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29 unusual facts about Hampstead


Affordable Art Fair

First launched in Battersea Park, London, England, in 1999, Affordable Art Fairs now take place in Hampstead (London), Bristol, New York, Seattle, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome, Milan, Hamburg, Stockholm, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Ahsan-ul-Haq

Ahsan-ul-Haq went to England to study law where he played for Hampstead in club cricket and three first class matches for Middlesex in 1902.

Alfred Butler

Alfred Butler was born in 1880 as the second son of Robert Frederick Butler of Lynford Gardens, Hampstead.

Anna Mahler

April 1939 found her living in Hampstead in London and advertising in the newspaper for pupils, having fled Nazi Austria.

Bishop of Willesden

The new bishop was given oversight of four rural deaneries: Hampstead, Hornsey, St Pancras and Willesden, previously the responsibility of the Bishop of Islington.

Christopher Trevor-Roberts

Though he initially trained as an opera singer "TR", as he was known, set up his first school in the early 1960s in his house in the Vale of Health in Hampstead.

Death of Sharon Lopatka

Sharon Rina Lopatka (September 20, 1961 – October 16, 1996) was an Internet entrepreneur in Hampstead, Maryland, United States, who was killed in a case of apparent consensual homicide.

Dinah Craik

Thoroughly established in public favour as a successful author, Miss Mulock took a cottage at Wildwood, North End, Hampstead, and became the ornament of a very extensive social circle.

Edgar Jepson

Edgar Jepson died on 11 April 1938 at his home in Hampstead, a neighborhood near central London.

Embassy of the People's Republic of China, London

China also maintains several other buildings in London: a Defence Section at 25 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, a Commercial Section at 16 Lancaster Gate, Paddington, a Cultural Section at 11 West Heath Road, Hampstead and a Science & Technology Section at 10 Greville Place, Maida Vale.

Frances Crewe, Lady Crewe

She was accustomed to entertain, at Crewe Hall, her husband's seat in Cheshire, and at her villa at Hampstead, some of the most distinguished of her contemporaries.

Gerti Deutsch

Or, again, featuring children such as those who gathered at the Hampstead home of the architect Otto Goldfinger to create pictures of the War, for an exhibition of children’s drawings of the War PP 5/1940.

Gymslip

The introduction of the gymslip as female athletic wear is credited to Martina Bergman-Österberg, the founder of a college for training female physical education teachers in Hampstead.

Hampstead, North Carolina

Hampstead also has the Topsail Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol.

Hampstead, Quebec

In terms of mother tongue, the 2006 census found that, including multiple responses, almost 63% of residents spoke English, and about 16% of residents spoke French.

The next most commonly reported first languages learned were Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish and Romanian.

José Maria O'Neill

Maria da Glória O'Neill (Lisbon, Mercês, 1 September 1828 - 21 June 1884), married Lisbon, Encarnação, 9 September 1848 her first cousin João de Sampaio de Roure (Hampstead, London, 16 January 1822 - 12 October 1880), son of João Pedro de Roure and wife Maria João O'Neill, and had issue

Kenneth W. Stein

Kenneth W. Stein (born in 1946 Hampstead,New York) is an American historian and politologist.

Leverburgh

After his death in Hampstead on 7 May 1925, his executors and the board of Lever Brothers had no interest in the Leverburgh project, and so ended all work.

Philly Joe Jones

For two years (1967–69) Jones taught at a specially organized school in Hampstead, London, but was prevented from otherwise working in the UK by the Musicians' Union.

Rules of netball

--This section was copy and pasted piece meal from the history of netball section. !-->In 1893, Martina Bergman-Österberg informally introduced one version of basketball to her female physical training students at the Hampstead Physical Training College in London, after having seen the game being played in the United States.

Ruth Tringham

After winning a scholarship to an all-girls high school, part of the Girls Public Day School Trust in north London, her family moved to Hampstead.

Spot croaker

The community of Hampstead, North Carolina hosts the North Carolina Spot Festival the last weekend of September to honor the fish.

St John-at-Hampstead

These plans originally involved the demolition of the tower, but this was shelved on protests from William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown, Anthony Trollope, George du Maurier, Coventry Patmore, F. T. Palgrave and others, in favour of simple extensions westwards in 1877–78 designed by F.P. Cockerell (though these extensions moved the church's high altar to the geographical west end, rather than the more usual east end).

George du Maurier, author and cartoonist, father of Gerald du Maurier and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

Jack and Peter Llewelyn Davies (children of the above) in the same grave as their parents and their brother Michael, in a separate grave

Steele baronets

The Steele, later Steele-Graves, later Steele Baronetcy, of Hampstead in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland.

