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Abbotsbury Railway

First proposed in 1872, to tap the stone deposits at Portesham and ironstone around the village of Abbotsbury itself, the first Parliamentary Bill was opposed by a local landowner and withdrawn in 1873.Further application was made in 1876 and received Royal Assent on 6 June 1877.

Alfred Wellington Carter

From 1900 to 1917 Carter was a trustee of Kamehameha Schools, the estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop set up by Charles Reed Bishop, which was an even larger landowner than the Parker Ranch.

Allan Taylor

Allan Kerr Taylor (1832–1890), New Zealand landowner and businessman

Antônio de Barros Carvalho

Antônio de Barros Carvalho, better known as Barros Carvalho (Palmares, February 12, 1899 - Recife, September 3, 1966) was a landowner and Brazilian politician.

Bant Singh

Bant Singh is a lower caste Mazhabi, Dalit Sikh farmer and singer from the Jhabhar village in Mansa district, Punjab, India, who has emerged as an agricultural labour activist, fighting against the power of the landowner.

Bismarck Tower, Janówek

The idea of erecting a monument to Otto von Bismarck had been mooted as far back as 1863 by retired Prussian officer Friedrich Schröter (1820–1888), a wealthy landowner in nearby Wättrisch and an admirer of the Iron Chancellor.

California Southern Railroad

Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P. Cheney, L.G. Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.

Charles Phipps

Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps (1845-1913), English landowner and Conservative Member of Parliament

D. G. Hessayon

Hessayon is the son of a Cypriot landowner and grew up in Salford, England.

Daniel Disney

Daniel Disney (died ca. 1722) of Swinderby, was a Non-Coformist landowner in Lincoln who was the father of John Disney (rector), great-grandfather of John Disney (Unitarian) and great-great-grandfather of John Disney the barrister.

Donck

Adriaen van der Donck (1618–1655), lawyer and landowner in New Netherland

Easton Maudit

There was no residential landowner in the village until 1578 when the village was acquired by Sir Christopher Yelverton.

Gaston Park

Named for landowner William H. Gaston, the ballpark existed where the State Fair grounds are today in the vicinity of Texas and Pacific rail tracks as well as the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas.

George Munro, 10th Baron of Foulis

Other notable descendants included Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet (of Linderits) and William Munroe who became a landowner in the United States and his brother, Benedict Munro, Baron von Meikeldorf a German Baron.

Gravesend West railway station

The official opening of the station to public traffic on Monday 10 May 1886 was marked by the protest of local landowner Lord Darnley who barricaded Stuart Road in protest against the LCDR's right to use his roads in Gravesend.

Gustav Renwick

Renwick was a large landowner and worked to conserve the Coquet Valley near his home.

History of St Albans

Richard of Wallingford, a local landowner, who had presented demands to Richard II on behalf of Wat Tyler in London, brought news of this to St Albans and argued with the abbot over the charter.

Holroyd, New South Wales

The local government area takes its name from Arthur Holroyd, first Mayor of the area, local landowner and businessman.

Jamison County

Jamison County was named in honour of landowner and constitutional reformer Sir John Jamison (1776-1844).

Jennens

Charles Jennens (1700 – 20 November 1773) was an English landowner and patron of the arts, who assembled the text for five of Handel's oratorios: Saul, Israel in Egypt, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Messiah, and Belshazzar.

John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge

Colonel John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge PC (12 April 1665 – 3 December 1707), styled The Honourable John Granville until 1703, was an English soldier, landowner and politician.

Jose Chavez

José Chavéz y Castillo, Mexican landowner and trader who served as provisional Governor of New Mexico in 1845

Joseph Schipfer

Joseph Schipfer (8 April 1761 – 27 January 1843) was a German landowner and vine producer, today mostly known for his creation of the language Communicationssprache.

Kildalton Castle

Kildalton was sold in 1922 to John Talbot Clifton, a well-to-do landowner from Lytham, Lancashire who was passionately fond of shooting and foreign travel.

Kongsdal

In 1846, the estate became the inheritance of Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup from his father Hector Frederik Janson Estrup who was a landowner.

