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18 unusual facts about Granville


Daniel Delany

Delany College, Granville, NSW, Australia (a secondary school) is named after Daniel Delany.

Delcia Kite

Kite joined the Labor Party in 1948, and held various positions including secretary of the Granville and Rose Bay branches, secretary of the state electorate councils for Granville and Vaucluse, and secretary of the federal electorate councils for Reid and Wentworth.

Ernest G. McClain

On his return from the war, he studied for a masters degree in music (1947) from Northwestern University, then took music instructor positions at Denison University in Granville, Ohio and the University of Hawaii.

Georges Vérez

The Granville in the Manche war memorial features a representation of a soldier worked in bronze by Vérez.

Golf de Granville Baie du Mont St Michel

The Golf de Granville Baie du Mont St Michel is a 27 hole golf course located at Bréville-sur-Mer (Manche), approximately 4 miles north of Granville, Normandy, France.

Granville, County Tyrone

The industrial estate includes the headquarters and main factory of Dunbia (formerly, known as Dungannon Meats) and one of the main plants of Linden Foods, also Westland Horticulture has its compost site and head office on the estate.

Granville, Massachusetts

However, perhaps due to the rocky soil in New England, the settlers eventually migrated west, some establishing the town of Granville, Ohio.

Granville, Vermont

Granville residents in grades PK-K and 5-6 attend Granville/Hancock Village School in Granville, grades 1-4 attend Granville/Hancock Village School in Hancock and grades 7-12 attend Harwood Union High School in South Duxbury, Whitcomb Junior/Senior High School in Bethel or Rochester High School in Rochester.

Granville, Wisconsin

The remainder was consolidated with the City of Milwaukee after referenda held in both jurisdictions on April 3, 1956 approved the move; but on July 12, 1956, the Town Board of Granville passed a motion to repeal the ordinance under which the April referendum had been held, and the matter ended up in the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which finally ruled that the consolidation had been lawfully approved; and the Town of Granville had ceased to exist.

Granville was settled in the late 1830s and 1840s by a group of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) immigrants who had formerly lived in Telford, Pennsylvania, led by Samuel Wambold.

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft.

John Deighton

This bar was demolished when the townsite of Granville was established and was afterwards rebuilt as Deighton House.

New South Wales 85 class locomotive

The New South Wales 85 class were a class of 10 electric locomotives built by Comeng, Granville between May 1979 and July 1980 for the State Rail Authority.

Pièces pittoresques

In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair (near Granville), Chabrier composed what were to be called Pièces pittoresques.

Sabrina Tavernise

Raised in Granville, Massachusetts, Tavernise graduated in 1993 with a B.A. in Russian Studies from Barnard College.

Santiago Posteguillo

He went on to study creative literature in the United States at Denison University, in Granville, and linguistics and translation at several universities in Great Britain.

Tuart Hill, Western Australia

In 1914 the suburb name of Grenville was proposed as a name for the suburb by the Grenville Progress Association, but not accepted due to its likeness to Granville in New South Wales.

William Valentine

Mrs. Valentine returned to America, and bought a home offered by the Baptist Mission Society in Granville, Ohio, across the street from Denison University where all three Valentine children studied.


A Man to Remember

The lawyer opens Abbott's strongbox for the deceased man's impatient creditors, local banker George Sykes (Granville Bates), newspaper editor Jode Harkness (Frank M. Thomas) and store owner Homer Ramsey (Harlan Briggs).

Andrew Ziolkowski

After finishing school he worked as a Process Worker for Alcan in Granville and as a Steelworks Tradesman's Assistant for BHP in Wollongong.

Blaze of Silver

Blaze of Silver is a 2007 children's novel by K M Grant and the final book in the de Granville Trilogy.

Catherine Killigrew

Her great-grandson, Granville Elliott, spent much time and trouble trying to prove that Catherine had legally married Richard Eliot, the wayward son of Sir John Eliot, and had a son and legal heir George Elliott (Granville's grandfather) by him around 1636.

Charles Granville

Arthur Ransome had left his previous publisher Martin Secker for Granville, who promised him better returns and a guaranteed and steady income.

Daredevils of the Red Circle

An escaped criminal, known as Harry Crowl, but preferring to be called by his prison number 39013 (pronounced Thirty Nine - Oh - Thirteen), seeks revenge on the man who sent him to prison, millionaire philanthropist Horace Granville.

Earl of Bath

Granville was the only son of Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, by his second wife Isabella, sister of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham.

