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9 unusual facts about Lonsdale


Adderley

The Hall was rebuilt on a grander scale in 1685 by the 6th Viscount to be their English seat and sold by the third Earl in 1885 to Arthur Pemberton Heywood-Lonsdale, who was appointed High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1888.

History of Lancashire

In the early 1090s Lonsdale, Cartmel and Furness were added to Roger's estates to facilitate the defence of the area south of Morecambe Bay from Scottish raiding parties, which travelled round the Cumberland coast and across the bay at low water, rather than through the mountainous regions of the Lake District.

Leck, Lancashire

In the Carboniferous to Jurassic periods these major earth movements formed the dramatic landscape of Lonsdale and the Aire Gap in Craven District

Lonsdale, Arkansas

Lonsdale is located on State Highway 171, south of U.S. Route 70.

Lonsdale, Rhode Island

The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and features historic buildings including Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Greek Revival buildings and Late Victorian architecture.

Lonsdale, South Australia

Mobil's Port Stanvac Refinery and Chrysler's engine foundry were followed by many other manufacturing and service industries.

Port Stanvac Refinery and the Mitsubishi (formerly Chrysler) engine plant closed in 2004, with both sites remaining unused as of 2007.

Robert Hale Ives Goddard

After the war Goddard was engaged in textile manufacturing as president of the Goddard Brothers Company, known as Goddard Mills in Lonsdale, Rhode Island.

Southern Times Messenger

The Southern Times area stretches from Lonsdale in the north, through to Sellicks Beach in the south, and covers the southern suburbs, accessible from the city via Main South Road and the more recently constructed Southern Expressway.


A. A. Casamajor

In 1858, Casamajor won the Diamond Challenge sculls with a row over and won Silver Goblets with Playford when they beat Edmond Warre and Arthur Lonsdale in the final in 1858.

Anthony Lowther

Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther (1896 – 1949), eldest son of the 6th Earl of Lonsdale

Caton with Littledale

Geoffrey Hodgson (2008) argues that the Viking invasion of the area accounts for the relatively high frequency of the Hodgson surname in Caton and elsewhere in Lonsdale.

Cutteslowe Park, Oxford

Further south this becomes a footpath from Lonsdale Road, and it emerges near the Cherwell School.

Harry Lonsdale

Following Hatfield's retirement from the Senate in 1996, Lonsdale ran again in the 1996 primary, but lost to Mentor Graphics founder Tom Bruggere by a wide margin.

HMVS Lonsdale

In 1983, the remains of a torpedo boat likely to be Lonsdale were uncovered in reclaimed land in Queenscliff, Victoria, on the grounds of the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum.

Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge

The United Kingdom's National Portrait Gallery holds the following portrait featuring Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge as a sitter: Exhibit number P528: John George Stuart Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge and Frances Annesley (née Lonsdale), Lady Donaldson of Kingsbridge by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda.

John Lonsdale

Born on 17 January 1788 at Newmillerdam, near Wakefield, he was the eldest son of John Lonsdale (1737–1800), vicar of Darfield and perpetual curate of Chapelthorpe.

Konon Molody

One of the five was Gordon Lonsdale who was caught by Scotland Yard taking secrets from a British spy Harry Houghton on Waterloo Bridge.

Little Lon district

"Madam Brussels", facing Lonsdale Street, attracted a wealthy class of clientele, and consequently also greater notoriety, although prostitution itself was not illegal in 19th century Victoria.

Lonsdale Belt

The Lonsdale Belt was a boxing prize introduced by Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, to be awarded to British boxing champions.

Lonsdale Sports Arena

Bill France and other stock car entrepreneurs tested the waters at Lonsdale to see if this stock car thing had longevity.

Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

At the corner of Lonsdale and Russell Street is 24 hour Greek restaurant Stalactites, which is famous, amongst other things, for being the celebration place of Cypriot tennis player Marcos Baghdatis during his 2006 Australian Open campaign.

Necronym

For example, the Soviet KGB agent Konon Molody was only known as Gordon Lonsdale (the true Lonsdale was a Canadian born two years after Molody and died in 1943 when he was 19) in the United States.

Nicole Craig

Nicole Craig has spent over 11 years in the Advertising Industry in Trinidad and Tobago and has worked for such notable companies as McCann Erickson, Lonsdale Saatchi and Saatchi and its group of companies.

O. F. Snelling

In 1965, Snelling went to Russia to meet Lonsdale again and negotiated the writing and publication of his memoirs, Spy (1965).

Point Lonsdale

Next to the town is Lake Victoria a shallow saline lake that is part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve and an important site for the waterbirds and migratory waders that form part of the population using the Ramsar-listed Swan Bay wetland system.

Point Lonsdale Lighthouse

Point Lonsdale Lighthouse, also known as the Point Lonsdale Signal Station, is close to the township of Point Lonsdale in the Borough of Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia.

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

Its grounds hold a fishermen's waiting shed with ship paintings by Henry Zanoni, the deck house from the iron sailing ship Shandon, and the buried hull of the Victorian torpedo boat HMVS Lonsdale.

Rupert Lonsdale

Lonsdale sent his crew below, and under intense fire tried to hold the aircraft off with Lewis guns until these jammed.

Sir Robert Rankin, 1st Baronet

He was president of the Lonsdale Unionist Division (1937-1947), a vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth Society, and a vice-president of the Air League of the British Empire.

Women's National Anti-Suffrage League

Other members were Mrs Frederic Harrison, Miss Lonsdale, Violet Markham, Miss Beatrice Chamberlain and Hilaire Belloc MP.


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