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1985–86 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

He was top scorer with 12 goals, even though he was on loan at Gillingham in the latter part of the season, before moving to Lokeren in Belgium at the end of the season.

2000–01 Gillingham F.C. season

Former Gillingham captain Andy Hessenthaler was appointed player-manager, having previously served as player-coach and led the club to a satisfying 13th place finish in the Gills' first ever season in Division One.

Alan Wiley

Also in April 2010, he was criticised after mysteriously awarding a penalty to Leeds United after striker Jermaine Beckford tripped over his own shoelace outside the area in a match against Gillingham

Bobby Folds

Bedford manager Basil Hayward took over as manager of Gillingham of the Football League Third Division in 1966 and recruited a number of players from his former club, including Folds, who joined the "Gills" as the club's first ever apprentice-professional.

Casey Tibbs

Tibbs was born to John F. Tibbs (1886-1948) and Florence M. Tibbs (1889-1974) in rural Orton northwest of Fort Pierre in Stanley County in central South Dakota.

Charles Chapman Barber

In the chancery proceedings by which, in 1867, the celebrated Orton or Castro first sought to establish his claim to the Tichborne baronetcy and estates, Barber held a brief for the defendants, as he did again in the first of the two actions of ejectment which were subsequently brought in the court of common pleas for the same purpose, in the well-known case of Tichborne v. Lushington, decided in 1872 after a trial which lasted 103 days.

Dale Tempest

Born in England but spent much of his youth in Peebles, Scotland, Tempest had played for several English teams including Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Gillingham and Colchester United before arriving in Hong Kong.

David E. Orton

After the announced merger of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with ATI on July 24, 2006, as ATI Technologies became a subsidiary of AMD, Orton became an executive vice-president of AMD, reporting to AMD CEO Hector Ruiz and COO Dirk Meyer.

Dick Tydeman

In 1976 Tydeman followed his former manager Andy Nelson to Charlton Athletic for a fee of £70,000 and stayed with the Addicks for five years before returning to Gillingham as one of new manager Keith Peacock's first signings.

Edward D'Avenant

According to John Walker in Sufferings of the Clergy, Davenant suffered sequestration at Gillingham during the First English Civil War, when his family numbered seven sons and five daughters, being replaced by Thomas Andrews.

Erik Orton

Orton also penned The Drummings (in collaboration with Joshua Williams) based on the life and times of Irish statesman Daniel O'Connell.

Frank Gillingham

Born in Tokyo to a J. Gillingham, he was educated at Dulwich College and Durham University.

Gillingham bus disaster

An inquest was held on 14 December 1951 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Gillingham, where many of the injured were being treated, before the North-East Kent Coroner.

In the film Shadowlands, which is set in the 1950s, C. S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) refers to the Gillingham bus disaster in a lecture on theology as a conspicuous example of terrible and tragic events which happen in the world and which God "allows to happen", and then goes on to explain his opinion on why God behaves that way.

Greg Orton

Gregory Carlton Orton (born December 17, 1986, in Dayton, Ohio) is an American football wide receiver who is currently Is a member of the New England Patriots practice squad.

Harlow S. Orton

In 1858, Orton was again elected to the Assembly, succeeding Democrat Frank Gault in a 5th District which now included the Towns of Dane, Vienna, Westport, Springfield, Middleton, and Madison (but only the 1st Ward of the City of Madison), and described his profession as "Capt. of the Dane Cavalry"; he was assigned to the standing committees on the judiciary and the militia.

Hempstead, Kent

It is located on the southern edge of the borough of Medway adjacent to Wigmore and Lordswood and linked to Gillingham and the M2 by the A278 trunk road.

Hollingbourne Rural District

Bredhurst (part transferred to Gillingham Borough Council in 1933)

J. W. Tristram

Born at Gillingham, Kent, England, Tristram was the first of eight children to his parents Samuel Herbert Tristram and Hannah Thompson.

Jacob Erskine

Erskine made his Football League debut as a late substitute in Gillingham's opening game of the 2009–10 season on 8 August against Swindon Town, replacing Mark Bentley in a 5–0 win.

