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9 unusual facts about Ripon


Blackett baronets

Blackett was succeeded by his elder son, Edward, the second Baronet who represented Ripon and Northumberland in the House of Commons and built Newby Hall.

Geoffry Tattersall

Born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England, Tattersall was a right hand batsman, who scored 26 and a duck in a drawn match against Sussex at Headingley.

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun

However, Loudoun accompanied the army when it invaded England during the Second Bishops' War and once again played a leading role in the treaty negotiations at Ripon and London.

Leeds-Northallerton Railway

The closure of the northern section of the line meant an end to over 100 years of railway service to the city of Ripon.

The section between Leeds and Harrogate is still extant, though it now follows a former branch line to York instead of continuing through Ripon to Northallerton.

Markenfield Hall

Markenfield Hall is an early 14th-century moated country house three miles (5 km) south of Ripon, North Yorkshire.

Randy Fasani

As of the 2010–2011 season, he was the offensive coordinator for the Ripon Christian High School football team in Ripon, California.

Sigurd stones

In parts of Great Britain under Norse culture, the figure of Sigurd sucking the dragon's blood from his thumb appears on several carved stones, at Ripon and Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire, at York and at Halton, Lancashire.

Wakeman

In the city of Ripon, England, the wakeman presided over a nightly curfew.


Berhtwald

The offer in the end was that Wilfrid would retire to Ripon and cease acting as a bishop.

Bishnu Prasad Rabha

This was despite the fact that due to participation in freedom struggle he was forced by the colonial British regime to leave Ripon College at Calcutta and transferred to Victoria College (now Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College) at Cooch Behar.

Blackburn B-3

In 1930, the British Air Ministry issued Specification M.1/30 for a carrier-based torpedo bomber to replace the Ripon, to be powered by the Rolls-Royce Buzzard or Armstrong Siddeley Leopard engines.

Botwine

The late 10th- and early 11th-century writer Byrhtferth of Ramsey in his Vita sancti Oswaldi claimed that Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York, discovered Botwine's relics at the monastery of Ripon (along with those of other early Ripon abbots) and encased them in a new shrine, an account described by historian Michael Lapidge as "problematical" on other points.

Caroline Moir

Commissions include BBC Radio, Ripon Cathedral and Kendal Community Theatre and collaborations with other writers, amongst them Guy Wilson (The Armed Man).

Catterick Crusaders

The club attracted players from Northallerton, Ripon, Leyburn, Thirsk and Harrogate the initial vision of a Hambleton club started to materialize.

Charles Umpherston Aitchison

On this point, in connection with what is known as the Ilbert Bill, he advocated measures even more liberal than those proposed by Lord Ripon's government.

Dulce et Decorum est

It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough but possibly Ripon, between January and March 1918.

George Edmund Street

In 1868 Street was made Diocesan Architect of Ripon, in addition to the similar posts which he already held in the dioceses of York and Oxford, and to which Winchester was subsequently added.

Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon

She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who dedicated his play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included Nellie Melba, whose success in London was largely due to Lady Ripon's support, Nijinsky and Diaghilev.

Howgrave

A farm and a house were detached parts of the township of Nunwick cum Howgrave in the parish of Ripon, and another house was a detached part of the township of Holme cum Howgrave in the parish of Pickhill.

John Wharton

John Lloyd Wharton (1837–1912), British Member of Parliament for Durham, 1871–1874, and Ripon, 1886–1906

Mascoutin Valley State Trail

The trail can be accessed at midpoint near Rush Lake on Lake Road off County Highway E. The trail ends north of Ripon at the junction of County Highway E and Locust Road.

Norton Conyers House

Norton Conyers House is a grade II* listed late medieval manor house with Stuart and Georgian additions sited in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, some 4 miles (7 km) north of Ripon.

Provideo

In the next three months he added a further eight wins: three at Catterick, two at Beverley and one each at Ripon, Lingfield Park and Folkestone.

Ray Mutimer

Ray had selling exhibitions of original Postman Pat artwork at Newby Hall, Near Ripon in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Ripon Rugby Union Football Club

In April 2012 the club celebrated their 125th anniversary.The festival at Mallorie Park titled '125 years of Ripon rugby' was attended by several notable ex players including former England international Peter Squires as well as the members of Wooden Spoon’s Anti-Assassins Club.

San Joaquin Regional Transit District

San Joaquin Regional Transit District (known as "San Joaquin RTD" or simply as RTD) is a transit district that provides bus service to the city of Stockton, California and the surrounding communities of Lodi, Ripon, Thornton, French Camp, Lathrop, Manteca, and Tracy.

Steve Elder

After the seat was abolished in a redistribution, he was elected Member for Ripon from October 1992 to August 1999.

Surendranath Law College

The name was later changed to Ripon College, named after the British Viceroy George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon.

Todd Wehr

Ripon College in Ripon has a building dedicated to Todd Wehr, which houses the mathematics, business, and psychology departments.

WRPN

WRPN-FM, a radio station (90.1 FM) licensed to Ripon, Wisconsin, United States


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