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.
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Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet (1901–1984) (had been created Baron Clitheroe in 1955)
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The Clitheroes' land agent, Michael Parkinson of Ingham & Yorke, continues to style himself "Steward of the Honor of Clitheroe".
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It was created in 1955 for the Conservative politician Ralph Assheton, who had previously served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
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.
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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.
Rover felt their own engineers were better at everything, and also set up a parallel effort at Waterloo Mill, Clitheroe.
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).
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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".
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 of Downham in the County of Lancaster is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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.
The title was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham.
Sir Francis Pearson, former MP for Clitheroe, was Chairman of the Central Lancashire New Town Development Corporation from 1971.
Within the honour of Clitheroe, two sets of forests were administered separately, those of Bowland, and those of Blackburnshire.
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 Thomas Walshman Aspinall (c.1815–1865), English Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe 1853
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 PC, DL (1901-1984) was an English aristocrat and politician.
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 ancestral home of the Tundishes was actually Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic public school near Clitheroe, Lancashire.
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.