Dulwich, named after the settlement in the London Borough of Southwark, has its origins in Section 263 of the Adelaide region as laid out by South Australia's first chief surveyor, Colonel William Light.
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The centre-right Liberal Party polls very well in the area with around 60% of the vote in the 2007 and 2010 federal elections .
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With many sons of the suburb fighting in World War II, a Returned Services League was founded with their return.
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Between 1955 and 1958, a young Tony Blair (British Prime Minister 1997–2007) lived with his family in a house on Ormond Grove while his father Leo was a Law lecturer at the University of Adelaide.
Born in Dulwich, he immigrated to Canada in 1921 at the age of 17.
In April 1997 he launched the Beauberry House Restaurant and Bar in Dulwich, London.
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The Gazette entry gives many addresses: Queen Anne’s Gate and Victoria Chambers, Westminster; Aberdare; Tondu; Meathop, Westmorland; Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire; The Hague; Cross Street, Manchester; 46 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill; Ulverstone; Grange-over-Sands; and Wellington, New Zealand.
Educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich South London, she took part as an uncredited extra in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire and went on to play the lead character in a short film The Open Doors with Michael Sheen and Cherie Lunghi.
Originating from South London, Alex Pilkington and Simon Shippey met at Alleyn's School in Dulwich, and started the band in 1995 with originally Crispin Weir on guitar and Max Tundra on bass, along with a succession of drummers.
By 1605 Edward Alleyn was a wealthy man and for £5,000 (a large amount in those days), was able to buy the Manor of Dulwich from the Calton family, who had owned it since the dissolution of the monasteries.
Bert Coleman (1889–1958), English footballer, played for England and Dulwich Hamlet
Sir Frederick Hall, 1st Baronet (1864–1932), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Dulwich 1910–1932
Whilst working at his restaurant Chez Nico in Dulwich, London in 1976 or 1977 he met fellow chef Michel Roux at a party, who arranged for him to work for a week at the three Michelin star Moulin de Mougins under Roger Vergé.
Another Dulwich alumnus, Simon Ainley (Eric Smith Explosion, 801), joined on guitar in April 1978, and then in August, so did another, Bill MacCormick on bass.
After the Paxton Pub opposite the end of Gipsy Hill it captures water from Hamilton Road, forms the back garden line of Croxted road and joins the other branch at the South Circular where it now forms the sewers of Croxted Road, Dulwich Road, Dalberg Road, Effra Road, Electric Lane, Brixton Road, Harleyford street/road separated by the Kennington Oval.
Dulwich and Cambridge educated Tin Tut was the first Burmese to become an Indian Civil Service officer.
Wych naturally became one of the most widely occurring common placename elements e.g. Wick, Wyck, Hackney Wick, Gatwick, Exwick, Wickham, Aldwych, Dulwich, Ipswich, Norwich, and indirectly York, from Eoforwic via Old Norse Jorvik.
The suburb of West Dulwich dates back to the 17th century when the often flooded land known as Dulwich Common was acquired and drained by Edward Alleyn's estate.
She was educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich, where one of her teachers was the well known botanist Dr Lilian Clarke.
Woodcourt College was an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Wardell Road on the border of Marrickville and Dulwich, inner western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.