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2 unusual facts about Conyers


Equestrian at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The Equestrian events were held at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, United States, (30 miles or 50 km east of Atlanta.)

WPBS

WPBS (AM) an AM radio station operating at 1040 kHz in Conyers, Georgia


Baron Conyers

Since 1509, the Barons Conyers had held a part of the "right" to the barony Fauconberg, i.e. the part for which the abeyance was terminated in 1903; and since the termination of the abeyance of the barony Fauconberg, the two baronies, Conyers and Fauconberg, had been held together; from 1948 they were abeyant between the two daughters of the 5th Earl of Yarborough.

Bishopton Castle

De Conyers built the castle during a dispute with William Cumin, who laid claim to be the Bishop of Durham; de Conyers supported Cumin's rival, William of St. Barbara.

Bishopton Castle was built by Roger de Conyers in 1143, in the village of Bishopton, near to the town of Darlington.

Conyers baronets

In the 16th century Richard Conyers of Hornby, a descendant of Sir Christopher Conyers of Sockburn, married the heiress of the Horden estate near Peterlee, County Durham, and Horden Hall became the family seat.

Conyers Darcy, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth

Conyers Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Meinhill, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 4th Baron Conyers (August 1570 - 3 March 1653) was an English peer and father of the 1st Earl of Holderness.

Elisha S. Converse

Conyers was the descendant of one of the trusted chieftains of William the Conqueror - Roger de Coignieres, from Navarre, France.

James Tunstall

‘Epistola ad virum eruditum Conyers Middleton,’ (1741) an attack on the life of Cicero by Conyers Middleton that questioned the genuineness of Cicero's letters to Brutus, which Middleton had accepted without reserve.

Kateřina Neumannová

On July 31, 1996 she became the first Czech female athlete to compete on both Winter and Summer Olympics when starting in the mountain bike race at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, USA.

Norton Conyers House

Norton Conyers House is a grade II* listed late medieval manor house with Stuart and Georgian additions sited in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, some 4 miles (7 km) north of Ripon.

Peggy Cummins

Cummins's last film, in 1961, was Darcy Conyers's In the Doghouse alongside Leslie Phillips.

Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough

In 1926, Lord Worsley became a major in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry and on the death of his mother that year, inherited the baronies of Conyers and Fauconberg and the Portuguese countship of Mértola.

Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet

Blackett was the son of William Blackett and his wife Julia Conyers.

Sockburn Worm

Each year the newly consecrated Bishop-Prince of Durham, while entering the Bishopric for the first time at the local Ford or over the bridge over the River Tees at Croft-on-Tees was presented with the falchion that John Conyers used on the worm.

Steve Davenport

When he became the offensive coordinator at Rockdale County High School in Conyers, Georgia in 2005, he joined a staff that previously went 1-9 in 2004.

William Dodwell

Dodwell, like his father, was a keen controversialist: his opponents included Conyers Middleton, William Romaine, William Whiston, and others.


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