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unusual facts about Colman's


The Royal Alexandra and Albert School

The school's grounds, Gatton Park were previously owned by Sir Jeremiah Colman of Colman's mustard and were extensively landscaped by celebrated 18th century landscape gardener Capability Brown.


Barber–Colman Company

The Barber–Colman trademark is held by Eurotherm Controls, Inc. The historic complex has been vacated since Reed–Chatwood relocated in 2001.

Booth Colman

Colman has played Scrooge hundreds of times on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Meadow Brook Theatre in the Detroit area.

Clara, County Kilkenny

Saint Colman's church is situated at the centre of the parishes and Saint Colman is considered the patron saint of Clara.

Colman nepos Cracavist

1615, a ninth-century manuscript from Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire called the Liber sancti Benedicti Floriacensis, is a compilation of astronomy in which Colman's verses are found under the rubric "Colmanus nepos Cracavist in Roma virtutem hanc sanctae Brigitę praedicavi" in a section titled "De peritia cursus lunae et maris".

Coloman of Stockerau

Originally known as Colmán (variously rendered Koloman, Kálmán, Colman, and Colomannus), he was an Irish pilgrim en route to the Holy Land "was mistaken for a spy because of his strange appearance, tortured, and hanged at Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria, on 16 July 1012. Later tradition has it that he was a son of Máel-Sechnaill (d. 1022), high king of Ireland." (Breen, 2009)

Eddie Colman

An accommodation building at the University of Salford is named after him – the Eddie Colman Court is a block of flats located near the main campus.

Frank Colman

Colman returned the Majors to the Intercounty loop in 1958, organizing an exhibition ballgame in June 1958 in conjunction with the Knights of Columbus and the Mocha Temple Shrine in aid of the Shrine Hospitals for Crippled Children.

The following year in 1955, Frank Colman took over the Intercounty League's London Majors at Labatt Park, where it all began for Colman 20 years earlier.

Henry R. Colman

The Rev. Henry Root Colman was born October 9, 1800, in Northampton, New York.

Herbert Thorndike

He was the third son of Francis Thorndike, a Lincolnshire gentleman of good family, and Alice, his wife, daughter of Edward Colman, of a family resident at Burnt Ely Hale, and at Waldingfield in Suffolk.

Isaac Milles

While at Cambridge he had met Edward Colman, Titus Oates’s victim, and seems to have read Colman’s letters to Père la Chaise before they were printed.

Jeremiah James Colman

He became a partner in the family mustard business at Stoke Holy Cross in 1851 and from then on the company was called J. & J. Colman.

London Elektricity

According to his MySpace page, Tony Colman's influences include a large array of musicians, such as Talking Heads, Fela Kuti, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Led Zeppelin, and others.

Madam C. J. Walker

Colman, Penny Madam C.J. Walker: Building a Business Empire.

Maria Gibbs

After Colman's death in 1836, she lived in retirement in Brighton, and her death seems to have passed unchronicled.

Mike Colman

Michael Colman (August 4, 1968 – April 5, 1994) was an American ice hockey defenseman who played fifteen games for the San Jose Sharks in the 1991–92 NHL season.

New Zealand Music Awards

The awards were co-founded by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) and soap powder manufacturer Reckitt & Colman, with the awards named after Reckitt & Colman's anti-dandruff shampoo, Loxene.

Norman Demuth

Among his pupils was Gordon Langford, whose surname was originally Colman (and who changed the name on Demuth's advice).

Paul Colman

In January 2011 Colman returned to the studio with Grant Norsworthy and Phil Gaudion of PC3 to work on a new Trio album.

Ramón Vargas Colman

Ramon Vargas Colman was born in the village of Tebicuarymí, a town close to Caballero, Department of Paraguarí, Paraguay, March 3, 1925 then Tebicuarymí belonged to the Department of Guairá.

Richard Brinsley Peake

Peake wrote the accompanying text for the picture-book French Characteristic Costumes (1816); a comedic book of Cockney sports entitled Snobson's 'Seasons (1838); Cartouche, the Celebrated French Robber (1844) in three-volumes; and a two-volume biography of a theatrical family, Memoirs of the Colman Family (1841).

Squire Hardman

Squire Hardman (poem), a pornographic poem published by John Glassco in 1967, falsely attributed to George Colman the Younger

Trevor Colman

Bernard Trevor Colman (born 27 August 1941 in St Breward, Cornwall) is a Member of the European Parliament for South West England.

Walter the Farting Dog

Walter the Farting Dog is the titular character and a series of children's books written by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, and illustrated by Audrey Colman.


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