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79 unusual facts about Queen Victoria


1897–98 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

Thames Ironworks' new venue, the Memorial Grounds, was opened on Jubilee Day, 1897, to coincde with the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria to the throne.

5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers F.C.

Ultimately eleven Companies were raised throughout Galloway and their services accepted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Alfred Hollins

Hollins then presented several successful concerts including one at the Crystal Palace, where he performed the solo part of the Emperor Concerto, and a concert at Windsor in the presence of Queen Victoria.

Alfred McCune Home

After being voted patron of the organization, Elizabeth was entertained by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.

Alice Charlotte von Rothschild

Queen Victoria, a close friend, vacationed in Grasse and visited Villa Victoria.

Armour-Bearer

It appeared, however, that the holder had been summoned to perform the office in 1876 during the state visit to Scotland of Queen Victoria and he was in attendance for the visit of King George V in 1911.

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.

Baron Campbell von Laurentz

He petitioned Queen Victoria to use the title in Great Britain, and after an objection by Lord Strathearn, was allowed the title 'Baron Campbell von Laurentz'.

Bedford, Pennsylvania

While Buchanan was there the first trans-Atlantic cable message was sent to his room from Queen Victoria on August 17, 1858.

Beltline, Calgary

It was named after Queen Victoria, who is celebrated in a monument to the Second Boer War located in Central Memorial Park.

Breckinridge County, Kentucky

During the nineteenth century, the Victoria Coal mines, named in honor of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, were the first to produce coal oil, and Cloverport exported coal oil to Great Britain, where it was used to light Buckingham Palace.

Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts

The Guild's most famous works on public display are the main gates of Buckingham Palace and the Canada Gate both part of Sir Aston Webb's memorial scheme to Queen Victoria.

Brühl station

Brühl station was opened on 15 February 1844 by the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company (Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BCE) on the occasion of the visit of Queen Victoria and was from the beginning the most important stop between Cologne and Bonn.

Brunswick stew

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in her Cross Creek Cookery (1942), wrote that the stew, said to have been one of Queen Victoria's favorites, may have come from the original Brunswick: Braunschweig, Germany.

Burmese glass

Burmese glass found favor with Queen Victoria, and from 1886, the British company of Thomas Webb & Sons was licensed to produce their own version known as Queen's Burmeseware, which was used for tableware and decorative glass, often with painted decoration.

Canadian Museum of Nature

The newly renovated museum re-opened again on 22 May 2010, and the lantern structure was christened the "Queens' Lantern" in honour of both Elizabeth II, who visited the building on her 2010 royal tour, and Queen Victoria.

Central line

The line opened in 1900 and was the last line to be built during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Chute-Saint-Philippe, Quebec

The settlement initially had the name Chute-Leon at the beginning of the 20th century, in memory of Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), and was called Victoria Falls by 1903, in honour of Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Clivia nobilis

Charlotte Percy (née Clive), Duchess of Northumberland (1787–1866), governess of Queen Victoria, was the first to cultivate the plant in the United Kingdom and bring it to flower.

Coat of arms of Ottawa

A royal crown alludes to Queen Victoria's choice of Ottawa as Canada's capital, while the maple leaf is the national emblem of Canada.

Demise of the Crown Act 1901

The Act took effect "as from the last demise of the Crown"; i.e. the death of Queen Victoria.

Eastham, Merseyside

In 1894, the Manchester Ship Canal was opened by Queen Victoria, bringing added prosperity to the area and a Jubilee Arch was built at the entrance to the Pleasure Gardens in 1897 to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee.

Écréhous

Philippe Pinel lived on Bliantch'Île from 1848 to 1898 and exchanged gifts with Queen Victoria.

Edward Chandos Leigh

Leigh's cricketing career and first class stats might be considered average but he was a popular choice as President of the MCC in its first centenary year in 1887 and the Golden Jubilee year of Queen Victoria.

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick

Ernest's great-grandfather, Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the fifth son of George III of the United Kingdom, became king of Hanover in 1837 because Salic Law barred Queen Victoria from reigning in Germany.

Ferouk Khan

He was also the Persian ambassador to the emperor of France, Napoleon III, and the king queen of Great Britain, Queen Victoria.

Flag of Quebec

On May 26, 1868, Queen Victoria approved Quebec's first coat of arms.

Gare de Cherbourg

Queen Victoria visited the city and its station the same day and took part in the grandiose celebrations.

