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unusual facts about Lyndon, Rutland



Albert Richard Thomas

He witnessed the swearing in of President Lyndon Baines Johnson on Air Force One which included the 'infamous wink' to Lyndon B. Johnson.

Ardtornish

When Owen (1859–1958) and Emmeline Hugh Smith from Langham in Rutland bought Ardtornish in 1930, the extensive gardens may have been a significant part of the attraction.

Barnsdale Gardens

Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland, England were made famous by Geoff Hamilton through the BBC television series Gardeners' World which he presented from 1979 until his death in 1996.

Beauchamp Tower

Beauchamp Tower was born the son of Robert Beauchamp Tower, rector of Moreton, Essex and educated at Uppingham School, Rutland.

Bishop of Northampton

The Eastern District consisted of the counties of Cambridgeshire (with the Isle of Ely), Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Suffolk, all from the former Midland District, and the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from the London District.

Boyd Dunlop Morehead

His sister Margaret Goff née Morehead was the mother of Helen Lyndon Goff, who achieved fame as P. L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins.

Campanula glomerata

It is the county flower of Rutland, England.

Claudia Johnson

Lady Bird Johnson (Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, 1912–2007), First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson

Cornbread

President John F. Kennedy's staffers, who were mostly northeastern ivy league elites and despised Texan Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson's rural speech patterns, used to refer to Johnson behind his back as 'Uncle Cornpone' or 'Rufus Cornpone'.

Custos Rotulorum of Rutland

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Rutland.

Cyril Magnin

Magnin himself was a major donor to the presidential candidacies of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and, in the interim, developed a close friendship with Lyndon Johnson.

David Sutherland Hibbard

After graduating from Princeton in 1896, Hibbard served as a pastor at a local church in Lyndon, Kansas for three years.

Diane Baker

Alfred Hitchcock cast her in his film Marnie (1964) as Lil Mainwaring, the sister-in-law of Mark Rutland (Sean Connery).

Edith Weston Priory

Pevsner was dismissive about the Priory, saying that Brooke Priory was the only monastery in Rutland as "Edith Weston hardly counts as one".

Edward Manners

Lord Edward Manners, Captain, (1864-1903), was a British Conservative politician, son of the 7th Duke of Rutland

Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (1548–1587) English nobleman and son of Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland

Fairfield Preparatory School

The catchment area for Fairfield is large due to the school’s popularity with children travelling from Loughborough and the surrounding villages and from as far as Leicester, Nottingham, Rutland and Derby.

Garendon Abbey

The house was owned by the Earls of Rutland until 1632, when it was given as part of a dowry for the marriage of Lady Katherine Manners (daughter of the 6th Earl of Rutland) and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

Georgian Dublin

Ultimately the northside was laid out centred on two major squares, Rutland Square (now called Parnell Square for Charles Stewart Parnell), at the top end of Sackville Street, and Mountjoy Square.

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

The member of an old Lincolnshire family, Chaplin was born at Ryhall, Rutland, the second son of the Reverend Henry Chaplin, of Blankney, Lincolnshire and his wife Carolina Horatia Ellice, daughter of William Ellice.

James Eastland

Its passage caused many Mississippi Democrats to y support openly Barry Goldwater's presidential bid that year, but Eastland did not publicly oppose the election of Lyndon Johnson.

James U. Cross

On February 23, 1962, Cross flew Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, Chairman of the National Space Council, to Grand Turk Island, where Colonel John Glenn had splashed down after completing the Project Mercury space expedition.

John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland

He was patron of the then Loughborough College, and Rutland Hall on the University campus is named in his honour.

Lake Lyndon B. Johnson

The dam would be renamed Wirtz Dam in 1952 for Alvin J. Wirtz, the first general counsel of the LCRA, and the lake was renamed to Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 in honor of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Launde

It gives its name to an electoral division of Leicestershire that stretches all the way from Scraptoft, Thurnby and Stoughton, near Leicester, to the border with Rutland.

Lyndon Burgess

Lyndon Burgess (born November 17, 1980) is a Bermudian soccer player who currently plays for Bermuda Hogges in the USL Second Division.

Lyndon Woodside

Lyndon Woodside (March 23, 1935, Florence, South Carolina-August 23, 2005, Englewood, New Jersey) was the 10th conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York.

