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12 unusual facts about Putney


Chiswick, New South Wales

Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Greenwich, Woolwich, Henley and Putney.

Elizabeth Wyckes

She was daughter to Henry Wyckes, a well-to-do clothier from Putney, and his wife Mercy, who later married Sir John Pryor after Wyckes' death.

Greenwich, New South Wales

Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Putney, Woolwich and Henley.

Henley, New South Wales

Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Greenwich, Woolwich and Putney.

Henry Cairnes

His widow died on 8 March 1750 and was buried 3 days later at Putney.

John Hartley Durrant

John Hartley Durrant (10 January 1863 in Hitchin – 18 January 1928 in Putney) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Putney, New South Wales

The name was later changed to Putney, derived from its namesake Putney on the River Thames in London.

Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Greenwich, Woolwich and Henley.

One of the colony's wealthiest settlers, Captain William Raven, owned 100 acres that ran between Glades Bay to Morrisons Bay.

Reginald Bamford

Reg Bamford (born 11 October 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a croquet world champion from Putney, England.

RNLB Alfred Corry

The finance for the building of Alfred Corry came from a donation left to the RNLI from the estate of Mr Alfred J Corry of Putney.

Russell-Cooke Solicitors

Russell Cooke LLP is a UK Top-100 law firm based in Putney, United Kingdom.


1836 in sports

17 June — the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, first held in 1829, is revived and the 2nd race takes place on the Thames between Westminster and Putney.

Ailsa Craig Engines

Named after the island Ailsa Craig, the company began as a bicycle manufacturer in Glasgow in 1891, later moving to Putney, in London where the then owner went into partnership and set about building early vehicles, going on to produce the world's first V12 engine and even a petrol engined vacuum cleaner for Hubert Cecil Booth in 1904.

Animal Hospital

The animal hospitals are still in use today and are situated at Sonderburg Road in Islington, North London, Clarendon Drive in Putney, South London, and Eccles New Road, Salford, Greater Manchester.

Arthur John Butler

Butler was born at Putney, the son of the Rev. William John Butler (1818–1894), later Dean of Lincoln, by his marriage to Emma Barnett (1813–1894), a daughter of George Henry Barnett, a banker, of Glympton Park, Woodstock.

Arthur Richard Jelf

Sir Arthur Richard Jelf (September 10, 1837, Pankow, near Berlin - July 24, 1917, Putney) was an English judge.

Bertie Clarke

Dr Carlos Bertram (Bertie) Clarke, OBE (7 April 1918, Lakes Folly, Cats Castle, St Michael, Barbados – 14 October 1993, Putney, London, England) was a West Indian cricketer who played in three Tests in 1939.

Carma Hinton

Carmelita Hinton (grandmother), educator and founder of the Putney School in Vermont.

Christian Bakkerud

On 10 September 2011, Bakkerud was involved in a car crash at the Tibbet's Corner roundabout at Putney Heath, near Wimbledon Common.

Croydon parks and open spaces

The River Wandle is also a major tributary of the River Thames, where it stretches to Wandsworth and Putney for 9 miles (14 km) from its main source in Waddon.

Deeping St James

In the 17th century the manor was associated with the Wymondsold family of Welbeck Place, Putney, Surrey and East Lockinge, Berks.

Enfield Southgate in the 1997 General Election

David Mellor had this really bad tempered spat with Jimmy Goldsmith after the Putney election results had been announced.

Gestingthorpe

In the 19th century the Manor of Over Hall in Gestingthorpe was the home of the Oates family, whose most famous son, Captain Lawrence Oates, was born in Putney, London on 16 March 1880.

Jasper Tudor

Joan Tudor, wife of William ap Yevan (son of Yevan Williams and Margaret Kemoys), and reported mother of Morgan ap William (or Williams) (born Llanishen, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1479), later married at Putney Church, Norwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1499 to Catherine or Katherine Cromwell, born Putney, London, c.

John Lorenzo Young

He was educated at the Communal College of Boulogne, under Professor Opel at Wiesbaden, in 1842 at the Civil Engineering College in Putney, and at King's College London from 1843 to 1845, where John Howard Clark (later Sir John Howard Clark, editor of The Register and who conducted its Geoffry Crabthorn column) was a fellow student.

Joshua Compston

He was born in Putney as the son of a judge, and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford.

Leeds Rowing Club

On 5 November, a Men's IM2 coxed four raced at the Head of the River Fours on the Thames in London, from Mortlake to Putney.

Michael Putney

Since 1981, Putney has broadcast for WPLG, channel 10, an ABC network affiliated television station, located in Miami, Florida, as host of "This Week In South Florida with Michael Putney."

Putney also writes a semimonthly column on politics for The Miami Herald, and has reported for National Observer (United States), Time, and WTVJ.

Netta Muskett

Netta Muskett (born 1887 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England - d. 1963 in Putney) was a British writer of more than 60 romance novels from 1927 to 1963, she also wrote under the pseudonym Anne Hill.

Patricia Dobler

She moved, as the spouse of a writer and professor, to Iowa City; Exeter, New Hampshire; Putney, Vermont; Anchorage, Alaska; Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Texas; and finally Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Putney Bridge tube station

On 1 January 1902, the station was renamed Putney Bridge & Hurlingham referring to its proximity to Hurlingham Park and the Hurlingham Club.

Putney Sculpture Trail

Putney Sculpture Trail encompasses nine sculptures by British sculptor Alan Thornhill which are permanently publicly sited along the south side of the River Thames to either side of Putney Bridge, in the borough of Wandsworth.

Putney Swope

Putney Swope, the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, is accidentally put in charge after the unexpected death of the chairman of the board: each board member actually believed that he, himself, should be elected chairman, but the bylaws of the corporation prohibit voting for oneself, so each individual member voted his secret ballot for the person that no one else would vote for: Putney Swope.

River Thames frost fairs

Soon after Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, took residence at Fulham Palace in 1788, he recorded that the year was remarkable "for a very severe frost the latter end of the year, by which the Thames was so completely frozen over, that Mrs. Porteus and myself walked over it from Fulham to Putney".

Wandsworth Park

The park is situated along the south bank of the River Thames and bordered to the south by Putney Bridge Road.