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unusual facts about Princess Louise, Holborn



Arthur Macnamara

Sophia's father, a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, was able to secure his daughter a position as a Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen's daughter, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll.

Benjamin Marten

Benjamin Marten (c1690 - 1752) was an English physician from "Theobald's Row" near Red Lyon Square, Holborn, and one of several sons of a tailor.

Bermuda Fitted Dinghy

In 1883, HRH Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, visited Bermuda, and she donated a trophy which was awarded to the winner of a dinghy race held on 8 March, which was restricted to boats both owned and steered by club members.

Biochemical Society

In 2005, the headquarters of the society moved from Portland Place to purpose-built offices in Holborn.

Brickey Farmer

Farmer, a flanker, was born in Holborn and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.

Chan Kam Lee

As a result, he established a small and select class in a schoolroom in Red Lion Square, near Holborn, in Central London, teaching and practising his Chinese Taoist arts.

Dame Alice Harpur School

In 1946, the school changed its name to Dame Alice Harpur School, adopting the name of the wife of Sir William Harpur, who had originally endowed his foundation with land in Bedford and Holborn, London.

Demi Holborn

Holborn was a pupil at Pontnewynydd Primary School when she started her professional singing career, and became the youngest singer in Guinness World Records.

Duchess of Scania

Princess Louise, Duchess of Scania (1850–1859) as consort of Prince Carl, then Queen of Sweden and Norway

Earl of Fife

In 1889, Alexander Duff married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of the future King Edward VII; two days after the wedding, Queen Victoria elevated him to the dignity of Duke of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Francis Moon

Moon was born at St Andrew, Holborn, the son of Christopher Moon, and Ann, daughter of T. Withry.

Freemasons' Hall, London

It is in Great Queen Street between Holborn and Covent Garden and has been a Masonic meeting place since 1775.

Gerhard Weinberg

Reviews of Republic to Reich: The Making of the Nazi Revolution edited by Hajo Holborn; Hitler's Weltanschauung: A Blueprint for Power by Eberhard Jäckel & Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader by Percy Ernst Schramm pages 306-307 from The American Political Science Review, Volume 68, Issue # 1, March 1974.

German Resource Center for Genome Research

The RLDB office in London was located in the main ICRF building at Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn and later moved to bigger premises in the adjacent Royal College of Surgeons building.

Gray's Inn Road

Richard Horwood's map (updated by William Faden in 1813) calls the whole stretch from Holborn to modern Kings Cross "Grays Inn Lane", but by the mid-19th century it is Gray's Inn Road.

History of Regina, Saskatchewan

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, wife of the Duke of Argyll, who was then the Governor General of Canada, named the new community Regina (Latin for queen), after her mother, the Queen.

Holborn

John Shaw, Jr. (1803–1870), architect, was born in Holborn; praised as a designer in the "Manner of Wren".

Hotels in London

Rosewood London HotelHolborn356opened in the 1990s as Renaissance Chancery Court in a grand 1914 former office building

Grange Holborn HotelHolborn200opened in a new building in the late 1990s

John Bagford

Originally a shoemaker by trade, he was active on the book-trading market from 1680 in and around Holborn, travelling to Haarlem, Leiden, and Amsterdam on this business and aiding such collectors as John Moore, Robert and Edward Harley, Sir Hans Sloane, Samuel Pepys and John Woodward.

John Gally Knight

He was the eldest son of Rev. Henry Gally, rector of St. Giles-in-the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex and educated at Eton College (1753–57) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1757), where he was awarded LLB in 1764 and elected fellow in 1764.

John Lesley

For this he was put under the charge of the bishop of London, and then of the bishop of Ely (in Holborn), and afterwards imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Leon Garfield

Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel Jack Holborn, for adult readers but a Constable & Co. editor saw its potential as a children's novel and persuaded him to adapt it for a younger audience.

Lists of people from Camden

Bloomsbury is an area of central London between Euston Road and Holborn, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area.

Lorne, Victoria

Subdivision began in 1869 and in 1871 the town was named after the Marquess of Lorne from Argyleshire in Scotland on the occasion of his marriage to Princess Louise, one of Queen Victoria's daughters.

