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3 unusual facts about Merton


Merton, Devon

The eastern and northern boundaries of the parish follow the loops of the River Torridge and the other sides are defined by the River Mere.

Merton, Oxfordshire

Sir James' father-in-law had remained a Royalist throughout the Civil War and Commonwealth, which helped Lady Katherine to claim she did not share her husband's politics.

William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham

de Grey was the third son of Thomas de Grey, MP, of Merton, Norfolk, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Windham.


Akron News-Reporter

Robert Berton Cooley (Bert) and his twin brother Herbert Merton (Mert) were born in McGregor, Iowa, October 15, 1875.

Baron Clinton

The present family seat in 2012 is Heanton Satchville, Huish, near Merton, Devon, which was built in 1782 as "Innis House" by Sir James Innis, Duke of Roxburgh, and was purchased by the 18th Baron Clinton in about 1805, renamed Heanton Satchville, which burned down in 1935 and was rebuilt.

C. W. M. Hart

Charles William Merton Hart (1905–1976) was a social anthropologist and sociologist best known for his study of the Tiwi people of the Bathurst and Melville Islands (or Tiwi Islands) in north Australia during the 1920s.

Cap Dierks

Merton L. "Cap" Dierks (born July 2, 1932 in O'Neill, Nebraska) is a Nebraska state senator from Ewing, Nebraska, United States, in the Nebraska Legislature.

Charles Richard Vaughan

Vaughan was educated at Rugby School, where he entered on 22 January 1788, and at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating on 26 October 1791.

Cudos

Mertonian norms or CUDOS, Merton's normative structure of science

Edward Corbet

At Merton he distinguished himself he resisted the attempted innovations of William Laud, and subsequently gave evidence at the archbishop's trial.

Food for the Brain Foundation

The best known and launching campaign of the Food for the Brain Foundation was a pilot study carried out at Cricket Green special education school in Merton, London.

Hahnemühle

The company traces its origins to the construction of a paper mill by Merton Speiss on February 27, 1584 in Relliehausen at the source of a river in the Solling (a range of hills).

International Thomas Merton Society

The International Thomas Merton Society, founded in 1987, is a learned society which studies the works of Thomas Merton.

Itrat Husain Zuberi

He was educated at St John's college Agra, Allahabad University, Merton college, Oxford, and Edinburgh University where he worked under the celebrated professor, Sir Herbert JC.

Lach Dennis

Abbot Walter exchanged the estates with Randle de Merton for Merton, so early as the reign of Edward VI.

Louisa Clein

At the beginning of 2010, Clein toured in the Oscar Wilde play Lord Arthur Savile's Crime as Sybil Merton with Lee Mead as her leading man, Lord Arthur.

Mansfield railway line

The first stage of the line was opened from Tallarook to Yea in 1883, being extended in stages from 1889 though Molesworth, Cathkin, Merton and Maindample to reach Mansfield in 1891, located 117 kilometres from the junction.

Merton Abbey

Merton Abbey Mills, a former textile factory in the parish of Merton near the site of the medieval Merton Priory

Merton Abbey Mills

Merton Abbey Mills is a former textile factory in the parish of Merton in London, England near the site of the medieval Merton Priory, now the home of a variety of businesses, mostly retailers.

The River Wandle flowing north towards Wandsworth drove watermills and provided water for a number of industrial processes in Merton.

Merton College Library

Merton College Library (in Merton College, Oxford) is one of the earliest libraries in England and the oldest academic library in the world still in continuous daily use.

Merton Park tram stop

It overlaps part of the site of the former Merton Park railway station which was served by passenger trains on the West Croydon to Wimbledon Line until 1997, and by trains via Tooting Junction on the Merton Abbey Branch until 1929.

Merton Simpson

The New York School was also having its impact during that time and Merton Simpson came in close contact with Franz Kline, Max Weber and Willem de Kooning at the frame shop.

Morden Park

In 2008, Merton Council proposed allowing Goals Soccer Centres, to build 10 five-a-side football pitches, 4 seven-a-side football pitches, 1 full-size football pitch, 2 multi-sport areas, and 2 full-size football pitches (with all bar the latter using astroturf, floodlighting and be available for a fee), a car park (with a capacity for up to 99 cars) and a clubhouse with a licensed bar on part of the park.

OK Sauce

However, the Art Deco facade of the Southfields building, visible from Merton Road.

In 1928 production was transferred to a purpose-built factory to the designs of Percy Sharp, at 265 Merton Road, Southfields, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood

Merton views this through a study of the career of the silent film star Roscoe Arbuckle and how a false accusation led to his expulsion from the industry and as an excuse for instigating film self-censorship.

Meanwhile, Merton looks at the effect of the First World War and the flamboyance of directors such as Cecil B. DeMille.

Robert Merton

Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist, Nobel Laureate, MIT professor, son of Robert K. Merton

Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet

He was eldest son and heir of William Robinson (bapt. Rokeby, Yorkshire, 23 September 1675, d. 24 February 1720), who married, in 1699, Anne, daughter and heiress of Robert Walters of Cundall in Yorkshire; she died on 26 July 1730, aged 53, and was buried in the centre of the south aisle of Merton church, Surrey, where a marble monument was placed to her memory.

St. Joseph's Intermediate and Commercial School

The school was later renamed to Thomas Merton Academy (Thomas Merton, TMA, or Merton) in 1985 after the Anglo-American monk Thomas Merton.

Stephen Hammond

He was elected a Councillor for the Ward of Village, Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton election in 2002 and subsequently became Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group on Merton Council.

Superwombling

The Myths and Legends of King Merton Womble and His Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a parody of two contemporary concept albums – The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Journey to the Centre of the Earth – both by Rick Wakeman.

The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton died in 1968 of accidental electrocution while attending an international monasticism conference in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thomas Bickley

Returning to England after the accession of Elizabeth I, he enjoyed rapid promotion, being made, within ten years, chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker, rector of Biddenden in Kent, of Sutton Waldron in Dorset, archdeacon of Stafford, chancellor in Lichfield Cathedral, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.

Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson

He inherited the titles of Earl Nelson, Viscount Merton and Baron Nelson from his uncle William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, who died on 28 February 1835 without surviving male issue.

William Ralph Merton

On 27 November he was granted permission to call himself ‘Merton’ after claiming in his application for such (on 22 October 1856) that his brother Benjamin had already taken the family name ‘Merton’ in Manchester as the name ‘Moses’ was not suitable to be used as a surname.


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