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10 unusual facts about Henley


Beatrice Lillie

Beatrice Lillie died on January 20, 1989, which was also the date of her wedding anniversary, at Henley-on-Thames.

China Crisis

China Crisis played at Fort Perch Rock on the Wirral on 8 August 2009, and at the Rewind Festival in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on 22 August 2009.

Henley-on-Todd Regatta

The Henley-on-Todd Regatta (also called the Todd River Race) is a "boat" race held annually in the typically dry sandy bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs, Australia.

Henley, New South Wales

Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Greenwich, Woolwich and Putney.

Henley, Suffolk

To the west of the village is a hill that extends down to the villages of Claydon and Barham situated in the Gipping Valley.

Just outside the village is Rede Lane which runs down the hill to Claydon and provides access to the A14.

John Southerden Burn

In 1854 a new partner, Charles Tayler Ware, joined the firm; in the following year, after Stables's death, Burn retired from practice, and lived at The Grove in Henley-on-Thames.

Olivia Harrison

Olivia and George married in a private ceremony in September 1978 at the Henley-on-Thames Register Office in England.

River House School

It is located in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, taking pupils from within Warwickshire along with a small number of boys from neighbouring authorities.

Slipper launch

In the 1960s & 1970s launches were also built by Alf Parrott at Henley-on-Thames .


Adam Henley

Henley qualifies for Wales (as his mother is Welsh), England (under residency rules) and the United States, as he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Althea Henley

Born in Egypt, Pennsylvania, in 1911, Henley was the second of four children.

Baron Ongley

Born Robert Henley, he assumed the additional surname of Ongley as heir of his great-uncle Sir Samuel Ongley, of Old Warden, Bedfordshire.

Beth Henley

Henley adapted her 1984 play, The Miss Firecracker Contest, into a 1989 film starring Holly Hunter entitled Miss Firecracker.

For many years Henley dated actor, writer and director Stephen Tobolowsky, whom she met while they were students at Southern Methodist University.

Brendan Flynn

In 1987, he moved to Adelaide to manage the establishment of the Australian Institute of Sport Cricket Academy, which had its headquarters at the Del Monte Hotel, Henley Beach in Adelaide.

Chiswick, New South Wales

Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Greenwich, Woolwich, Henley and Putney.

Congregation of Marian Fathers

Between 1953 and 1986 the Marian Fathers operated a boarding school, Divine Mercy College, at Fawley Court near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.

Drewe Henley

The performance was Henley's final one on film, as he was diagnosed with manic depression shortly after completing his part and he retired from acting.

Ella's Kitchen

The Henley based Ella’s Kitchen was founded in 2006 by Paul Lindley.

Francis Elliot

He also rowed in an Oxford-Etonian eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1871.

Gabrielle Bellocq

She has exhibited profusely around the world, including in Paris, Windsor, Henley-on-Thames and Salisbury, Osaka (Japan), Chicago (Illinois), Sedona (Arizona) and Ede (Netherlands).

Garney Henley

Henley was drafted in 1960 by the NFL's Green Bay Packers in the 15th round (173rd overall), but chose to head to Canada, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Glasgow East by-election, 2008

The by-election followed a run of poor results since May, in the Crewe and Nantwich and Henley by-elections in England, English and Welsh local elections and losing the London mayoralty.

Hamnet Shakespeare

Germaine Greer, however, thinks it unlikely that the Shakespeare children were raised principally at Henley Street, proposing instead the possibility that the newly-wed Shakespeares set up house in a small cottage, or even took up residence at New Place as tenants early in their marriage, before purchasing it later on.

Henley Hawks

Henley's fortunes stood still until Clive Woodward, England's future World Cup winning manager, became the 1st XV coach in 1990.

Humphrey Gainsborough

Gainsborough designed Conway's Bridge, built in 1763 at Park Place close to Henley, an interesting rustic arched stone structure that still carries traffic on the road between Wargrave and Henley today.

John Henley

Henley was the subject of contemporary caricatures, among them works by George Bickham the Younger and William Hogarth.

Larry Henley

The song earned Henley and Silbar the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for 1989, and Bette Midler the Record of the Year award.

Maren Jensen

She is credited for "Harmony Vocals" on the song "Johnny Can't Read," and is credited in the liner notes for having composed the piano intro and interlude on the song "A Month of Sundays" on Henley's 1984 album Building the Perfect Beast.

Miller's Department Store

The Henley Street building is currently used by the University of Tennessee for a conference center.

New Kid in Town

On Henley's first solo album, I Can't Stand Still, he references the song by singing the line, "there's a new kid in town" over the rideout of "Johnny Can't Read".

Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association

Competing in their distinctive lime green strip, crews from the 2000m rowing course at Holme Pierrepont enjoyed wins at Henley Royal Regatta and many other elite regattas.

On the Road to Freedom

It was recorded at Alvin Lee's Space Studio in August 1973, apart from the song "So Sad", sessions for which took place at Harrison's Friar Park studio in nearby Henley-on-Thames.

Post Impact

NUNS President Miranda Harrison recruits Parker to lead an expedition—including ex-SAS Sarah Henley and Anna Starndorf, Gregor Starndorf's daughter, to find out who controls the satellite and destroy it.

Princess Grace Challenge Cup

Her father John Kelly, Sr. was an Olympic rowing gold medal winner, and her brother John Kelly, Jr. won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1947 and 1949.

Putney, New South Wales

Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Greenwich, Woolwich and Henley.

Robert Henley-Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley

Born Robert Henley, he assumed the additional surname of Ongley as heir of his great-uncle, Sir Samuel Ongley, of Old Warden, Bedfordshire.

Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington

The delay in raising him to the peerage was due to the hostility of George II, who resented Henley's former support of the Prince of Wales's faction, known as the Leicester House party; and it was in order that he might preside as Lord High Steward at the trial of the Earl Ferrers for murder in 1760 that he then received his patent.

Robert S. Silberman

From 1985 to 1986, Silberman worked as a research and marketing specialist and project manager with the Henley Group-Signal Environmental Systems, Inc., in Hampton, New Hampshire.

Rowland George

Sylvia Beatrice Norton, daughter of Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan and Marguerite Cecil Huntington, at St Mary's Henley on 22 April 1933 and had three sons and a daughter.

Royal Club Nautique de Gand

In the early 1990s, Club de Gand won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley with the former lightweight world champion Wim van Belleghem.

Sambrook

Sambrooke Freeman (c.1721–1782), member of the Freeman family of Fawley Court near Henley-on-Thames, England

Samuel Henley

Henley maintained an extensive correspondence on antiquarian and classical subjects with Michael Tyson, Richard Gough, Dawson Turner, Thomas Percy, and other scholars of the time.

Thomas Bumpsted

In 1844, rowing for Scullers Club, he won the first Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley, beating H Morgan of Christ Church College, Oxford and J W Conant of St John's College, Oxford.

Thomas Henley

Henley was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1904 representing Burwood as a member of the Liberal Reform Party, Liberal Party, Nationalist Party and United Australia Party until 1935, except for the period of proportional representation (1920–1927), when he was a member for Ryde.

Thomas Patrick Hughes

Thomas Patrick Hughes, born 26 March 1838 in Henley Shrophsire, England, was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Peshawar in British India (now Pakistan) for 20 years.

Weston Woods Studios

Starting in 1968, Weston Woods began a long collaboration with animator Gene Deitch and opened international offices in Henley-on-Thames, England, UK, in 1972; Canada in 1975; and Australia in 1977.

William Thomas Henley

Dictionary of National Biography, Henley, William Thomas (1813?–1882), telegraphic engineer, by Gordon Goodwin.