Llywelyn Bren

The death of Gilbert de Clare, the Lord of Glamorgan and the most prominent landowner in the south, at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, left a power vacuum in the region, and the heavy-handed response of the English Crown towards overseeing de Clare's lands there, combined with the death of several hundred men of Glamorgan at Bannockburn, precipitated a revolt in the lordship in late summer of that year.

Maidwell

Notable alumni of the school include Adam Butler the second of four children of Rab Butler, the politician and John Ailwyn Fellowes, 4th Baron de Ramsey (1942-) a landowner, agriculturalist and first chairman of the Environment Agency.

Mel Wakabayashi

The owner of the Kokudo Bunnies, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, owned the Seibu department store chain, the Seibu railroads and was Japan’s largest landowner.

Michael Henry Herbert

Wilson's eldest daughter, Mary (also called May) married New York landowner Ogden Goelet (they were the parents of Mary Goelet) and his youngest daughter, Grace, married Cornelius Vanderbilt III; his son Orme was married to the daughter of Mrs. William Astor, "the" Mrs. Astor.

Moosehead Lake

Seattle-based Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Corporation, the largest private United States landowner, submitted a development proposal for the Moosehead region in April, 2005.

Peter Kerr

Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian (1922–2004), Scottish peer, politician and landowner

Phenology

Marsham was a wealthy landowner who kept systematic records of "Indications of spring" on his estate at Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, from 1736.

Piotr Michałowski

Michałowski was born at an estate in Krzysztoforzyce outside Kraków, the son of landowner Józef Michałowski, senator in the Free City of Kraków.

Ramón J. Cárcano

There, he introduced Polled Durham cattle, a vaccine against anthrax that had been prepared at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and an imported steam plough (becoming the first landowner in Argentina to use these innovations).

Renwick, New Zealand

The town was initially known as "Upper Wairau", and then as "Renwicktown" after an early landowner, Dr Thomas Renwick.

Richard de Grey

Richard, 1 Dec 1202-8 Sep 1271, was the eldest surviving son of Henry de Grey of Thurrock, an Essex landowner owning the manors of Codnor in Derbyshire and Grimston in Nottinghamshire; and Isolda de Bardolf.

Richard Pryse

Sir Richard Pryse, 2nd Baronet (1630–1675), Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660

Richard Wenman

Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman (1573–1640), English landowner, MP for Oxfordshire

River Ancholme

In 1635, Owersby-based local landowner, Sir John Monson drained the Ancholme valley by cutting a straight new channel making two rivers at Brigg, which made the town less vulnerable to flooding.

Saddle the Wind

He collaborates with the main landowner Dennis Deneen (Donald Crisp), from whom he rents the ranch, to preserve communal stability.

Sedgeford Torc

The torc was then acquired for the British Museum through the Duchy of Lancaster and with the assistance of the Christy Trust, and the finder, landowner A. E. Middleton was awarded the full market value of £3,300.

Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet

John Forbes-Sempill, the new Lord Sempill and Baronet, was a landowner and soldier who had served with the Lovat Scouts and then the Black Watch in the South African War.

Sir William Roberts

Sir William Roberts, 1st Baronet (1638–1688), of Willesden in Middlesex, English landowner and politician

St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly

An ancient Sussex custom, also encountered at a few other churches nearby (such as those at Lindfield and Ardingly), applied for many years at West Hoathly: every landowner in the parish was responsible for the upkeep of a specific section of the churchyard wall.

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Mr. Molefelo is a prosperous civil engineer in Lobatse who is also the proprietor of a hotel and landowner with an ostrich ranch.

The Mark of the Rani

This was the first story since Season 3's The Gunfighters to feature specific historical characters, in this case landowner Lord Ravensworth and his employee George Stephenson.

Trevor Williams

Sir Trevor Williams, 1st Baronet (c.1623–1692), Welsh politician, landowner, military commander and rebel

Walton Bridge

In 1747 Samuel Dicker, local landowner and later MP for Plymouth, obtained permission to build a bridge at Walton.

Wheal Busy

The principal landowner was the Boscawen family.

Wreay

The church, designed and built in basilica form in 1840–42 by the local landowner Sara or Sarah Losh, exhibits an original style which she called "early Saxon or modified Lombard".


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