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14 unusual facts about Huntingdon


423d Air Base Group

The 423d Air Base Group (423 ABG) is a United States Air Force unit located at RAF Alconbury near the town of Huntingdon in the United Kingdom.

Carl Mann

Carl Mann (born August 22, 1942, Huntingdon, Tennessee) is an American rockabilly singer and pianist.

Dublin, Ohio

Although its earliest settlements date back to 1802, the village that came to be known as Dublin didn't begin to take shape until the arrival of the Sells family of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

He later renamed the settlement in honor of Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, England.

Results were announced on The Early Show, April 15, 2009 with Budget Travel's editor in chief, Nina Willdorf with Harry Smith.

Huntingdon, Quebec

In Huntingdon, the business expanded to five interconnected operations around the town and the decades of the 1950s through to the early part of the 1970s saw the town prosper and the company acquire subsidiaries in Sherbrooke, Quebec and in Castlecomer, Kilkenny, Ireland.

James Thomas Brown

He was born in Huntingdon, Quebec, the son of Samuel Brown and Margaret White, and was educated there and at McGill University.

Mimeo, Inc

In Q4, 2011, CLE moved into a new facility in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England that serves as the headquarters for Mimeo Europe as well Mimeo's first production and distribution centre in Europe.

Rob Ash

After a four-year stint as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Ash was hired as head coach at Division III Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Robert Fitzooth

By then the association of Robin with the earldom of Huntingdon had become conventional, thanks to Anthony Munday's 1598 play The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon: it was also generally believed that he had flourished in the reign of Richard I of England.

In actual history, David of Scotland was Earl of Huntingdon throughout Richard's reign, succeeded by his son John.

Robert Fitzooth or Fitzooth, Earl of Huntingdon (alleged dates: 1160–1247), is a fictitious identity for Robin Hood.

Sebastian Currier

Sebastian Currier (born March 16, 1959, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras.

Tom Burnett

In 2008, the building in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire to which Thoratec Europe Limited (Thoratec Corporation's European distribution arm based in Great Britain), moved its headquarters was renamed Burnett House.


Advanced Business Solutions

The organisation operates from 10 UK locations in Cobham, Aberdeen, Aylesbury, Bridgwater, Gateshead, Harpenden, Huntingdon, Northampton, Manchester and also maintain offices in Boston, MA

Buses in Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes Citybus was purchased on 2 May 1997 by bus entrepreneur Julian Peddle, using a new Premier Buses Ltd company both to operate in Huntingdon and as a holding company with which to purchase Milton Keynes Citybus.

Carroll County, Tennessee

The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Church of St Michael the Greater, Stamford

The conversion, by Arthur Mull Associates of Huntingdon was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as “an unsympathetic use and an appalling conversion”.

Cotton baronets

The Cotton Baronetcy, of Conington in the County of Huntingdon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for the antiquary Robert Cotton, who also represented five constituencies in the House of Commons.

Duke of Manchester

He represented Huntingdon in the House of Commons as a Tory.

Elizabeth Hastings

Lady Elizabeth Hastings (1682–1739), known as Lady Betty, daughter of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon

Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon

Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon (18 January 1609 – 13 February 1656), was the son of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, and Alice Spencer.

Five Boroughs of the Danelaw

The Danes of Huntingdon were allies with the East Anglian Danes when they advanced to Tempsford and built a new fortress in July 917.

Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon

In August 1752 Huntingdon left Paris for Spain, where his self-importance irritated the British minister, Sir Benjamin Keene.

Francis Huntingdon

Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon (1729–1789), British peer; son of the 9th Earl of Huntingdon and his wife, Selina

Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon (1514–1561), eldest son of the 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Anne Stafford, mistress of Henry VIII

George Huntingdon

George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, (died 1705), English nobleman, son of the 7th Earl of Huntingdon

Gilbert Whitehand

In the 1840 story by Pierce Egan the Younger (translated into French, divided into two parts and resumed by Alexandre Dumas, published posthumously in 1872) Gilbert and his wife Margaret are Robin's foster parents (his real father according to the Egan/Dumas storyline was the Earl of Huntingdon), and Gilbert taught Robin how to use the bow and arrow.

