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2 unusual facts about Shenstone


Richard Fryer

Fryer's grandfather, also Richard (b. 22 July 1698), was a descendant of the Fryers of Thornes, near Shenstone, where the family seat was an old hall surrounded by a moat.

Wheels Entertainments

Based at Shenstone, in Lichfield, Staffordshire, it is the UK operations arm of Dubai-based Freij Entertainment International.


John Henry Chamberlain

12 Ampton Road (Shenstone House), Edgbaston – Chamberlain's first house; 'the first High Victorian house in the town'

John Scott Hylton

From 1753 he was a resident of Lepall House in Halesowen, where he was a neighbour of William Shenstone, through whom he became a friend of many other members of Shenstone's literary circle, including Lady Luxborough, John Pixell, Richard Graves, Richard Jago and Thomas Percy.

Miracle in Seville

The tale involves a Gypsy matador (Lazaro Lopez), his sister (Magdalena López) who reads fortunes, a cross-eyed Virgin Mary (La Bizca), the American writer (Shenstone), the Spanish bull breeder (Don Cayetano Mota) who is struggling to revive his once-famed herd, and of course the many bulls in Mota's herd.

R. J. Mitchell

Many of the technical advances in the Spitfire had been made by others: the thin elliptical wings were designed by the Canadian aerodynamicist, Beverley Shenstone, and shared some similarities with the Heinkel He 70 Blitz; the under-wing radiators had been designed by the RAE, while monocoque construction had been first developed in the United States.

Shenstone Lodge school

Shenstone Lodge school is a residential special school for children with behaviour or emotional difficulties, in Shenstone, Staffordshire, England, between Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield.

Viscount Hill

The Baronetcy, of Hawkestone in the County of Shropshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1727 for the first Viscount Hill's grandfather Rowland Hill, with remainder to his cousins Samuel Hill, of Shenstone, Thomas Hill, of Tern (whose eldest son Noel Hill was created Baron Berwick in 1784) and Rowland Hill, brother of Thomas.

William Ashwell Shenstone

Shenstone died on 3 February 1908 at the Polurrian Hotel, Mullion, Cornwall, at the age of fifty-eight.

William Ashwell Shenstone FIC FRS (1 December 1850 in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England - 3 February 1908 in Mullion, Cornwall) was a chemist, schoolmaster and published author.


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