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unusual facts about King George V



1922–23 FA Cup

King George V was in attendance to present the trophy to the winning team.

Armour-Bearer

It appeared, however, that the holder had been summoned to perform the office in 1876 during the state visit to Scotland of Queen Victoria and he was in attendance for the visit of King George V in 1911.

Balmer Lawn

The hotel has hosted many famous guests throughout history including King George V, Russian Royalty, J.J. Sainsbury, Winston Churchill and U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Bunny Hearn

At a game in London, Hearn explained the various grips pitchers used on the ball to King George V.

Cayetano Alberto Silva

The march became famous in other countries over time to such an extent that it was played on June 22, 1911, during the coronations of King George V and Elizabeth II (with prior approval sought by the British government from Argentina).

Charles Willie Mathews

Mathews was very sociable; he was a member of the Turf, Garrick, and Beefsteak Clubs, and was a friend of King Edward VII and King George V.

Constant Lambert

His major choral work Summer's Last Will and Testament (after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe), one of his most emotionally dark works, proved unfashionable in the mood following the death of King George V, but Alan Frank hailed it at the time as Lambert's "finest work".

Custom House, London

Custom House has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V.

Day of Mourning

These groups had also sent petitions to the Government of Australia and the Government of the United Kingdom, in the early 1930s, for the recognition of Aboriginal civil rights (including Aboriginal representation in the Parliament of Australia), but they had been ignored or dismissed without serious attention, and each had refused to pass the petitions on to King George V.

Eden District

In Eden there are King George's Fields, in memorial to King George V, at Appleby and Patterdale.

Edward Leopold Dyke Acland

Rear-Admiral Edward Leopold Dyke Acland MVO CB (1878-1968), a member of the Acland Baronetcy, was a rear-admiral and naval attaché to King George V.

Fleetwood Edwards

He was appointed Paymaster of the Household in 1910 to King George V, which duty he performed until his death later that year.

Francis Graham Lodge

In 1951 it was noted that samples of his work had been acquired by the Belfast Art Gallery, the Bank of Scotland, the Athenaeum Club, Colonel Lord Wigram and Princess Mary, the daughter of King George V.

George Town, Chennai

The name of this area 'Black Town' was renamed as George Town in 1911 in honor of King George V when he was crowned as the Emperor of India.

Ham Lambert

His grandfather was veterinary surgeon to three reigning monarchs, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V, his father ran a practice which cared for the draught horses of Dublin from the turn of the 20th century until the early 1930s when working horses became less numerous.

J. Ogden Armour

As his condition worsened, he was attended by Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to King George V.

James McNeill

When the first governor-general of the Free State, Timothy Michael Healy retired in December 1927, James McNeill was proposed as his replacement by the Irish government of W. T. Cosgrave and duly appointed by King George V as Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

Jana Gana Mana

King George V was scheduled to arrive in the city on 30 December and a section of the Anglo-Indian English press in Calcutta thought – and duly reported – that Tagore's anthem was a homage to the emperor.

Janet Ruth Bacon

This was in 1937 as King George V had died in 1936 the anniversary year, a year of Royal mourning.

King George V Graving Dock

It was formally opened by HM King George V and Queen Mary on 26 July 1933 although the final construction work was only complete the following year.

King George V School, Seremban

Located on the top of a hill, King George V’s clock tower can be easily seen as the landmark of the school.

The school was named after the reigning monarch in Britain ( King George V ).

Lower Morden

Lower Morden has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V.

Malaudh

Sardar Badan Singh was an invitee to the Delhi Coronation Durbar held in December 1911 to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India and received Delhi Durbar Medal 1911.

Maria Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton (1889–1975), Captain in the Grenadier Guards, fought in the First World War and served in the household of King George V, his widow and Queen Elizabeth II as Deputy Master of the Household, as Extra Equerry, as Equerry in Ordinary and as Comptroller, Treasurer and Extra Equerry.

New Zealand Army rugby team of 1919

This team split into an 'A' and 'B' team when during a tour of Great Britain, an inter-services tournament, with a cup presented by King George V, was held between the allied forces.

Onikan Stadium

Located on the southeastern corner of Lagos Island near Tafewa Balewa Square, the original stadium was built in 1930 and six years later named after King George V.

Percy Metcalfe

He created a portrait of King George V which was used as the obverse for coins of Australia, Canada, Fiji, Mauritius, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia.

Queen Mary College, Lahore

It was established on December 10, 1908 as Victoria May Girls High School and later renamed in honor of the Queen Consort of King George V in 1911.

Raymond Boultwood Ewers

He also worked together with Bowles on the statues of King George V and of John Monash, and produced until the 1960s 22 statues of his own design for the War Memorial.