The Green Child

Primarily a literary critic, poet, and an advocate for modern art, Read wrote his only novel, The Green Child, in about eight weeks during 1934, most of it in the summer house behind his home in Hampstead, London.

The Island of Ham

The island in the novel, is inspired by the hilltop town of Hampstead in London and its famous parkland Hampstead Heath.


Ajahn Sucitto

He moved to Britain in 1978 and took up training under Ajahn Sumedho at the Hampstead Buddhist Vihara.

Archdeacon of Hampstead

The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London.

Charles Wentworth Dilke

Around October 1816, Charles Wentworth Dilke and his friend Charles Armitage Brown moved into a pair of semi-detached houses later called Wentworth Place in Hampstead, London.

David Paul West

Other stage work includes Axel in Woody Allen's play Don’t Drink The Water, David in Matt Ian Kelly's However Do You Want Me at the Hen and Chickens (City Lights Theatre Company, 2004), and Kevin in You Couldn't Make It Up at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh and the New End Theatre, Hampstead.

Edwin Dunkin

He and his younger brother, Richard (1823 – 1895) were educated at Wellington House Academy, Hampstead, and at M. Liborel's school in Guînes in the Pas de Calais.

Etcetera Theatre

The stage version of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Everything is Illuminated, adapted by Simon Block, which transferred to Hampstead Theatre

Free Villages

Henry Lunan, formerly an enslaved headman at Hampstead Estate, purchased the first plot in the very first Free Village or Baptist Free Village scheme to come to fruition at Sligoville (in Saint Catherine parish and named after the Marquess of Sligo, the Jamaican Governor at the time of abolition), ten miles north of Spanish Town.

Hampstead Norreys

Hampstead Norris railway station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway served Hampstead Norreys until it closed in 1962.

Hampstead School

The main building on Westbere Road was originally the site of Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hampstead School having relocated from its Hoxton premises in January 1903 and before moving again to its current location in Elstree to become Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School.

Hannah Margaret Mary Closs

Hannah Margaret Mary Closs (née Priebsch) was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of German scholar Robert Priebsch (1866–1935).

Marcus Evelyn Collins

Marcus Collins followed his father into architectural practice, later working on a number of noted London buildings including "London's Wonder Works", the Arcadia Cigarette Factory in Hampstead where, from the late 1920s to the late 1950s, Black Cat and Craven "A" cigarettes were made.

Marion Bailey

Bailey has worked extensively in British theatre, including Chichester, Bristol Old Vic, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, London's West End, the Royal Court, the National Theatre, the Old Vic, the Arts Theatre, Hampstead, the Tricycle Theatre and the company Shared Experience with whom she received a TMA nomination as Best Supporting Performance for her role in Kindertransport (2007).

North End tube station

The station was to have been built at North End on the boundaries of Hampstead Heath and Golders Hill Park and is located between Hampstead and Golders Green.

Oliver Letwin

He stood at the 1987 election for Hackney North, and again unsuccessfully stood against Glenda Jackson for the Hampstead and Highgate seat in the 1992 election, before winning the West Dorset seat in 1997, by the narrow margin of 1,840 votes.

Patrick Wymark

The couple lived in Parliament Hill, Hampstead, and had four children, including the future actress Jane Wymark.

Patterson Park

The high ground at the northwest corner of Patterson Park, called Hampstead Hill, was the key defensive position for U.S. forces against British ground forces in the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812.

Peter Kuenstler

Peter Kuenstler (born in Hampstead in London in December 1919) was a British civil servant and consultant in international social affairs and development.

Richard Dempsey

Returning to Propeller he played Hermoine in The Winters Tale alongside Henry V at Hampstead Theatre in London and toured the productions to Australia, New Zealand and China.

Rosa Hope

At this time she was living at 40 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, N.W, the same house where Mark Rutherford, the novelist, lived in 1852.

Southbank International School

Southbank Hampstead and Southbank Kensington are both International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (“IB PYP”, from Early Childhood to grade 5) schools.

Trimphone

The first example of the Trimphone was presented in May 1965 by the Postmaster General, Tony Benn, to a newly wed couple in Hampstead in a ceremony marking the ten millionth telephone to be installed in Britain.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

At the suggestion of the College's Principal Hubert Wellington, she moved to St Ives, Cornwall, in 1940, near to where a group of Hampstead-based modernists had settled, at Carbis Bay, to escape the war.This was a pivotal moment in her life.