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6 unusual facts about Prichard


Chestnut Ridge people

A 1977 survey of obituaries in The Barbour Democrat showed that 135 of 163 "Ridge people" (83%) were married to people having the last names Mayle, Norris, Croston, Prichard, Collins, Adams, or Kennedy.

Don Q, Son of Zorro

It was loosely based upon the 1909 novel Don Q.'s Love Story, written by the mother-and-son duo Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard.

John Riseley-Prichard

After a lengthy illness he died in Baan Kai Thuan, a remote village approximately 200 km inland of Bangkok.

Prichard-Jones baronets

It was created on 15 July 1910 for John Jones, head of Dickins and Jones (Limited) and founder of the Prichard-Jones Institute and Cottage Homes, Newborough, Anglesey.

Prichard, Alabama

During the 1950s and 60's, Prichard annexed historic Whistler as well as parts of Eight Mile, Alabama and Kushla.

Prichard, West Virginia

In 2003, Allevard opened a coil spring and stabilizer bar plant in Prichard originally employing approximately 90 people.


Agatha Christie Ltd.

Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard, was heir to the copyright to some of his grandmother's literary work (including The Mousetrap) and is still associated with Agatha Christie Limited.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

Johnny Ford

He was, along with A.J. Cooper of Prichard, elected the first black mayors of cities of more than 10,000 people in the modern era in Alabama in 1972 (although Hobson City had been black-run since its incorporation in 1899, but it was a smaller community).

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Prichard moved with her husband, war hero Hugo "Jim" Throssell, VC, to Greenmount, Western Australia, in 1920 and lived at 11 Old York Road for much of the rest of her life.

The 1996 Australian film Shine depicts the close correspondence between Prichard and Australian pianist David Helfgott.

Llandough, Penarth

The current church, which was built in the middle of the 19th century by the Llandaff diocesan architects, Prichard and Seddon, replaced one built a few years earlier, which was apparently sold to the next village of Leckwith, and moved piece-by-piece to be erected there.

Paul Newlan

Newlan portrayed General Prichard on the ABC war series Twelve O'Clock High and appearances on series such as Gunsmoke, The Deputy, Thriller (4 episodes), Wagon Train and most notable the 1964 Twilight Zone episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's".

Peter Bakowski

He has been writer-in-residence at the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome; the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris; the University of Macau; Soochow University, Jiangsu Province, China; the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount, Western Australia; the Hobart Writer’s Cottage in Battery Point, Tasmania; the Arthur Boyd Estate of “Bundanon” near Nowra, New South Wales; the Broken Hill Poetry Festival, New South Wales.

Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet

In 1900 Pearson despatched the explorer and adventurer Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard to Patagonia to investigate dramatic reports of a giant hairy mammal inhabiting the forests, and conjectured to be a giant ground sloth, long since extinct.

Tom Prichard

Prichard competed under his own name with his Heavenly Bodies attire at the Survivor Series 1995, wrestling on future tag team partner Skip's team "The Bodydonnas." Prichard was the first man eliminated as the Bodydonnas defeated Barry Horowitz's "Underdogs" team.

Vernon Prichard

Throughout his football career at West Point, Prichard's favorite receiver was Louis A. Merrilat from Chicago.

The younger Prichard began his education at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, where he also played football and established a reputation as a passer.


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