George Head

At a later period he became deputy Knight Marshal to Queen Victoria.

Green Park

It was next to the park that was also the site for Edward Oxford's assassination attempt on Queen Victoria on 10 June 1840.

Ham Lambert

His grandfather was veterinary surgeon to three reigning monarchs, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V, his father ran a practice which cared for the draught horses of Dublin from the turn of the 20th century until the early 1930s when working horses became less numerous.

Hartley Colliery Disaster

As the rescuers struggled in vain to rescue the men trapped underground, Queen Victoria sent messages of condolence.

Helford River

A little further up river is Tremayne Quay, built for a visit by Queen Victoria in the 1840s which she then declined to make-—allegedly because it was raining.

Herbert Taylor Reade

After his military service, he served as a surgeon to Queen Victoria.

Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

Grytpype sometimes offers Neddie things instead of cigarettes, such as gorillas or pictures of Queen Victoria.

History of Charlottetown

On June 14, 1873 the "Government House Farm" at Fanning Bank was designated a municipal park, named Victoria Park in honour of Queen Victoria.

History of Kodagu

On 30 June she was baptized, Queen Victoria being one of her sponsors; she afterwards married a British officer who, after her death in 1864, mysteriously disappeared together with their child.

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.

History of watches

Prince Albert, the consort to Queen Victoria, introduced the 'Albert chain' accessory, designed to secure the pocket watch to the man's outergarment by way of a clip.

Hugh Pearson

From 1876 until his death in 1882, Pearson was also a Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Inversnaid

The hotel has had many distinguished guests including Queen Victoria.

Jean René Allard

In 1966, he proposed that a statue of Louis Riel to be erected beside that of Queen Victoria at the Manitoba legislature.

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

King George III Museum

The collection of scientific and mathematical instruments assembled by George III, after whom the museum is named, was donated to the university by Queen Victoria in 1841, and the museum was opened by Albert, Prince Consort on 1 July 1843.

Laurence Westgaph

However it faced criticism for failing to include the likes of Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria.

Law Society of Ireland

The Law Society was formally incorporated by royal charter obtained from Queen Victoria on 5 April 1852, under the name of "the Incorporated Society of Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland".

Legal history of Chinese Americans

Emperor Qianlong wrote a letter to Queen Victoria to say that China has everything and that there is no need to do business with the United Kingdom.

Local government in Queensland

On 29 November, the letters patent authorised by Queen Victoria which were to make Queensland a separate colony were published in New South Wales, and the petition was forwarded to the new Queensland governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen.

Local history

The Victoria History of the Counties of England project begun in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

Lonicera nitida

At Osborne House, a holiday home built in 1845 on the Isle of Wight for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, there are L. nitida shrubs clipped in the form of stags rising from beds of Felicia amelloides, Festuca glauca, and scarlet pelargoniums.

Nottingham Corporation Tramways

Following experiments with Forest City type electrically operated points on the tram track at Woodborough Road and a set made by the Equipment and Engineering Company at the Queen Victoria Statue, a further eight of Forest City manufacture were purchased, enabling the release of 20 point boys.

Outlawries Bill

The following outlawry bill, as introduced during the reign of Queen Victoria, may serve as an illustration for such a bill's form.

Parsee cricket team in England in 1886

The last match of the tour at Cumberland Lodge against Prince Christian Victor's XII was arranged on the express desire of Queen Victoria.

Port Albert

Initially the area was known as Seabank or Old Port, but was changed to New Leith when the town started developing, and later changed to Alberton and Port Albert in honour of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the husband of Queen Victoria.

Porter Brook

The dam became Endcliffe Boating Lake when Endcliffe Park was re-opened in 1887 to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria following major re-design and landscaping by landscape architect William Goldring.

Queensway, London

It was subsequently renamed Queen's Road in honour of Queen Victoria, who had been born at nearby Kensington Palace.

Rachel Kollock McDowell

From an early age, she was interested in writing, and at the age of 15 was paid for her poem on the death of Queen Victoria, published in The New York Journal.

Ranz des Vaches

It became somewhat of a topos in Romantic literature, and figures in the poem Der Schweizer by Achim von Arnim (1805) and in Clemens Brentano's Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1809) as well as in the opera Le Chalet by Adolphe Charles Adam (1834) which was performed for Queen Victoria under the title The Swiss Cottage.

Roderick McLean

Roderick McLean (died June 9, 1921) attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria on March 2, 1882, at Windsor, England, with a pistol.

