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unusual facts about Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet



British Mediterranean Airways

British Mediterranean Airways was established as a limited company in 1994 by a group of private investors lead by Lord Hesketh.

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David Richardson

Fire sprinkler

The first of these was Major Hesketh, who, in addition to being a cotton spinner in a large business in Bolton, was Chairman of the Bolton Cotton Trades Mutual Insurance Company.

Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh

Hesketh was the son of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh, and Florence Louise Breckinridge, of Kentucky, daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge, and granddaughter of General (CSA) John C. Breckinridge, Vice-President of the United States of America and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America, in 1909.

Harry Stiller

He is particularly well known for being the person responsible for starting Alan Jones in Formula One in 1975 alongside James Hunt in the Hesketh F1 team.

Hesketh Motorcycles

Mick Broom was the development engineer/ test rider as part of the original development team of the Hesketh marque, and was based with the team in the old laundry at Easton Neston.

Joe Hesketh

Joseph Thomas Hesketh (born February 15, 1959 in Lackawanna, New York) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1984 through 1994 for the Montreal Expos (1984–90), Atlanta Braves (1990) and Boston Red Sox (1990–94).

Kenneth Hesketh

After completing a Masters degree in Composition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, a series of awards followed: the Shakespeare Prize scholarship from the Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg at the behest of Sir Simon Rattle, an award from the Liverpool Foundation for Sport and the Arts, and on his return to London in 1999 Hesketh was awarded the Constant and Kit Lambert Fellowship at the Royal College of Music, with support from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon

On 15 May 1845, he married Maria Harriett Hesketh, daughter of Sir Thomas Hesketh, 4th Baronet in Rufford, Lancashire.

Liverpool and District Cricket Competition

First Division: Ainsdale, Alder, Fleetwood Hesketh, Formby, Liverpool, Newton le Willows, Northop Hall, Orrell Red Triangle, Rainhill, Sefton Park, Wallasey, Wigan.

Much Hoole

Hoole gave its name to a family in the reign of King John and the parish has been held by the Montebegon family and by others, including those of Sir Thomas Hesketh and George Anthony Legh Keck.

Mull Little Theatre

Built from the shell of an old byre (cowshed) in 1963 by Barrie and Marianne Hesketh, it grew in reputation and officially became "Smallest Professional Theatre in the World" according to the Guinness World Records.

Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh

Hesketh's report was eventually published posthumously, in 1999, with a foreword by "Nigel West" (the pseudonym of Rupert Allason).

Roy Hesketh

Lieutenant Roy O. Hesketh (born 1915 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; died September 19, 1944 above Great Bitter Lake, Egypt) was a South African racing driver and South African Air Force pilot.

Rufford Old Hall

In 1846 Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 5th Baronet married Lady Anna Maria Arabella Fermor, sister and heiress of George Richard William Fermor, 5th and last Earl of Pomfret.

Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 5th Baronet

He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Lancashire and Northamptonshire and in 1848 was High Sheriff of Lancashire.

Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet

Fermor-Hesketh died on 19 April 1924 aged 74, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Thomas, who in 1935 was elevated to the peerage as Baron Hesketh.

In 1867 he and his father assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Fermor and in 1876 he succeeded his elder brother as 7th Baronet of Rufford.

Born Thomas George Hesketh, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 5th Baronet, and Lady Anna Maria Isabella Fermor, daughter of Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret.

Southport Botanic Gardens

The company acquired land from the Hesketh Estate (which belonged to Meols Hall) to establish the gardens.

Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh

Hesketh was the son of Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet, and Florence Emily Sharon, daughter of U.S. Senator William Sharon.

West Lancashire Yacht Club

In 1906 the Star class, designed by George Cockshott for the West Lancashire Yacht Club, and built by Lathoms of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £32 each.

William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

William Hesketh Lever is interred with his parents at Christ Church, Port Sunlight.


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