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2 unusual facts about Normanby


Phineas Hodson

From 1579 to 1615 he held the advowson — the right to present a benefice — of Normanby parish in north Yorkshire.

Sawyers Bay

Upper Junction Road, the winding old road to Port Chalmers from the Dunedin suburb of North East Valley, rises to join with the old Mount Cargill road, which was itself the former main road north out of Dunedin, linking the city's main urban area at Normanby with Waitati.


Cardiff, New Zealand

Cardiff was one of the constituent dairy co-operatives (the others being Eltham, Stratford, and Normanby) who combined to form the Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Co.

Duke of Buckingham

The title of Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.

Northern Busway, Brisbane

The busway then continues north alongside the Exhibition railway line and then north-east through the Victoria Park Golf Complex, with stations adjacent to the Normanby Fiveways, the QUT campus at Kelvin Grove and the Royal Children's Hospital in the suburb of Herston.

The first section of the Northern Busway opened in February 2004 had one station, QUT Kelvin Grove, later Normanby and RCH Herston opened.

Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby

On his release, Lord Normanby was appointed a MBE and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Viscount Cranborne from 1944–45 and briefly to the Lord President of the Council, Lord Woolton in 1945.


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