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12 unusual facts about Dudley


Barmouth

Barmouth is (geographically) one of the closest seaside resorts to the English West Midlands and a large proportion of its tourist visitors, as well as its permanent residents, are from Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Dudley and other parts of the Black Country, and Telford, Shropshire.

Buddleja davidii 'Dudley's Compact Lavender'

Little is known about cultivation; the plant was introduced to the UK by the Longstock Park Nursery, NCCPG national collection holder, which received a specimen from the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Kentucky.

Dudley, New South Wales

In 1976, the Jeffries and Currey Memorial Library was opened by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Roden Cutler, himself a VC, at Dudley Public School to honour the two ex-pupils who were decorated with the Victoria Cross during the First World War: Clarence Jeffries and William Currey.

Dudley's Chapel

Many of the prominent early leaders of the Methodist Church are known to have preached both at Dudley's including Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, Richard Whatcoat, Jesse Lee, and Freeborn Garrettson.

Edmund Sutton

Edmund and Joyce's first son was Edward Sutton (b. 1459) who succeeded his grandfather, John Sutton, as 2nd Baron Dudley.

Sutton was born in Dudley, the eldest son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, KG, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Berkeley.

Jean Allemand

He wrote on Purgatory against Dudley, and a warning against the hieroglyphic discoveries of Champollion (Rome, 1834).

Jesson's Church of England Primary School

In 1902 changes in Education were afoot and Jesson’s became a public elementary school and in 1906 it took in the older children from nearby St. James' School.

John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward

His son from his second marriage, William (who succeeded in the viscountcy in 1788), was the father of John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, Foreign Secretary from 1827 to 1828.

He inherited the Willingsworth estate and the rest of the manor of Sedgley on the death of his father in 1720, and the entailed portion of the Dudley estates on the death of his cousin William Ward, 5th Baron Ward in 1740.

Seventh Angel

Over the next few months Seventh Angel some local venues around Dudley and Stourbridge, including five performances at The Rock Tavern in Brierley Hill.

The Torment

During the months following the album's release, the band played concerts in Dudley and Stourbridge, 5 times in Brierley Hill's The Rock Tavern club.


A Paul Brandt Christmas: Shall I Play for You?

Additionally, "Six Tons of Toys" is a cover of a Dave Dudley song, which itself is a rewrite of Dudley's signature song "Six Days on the Road".

Calymene blumenbachi

Calymene blumenbachii, sometimes spelled - erroneously - blumenbachi, is a species of trilobite discovered in the limestone quarries of Wren's Nest Hill in Dudley, England.

Charles Dudley Warner

The citizens of San Diego so appreciated his flattering description of their city in his book, Our Italy, that they named three consecutive streets in the Point Loma neighborhood after him: Charles Street, Dudley Street, and Warner Street.

Church of St. Edmund, Dudley

The school building survives, however, and has been used by Muslims since 1978 as Dudley Central Mosque.

Dances with Dudley

Dances with Dudley was said to be the child of Big Daddy Dudley - the patriarch of the Dudley family - and a Native American woman from Cheyenne, Oklahoma.

Dave Dudley

Other recordings included Dudley's duet with Tom T. Hall, "Day Drinking," and his own Top 10 hit, "Fireball Rolled A Seven," supposedly based on the career and death of Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts.

David Dudley Field II

David Dudley Field II (February 13, 1805 – April 13, 1894) was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure.

Dented Records

Dented Artists have collaborated with Björk, Cuts for Gorillaz remix, Scratch Perverts, Plan B, Dudley Perkins, Wildchild (lootpack) OhNo, Roc C, R. A. The Rugged Man, Dabrye, Canibuss, K-Solo, Vex'd, Skinnyman, Jehst, DJ Vadim, Natalie Williams, Rodney P, Skitz, Euphrates, Niraj Chaag, Dum Dum Project, Taskforce, Doujah Raze, Puto Largo, SFDK (Spain), Micky Finn, Baby J, and others.

Dinky Dog

The show is about two girls, ditzy blonde Sandy (voiced by Jackie Joseph) and smart, sensible, bespectacled brunette Monica (voiced by Julie Bennett), living with their uncle, Dudley (voiced by Frank Nelson).

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield

His second wife was Anne Bagenal, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bagenal, sister of Henry Bagenal and widow of Dudley Loftus, son of the Archbishop of Dublin.

Dudley High School

Dudley Hign School is a co-ed high school on Toorak Hill, Suva, Fiji that is run by the Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma.

Dudley News

Although the newspaper was created 11 years after the creation of the modern Dudley borough, it only covers Dudley and the neighbouring towns of Sedgley, Coseley, Brierley Hill and Kingswinford.

Dudley Priory

In 1926, Dudley County Borough council purchased Dudley Priory and the surrounding rural land (approximately a third of which existed within the Sedgley Urban District, prompting a change in boundaries) as part of plans to develop a new residential area.