Henry Peckwell

Through the influence of Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira, Lady Huntingdon's eldest daughter, he was permitted to preach in the chapel of the Magdalen Institution, founded by Lady Arabella Denny, a fashionable congregation.

By her he had a son, Robert Henry, and a daughter, Selina Mary (named after her godmother, the Countess of Huntingdon), who, in 1793, married George Grote, the banker, and became the mother of George Grote and Arthur Grote.

Horace Abbott

He lived at his country estate "Abbotston" in northeast Baltimore near the present location of 33rd Street and The Alameda on one of the highest hills in the city near the village of Huntingdon (now Waverly) to the west and the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello community off Harford Road to the east.

Huntingdon Racecourse

Part of The Jockey Club, Huntingdon Racecourse is an intimate National Hunt racing venue with an atmosphere all of its own, it was voted Best Small Racecourse in the South Midlands and East Anglia by the Racegoers Club.

Isham G. Harris

The Huntingdon Carroll Patriot wrote that Harris was more deserving of the gallows than Benedict Arnold.

Margaret of Huntingdon

Margaret of Huntingdon, Lady of Galloway (1194-aft.1233) daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon and Maud of Chester; wife of Alan, Lord of Galloway

Maud, Countess of Huntingdon

Maud of Huntingdon appears as a character in Elizabeth Chadwick's novel The Winter Mantle (2003), as well as Alan Moore's novel Voice of the Fire (1995) and Nigel Tranter's novel David the Prince (1980).

MK Metro

MK Metro Ltd was purchased on 2 May 1997 by bus entrepreneur Julian Peddle (formerly managing director of Stevensons of Uttoxeter), using a new company Premier Buses Ltd both to operate in Huntingdon (using the "Premier Buses" brand name) and also as a holding company with which to purchase MK Metro Ltd.

North Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

After Viele, James Letort, Andrew Montour, Conrad Weiser and George Croghan were some of the other settlers to move to North Huntingdon.

Named after England’s Earl of Huntingdon, Huntingdon Township was founded on April 6, 1772 in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Route 232

South of Penns Park, the road was originally known as the Fox Chase and Huntingdon Valley Turnpike or the Second Street Turnpike, a turnpike that connected farms in Bucks County to Philadelphia.

Piels Beer

It is also popular in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, lower Delaware (the coastal strip from Lewes down to Fenwick Island), and nearby Ocean City, Maryland.

Rob Spendlove

He has appeared in many television soaps and dramas including; Brookside as Roger Huntington (the husband of Heather Huntingdon played by Amanda Burton), A Touch of Frost, Soldier Soldier (on which he had a major role as Company Sergeant Major Michael Stubbs) and most recently in all 17 episodes of The Last Detective as Detective Inspector Aspinall.

Robert Walsh

Robert Nelson Walsh (1864–1938), Canadian politician, member for Huntingdon

Samuel Howard Whitbread

He was Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (until 1936) and represented the constituencies of Huntingdon and Luton (until 1895).

Samuel Whitbread

Samuel Howard Whitbread, his son, British Member of Parliament for Luton, 1892–1895, and Huntingdon, 1906–1910

Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet

Peter's eldest son William Edward Robin Hood Hastings-Bass (b. 1948) is the present and 17th Earl of Huntingdon.

Terry Huntingdon

Terry Lynn Huntingdon (born on May 8, 1940) is Miss USA 1959.

Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon

Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (12 November 1696 – 13 October 1746) was the son of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Frances Fowler.

Transdev Blazefield

In 1998 Huntingdon & District was created with the operations of Premier Buses, owned by Julian Peddle, but was sold to Cavalier of Sutton Bridge in 2004.

William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon

William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon (1304–1354) and Lord High Admiral, was the younger son of John de Clinton, 1st Baron Clinton (d.1312/13) of Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire, and Ida De Odingsells who was the granddaughter of Ida II Longespee.