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4 unusual facts about Londonderry


Donald Watson Davis

Born in Londonderry, Vermont, Donald was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1887 Canadian federal election to be one of the first Members of Parliament to represent the Northwest Territories.

Jake Burton Carpenter

Working from a barn in Londonderry, Vermont, he improved on the Snurfer, a basic toy snowboard which featured a rope to allow the rider some basic SMD control over the board.

Ross Powers

Ross Powers (born February 10, 1979), is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont.

Thomas Fletcher Morrison

He was born in Londonderry, Nova Scotia, the son of Joseph A. Morrison and Isabella Fletcher, of Irish descent.


Annie Londonderry

In 2011, Evalyn Parry premiered her musical play about Londonderry called SPIN.

Aodh Méith

A series of castles were built, and much of what are now counties Antrim, Londonderry and Tyrone were granted to Ailean Alan, Lord of Galloway (or "King of the Gall-Gaidhil"), his brother Tomás Mac Uchtraigh and their cousin Donnchadh of Carrick.

Bates baronets

The Bates Baronetcy, of Magherabuoy in the County of Londonderry, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 7 June 1937 for the Northern Irish politician Dawson Bates.

Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry

Through his daughter Lady Frances, Lord Londonderry was the great-grandfather of Winston Churchill.

Chipman, New Brunswick

Immigration to the Chipman area escalated rapidly in the 1820s through the 1850s, with the large majority of new arrivals hailing from the northern counties of Ireland, in particular: Donegal, Londonderry, and Tyrone.

Clooney

Clooney, Kilcronaghan civil parish, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Colerain High School

It is not to be confused with Coleraine High School, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Commonwealth Labour Party

Later in the year, Milton Gordon led the Londonderry branch back into the NILP, having come to believe that the new party was harming the labour movement.

Dehra Parker

Dame Dehra was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Londonderry, as Dehra Chichester (which she was known as prior to her second marriage in 1928), in the Northern Ireland general election, 1921.

Derek Wilford

Saville suggested Wilford “wanted to demonstrate the way to deal with rioters in Londonderry was not for soldiers to shelter behind barricades like (as he put it) Aunt Sallies while being stoned, as he perceived the local troops had been doing, but instead to go aggressively after rioters, as he and his soldiers had been doing in Belfast”.

Derry City

Derry City (townland), a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; see List of archaeological sites in County Londonderry

Derry Housing Action Committee

Named after the Dublin Housing Action Committee, the DHAC's initial actions (March 1968) involved disrupting meetings of the Unionist-dominated Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city.

Dual naming

"Derry/Londonderry" has been used unofficially to circumvent the Derry/Londonderry name dispute, in which Irish nationalists used "Derry" and Ulster unionists use "Londonderry" for the city and county in Northern Ireland.

Green Brigade

The Green Brigade cited civilian deaths caused by the Armed Forces in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Bloody Sunday, highlighting the fact that the report "confirmed that 14 unarmed civilians were murdered in Derry/Londonderry in 1972 by the Paratroop Regiment".

High Sheriff of Londonderry

High Sheriff of County Londonderry, with responsibilities in County Londonderry outside the city of Derry

Hugh Hill

Sir Hugh Hill, 1st Baronet (1728–1795) of the Hill baronets, member for Londonderry City in Parliament of Ireland

Inishowen

As the coastline turns towards the East it reaches Lough Foyle and Shroove on the mouth of the Lough and then Greencastle (a port used by fishing boats and landing point for the car ferry to and from Magilligan in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland).

James Dougherty

Sir James Brown Dougherty (1844–1934), Member of Parliament for Londonderry City, 1914–1918

Jennifer Johnston

Born in Dublin, to the Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith, Johnston was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and currently lives in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Lord Lieutenant of Londonderry

Lord Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry (originally formally the County of the City of Londonderry, later renamed County Borough of Londonderry

Matthew Clerk

On landing he found that James Macgregor, formerly minister of Aghadowey, and founder of the township of Londonderry on the Merrimack River, had died on 5 March.

McCorkell Line

The family have continued to serve Londonderry throughout the twentieth century, Sir Dudley McCorkell was the Mayor of Derry from 1930 to 1934 and attended the Ottawa Conference on Trade in 1933.

Moneyshanere

Alfred Munn Moore in his Notes on the Place Names of the Parishes and Townlands of the County of Londonderry, makes note that St. Ciaran was known as the "ancient priest" or "Sean Saighir", possibly referring to St. Ciarán of Saigir.

Mount Sandel

Mount Sandel Mesolithic site, excavated mesolithic huts in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Mount Sandel Fort, a fort in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Nutfield

Nutfield, New Hampshire, the colonial township from which the modern places of Londonderry, Derry, Windham and parts of Salem, Hudson, and the city of Manchester were formed.

Plas Machynlleth

It was brought into the family by the marriage of George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, Viscount Seaham (and subsequently Earl Vane and 5th Marquess of Londonderry), to Mary Cornelia Edwards, whose father Sir John Edwards had extended and renamed the house.

Robert Bateson

Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet (1782–1863), British MP for Londonderry 1830–1842

Stephanie von Hohenlohe

Her close friends included Lady Margot Asquith, the widow of the former prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith, Lady Ethel Snowden, the wife of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lady Londonderry and her husband Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry.

Tamlaght

Tamlaght, County Londonderry, a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

The Troubles in Garvagh

In May 1994, at a special court in Coleraine, Patrick Kelly (29) and Liam Averill (29), both of Maghera, County Londonderry, were accused of murdering Smith and McCloy and of the attempted murder of the third occupant of the vehicle.

Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry

Lord Londonderry died on 12 September 1729, and was succeeded in his peerages by his eldest son Thomas Pitt.

Tristram Beresford

Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet (died 1673), Irish MP for Londonderry County 1634, 1656–1658, 1661–1666

Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet (1669–1701), his grandson, Irish MP for Londonderry County 1692–1699

United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2004

The 2004 Vermont U.S. congressional election took place between incumbent Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT) of Burlington, VT, Gregory Tarl "Greg" Parke (R) of Rutland, VT, Larry Drown (D) of Northfield, VT and Jane Newton (LU) of Londonderry, VT.

Walker baronets

He was a Member of Parliament for Londonderry, Solicitor-General for Ireland, Attorney-General for Ireland and eventually Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Wynyard Park

Wynyard Park, County Durham, a stately home in County Durham, England (formerly a seat of the Marquesses of Londonderry)


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