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53 unusual facts about Kensington


46 South African Brigade

46 SA Brigade is a composite brigade consisting of a headquarters in Kensington, Johannesburg and a Brigade Administrative Area at Wallmansthal.

Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird

Although he was born in Kensington, London, as son of an old Perthshire family Kinnaird also played for Scotland, winning his solitary cap against England in the second ever international, played in 1873 at The Oval.

Austin Stowell

Austin Stowell was born and raised in Kensington, Connecticut, by his father, Robert, a retired steelworker, and his mother, Elizabeth, a schoolteacher.

Beechholme

It was founded in 1879 as a Residential School for poor children from the slums of Kensington and Chelsea and run under a Village system.

Brenda Jackson

Throughout her writing career, Jackson has written for several publishers, including St.Martins Press, BET, Kensington, NAL, Harlequin/Silhouette and Harlequin Kimani Romance.

Colne Priory

On his deathbed, Geoffrey had bequeathed to Abingdon the church and lands at Kensington, Middlesex, and his parents and brothers had confirmed that grant, as had King Henry I.

Daisy Wood

They moved to Kensington, but Donald fell ill the following year, and their fortunes were under pressure.

David S. King

King was a resident of Kensington, Maryland where he lived with his wife of 61 years, Rosalie King.

Déléage, Quebec

In 1871, the Kensington Township was proclaimed, named after a district of West London, England.

Edward R. Burke

He was a Washington representative and general counsel for Hawaiian Statehood Commission until 1950, when he retired to Kensington, Maryland.

Exeter incident

The Exeter incident was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965 approximately 5 miles from Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring community of Kensington.

Gene D. Cohen

Cohen died at 65 of prostate cancer on November 7, 2009, in Kensington, Maryland.

Harding Nana

Nana signed with Virginia Tech out of Notre Dame Prep in Kensington, Maryland.

Harrie Wood

Wood was born at Kensington in London to public servant William Alexander Wood and Margaret Eleanor Hall.

Hideaki Miyamura

Hideaki Miyamura (1955 - ) is a Japanese-born American potter working in Kensington, New Hampshire.

Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C.

IFFP meets most Sundays during the school year at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, Maryland, providing dual-faith religious education for over 150 children through a Sunday School for pre-school through eighth grade, a "Coming of Age" program for 7th and 8th graders, and a teen group.

James Henry Aldridge

J. H. Aldridge, as he was generally known, or "Jim" to his friends, was born at Kensington, South Australia, the son of George Aldridge (ca.1817 – 12 December 1879), who emigrated to South Australia in 1847.

Kensington

Aubrey de Vere I had his tenure converted to a tenancy in-chief, holding Kensington after 1095 directly of the crown.

Sonangol Limited, a subsidiary of the Sonangol Group, has its head office in the Merevale House in Kensington.

He in turn granted the tenancy of Kensington to his vassal Aubrey de Vere I, who was holding the manor in 1086, according to Domesday Book.

Notable attractions and institutions in Kensington (or South Kensington) include: Kensington Palace in Kensington Gardens, the Royal Albert Hall opposite the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, the Royal College of Music, the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Heythrop College, Imperial College, London, the Royal College of Art and Kensington and Chelsea College.

The manor of Kensington, Middlesex, was granted by William I of England to Geoffrey de Montbray or Mowbray, bishop of Coutances, one of his inner circle of advisors and one of the wealthiest men in post-Conquest England.

Kensington Vipers

The Kensington Vipers are a Canadian Junior ice hockey club from Kensington, Prince Edward Island.

Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington is a very diverse neighborhood, containing Ukrainian, South Asian (Bangladeshi and Pakistani), Chinese, Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic, Irish, Polish, Italian, Albanian, Russian, Latino, Mexican, Australian and Caribbean communities.

Kensington, California

During World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer lived at 10 Kenilworth Court where he held top level meetings of the American Communist Party, while simultaneously working on top secret atomic bomb work, and denying any involvement with such political groups.

The area was named "Kensington" that year by Robert Brousefield, a surveyor who had lived in the London borough of South Kensington at one time.

In 1901, George Shima bought ten acres north of Cerrito Creek and east of the present day Arlington Avenue, intending to build a home there.

Kensington, Michigan

With the building of the Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad in 1871 it suffered a significant loss of population that was further accelerated by the building of the Michigan Air Line Railroad in 1882 that went through New Hudson.

Kensington, New Zealand

The lower slopes of Montecillo Ridge were at one time the site of "Hillside", the home of Dunedin city's founding father Captain William Cargill.

Kevin Plank

His mother, Jayne (née Harper), is a former mayor of Kensington, Maryland who went on to direct the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of State under President Ronald Reagan.

