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unusual facts about Clee St. Margaret


Clee St. Margaret

The main religion in Clee St Margaret and the surrounding area of South Shropshire is Christianity, with Islam and Buddhism following.


Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper

He married Eva Isabel Marion Bruce daughter of Major Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare of Duffryn and Constance Mary Beckett on 26 April 1911 in St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Bodelwyddan

The Church is dedicated to two Saints, St. Margaret and St. Kentigern, and contains several notable graves - including the grave of Elizabeth James, mother of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, a renowned Victorian Explorer.

Foster Fyans

Hazzard, Margaret, ‘’Punishment Short of Death: a history of the penal settlement at Norfolk Island’’, Melbourne, Hyland, 1984.

Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

Hammonds Plains was established as a settlement area for United Empire Loyalists in 1786 along a road running from Birch Cove on Bedford Basin to St. Margaret's Bay.

Hengsberg

Hengsberg was an original parish since about the first half of the 9th century, then mother-parish since about the 13th century with the parishes Wundschuh, Wildon, Preding, Lang and St. Margaret.

James Thomas Morisset

Hazzard, Margaret, Punishment Short of Death: a history of the penal settlement at Norfolk Island, Melbourne, Hyland, 1984.

John Giles Price

Hazzard, Margaret (1984) Punishment Short of Death: a history of the penal settlement at Norfolk Island.

John Strange Winter

She was born on 13 January 1856 in Trinity Lane, York, was only daughter of Henry Vaughan Palmer, rector of St. Margaret's, York, by his wife Emily Catherine Cowling.

Mark Burchill

He attended St Mary's Academy, Bathgate followed by St. Margaret's Academy, Livingston, where his footballing ability became apparent.

Pieter Hellendaal

Still unable to secure a good steady job as a musician in London, Pieter, from 1760 to 1762, made his living expenses by working as the organist for St. Margaret's Church in King's Lynn, Norfolk, a port town about 97 miles north of London.

Samuel Dyer

Maria established a Chinese Girls’ Boarding School with 20 students in their home (at the present-day site of Raffles Hotel, the school later became called St. Margaret's Primary School).

St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Church

It was the only parish in the diocese founded under Bishop Phillips Brooks, the famous preacher and author of O Little Town of Bethlehem.

Particularly notable is a large window on the east wall by the Tiffany studio of New York; the window depicts St John on the island of Patmos and was the first stained glass window in the parish, originally set in the south wall of the original chapel, then surrounded with additional glass upon its placement in the new church, and restored in the 1990s.

St. Margaret's Church, Oslo

Margaret's Church was a stone church built in the 13th century, placed in Maridalen in the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, close to the northern end of Maridalsvannet.

St. Margaret's Church, Rochester

The first record of St Margaret's is in an 1108 charter of Bishop Gundulf.

Composer of "Amazing Grace" was married in the medieval church in 1750 to a local girl.

For the latter quarter of the 20th century the bells were unringable, but a major project in 2005-6 saw the bells removed, retuned (at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry) and rehung in a new frame.

St Margaret's Church, Rochester is now a Chapel of Ease within the parish of St Peter with St Margaret, Rochester.

The Aldington Gang

It is believed that they were active well before this date and were responsible for incidents in Deal, St. Margaret's Bay, north of Dover.

Toft Monks

The local church in the village is dedicated to St. Margaret and was originally constructed in the 13th century.

Trevelyan Thomson

Thomson was a personal friend of the Reverend P B Clayton who founded the organisation Toc H and Clayton took part in Thomson’s memorial service at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster.

William Milman

His father was rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, and a Canon of Westminster Abbey, and later Dean of St Paul's.


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