Dudley Riggs

They were originally at a site called "Dudley Riggs Café Espresso" on East Hennepin Avenue, where Riggs operated the first espresso machine in the state.

Dudley W. Adams

Dudley Whitney Adams (November 30, 1831, Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts – February 13, 1897, Tangerine, Florida) was a horticulturalist who led the granger movement.

Dudley became a teacher as a young man and, at age 21, traveled west and became one of the first settlers of Waukon,

Ed Dudley

Among Dudley's most famous students were President Dwight Eisenhower, singer Bing Crosby, and comedian Bob Hope.

Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley

Their son was Edward Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Powis, to whom his uncle John, Lord Dudley, sold the Tiptoft-Dudley portion of Powis Castle.

England riots

1991 England riots, mainly in Oxford, Cardiff, Dudley, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne; riots in Birmingham around the same time

Erwin Dudley

Dudley's wife is the niece of Sylvester Croom, the first African-American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.

German submarine U-461

She had left Bordeaux on 27 July 1943, but was hardly out of the Bay of Biscay, northwest of Cape Ortegal, Spain, when she was sunk on 30 July by an Australian Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron RAAF piloted by Flight Lieutenant Dudley Marrows.

Jane Dudley

For other people named Jane Dudley, see Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey

Jared Dudley

Dudley was traded to the Suns on December 18, 2008, along with teammate Jason Richardson and the Bobcats' 2010 second round pick, in exchange for Raja Bell, Boris Diaw, and Sean Singletary.

John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley

He was the first of his family to adopt the surname of Dudley as an alias for Sutton.

Joseph Dudley

 238, “Gov. Joseph Dudley (16 - ), son of Gov. Thomas Dudley, No 1. HL, own hair long, robe and steinkirk, right hand gesturing across body. Repro. Hist. Dudley Fam opp p. 834, photo by Elmer Chickering, Boston. Ref.: Hist. Dudley Fam., pp. 757, 163, “Memorial of Reunion,” p.

Kevin Dudley

Dudley attended Franklin County High School in Brookville, Indiana, and played running back as well as linebacker.

Leopold Eidlitz

Mr. Dudley was a descendant of both Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), of the Massachusetts Bay Corporation, and second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and Henry II of England (1133–1189) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204).

Mabel Mary Spanton

She exhibited extensively including in London at the Royal Academy; London Salon; Royal Society of British Artists; Society of Women Artists; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; Women's International Art Club; Dudley Gallery and New Dudley Gallery; Goupil Gallery; Walker Gallery.

Manx Rumpy

On realizing that that these bantams live without tail feathers to escape foxes, Kent Poultry Club chairman Dudley Mallett gave the tiny chickens the name Rumpless Game Bantams.

Metropolitan Borough of Dudley

Dudley MBC maintains 78 primary schools (39 include nursery facilities), 20 secondary schools, and 7 special schools, along with 3 Pupil Referral Units and 1 standalone nursery school.

Michael Gladis

He also provided the voice and MotionScan of Dudley Lynch in the game L.A. Noire and was Senior Seaman Yevgeny Borzenkov in the 2002 film K19: The Widowmaker.

Mons Hill

Its shared name with Mons Road in the Kates Hill area of Dudley is a coincidence, as that road's name was taken from the Battle of Mons during World War I.

Priory Estate

This school closed in 1990 due to falling pupil numbers, with the remaining pupils split between Castle High and The Coseley School.

Ramage

Nicholas Ramage, a character in Dudley Pope's Ramage series of historical novels

Remenham

His grandson and heir William Peere Williams Freeman dealt with the manor in 1833 and sold it to Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks – later a baronet.

Rosalie Crutchley

She is probably remembered best for her performances in the classic films Quo Vadis (1951) as Acte, Nero's confidante, and The Haunting (1963) as the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Dudley.

Rotary system

The first exchanges were installed in England at Darlington (10 October 1914) and Dudley (9 September 1916).

Sempringham

Another member of the Sempringham congregation at the time was the young Anne Dudley, later Anne Bradstreet, the colony's first published poet.

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1870

A special election was called to be held simultaneously with the regular election and Republican Joseph Rainey defeated Democrat C.W. Dudley to serve the remainder of the term for the 41st Congress.

Wallace Lawler

Lawler first stood for Parliament as Liberal candidate in Dudley in the Black Country at the 1955 general election coming third with under 10% of the vote and losing his deposit.

William Fairbanks

He was then living at 115 Dudley Avenue in Venice, where he registered for the draft of World War I.

William Wade Dudley

In 1888 having been made Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Dudley was involved in the 1888 elections and one of the most intense political campaigns in decades, with Indiana dead even between Democrats and incumbent, President Grover Cleveland – and Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.