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6 unusual facts about Netherby


George Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham

Lord Wittenham married Hilda Georgina, daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet, of Netherby in Cumberland, in 1895.

Johnnie Armstrong

He burnt Netherby in Cumberland in 1527, in return for which William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre burnt him out at Canonbie in 1528; and Gavin Dunbar, the Archbishop of Glasgow as well as Chancellor of Scotland, intervened with an excommunication for Armstrong, whose activities made the central authority look weak and were a hindrance to diplomacy with England.

Marius Valerianus

Little else is known of him from the inscriptions he left at Chesters, Netherby and South Shields.

Modius Julius

Inscriptions at Birdoswald and Netherby attest to his rule although little else is known of him.

Netherby, South Australia

At the state level it is in the electorate of Waite, and has been represented since 1997 by Martin Hamilton-Smith, also of the Liberal party, and from 2007 to 2009, the State Leader of the Opposition.

Veteris

Veteris' name was never linked with that of any of the Classical gods, but he was invoked with another local god, Mogons, at Netherby.


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Urrbrae

Urrbrae Agricultural High School, actually in the neighbouring suburb of Netherby, South Australia


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