Lafayette Federal Credit Union

Lafayette Federal Credit Union (Lafayette Federal), is a credit union headquartered in Kensington, Maryland, chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) of the U.S. Federal government.

Les Tomlinson

At the invitation of Archbishop James Knox, he became one of the initial class of St Paul's National Seminary, in Kensington, Sydney.

Lyon sisters

The two sisters were born to John and Mary Lyon in Kensington, Maryland.

Martin Eberhard

He grew up in Kensington, California, attending Kensington Hilltop Elementary School there.

Mount Pearl Jr. Blades

In 1986, the Blades would win their league, the Provincial Veitch Memorial Trophy, and go on to win the Don Johnson Cup as Maritime Junior B Champions in Kensington, Prince Edward Island.

Muslims Against Crusades

MAC is responsible for a number of incidents including protests outside the Royal Albert Hall and in Kensington on 11 November 2010, when two large plastic poppies were burned during the Remembrance Day silence.

N. R. Pillai

In his last years, Pillai resided at 26 Hans Place in Kensington, Knightsbridge.

Natasha Cooper

Natasha J. Cooper (born 1951 in Kensington, London) is an English crime fiction writer.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Sydney

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College is a Catholic secondary College for girls, founded in 1897 by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, members of a religious congregation founded by Father Jules Chevalier in France in 1874, and located in the Sydney suburb of Kensington.

Owen Sedanca

The car was unveiled at Kensington in September 1973 and was priced at £8,500 - more than twice the price of the car on which it was based.

Princess Fadia of Egypt

On 17 February 1965, she married Pierre Alexievitch Orloff (born 13 December 1938), a Swiss geologist and descendant of the Russian Royal Family, at the Kensington Registry Office, in London.

Ralph Ince

Ralph Ince died on April 10, 1937 when a car his wife was driving struck an iron standard near their residence in the Kensington district of London, England.

Robert E. Sackley

In 1983, Sackley and his wife became the directors of the visitor's center at the Washington, D.C. Temple in Kensington, Maryland.

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust runs the Royal Brompton Hospital in Kensington and Harefield Hospital in Hillingdon, London, England.

Samuel B. Booth

He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an American Red Cross evacuation hospital in France, and superintendent of missions, Bucks County, Pennsylvania before consecration as bishop coadjutor of Vermont on February 17, 1925.

Skipwith Cannell

Back in London, Pound took Cannell and Kitty to visit Yeats and found a room for the couple below his own in Church Walk, Kensington.

St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove

Some of the other churches in the British Isles (many of them British Orthodox) are in Kensington in Central London; Croydon in south London; Lapworth in Warwickshire; nearby Solihull in the West Midlands; Manchester; Newport in south Wales; Kirkcaldy in Scotland; and Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.

Tacony, Philadelphia

The most significant event in the development of Tacony was the acquisition of land there in 1846 for a ferry-wharf by the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, which had first laid tracks through the town in 1834, along the route from its depot at Frankford Avenue and Palmer Street, Kensington, to Trenton, New Jersey.

Terence Davies

Davies was born in Kensington, Liverpool to working-class Catholic parents, the youngest child in a family of ten children.

The Maybes?

All the members of the band are from the Anfield and Kensington districts of Liverpool, and were close friends before the band started.

Ulmus americana 'Penn Treaty'

Plants under that name were raised at the Morris Arboretum, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from grafts made in 1945 from a tree at Haverford College, itself a graft from the Shackamaxon Treaty Elm (felled by a storm in 1810) in what was later named Penn Treaty Park, Kensington, Pa.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov

Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov (1915, Krasnodar oblast, Russia - March 17, 1999 Kensington, Maryland) was at various times an academic, philatelist, prisoner, forced laborer, political prisoner, adventurer, factory worker and soldier.

Walter Patterson

In 1764, Patterson requested grants to own land on the island, and he and his brother, John Patterson (father of future US Naval hero Commodore Daniel Patterson), were awarded Lot 19, near the present-day town of Kensington, through the 1767 land lottery.


Associated London Scripts

Around 1960 ALS sold the Kensington offices and purchased even more prestigious premises at 9 Orme Court in Bayswater Road, adjacent to Hyde Park.

C. L. Schmitt

A bridge which was built in 1927, connecting New Kensington to West New Kensington, PA, across the Allegheny River, was named in his honor in 1989.

Daewoo Motors

In March 1997, the mid-sized Leganza followed, also designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, borrowing some styling cues from the existing 1990 Jaguar Kensington concept car.