Jimmy Boswell

Gillingham manager Archie Clark also signed four other players who had served with Boswell at Barton Stacey and played alongside him in the unit football team, namely Jackie Briggs, George Forrester, Hughie Russell and Vic Hole.

John Hamer

Despite having always been trained by Gary Jones in Gillingham, Hamer has worked with numerous international coaches, including Michael Jiranek and Rinata Jiranek (2005), Tatiana Tarasova (2006) and Texas-based Lorraine Boreman (2006).

Mangotsfield United F.C.

Darren Carr Mangotsfield United, Bristol Rovers, Newport County, Sheffield United, Crewe Alexandra, Chesterfield, Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion.

Maria Stepanova

These players such as Margo Dydek, at 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m), Heidi Gillingham at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), and Allyssa DeHaan at 6 ft 9 inches (2.06m) are taller than her.

Mark Greenstreet

First and foremost a stage actor, Greenstreet played many of the great leading roles from the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen to Orton, Wilde and Coward in the UK and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

Mike Adamle

On the October 27 episode of Raw, as part of his storyline, he slapped Randy Orton after Orton insulted him personally.

Milford on Sea

David Peach (Gillingham, Southampton (FA Cup Final 1976), Swindon Town, Orient and England u/23 footballer).

Morayshire Railway

When the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway (I&AJR) reached Keith via Elgin, the Morayshire was able to complete the Speyside second phase by connecting the Craigellachie line at Orton.

Orton on the Hill

During the English Civil War Reverend Porter, the Vicar of Orton, appears to have harboured royalist sympathies and faced ejection.

Orton, Eden

The road leading to Appleby (B6260) leads over Orton Scar and the surrounding moorland was used in the movie version of Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Pamphill

It was built through the will of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple, who left property in Bedfordshire, Hackney and Stepney to trustees, in assurance that they would raise £400 for a close next to Pamphill Green.

Parliamentary train

Gillingham at 0456 to Sheerness, Mondays to Fridays only (return at 2132), using the Sittingbourne West curve.

Pat Gavin

Gavin started out playing for non-league Hanwell Town whilst working as a postman (earning him the nickname "Postman Pat") before he was signed on a short-term contract by Third Division Gillingham towards the end of the 1988-89 season.

Paul Shinners

Shinners made just four appearances for Gillingham in the 1984–85 season, starting just one game.

Prentice School

An adaptation of the Orton-Gillingham method, the Slingerland Approach takes on the three major learning pathways – visual, auditory and kinesthetic (the memory of sequential movement in writing and speech).

Quaife

Based near Sevenoaks, Kent they have two sites, one in Sevenoaks and the other, their OEM production facility, in Gillingham.

Rated-RKO

On the April 26, 2010, episode of Raw, Edge cost Orton a title shot against John Cena by spearing him during a triple threat match against Batista and Sheamus.

Roger Orton

However, Orton, who had become an alcoholic, never showed up to be ordained and never actively served.

Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School

Another house, Tower — named after Jezreel's tower in Gillingham and intended for boys from that borough — was disbanded between the wars.

Steve Banks

During his second run with Gillingham he appeared in the film Green Street.

The Sunmachine and the Ocean

"The Sunmachine And The Ocean" is the first official release from Scottish post-hardcore band The Ocean Fracture, and was produced by Ben Phillips at City Of Dis studios in Gillingham, Kent.

Violet Vanbrugh

In 1889 she joined the Kendals at the Royal Court Theatre as Lady Gillingham in The Weaker Sex, and at the end of the year travelled with them to the U.S., where she played Lady Ingram in the comedy A Scrap of Paper and in dramas such as The Iron Master, Impulse and A White Lie and comedies such The Weaker Sex.

Water Orton

The indie band Felt was formed in Water Orton in 1979 by local residents Lawrence Hayward and Maurice Deebank.

William Groombridge

William Ironside Groombridge, secretary of English football club Gillingham/New Brompton

William Ironside Groombridge

William Ironside Groombridge was secretary of English football club Gillingham (known for much of his tenure as New Brompton F.C.) from 1896 until 1923.

William Lansdowne

William Lansdowne, Jr., better known as Billy Lansdowne, English former professional footballer who played for West Ham United, Charlton Athletic, Gillingham and Kalmar


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