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unusual facts about Renton, West Dunbartonshire


James Allison Glen

Born in Renton, Scotland, Glen graduated in law from the University of Glasgow before immigrating to Canada in 1911 where he settled in Winnipeg.


Balloch, West Dunbartonshire

It contains Balloch Country Park and Balloch Castle, and is at the southern end of the first Scottish national park, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.

Barbara Madsen

Justice Madsen, a native of Renton, WA, graduated from Hazen High School.

Chris Loseth

He had five wins in one day at California's Golden Gate Fields and won six races on three occasions (1974, 1976, 1994), doing it twice in Vancouver and once at Longacres Racetrack in Renton, Washington.

Clan Lumsden

The manor of Lumsden is first mentioned when Edgar, King of Scotland, son of Malcolm III of Scotland refounded Coldingham Priory in the county of Berwick, endowing it with the villages of Swinewood, Renton, Lumsdene and Coldingham.

Clydebank Post

It has the largest readership of any weekly newspaper dedicated to serving the West Dunbartonshire area, with an ABC adult readership for the period between 33,550 for July 2007 to December 2007.

David Malcolm Renton

Renton's first major solo job was the construction of the observation tower of the Mt. Wilson Observatory.

By 1931, business was promising enough that Renton decided to open branches on the mainland: in both Hollywood and the Mexican style section of Los Angeles known as Olvera Street.

After purchasing Catalina Island, William Wrigley Jr. commissioned Renton to design and build another private residence on a hill overlooking the south end of Avalon Bay.

David Renton, Baron Renton

Renton joined the British delegation to draft the European Convention on Human Rights in 1950.

According to The Washington Post in 2005, Renton maintained that "the genius of the upper house is that it includes world-renowned experts in law, science and the arts who would never run for election", and that "Democracy has its limitations." His memoirs, The Spice of Life, were published in 2006.

Gordon Glisson

He began working at the Longacres Racetrack in nearby Renton, Washington then as an apprentice jockey rode in his first race at the Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha, Nebraska.

Highland Park and Lake Burien Railway

It was called "The Highline" to distinguish it from "The Mainline" which in the south end went out the Duwamish/Green River Valley to Renton Junction, on to near Kent and Auburn to Puyallup onto Tacoma.

Houghton, Washington

The headquarters of the Seattle Seahawks were located in Houghton, near Northwest University until moving to new quarters in Renton in 2008.

Jack Ashurst

John "Jack" Ashurst (born 12 October 1954 in Renton, West Dunbartonshire) is a Scottish former professional football player.

Kris Renton

Having been spotted playing in the summer of 2006 in Scotland playing for Musselburgh Windsor by Academy scout Karl Brady, Renton began the 2006–07 season in the youth team.

Lake Washington

The cities and towns bordering the lake, going clockwise from the west, are Seattle, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, Kirkland, Yarrow Point, Hunts Point, Medina, Bellevue, Beaux Arts Village, Newcastle, and Renton.

Police Beat

This obsession with the absence of his girlfriend and the escalating jealousy and paranoia makes him unfazed by the crimes he witnesses, which take place in locations all over Seattle (including the Arboretum, Gasworks Park in Wallingford, and the Boeing factory in Renton) on different levels of depravity.

Renton Millar

In an interesting aside Renton attended Essendon Grammar and shared the same year level as Curtis Stone - a famous chef, Shannon Bennett of Vue De Mond one of Australia's top chefs and Dustin Fletcher who is a champion AFL footballer, playing for Essendon.

StayFriends.de

Since January 2004, StayFriends GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Classmates Online (Renton, USA), the operator of the online community Classmates.com, which is a subsidiary of the U.S. internet company United Online.

Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast was founded by Peter Adkison in 1990 just outside Seattle, Washington, and its current headquarters are located in nearby Renton.


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