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His uncle Christopher Hollis was a writer and Conservative politician, and he shared a grandfather, the Anglican later bishop-suffragan of Taunton, the Right Revd George Arthur Hollis (1868–1944), with first cousin Crispian Hollis who is the Bishop of Portsmouth for the Catholic Church.
A Private Members Bill, the Historic Counties (Traffic Signs and Mapping) Bill, was twice introduced into the 2001–2005 Parliament, first by John Randall (Conservative, Uxbridge) in 2003, and again in 2004 by Adrian Flook (Conservative, Taunton), who "paid tribute to the Association of British Counties for trailblazing the campaign".
Philip Bisse (1540–1613) - Puritan Minister, Archdeacon of Taunton, gave nearly 3000 books to found the library at Wadham College, Oxford.
Points West is produced by BBC West from BBC Broadcasting Centre at Whiteladies Road, Bristol with reporters also based at newsrooms in Bath, Gloucester, Swindon and Taunton.
In 1650, he was imprisoned in Taunton Castle and after the Battle of Worcester helped some Royalists to escape abroad.
Copies also at Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton and at The Baker Business School Library at Harvard University.
The fine high altar, dating from 1872 and originally part of The Sisters of Perpetual Adoration convent chapel in Taunton, was installed in 1929 and designed by John Francis Bentley of Westminster Cathedral fame.
The former home of Taunton MP Edward du Cann, in 1993 du Cann sold the property to Alastair and Mary-Anne Robb.
Created in 1987, the riding contained the town of Whitby from south of Taunton Road.
Goodland was a member of a prominent Taunton family involved in the coal trade and in bringing coal to the town by water through improvements to the navigation on the River Tone and the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal.
He became a solicitor in Taunton, and in 1836 established a local newspaper there, the Somerset County Gazette.
Harris Street Bridge, Taunton, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
According to legend, phantom hitchhikers have been reported since the 1950s on the A38 road between Wellington and Taunton in Somerset.
He resigned his congregations to succeed James as minister at Fullwood (or Pitminster), near Taunton.
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His grandfather was the ejected vicar of Pinhoe, Devon, whose son, a Taunton upholsterer, married a sister of John Rowe, ejected from a lectureship at Westminster Abbey; Henry was the youngest of fourteen children, most of whom died young.
In July, Doddridge, who had been asked to find a minister for the independent congregation at Taunton, applied to Farmer, who declined the overture; he explained that he was not Calvinistic enough for Taunton, the liberal element in the congregation having seceded with Thomas Amory.
Much of the Hundred fell into the great manor of Taunton Deane, which was the property of the Bishop of Winchester.
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The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Taunton, Wellington Urban District, Taunton Rural District, and Wellington Rural District.
James Basset (1526–1558) was a gentleman from an ancient Devonshire family who became a servant of Stephen Gardiner (c. 1483-1555), Bishop of Winchester, by whom he was nominated MP for Taunton in 1553, for Downton in 1554, both episcopal boroughs.
Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet (1831–1914), MP for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth, Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857–1858
Larry Alex Taunton (born, May 24, 1967) is an American author, columnist, radio talk show host, and cultural commentator based out of Birmingham, Alabama who serves as the Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the public defense of the Christian faith.
The 1926 season was Hill's best with the bat and against Gloucestershire at Taunton, batting at No 10, he hit 60 in "just over half an hour", with two sixes and 10 fours and including 18 off a single over from Charles Parker.
On 17 August 2002, at the age of 19, in her third Test, she broke Karen Rolton's record of World’s highest individual Test score of 209 by scoring a new high of 214 against England in the second and final Test at Taunton.
The western part of the site close to the railway was sold off to either commercial developers (including a new production site for Taunton Blackthorn Cider), re-utilised as a cheap trading estate, or sold onwards to Taunton Deane borough council for redevelopment as housing.
In 1899, this mill was acquired by New England Cotton Yarn Company, which also included the Cohannet Mills in Taunton, and several other mills in Fall River and New Bedford.
Taunton site, Adams County, Washington (P. harroldorum) about 4.9—1.8 Mya (Plionarctos harroldorum)
The Bristol to Exeter Line runs between Bristol and Exeter via the Nailsea, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater and Taunton.
The fifth Baronet sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth and served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857 to 1858.
The eastern end of Taunton was separated from that town and incorporated as Raynham (named after the English village of Raynham in the county of Norfolk, England) on April 2, 1731.
Statue of Robert Treat Paine (a Signer of the Declaration of Independence) in Taunton, Massachusetts (1904)
Richard Henry Hall (1830–1909), American politician, mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts
Andrew Castle, former British number one tennis player and television presenter.
Richard Everett Warner, (b. 1861) American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts
Shirley is home to several schools including Upper Shirley High School (formerly Bellemoor Boys School), Richard Taunton Sixth Form College (formerly Taunton's College) and the 450-year-old King Edward VI School.
It covers a leasable area of over 1 million sq ft, and serves multiple cities in the region including: Taunton, Brockton, New Bedford, and Fall River.
Sussan Taunton, studied alongside Jorge Salinas at the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa.
Various non-profit organizations and associations such as the Taunton Airport Association, the Brockton Flying Club, and the Civil Air Patrol.
Taunton Press has published for some of the most well-known names in their specialities, such as Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking and the Sam Maloof DVD.
On the evening of 4 November 2011 seven people were killed and fifty one injured in a multi-vehicle accident on the M5 south of the area where Taunton RFC were holding a fireworks display.
Opened in 1927, Taunton is the youngest National Hunt course in England, and the last racecourse to be opened in Britain until Great Leighs in 2008.
From 2003, Past-Time Rail revived the Torbay Express as a passenger charter steam locomotive service, to run on certain summer Sundays and some Saturdays, from: Bristol Temple Meads via stops at Weston-Super-Mare and Taunton; to Paignton and onwards vis the Dartmouth Steam Railway to Kingswear.
After leaving school at Plymouth, he went to the Independent College at Taunton, and then returned to finish his education at the Mannamead School (Later called Plymouth College).
Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet (c. 1632–1683), of Orchard Wyndham, English politician, Member of Parliament for Somerset, 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679
WSNE-FM, a radio station (93.3 FM) licensed to Taunton, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call signs WRLM and WRLM-FM from 1966 until 1980
The Yeovil to Taunton Line was a railway line in the UK built by the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) to connect the important town of Yeovil to its network.