G. K.'s Weekly

That paper had been founded (as Eye-Witness) by Hilaire Belloc, and published by Charles Granville's Stephen Swift Ltd intil 1912 when Granville was made bankrupt.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Granville also followed Dryden in adapting Shakespeare; The Jew of Venice (1701) was a successful updating of The Merchant of Venice.

Granville Van Dusen

Granville Van Dusen (born March 16, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota) is an American stage, screen, and voice actor who portrayed Race Bannon in the 1986 television series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, Jonny's Golden Quest, Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects, and eight episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

Haldane Stewart

He scored 142 at Lord's against the M.C.C. in 1897 and scored 203 not out for Blackheath against Granville, Lee.

Henri de la Rochejaquelein

He marched onto Granville, took Avranches on November 12, but failed to seize Granville and retreated to Angers in order to cross the Loire.

Henry John Cambie

I had to lay the first sidewalk on Georgia at my own expense, as the city would not do it, and when I got the telephone the company dunned me for more than a year to pay for the poles from Granville Street down to my place, as they told me that no one else in that generation would ever go to live west of Granville Street.

I Love You Truly

The song was also sung by Bert (Ward Bond) and Ernie (Frank Faylen) as they serenaded George (James Stewart) and Mary Bailey (Donna Reed) on their wedding night in the leaky "old Granville place" (house) in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.

Israel Barlow

Israel Barlow (September 13, 1806 – November 1, 1883) was born in Granville, Massachusetts and died in Bountiful, Utah Territory.

John Granville

"He told his mom several times ... that it's dangerous, what he's doing, but he wouldn't want to be doing anything else," said U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, who spoke with Granville's mother, Jane Granville, after her son's death.

John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge

Colonel John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge PC (12 April 1665 – 3 December 1707), styled The Honourable John Granville until 1703, was an English soldier, landowner and politician.

Lemuel Haynes

Lemuel Haynes House, his home for the last 11 years of his life in South Granville, New York, when he was pastor of South Granville Congregational Church was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

Linda Sole

Sole sold her first novel in 1979 at Robert Hale, she published four novels under the pseudonym of Lynn Granville .

Marine biology dredge

The first marine biology dredge was designed by Otto Friedrich Müller and in 1830 the results of two dredging expeditions undertaken by Henri Milne-Edwards and his friend Jean Victoire Audouin during 1826 and 1828 in the neighbourhood of Granville were published.

Nalin Seneviratne

General Ganegoda Appuhamelage Don Granville Nalin Seneviratne, VSV, ndc, SLE (August 25, 1931 - August 12, 2009) was a Sri Lankan Army officer.

Neath Abbey

Neath Abbey was established in 1129 AD when Sir Richard de Granville, one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, gave 8,000 acres (32 km²) of his estate in Glamorgan, Wales to Savigniac monks from western Normandy.

North Carolina Highway 308

Established in 1933 as a new primary routing, it went from US 258/NC 12, near Rich Square, to NC 30 (today's US 13 Business), at Granville Street in Windsor.

Northern Plains Railroad

The Mohall Central Railroad agreed to purchase and then let the Northern Plains Railroad operate over both a 20 mile (32 kilometer) portion of the Drayton Subdivision between Honeyford, North Dakota, and Voss, North Dakota, and a 43 mile (66 kilometer) portion of the Granville Subdivision between milepost 5.25 (north of Granville, North Dakota) and Mohall, North Dakota.

Queensland Railways 1900 class rail motor

In 1956 two 1900 class railmotor prototypes were constructed by Commonwealth Engineering, Granville using Budd construction techniques.

Richard Sammons

Sammons was born in Columbus, Ohio and received his bachelor’s degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1983.

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers' Advocate

The remaining owners of The Cumberland Argus purchased their rival publication The Cumberland Mercury, along with The River Times, a Ryde newspaper and The Weekly Advance, from Granville, in April 1895 and incorporated all three papers into The Cumberland Argus with issue Vol.

The Granville Hotel, Ramsgate

In the following years the hotel was owned by the bankers Coutts, an additional hall (new Granville Hall) was designed and completed in July, 1874 by the architect J T Wimperis.

Thomas Higgons

1661, Bridget Leach, widow of Simon Leach of Cadleigh, Devon, and daughter of Sir Bevil Granville of Stow, Cornwall, and had three sons (George, Thomas and Bevil) and three daughters.

Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club

Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club is a tennis club located at Granville Park in the upmarket neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

William H. Hughes

William Henry Hughes (September 30, 1864 in Chapmanville, Venango County, Pennsylvania – November 11, 1903 in Granville, Washington County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Zebulon R. Shipherd

He resumed the practice of his profession in Granville and was a trustee of Middlebury College (in Middlebury, Vermont) from 1819 to 1841.