatham had been settled in 1710 as John Day's Bridge and, in 1773 when New Jersey was an English province, adopted the name of Chatham to honor William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.

Chatham Village

The complex includes the Bigham House (former home of Thomas Bigham), originally built in 1844, and renovated for use as a community clubhouse, known as Chatham Hall.

Cockham Wood Fort

In conjunction with Fort Gillingham it took on the role of defending Chatham Dockyard from seaborne attack, a role which had been performed by Upnor Castle for the previous hundred years.

Cormorant-class gunvessel

The first 6 ships were ordered from commercial yards (Money Wigram & Son, C J Mare & Co and J Scott Russell), with fitting out to be done in the Royal Dockyards at Chatham (first pair) and Woolwich (last 4).

Doug Anakin

He was born in Chatham, Ontario and was selected by Vic Emery as a member of Canada's gold medal-winning four-man bobsleigh team at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Fort Gillingham

In conjunction with Cockham Wood Fort it took on the role of defending Chatham Dockyard from seaborne attack, a role which had been performed by Upnor Castle for the previous hundred years.

Frank Gross

Gross was born in Chesley, Ontario, had lived in Listowel, Ontario until 1948, and established his residence in Chatham at 11 Stone Avenue in April, 1948.

Gerald Chatham

Gerald Weissinger Chatham (February 17, 1906 - October 9, 1956) was an American lawyer, best known for acting as lead prosecutor in the Emmett Till case in 1955.

Ian Patterson

Born in Chatham, Kent, Patterson started his career at Sunderland before moving to Burnley on a free transfer at the start of the 1993–94 season.

James M. Hill Memorial High School

It serves principally students from the south side of the Miramichi River, from the smaller communities of Chatham, Loggieville, Chatham Head, Nelson, Barnaby River, and Napan.

John Brooke

He was co-author with Namier of a biography of Charles Townshend, and author of The Chatham Administration, a study of politics in the early years of George III's reign.

John Calcraft

In April the following year, however, he was returned as member for Calne, one of Shelburne's boroughs, and supported the Chatham ministry in the House.

John Nike

Nike has since expanded his John Nike Leisuresport Ltd business, and now owns dry ski slopes in Bracknell, Chatham, Llandudno, Plymouth and Swadlincote.

Jonathan Meiburg

After a year spent in such diverse places as the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal settlement of Kowanyama in Australia, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and the Inuit settlement of Kimmirut in Baffin Island, Canada, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a master's degree in Geography and wrote a thesis titled "The Biogeography of Striated Caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)".

Mangere Island

Several endemic Chatham Island bird species have since been reintroduced to the island, Chatham Snipe in 1970, Black Robin in 1976, Chatham Tomtit in 1987 and Shore Plover in the 1990s.

Marcus Binney

Chatham Historic Dockyard: Alive or Mothballed (1984) with Kit Martin, Save Britain's Heritage, ISBN 0-905978-19-6, ISBN 978-0-905978-19-2.

Maunsell

Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway

Medway Maritime Hospital

The hospital was opened as the Royal Naval Hospital by King Edward VII on 26 July 1905 as a replacement for the 252 bed Melville Hospital (Naval), which was not large enough to deal with the increasing numbers of Naval personnel moving into Chatham.

Monomoy Island Gunnery Range

The Monomoy Island Gunnery Range was a former Air Force gunnery range for aviators, located on Monomoy Island, in Chatham, Massachusetts and in use circa 1942-1950.

N class

SECR N class, a type of steam locomotive designed in 1914 for use on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR)

Pacific Locomotive Association

The magazine was eventually spun off and published independently, by Chatham Publishing Company until 1983 when it was sold to Interurban Press (and later Pentrex).

Paul Blomfield

Born in Chatham, Paul Blomfield was educated at the Abbeydale Boys' Grammar School in Sheffield and Tadcaster Grammar School.

Prince Consort-class ironclad

Brown, David K. Warrior to Dreadnought, Warship Development 1860–1905, published Chatham Publishing, 1997.

Rex Crawford

In 2004, several years after he left Parliament, he supported Conservative party candidate Dave Van Kesteren in the Chatham-Kent—Essex riding during the 2004 federal election.

Rock Bay, Victoria

Rock Bay is a neighbourhood bordering downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, whose borders are the Upper Harbour on the west, Bay Street on the North, Dowler Street on the east, and approximately Chatham City of Victoria Street on the south.

Russell Chatham

Many of Chatham's painted works have adorned the covers of Harrison's works.

SECR R class

LCDR R class – a class of 0-4-4T locomotives built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) in 1891

Vanquis Bank

Vanquis also operate a call centre in Chatham, Kent, making it one of the larger employers in the Thames Gateway area.

Virginia State Route 457

The state highway passes Martinsville High School and reduces to two lanes at Fairy Street before reaching Chatham Road adjacent to Hooker Field, home of the Martinsville Mustangs of minor league baseball.

Walker–Grant School

Grant attended schools in Chatham, Pontiac, Michigan, and at the Wilberforce Educational Institute in Ohio.

Whitmell

Whitmell P. Tunstall (1810–1854), lawyer and state legislator in Chatham, Virginia