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8 unusual facts about Clitheroe


Baron Clitheroe

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Ralph Assheton also acquired title to manorial and mineral rights as well as land holdings within the former Honor of Clitheroe.

Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet (1901–1984) (had been created Baron Clitheroe in 1955)

The Clitheroes' land agent, Michael Parkinson of Ingham & Yorke, continues to style himself "Steward of the Honor of Clitheroe".

It was created in 1955 for the Conservative politician Ralph Assheton, who had previously served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

Mortimer Grimshaw

In 1861, he and Cowell attempted to intervene in a strike in Clitheroe but were branded "notorious scoundrels" by the weavers there for their parts in the Preston strike.

Upon his return to England, Grimshaw, Cowell and two other weavers were involved in a dispute between mill-owners and workers in Clitheroe, Lancashire, in 1861.

Rolls-Royce Derwent

Rover felt their own engineers were better at everything, and also set up a parallel effort at Waterloo Mill, Clitheroe.

The Ultimate Fighter 3

This series of The Ultimate Fighter was also the first in which fighters who reside outside of North America had participated (Michael Bisping, Clitheroe, England; Ross Pointon, Stoke-on-Trent, England).


Amounderness

In his 1858 novel Mervyn Clitheroe, William Harrison Ainsworth portrays the minor character of the Earl of Amounderness whose "sylvan domains ... at Dunton Park ... boasted much noble timber".

Armitage Park

The estate was purchased by Nathaniel Lister, (poet and author, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe and uncle of Baron Ribblesdale) following his marriage to Martha Fletcher a Lichfield heiress and he built the house in the Gothic Revival style about 1760.

Baron Clitheroe

Baron Clitheroe of Downham in the County of Lancaster is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Ribblesdale

The first Baron's father, Thomas Lister, grandfather, Thomas Lister, and uncle, Nathaniel Lister ( of Armitage Park, Staffordshire), also represented Clitheroe in the House of Commons.

Baron Skelmersdale

The title was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham.

Central Lancashire

Sir Francis Pearson, former MP for Clitheroe, was Chairman of the Central Lancashire New Town Development Corporation from 1971.

Forest of Pendle

Within the honour of Clitheroe, two sets of forests were administered separately, those of Bowland, and those of Blackburnshire.

Henry Formby

Henry Formby was educated at Clitheroe grammar school, the Charterhouse School, London, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took his M. A. Having taken Anglican orders, he became vicar of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, where in 1843 he completed his first book, "A Visit to the East", and he showed the interest in ecclesiastical music that always characterized him in a pamphlet reprinted from "The English Churchman" called "Parochial Psalmody Considered" (1845).

John Aspinall

John Thomas Walshman Aspinall (c.1815–1865), English Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe 1853

Ralph Assheton

Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet, of Lever (c. 1605-1680), MP for Clitheroe 1625, 1626, 1640–1653, 1659–1662, 1679–1680

Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe

Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC, DL (1901-1984) was an English aristocrat and politician.

Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet

His son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (1844–1939), the eldest, became a well-known Liberal politician, sitting in parliament for Hastings from 1869 to 1880 and for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire from 1885 till 1902, when he was created Baron Shuttleworth.

The Riff Raff Element

The ancestral home of the Tundishes was actually Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic public school near Clitheroe, Lancashire.

Tommy Trafford

He lived his early life in Blacko, near Nelson, where he performed in church productions alongside Jimmy Clitheroe, "The Clitheroe Kid", with whom he went to school.


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