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unusual facts about Penn, Buckinghamshire


Pauline Quirke

She has two children Emily and Charlie (who stars as Travis in Birds of a Feather) and is married to producer Steve Sheen; they live in Penn, Buckinghamshire.


Adstock, Quebec

The township was itself named after the village of Adstock in Buckinghamshire, England.

Alfred Gatley

In 1844 he received the silver medal for the best model from the life, and exhibited marble busts of "Cupid" and "Psyche", and in 1846 he exhibited a bust of Marshal Espartero, and a model in bas-relief of "The Hours leading out the Horses of the Sun", which went to the library of Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire.

Bartholomew Tipping IV

Bartholomew was the son of John Tipping of Chequers at Stokenchurch in Oxfordshire (now Buckinghamshire) and Woolley Park at Chaddleworth in Berkshire and his wife, Mary Spire.

Beirut Memorial

Other memorials to the victims of the Beirut barracks bombing have been erected in the United States, including those at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Bertram de Verdun

In the Domesday Book (1086), Bertram de Verdun holds the land and the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire, held before by princess Goda of England.

Boarstall Duck Decoy

The Boarstall Duck Decoy is a 17th-century duck decoy located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now a National Trust property.

Brian Russell

He was recruited and spent his freshman season (1996) at Penn, where he became the first quarterback in the history of the school to start as a freshman.

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club

The present Buckinghamshire CCC was founded on 15 January 1891 as "Bucks County Cricket Club" with the Rothschild family prominent in its formation.

Burleigh Cruikshank

Sportswriter Walter S. Trumbull of the The New York Sun suggested that the Michigan Aggies, Washington & Jefferson, Chicago University, and Notre Dame were the new "Big 4 of College Football" instead of the traditional grouping of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Penn.

Canterbury College, Oxford

Its endowment was granted in 1363, and included the church of Pagham, Sussex, along with (initially) eight Oxford houses' rents and a portion of the rents from Woodford, Northamptonshire and Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, where the Priory had manors.

Claire Loewenfeld

Claire Loewenfeld died on 20 August 1974, and is buried at St Lawrence's Church, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, near where she lived, alongside her husband Gunther Loewenfeld's cousins, Margaret Lowenfeld and Helena Wright née Lowenfeld.

Combat Jack

Combat Jack's co-hosts include Dallas Penn, Premium Pete, DJ Benhameen, AKing, and Just Blaze.

Dennis K. Stanley

Dennis Stanley was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England on Easter Sunday 1906, the youngest of seven children.

Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Senate version, while the bill was introduced to the House by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) and Kevin Yoder (R-Kans.)

First professional degree

The first medical schools that granted the MB degree were Penn, Harvard, Toronto, Maryland, and Columbia.

Geoff Garin

He replaced Mark Penn as the Clinton Campaign's chief strategist in April 2008, after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Penn met with Colombian official regarding a proposed free trade agreement opposed by Clinton and most labor unions.

George England

He moved to London and trained at the John Penn Boilerworks and Shipyards in Deptford.

Grade II* listed buildings in Chiltern

This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Chiltern in Buckinghamshire.

Grants, New Mexico

Scenes from the movie 21 Grams starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts were also filmed in Grants.

Greg Buttle

He stood atop the Penn State career tackles list for over 30 years (until Paul Posluszny surpassed his mark of 343 versus Wisconsin on November 4, 2006).

Grenvillite

The Grenvillites or Grenvilles were a name given to several British political factions of the 18th and early-19th centuries, all associated with the important Grenville family of Buckinghamshire.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Kenneth Frazier

On November 11, 2011, as a member of the Penn State board of trustees, the board selected Frazier as chairman of a commission empaneled to investigate a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and allegations of a cover up by university officials.

Kenneth Weiss

Kenneth M. Weiss, Professor of Anthropology and Genetics at at Penn State University

Lavendon Castle

Lavendon Castle stood to the north of the village of Lavendon, Buckinghamshire.

Lenny Moore

It was the first time a former Penn State player has been invited to participate in the pre-game coin toss.

Leonard Webb

In 1924 his father's regiment moved back to Tidworth, Wiltshire until he was demobbed in 1927, and the Webb family moved to William Webb's native Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire.

Lovell Benjamin Badcock

He was born Lovell Benjamin Badcock, the eldest son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire and Maplethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire.

Martin Meyerson

After leaving Penn, he served on a number of boards and in advisory positions, including that of the Monell Chemical Senses Center.

Montague Garrard Drake

Montague Garrard Drake (1692-1728), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.

National Signing Day

He took out a picture of himself with Penn State head coach Joe Paterno during the press conference and announced his decision to sign with Penn State.

Penn Plaza East

The Penn Plaza East complex takes its name for its location near Penn Station in Newark, New Jersey.

Penn State Ice Pavilion

The Penn State Ice Pavilion is an 1,350-seat ice arena on the campus of The Pennsylvania State University located in University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Places of interest in Buckinghamshire

There are various notable sports facilities in Buckinghamshire from Adams Park in the south to the National Hockey Stadium and stadium:mk in the north, and the county is also home to the world famous Pinewood Studios.

Plamil Foods

In 1965 the society became a limited company, Plantmilk Ltd, with Leslie Cross as its first full-time employee, and began production of its milk, which it called Plamil, from a rented factory in Iver, Buckinghamshire.

Raymond Pace Alexander

That same year, he married his former Penn classmate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander – who in 1927 would become the first black woman to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Beke

Richard Beke (1630–1707), of Westminster and Ford, Dinton, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.

Richard Raiswell

Shell Games: Studies in Frauds, Scams and Deceit in Early Modern Culture, 1300-1650 with Mark Crane and Margaret Reeves (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004) and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Peter Dendle (Penn State Mont Alto).

Ronald Coder

His son, Ron Coder later played football at Penn State and with the Seattle Seahawks.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

In 1951 her family moved to Queens, where she would graduate from John Adams High School in 1959.

Samuel Rayner

Samuel Rayner was born in 1806 at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire); afterwards the family moved to Marylebone in London where he was possibly trained by his grandfather.

Shane Conlan

Conlan capped his junior season at Penn State in the 1985 national championship game in the Orange Bowl against the University of Oklahoma.

Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, 1st Baronet

Through his marriage with Sarah, eldest daughter of the knight Sir Henry Gott of Newland Park, Buckinghamshire he had one son and two daughters.

Star Maidens

Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire.

The Johnson Gang

Notable thefts include Waddesdon Manor on 10 June 2003, a National Trust property and former Rothschild family residence near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.

The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra

The band will release their second single 'Bangarang' which features vocals from Dawn Penn and accordion from Sharon Shannon in February 2014, and Penn joined Thompson and backing singer Fordham on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny (UK TV series) 2013 to perform the track.

The Old Ride School

The Old Ride School (previously called The Old Ride Preparatory School) was an independent school, at Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, later at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.

William Fontaine

During the Truman and later McCarthy eras, Fontaine supported the presidential candidacy of socially liberal Republican governor Harold Stassen, who served as President of Penn from 1948 to 1953.

William Selby Lowndes

Richard Lowndes had represented Buckinghamshire in Parliament between 1741–1774.


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