Seru Epenisa Cakobau

Cakobau retained his position as Fiji's second most senior chief the title of Vunivalu of Bau,and formally ceded the highest and most precedent Chiefly title of Tui Viti or Paramount Chief of Fiji to the person of Her Majesty Queen Victoria which is currently held by her descendant Elizabeth II.

Shire of Cocos

From the 19th century onwards, the islands were owned by the Clunies-Ross family, and in 1886 were granted to them in perpetuity by Queen Victoria.

Sidney J. A. Churchill

In 1901 he was entrusted with the last message from Queen Victoria to the Duke of Orleans.

South Salem, Ohio

According to legend, Mary A. Harriett was born on March 12, 1818 in London, England, the daughter of Queen Victoria's father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn.

St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough

The Abbey was founded in 1881 by the Empress Eugénie (1826–1920) as a mausoleum for her late husband Napoleon III (1808–1873), and their son the Prince Imperial (1856–1879), both of whom rest in the Imperial Crypt, along with Eugénie herself, all in granite sarcophagi provided by Queen Victoria.

Tahbilk

A year later The Argus reported that Tahbilk had received a wine order from Queen Victoria.

Taveta, Kenya

1881 when Queen Victoria gave Mount Kilimanjaro away as a wedding present to her grandson, then Crown Prince of Prussia and later Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

The Mudlark

The Mudlark is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox, a fictionalized account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought out of her mourning for her dead husband, Prince Albert.

A young street urchin (Andrew Ray), half-starved and homeless, finds a locket containing the likeness of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne).

Transnational marriage

Queen Victoria's grandchildren were all over Europe, keeping the royalty together.

Victoria Island

Most of the islands are named for Queen Victoria by British explorers or by others in honour of the popular monarch.

Victoria Mansion

In 1941, Holmes opened the house as the Victoria Mansion (named for Britain’s Queen Victoria) as a museum.

Victoria Park, Barnet

In 1887 Henry Stephens proposed converting the area to a park to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, but it was not opened until 1902, a year after Victoria's death.

Victoria Park, Charlottetown

Shortly after this proclamation, the name Victoria Park was assigned in honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Victoria Park, Regina

Originally a treeless square that was set aside in 1883, it was renamed after Queen Victoria in 1907.

Victoria Stakes

Named in honor of Queen Victoria who had died in 1901, the Victoria Stakes was first run in 1903 at the Old Woodbine Racetrack.

Vin Mariani

Vin Mariani was very popular in its day, even among royalty such as Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland.

Wigan rail crash

In Victorian times annual holidays to Scotland were popular amongst the affluent; inspired by Queen Victoria's visits to Balmoral.

William Ballantine

Although he could be subpoenaed, he could not be forced to give evidence; Queen Victoria, his mother, advised him not to attend the court.

William Knyvett

His unpublished works included the grand anthem, "The King shall rejoice", produced officially for the coronation of George IV, and "This is the day the Lord has made" written for the coronation of Queen Victoria.


Abu Bakr Effendi

Sheikh Abu Bakr Effendi (1814–1880) was an Osmanli qadi who was sent in 1862 by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I at the request of the British Queen Victoria to the Cape of Good Hope, in order to teach and assist the Muslim community of the Cape Malays.

Alberton, Victoria

The township was surveyed in 1842 and named after Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria.

Alfred Gelder

This followed the visit to Hull during May 1903, when Gelder was Mayor of the city, by the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Princess of Wales to unveil a memorial statue of Queen Victoria, a commemoration tablet at the Royal Infirmary and to lay the foundation stone of the new City Hall.

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.

Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore

In 1841, Lady Dunmore was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria but resigned upon her husband's death four years later.

Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran

It was established in 1885 with a concession from the government of Persia to Baron Julius De Reuter, under a Royal charter from Queen Victoria.

Charles Warner

He first appeared in 1861 at a special performances of Richelieu before Queen Victoria.

Combination printing

During the Victorian Era, another proponent of the technique of combination printing was Queen Victoria herself.

Desk

It is made from the timbers of the HMS Resolute, an abandoned British ship discovered by an American vessel and returned to the Queen of England as a token of friendship and goodwill.

Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

The Duchess of Wellington was appointed Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria in 1861 by the Liberal Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, and continued in that role until 1868, serving through the governments of Lord Russell, Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

Fallen London

It is implied that someone known as the Traitor Empress – most likely Queen Victoria – sold the city to the bazaar and allowed it to be taken to spare the life of her husband Albert, Prince Consort.

