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6 unusual facts about Heathcote


Gresley Priory

In 1363, Sir John de Gresley, gave the priory properties and land at Heathcote, Church Gresley, Castle Gresley, and Lullington, which were valued at £10 per annum; these properties and land would then pass to the priory fully on the death of their tenants.

Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby

Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby PC (born 1934), the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ancaster

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster PC (1830–1910), British Liberal politician and court official

Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1872–1950), British Conservative Party politician

Leonard French

French currently resides and continues to paint in his studio in Heathcote, Victoria.

Stinson Model A

On the morning of 31 January 1945 Tokana was on the Essendon to Kerang leg of its regular service when the port wing separated in flight between Redesdale and Heathcote, fifty miles north of Melbourne.


Annals of Science

He had published a biographical article on Georg Cantor in the journal in 1971 and met the-then editor, Heathcote, during the process of publication.

Apedale Hall

Apedale Hall is a manor house near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, it was rebuilt in 1826 by the Heathcote family in the Elizabethan style by British Industrialist Richard Edensor Heathcote, (1780 - Genoa, Italy, 1850), but was demolished in 1934, due to subsidence from the coal mines underneath.

Charles Gilbert Heathcote

From 1884 to 1902, Heathcote was a Stipendiary Magistrate for Brighton.

Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby

Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby was the second son of Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster, and his wife Lady Evelyn Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly.

Daungwurrung language

Daungwurrung was spoken north of the Great Dividing Range in the Goulburn River Valley around Mansfield, Benalla and Heathcote.

Dorothy Heathcote

Heathcote worked there for five years and expected to stay there for the rest of her working life, but at the behest of her fellow workers, the mill boss, Charlie Fletcher, sponsored her to go and study drama at the Northern Theatre School in Bradford under the guidance of Esme Church.

Electoral district of Sutherland

The seat was abolished for the 1999 state election, and Lorna Stone, the sitting member contested the new seat of Heathcote.

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster

Peter Robert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, RN (1885–1914), naval officer killed in the sinking of HMS Monmouth at the Battle of Coronel.

Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel

The Gilbert Heathcote for whom it is named appears to be the father of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, and an ancestor of the first Baron Aveland.

Heathcote Road, Sydney

Heathcote Road plays a major role in the servicing of traffic travelling between the Illawarra and Western Sydney and also provides access to the Holsworthy Barracks.

Henry Wigram

Together with his brother, William Arthur Wigram, Henry bought a malthouse and brickworks business in the Heathcote Valley between Christchurch and Lyttelton.

Jenny Heathcote

Elizabeth Jane "Jenny" Heathcote is a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and a gastroenterologist and scientist at University Health Network in Toronto specializing in liver disease.

Josiah Parkes

For Mr. Heathcote of Tiverton, Parkes carried out a plan for draining a part of Chat Moss, Lancashire, which he tried to cultivate by using steam power.

Leo McLeay

His son is Paul McLeay who was the Member for Heathcote in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2003 until his defeat at the 2011 state election.

MacIvor

McIvor Highway, an Australian highway, linking Bendigo and Heathcote.

Michigan State Spartans men's basketball

Heathcote succeeded Gus Ganakas, who is currently an MSU basketball radio announcer, as coach in 1976.

Paul Heathcote

Paul Heathcote MBE is a chef, restaurateur and food consultant who spent twelve years under the guidance of Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons.

Point Heathcote

The late Hollywood Actor, Heath Andrew Ledger, grew up in this neighbourhood, and there is currently a plaque and memorial in his memory on Point Heathcote, placed by his family.

Ralph Heathcote

In the late 1760s Heathcote moved back to the midlands, as a prebendary of Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire.

Samuel Rosbotham

Born to Samuel and Mary (née Heathcote) in 1864, he carried on his fathers occupation as a farmer at Holly and Stanley farms in Bickerstaffe, before marrying Jane Heyes in 1887, producing seven children.

Sir John Aird, 4th Baronet

He is the son of Sir John Renton Aird, 3rd Baronet and Lady Priscilla Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby.

Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet

Heathcote was a successful merchant who purchased the Hursley estate in 1718.

The Guilty Office

Recording of The Guilty Office began on 25–26 August 2007 in the newly built National Grid Studio in Heathcote Valley, Christchurch.

Untitled Marc Lawrence film

Variety reported, "This film would give Heathcote some lighter material after breaking out in serious projects," referring to In Time and Not Fade Away.


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