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26 unusual facts about Northwood


Albert Joscelyne

He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Jesus College, Oxford.

Alfred John Church

He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors' School from 1857-70.

Arthur Stanley Hirst

Born in Hackney where his father practiced medicine, he was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School, and studied zoology at the University College London.

Cape Zevgari

The hospital was formerly an RAF hospital, but following the establishment of the Defence Medical Services organisation, it is now a tri-service establishment under the authority of the Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood.

Early English dictionaries

Composed by Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, The Elementarie is now viewed as an important forerunner of the first actual dictionary in English, although it was not an actual dictionary.

Edmund Gayton

In 1623 he entered Merchant Taylors' School, and went to St John's College, Oxford, in 1625.

Edmund Spenser

As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave

He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London and St John's College, Oxford.

Harry Latchman

In later years coached at Nottingham High School and Merchant Taylors' School.

Hebrew College

In keeping with the idea of Jewish education as a lifelong pursuit, Hebrew College runs the Prozdor high school; and Camp Yavneh, an overnight summer camp in Northwood, New Hampshire.

Henry Bristow Wilson

He entered Merchant Taylors' School in October 1809, and was elected to St John's College, Oxford, in 1821.

John Buckeridge

He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and at St John's College, Oxford, his maternal grandfather being cousin to the founder, Sir Thomas White.

John Spenser

He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and Oxford.

Kristal Yush

Prior to college Kostiew attended Coe-Brown Northwood Academy in Northwood, New Hampshire from 1996-2000, graduated in the top 10 in her class with a 96.5 GPA.

Matt Frei

In October 2012, Frei headed Channel 4's coverage of the US Presidential election, including making a documentary "The American Road Trip: Obama's story" in which he visited middle-class voters in communities in the mid-west, including Minneapolis, Northwood, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.

Merchant Taylors' School

Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood (founded 1561), a British public school for boys, originally located in the City of London and now located in Northwood in Middlesex .

Monro of Fyrish

Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London then at St John's College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1741 and a Radcliffe Travelling Fellow until 1751.

Northwood, Philadelphia

Northwood is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.

Peter Mews

Mews was born at Caundle Purse in Dorset, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St John's College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and fellow.

Philip Madoc

Madoc died on 5 March 2012 at the Michael Sobell Hospice in Northwood, north west London, following a "short illness".

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins

Perkins was born on 15 November 1866 at Badminton, Gloucestershire and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, St. Albans – his father, Rev Charles Perkins, was the headmaster – and at Merchant Taylors' School before obtaining a scholarship in classics to Jesus College, Oxford in 1885.

Rowland Searchfield

He was born in 1564 or 1565, and entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1575.

Samuel Foxe

He was born at Norwich on 31 December 1560, and admitted into Merchant Taylors' School, London, on 20 October 1572.

Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet

From the age of nine, William Dawes studied at the Merchant Taylors' School in London.

Thomas Exton

He entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1641, was admitted a member of Gray's Inn in 1648, and went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded LL.D.

William Croone

He was born in London on 15 September 1633, and admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 December 1642.


Alan Duncan

Alan Duncan was educated at two independent schools: Beechwood Park School in Markyate, and Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, at both of which he was 'Head Monitor' (head boy).

Austin Vince

Latterly he played the maths teacher in Channel 4's That'll Teach 'Em and has in the past taught at St.Johns Northwood as a maths teacher.

CBNA

Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, a high school in Northwood, New Hampshire, United States

Chris Winnes

Recruited by a number of teams out of Northwood Prep School in Lake Placid, New York, Winnes was selected by the Boston Bruins in the 1987 Entry Draft (9th choice, 161st overall).

Fash FC

After the closure of Claremont Road, Hendon's home games were played at Harrow Borough's Earlsmead ground, Northwood's Chestnut Avenue, Staines Town's Wheatsheaf Road and Wembley's Vale Farm.

Headbolt Lane railway station

Headbolt Lane is a proposed new railway station in the Northwood area of Kirkby, Merseyside, England.

Inkatha Freedom Party

Mangosuthu Buthelezi and KaMagwaza-Msibi hosted the party's final pre-election news conference on Tuesday, 14 April, at Northwood Crusaders Sports Club, Durban North, where they adumbrated their ten-point plan for the party's first 100 days back in provincial power.

Maggie Blue O'Hara

Maggie Blue has appeared in many television series and TV movies produced in Vancouver, including X-Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, Hope Island, Neon Rider and three years as a regular on the CBC TV series Northwood.

Mount Pleasant, Harare

It is the home of the University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant School, North Park Primary School and Northwood Seventh Day Adventist School.

Neil Lawson Baker

Baker attended the Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, Middlesex as a day boy and then went on to Guy's Hospital in London where he qualified as a dental surgeon.

Northwood Headquarters

In 2002, following a rationalisation, the Commander-in-Chief Fleet moved the majority of his staff to Portsmouth and handed over the Northwood site to the Chief of Joint Operations.

Northwood Town Center

professional and retail services building located in the Northwood community of the city of Irvine in Orange County, California.

Robert D. Bullard

Houston's middle-class, suburban Northwood Manor neighborhood was an unlikely location for a garbage dump except that it was over 82 percent black.

Roger Hilton

He was born in 1911 in Northwood, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London under Henry Tonks and also in Paris, where he developed links with painters on the Continent.

William Petre, 13th Baron Petre

Petre, sent from Whitley Abbey, Coventry, is undated but signed ‘Petre’ so would have been written after July 1884 and probably towards the midsummer of 1885 when the school at Northwood House was about to be closed.