Finitary relation

An example of a ternary relation (i.e., between three individuals) is: "X was introduced to Y by Z", where \left(X, Y, Z\right) is a 3-tuple of persons; for example, "Beatrice Wood was introduced to Henri-Pierre Roché by Marcel Duchamp" is true, while "Karl Marx was introduced to Friedrich Engels by Queen Victoria" is false.

George Claridge Druce

He presented the City of Oxford with the Sheriff's gold chain and badge, kept in the Town Hall, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

Golf Canada

The Royal prefix was granted to the CGA in June 1896 by Queen Victoria through then Governor General of Canada, Lord Aberdeen.

Győri Keksz

In addition to these, in 1912, the company bought the licence of the Albert keksz (Albert biscuit – probably named after the husband of Queen Victoria) from the British T&T Vicars Company.

Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore

The latter year, in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Honours, Eaton was raised to the peerage as Baron Cheylesmore, of Cheylesmore in the City of Coventry and County of Warwick.

Herend Porcelain Manufactory

The name of well-known patterns refer to the first customers (Queen Victoria, Esterházy, Batthyány, Rothschild, Apponyi).

High sheriff

By contrast, Lord Campbell stated, perhaps without intention of publication, in February 1847, "it began in ancient times, sir, when sovereigns did not know how to write their names." while acquiring a prick and a signature from Queen Victoria as Prince Albert asked him when the custom began.

High Tory

By the reign of Queen Victoria High Tories supported the empire and were personified by the Prime Ministers Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury.

Historical romance

These novels are set between 1832 and 1901 England, beginning with the Reform Act 1832 and including the reign of Queen Victoria.

Hugo Rifkind

This was based on a conversation with site co-founder Jimmy Wales and included the admission that, in 2010, he (Rifkind) had inserted fictitious information about Queen Victoria in the Wikipedia entry for :29 April (the date in 2011 of the then-planned wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton) and had successfully fooled at least two journalists who had used the material in published stories.

Irving Kaufman

The judgment embraced advances in psychiatry and emphatically rejected the M'Naghten test by stating that, "the outrage of a frightened Queen has for far too long caused us to forego the expert guidance that modern psychiatry is able to provide."

Jean de Reszke

De Reszke's singing was admired by Queen Victoria, and between 1889 and 1900 he was invited to take part in a number of royal galas mounted at Covent Garden or command performances held privately at Windsor Castle.

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.

Mayals

During that time the Castle hosted many notable guests, including Adelina Patti, Neville Chamberlain, Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill, and King Edward VIII and later on Jon and Carys Richards.

Mount Frederick William

The mountain was named during the 1860 survey by the HMS Plumper who charted all the of the area and named the mountain after the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick William, who had married Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee Medal

The Golden Jubilee Medal was instituted in 1887 by Royal Warrant as a British decoration to be awarded to participants of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee celebrations.

Queen Victoria Street, London

Queen Victoria Street, named after the British monarch who reigned from 1837 to 1901, is a street in the City of London which runs east by north from its junction with New Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment in Castle Baynard ward, along a section that divides the wards of Queenhithe and Bread Street, then lastly through the middle of Cordwainer ward, until it reaches Mansion House Street at Bank junction.

Robert Coryndon

In November 1899 Queen Victoria signed an order in council that established company rule in "Barotziland – North West Rhodesia", and in September 1900 Coryndon was appointed commissioner.

Southend Hospital

In 1887, to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee, a public fund was started with the aim of building a hospital and site for Southend's first hospital was bought for £350 (in Warrior Square near to Southend High Street).

Victoria Technical Institute

Victoria Technical Institute is an institute established to commemorate the silver jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.

Victorialand

The title refers to the part of Antarctica known as Victoria Land after Queen Victoria (and forming the British claim to the continent, currently dormant under international treaty).

Wendover

The eminent physician Sir Thomas Barlow, who attended Queen Victoria on her deathbed, owned Boswells (a large country house to the South of Wendover) until his death in 1945 and the actor John Junkin lived in Wendover until his death in 2006.

William Lassell

When Queen Victoria visited Liverpool in 1851, Lassell was the only local she specifically requested to meet.

William Penny Brookes

In 1877, Brookes requested a prize from Greece to mark Queen Victoria's jubilee.

Ynysymaengwyn

He gave land and money for the Market Hall, built to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.