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4 unusual facts about Grenfell


Ben Gronow

In 1925 Gronow became the first British player to move down under when he went from Huddersfield to Grenfell, New South Wales as their coach but returned two years later.

Genieve Blackwell

After university, she studied at Moore Theological College from 1989 to 1992 and ministered in the parishes of Gulgong and Grenfell before moving to Yass in 2005.

Steve Forde

He bought his farm, near Grenfell, New South Wales and set about getting it cleaned up, stocked up and productive while still helping his father on his farm and finding time to getaway riding broncos.

The Henry Lawson Festival

The Henry Lawson Festival is an arts festival held annually on the June long weekend in Grenfell, New South Wales, a town in the central west New South Wales, Australia—the birthplace of Henry Lawson.


Braziers Park

In 1839, Frances Eliza (Fanny) Grenfell (1814–1891), later a biographer, was living at Braziers Park with her sisters, and was visited by novelist Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), then a Cambridge undergraduate.

Cecil Grenfell

Lieutenant Robert Septimus Grenfell died in a cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and his two youngest brothers (twins) were both killed in the First World War.

Engaged theory

A second lineage of engaged theory has been developed by researchers who began their association through the Global Cities Institute, scholars such as Manfred Steger, Paul James and Damian Grenfell, drawing upon a range of writers from Pierre Bourdieu to Benedict Anderson and Charles Taylor.

Eustace Grenfell

By January 1916, Grenfell had upgraded to a Morane "Bullet", as it was the weapon he wielded in a quadruple victory on the 17th.

Francis Grenfell

Francis Octavius Grenfell (1880–1915), British Army officer who won the Victoria Cross in the First World War, nephew of Baron Grenfell

Grenfell Street, Adelaide

Grenfell Street was named after Pascoe Grenfell, a British businessman and politician, who had donated some land on North Terrace for the construction of the Holy Trinity Church.

Hindmarsh Square

It is located in the centre of the north-eastern quarter of the city, and surrounds the intersection of Grenfell and Pulteney Streets, near the eastern end of the Rundle Mall.

Joyce Grenfell

Much of the music for Grenfell's revues and shows was the result of a collaboration with the composers and pianists Richard Addinsell and William Blezard.

In 1998, the Royal Mail memorialised Grenfell with her image on a postage stamp as part of a series of stamps celebrating Heroes of Comedy.

Knoxdale-Merivale Ward

It includes the communities of portions or all of Arlington Woods, Craig Henry, Tanglewood, Manordale, Crestview, Skyview, Parkwood Hills, Merivale Gardens, Grenfell Glen, Pineglen and Country Place.

Logia

The name "Sayings of Jesus" (logia of Jesus) was given by Grenfell and Hunt to a leaf of a papyrus codex that was among their first season's finds at Oxyrhynchus in 1897.

Roger Toulson, Lord Toulson

Roger Grenfell Toulson, Lord Toulson Kt (born 23 September 1946) is a British judge and member of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Theresa Poh Lin Chan

She is the subject of a 1964 BBC radio documentary, "Child of the Silent Night: The story of Chan Poh Lin" by Stephen Grenfell.


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