Regent Street

The work was delayed by the Great War and it was not until 1927 that the completion was celebrated, with King George V and Queen Mary driving in state along its length.

Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers

In 1926 the Society's scope was extended to include sculptors and gravers and its name was changed by the Royal Command of King George V.

Runnymede, Toronto

It first opened in 1911, the year of King George V's coronation, it replaced Elizabeth Street School, built in 1882.

Sale, Victoria

As a tribute to the late King George V, an elm-lined section of the Princes Highway is named King George V Avenue.

Sherwood railway station

On 10 July 1928 King George V and Queen Mary visited the park and 17,000 school children travelled to the event on the NSR to Sherwood Station (which had been re-opened for the event).

Sir Havelock Charles, 1st Baronet

Major-General Sir Richard Henry Havelock Charles, 1st Baronet, GCVO KCSI (10 March 1858 – 27 October 1934) was a noted doctor, and Serjeant Surgeon to King George V.

Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942

Although King George V disapproved of Isaacs, the 1930 Imperial Conference upheld the procedure under the declaration, and so the King appointed Isaacs.

West Park, Wolverhampton

In 1911 commemorative flower beds were set out for the coronation of King George V; similarly in 1937 for King George VI.

Will Marion Cook

He produced several concerts and organized many choral societies in both New York and in Washington, D.C. The New York Syncopated Orchestra, which he founded, toured the United States in 1918 and then went to England in 1919 for a command performance for King George V.

William Charles Williams

There are two memorials to him in Chepstow - a painting by Charles Dixon of the events in the Dardanelles, hanging in St Mary's Church; and a naval gun from the German submarine SM UB-91 presented by King George V, which stands in the town's main square beside the war memorial.

William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton

He was later Special Envoy to Foreign Courts to announce the accession of King George V in 1910 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire from 1912 to 1913.

William Hale Thompson

According to Thompson, at this time the biggest enemy the United States had was King George V of the United Kingdom.

William Murray Threipland

On 26 February 1915, Murray Threipland, having been interviewed by Lord Kitchener and King George V, was appointed to command a new Guards Regiment.

Woolwich Arsenal station

Woolwich Arsenal was expanded in 2009, when Transport for London completed the construction of an extension of the London City Airport branch of the Docklands Light Railway from King George V to Woolwich Arsenal, which is the branch's new terminus.


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BL 14-inch Railway Gun

King George V personally oversaw the firing of the first shell by Boche Buster from near Marœuil, 6 km NW of Arras, on 8 August in a fireplan to hit German reinforcements being sent south to oppose the British Amiens offensive.

Domhnall Ua Buachalla

(One of the few other occasions Ua Buachalla was mentioned at all in public was when, in the aftermath of the death of King George V in January 1936, he had to reply to messages of condolence sent to the Irish people by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.)

Douglas Hyde

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called President Hyde a "fine and scholarly old gentleman", while President Hyde and King George V corresponded about stamp collecting.

Gilbert Jonathan Rowcliff

He was also on board when the New York was host to King George V of Great Britain and the Prince of Wales on November 3; and Crown Prince Hirohito, later Emperor of Japan and his staff on November 20, all of whom were official guests of the ship.

Guelphic Legion

In the fall of 1866, a large number of Hanoverian soldiers left Hanover for Holland at the behest of King George V and his newly established court at Hietzing near Vienna.

Hydestile

From 1921, Hydestile was the site for two hospitals: King George V Hospital (formerly a TB Sanatorium) and from 1941 St. Thomas' Hospital (formed from the WWII evacuation of Lambeth teaching hospital).

King George School

South Shields Community School, a secondary school in South Shields, United Kingdom, formed by the merger of Brinkburn Comprehensive School and King George V Comprehensive School

King George V School

King George V College in Southport, England, known until 1979 as "King George V School"

Mary, Princess Royal

Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897 - 1965), only daughter of King George V; wife of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882 - 1947)

Milford Hospital

Milford was a sister hospital to the larger King George V Sanatorium, two miles to the East in Hydestile.

Pairc nan Laoch

They also used a park at Skeabost from time to time when the King George V was unavailable.

Prince John

Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905-1919), the youngest son of King George V, a fragile boy who suffered from epilepsy and was possibly autistic.

Princess Marina

Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906–1968), wife of Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary

Tom Dascombe

Tom's biggest successes at Manor House Stables came in 2011 at Royal Ascot when Rhythm Of Light and Brown Panther (who later finished second in the 2011 St. Leger Stakes) won the Sandringham Listed Handicap and the King George V Handicap Stakes on consecutive days and in 2012 when Ceiling Kitty won the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Vigil of the Princes

The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Earl of Wessex and Viscount Linley took guard at 16:40 UTC on 8 April 2002 at the lying-in-state of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (widow of King George VI; daughter-in-law of King George V).