Eleonora Aguiari

In order to do this she needed clearance letters from the RCA Rector, a professor, the Victoria and Albert museum conservation department and the RCA conservation department, bronze tests, a scaffolding license, indemnity insurance, and permission from English Heritage (who own the statue), the City of Westminster, the Boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington (their boundary bisects the length of the horse) and the present Lord Napier.

Gail Rebuck

At age four she was sent to the South Kensington Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, learning there to read and write in French before she did in English.

Hampton Park, Ottawa

Many streets in the Hampton Park neighbourhood are named for upper-class neighbourhoods of London, including Kensington, Piccadilly, Mayfair, and Windsor.

Hauppauge Industrial Association

Past winners and finalists include: Allstate Insurance, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Community Development Corp., American Heart Association, EAC, Inc., Fuoco Group, Grassi & Co., H2M, Island Pro Digital, Then Kensington Company, mindSHIFT Technologies, Habitat for Humanity of Long Island, Middle Country Public Library, Stalco Construction, United Way of Long Island, VAI, Inc. and many others.

Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 in Munich, Germany – 28 March 1941 in Kensington, London) was a British male tennis player.

John Barker

Sir John Barker, 1st Baronet (1840–1914), founder of Barkers department store in Kensington, London, and Liberal MP

John Meeson Parsons

By his will he left to the trustees of the National Gallery, London, such of his oil-paintings, not exceeding one hundred, as they might choose to select, and in case of their declining to accept the gift wholly or in part, then the same right of selection to the department of science and art at South Kensington.

Kenelm Lister-Kaye

Born in Kensington, London, England, the son of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet, he attended Eton College, and played in Fowler's match in 1910.

Kensington Renewal Initiative

The Kensington Renewal Initiative (KRI) is a Philadelphia-based advocacy and community development organization founded by film director, Jamie Moffett.

Kensington Security Slot

Kensington Computer Products Group, a division brand of ACCO Brands, Inc. (located in Redwood Shores, California), was founded in 1981 with the invention of the System Saver, a combined cooling fan and surge protector designed for use with the Apple II home computer.

Kensington Symphony Orchestra

And in 2007, at Cadogan Hall, the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, once again under Russell Keable's baton, accompanied Myleene Klass, Alfie Boe, Natasha Marsh and Natalie Clein for EMI Classics, in a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the EMI Music Sound Foundation.

Metropolitan Borough of Kensington

A number of street name plaques still bear the designation "Royal Borough of Kensington." Indeed in the 1971 Disney classic, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the sign for Portobello Road is shown fleetingly.

Mrs. Kensington

Marie Kensington is a fictional character in the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, played by Mimi Rogers.

Pickwick Cricket Club

As a result of the upgrading of Kensington Oval for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, in 2009 Pickwick developed a new home ground—Foursquare Oval—in Saint Philip, on land donated by Sir David Seale, the owner of the Foursquare rum distillery.

Rifkind

Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC MP (born 1946), British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Kensington and Chelsea

Ringway 1

The only parts of Ringway 1 that were constructed were part of the West Cross Route between North Kensington and Shepherds Bush which was opened by Michael Heseltine in 1970, simultaneously with Westway, to loud protests; some residents hung a huge banners with 'Get us out of this Hell- Rehouse Us Now' outside their windows and protesters disrupted the opening procession by driving a lorry the wrong way along the new road.

Selhurst Park

The stadium (designed by Scottish stadium architect Archibald Leitch) was constructed by Humphreys of Kensington (a firm regularly used by Leitch) for around £30,000, and was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of London on 30 August 1924.

Southbank International School

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

Standish Hospital

On 24 June 1884, widow Mrs Annie Poole King of Kensington House, Brislington, Somerset leased Standish House on a contract term of 21 years from Edward Dutton, 4th Baron Sherborne, at a rate of £150pa.

Stephen baronets

The Stephen Baronetcy, of De Vere Gardens in the parish of Saint Mary Abbott, Kensington, in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 29 June 1891 for Sir James Stephen, a judge of the High Court of Justice.

The Bentley London

It is located at 27-33 Harrington Gardens in south Kensington, lying between Cromwell Road to the north and Brompton Road to the south in close proximity to some of London's major museums including the Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and other sites of note such as the Royal Albert Hall, Sloane Square and the Royal Court Theatre, and the boutiques of Knightsbridge such as Harrods and Harvey Nichols.

The Kidnapping of Kensington

The Kidnapping of Kensington is a children fiction novel by Richard Hough under the pen name of Bruce Carter.

Theatrical blood

"Kensington Gore" (a pun on the London street) was a trademark for fake blood used in films and in theatre.

Wes Sheridan

He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2007 provincial election and represents the electoral district of Kensington-Malpeque as is a member of the Liberal Party.