Louiseville

The new name was a tribute to Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, who had planned to visit the Mauricie that same year.

Maria Luisa of Parma

She was the youngest daughter of Duke Philip of Parma and his wife, Louise-Élisabeth of France, the eldest daughter of King Louis XV.

Mount Alberta

J. Norman Collie named the mountain in 1898 after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta.

National Car Parks

In October 1948, Ronald Hobson founded Central Car Parks, joined by his partner Sir Donald Gosling after the pair invested £200 in a bombsite in Holborn, central London to create a car park.

Norman Nicholson

Nicholson was educated at Holborn Hill School and Millom Secondary School, but his education was interrupted when he needed treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis aged 16, being away for two years in a Linford, Hampshire sanatorium.

Pataudi Trophy

The trophy was designed and made by London Silversmith Jocelyn Burton in her studio in Holborn.

Phineas Pett

It is likely that Robert Holborn, cited as working with Peter Pett of Deptford at this time was a relative of Richard Hoborn, ‘Cousin of Commissioner Pett’.

Princess Louise

Removed from British Columbia Coast Steamships service in 1964, it was moved to Terminal Island of Los Angeles Harbor and opened as America's largest floating restaurant Sept. 25, 1966.

Princess Louise, Holborn

Built in 1872, it is best known for its well preserved 1891 Victorian interior, with wood panelling and a series of booths around an island bar.

Queen's Plate

Queen Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada, is patron of the event and various other members of the Canadian Royal Family have been in attendance through the years, beginning with the Duke of Argyll and his wife, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, in 1881, when the Duke was serving as Governor General of Canada and the couple was touring Ontario.

Richard Farmer

He was a member of clubs: the Eumélean Club at Blenheim Tavern, Bond Street, of which Dr. John Ash was president, the Unincreasable Club, Queen's Head, Holborn, of which Isaac Reed was president, and the Literary Club, founded by Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Robert Tofte

Though no student of law, Tofte kept his lodgings in Holborn near London's Inns of Court, societies that included Edmund Spenser, John Harington, and John Marston as members.

Service Medal of the Order of St John

The "only British medal to retain the head of Queen Victoria on a current issue", the image utilized is based on a bust of the queen created by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll.

Sir Charles Locock, 1st Baronet

The couple adopted a boy, Henry Frederick Leicester Locock, who was born on 30 December 1867 and who was probably their child, but who subsequently told his children that he was the son of Princess Louise.

Sir Christopher Lowther, 3rd Baronet

He spent the remainder of his life dwelling with his father-in-law or in his house on Brook Street, Holborn.

St Clement Danes

In 1844 St. Clement Danes School was constructed on land on Houghton Road, Holborn which the churchwardens had purchased in 1552.

The King's Way

It was built as part of a major plan to clear slum districts in the Holborn area - so the “sick and poor” of the area were a reality.

The Library of St. John the Beheaded

The Library is located in Holborn between the Church of St Giles, London and the Seven Dials district, which was also used as a setting for crime stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie as it was one of London’s ancient ‘rookeries’, tightly packed slums of poverty and lawlessness.

The Plain, Oxford

The fountain was a gift to the city by G. Herbert Morrell, designed by E. P. Warren and officially opened on 25 May 1899 by Princess Louise.

Thomas Farnaby

He was placed on board ship with a view to his transportation to America, but was ultimately sent to Ely House, Holborn, where he was detained for a year.

Winnipeg Route 42

Henderson Highway was named for early Manitoba pioneer Samuel Robert Henderson, Disraeli Freeway was named for Benjamin Disraeli, and Princess Street was named for Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, while King Street was named for John Mark King, a local clergyman, and Donald Street and Smith Street for the 1st Lord Strathcona.

Woodhouse, Leeds

On Holborn Approach (formerly Institution Street) is the Temperance Hall and Mechanics' Institute which was opened by Samuel Smiles in 1851 as an alternative to local pubs for socialising.

Worshipful Company of Mercers

The school was most recently based in Barnard's Inn in Holborn, now the home of Gresham College.


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