Mary Colvin

She hunted with the Blackmore Vale and lent her indoor riding school to the Rutland club (which did not have its own premises).

National Housing Act

Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" program, which provided a national system of rent subsidies in the United States

No. 61 Squadron RAF

It was detached from its base in Rutland to St Eval in Cornwall, and on the very first occasion that it operated from there, 17 July, a crew captained by Flight Lieutenant PR Casement (Lancaster I R5724) became the first Bomber Command crew to bring back irrefutable evidence that they had destroyed a U-boat at sea, in the form of a photograph showing the U-boat crew in the water swimming away from their sinking vessel.

Parnell Square

Formerly named Rutland Square, it was renamed after Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891), as was Parnell Street, which forms the southern side of the square.

Players' Theatre

The artistes recorded were Miss Stella Moray, Mr Maurice Browning, Miss Margaret Burton, Miss Patricia Rowlands, Miss Hattie Jacques, Mr John Rutland, Miss Joan Sterndale Bennett, Miss Josephine Gordon, Mr Robin Hunter, Miss Daphne Anderson, Mr Clive Dunn and Mr Bill Owen, with Mr Peter Greenwell and Mr Geoffrey Brawn (piano).

Richard Levett

The sons of a country parson in Rutland, the two Levett brothers imported goods into England, which they then sold to chapmen at fairs across the country, including those at Lenton, Gainsborough, Boston, Beverley and elsewhere.

Robert B. Meyner

At the 1960 Democratic National Convention Meyner received 43 votes for president, finishing fifth behind John F. Kennedy (806 votes), Lyndon Johnson (409 votes), Stuart Symington (86 votes) and Adlai Stevenson (79.5 votes) and just ahead of Hubert Humphrey who received 41 votes.

Robert Cawdrey

Robert Cawdrey did not go to college, but became a school teacher in Oakham, Rutland, in 1563.

Robert Sadington

On 12 February 1332 he was placed on the commission of peace for Leicestershire and Rutland, and on 25 June 1332 was a commissioner for the assessment of the tallage in the counties of Leicester, Warwick, and Worcester.

Roger Mortimer of Wigmore

He had married Isabel (d. before 29 April 1252), the daughter of Walchelin de Ferriers of Oakham Castle in Rutland before 1196.

Ruby Allmond

In the 1940s Ruby was playing in these shows with two very renowned fiddle players, Georgia “Slim” Rutland and Howard “Howdy” Forrester.

Rutland House

Rutland House on Aldersgate Street, near Charterhouse Square in the City of London, close to Smithfield Market, was leased by the playwright and impresario Sir William Davenant (1606–1668).

Rutland Yeomanry Cavalry

The Riding School built for the Rutland Fencibles by the MP Gerard Noel Edwards now houses the Rutland County Museum.

Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet

Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2nd Baronet (17 July 1759-25 February 1838), of Welham Grove in Leicestershire and Exton Park in Rutland, known as Gerard Edwardes until 1798, was an English Member of Parliament.

Soke of Peterborough

The Church of England, however, still describes the diocese as consisting of Northamptonshire, Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough (i.e. the part of the city north of the River Nene).

Syerston

Some sixty years later in 1775 Lord George Sutton, a son of the third Duke of Rutland, sold Syerston to Lewis Disney Ffytche of Flintham.

The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The Rutland Weekend Songbook

The Rutland Weekend Songbook, sometimes referred to as Rutland Times, is a 1976 album by Eric Idle and Neil Innes featuring songs from the BBC comedy series Rutland Weekend Television.

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.

Vermont Railway

It is the main part of the Vermont Rail System, which also owns the Green Mountain Railroad, the Rutland's branch to Bellows Falls.

Vincent Wing

The Olympia Domata for 1670 was edited by his elder son, Vincent Wing; and the numbers for 1704 to 1727 by his nephew, John Wing of Pickworth, Rutland, coroner of the county, who published in 1693 Heptarchia Mathematica, and in 1699 an enlarged version of his uncle's Art of Surveying, supplemented by Scientia Stellarum, Calculation of the Planets' Places, etc.

Wanganui Campaign

Five of the six killers were captured by lower Wanganui Māori; four were court-martialled in Wanganui and hanged at Rutland Stockade.


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