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6 unusual facts about Skelton


Buenos Aires Football Club

The founding committee was formed by: Thomas Hogg, 24 years old, born in Skelton, York, Yorkshire; his brother James Hogg, 26 years old, born in Skelton, York, Yorkshire; Thomas Jackson, 29 years old, born in Cumberland; Thomas Barlow Smith, 21 years old, born in Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire; and Walter Heald, secretary, 29 years old, born in Pendle, Lancashire.

Eric Garrett

Born in Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, Garrett was a member of the roster of singers at the Royal Opera, London at Covent Garden for forty years.

Old All Saints Church, Skelton-in-Cleveland

Old All Saints Church, Skelton-in-Cleveland, is a redundant Anglican church in the town of Skelton-in-Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England.

Skelton Hall

In 1814 Mrs Mary Thompson, the widow of Henry Thompson, came to live in Skelton at The Cottage from where she not only kept an eye on the repairs that she financed at the church, but also on the building of Skelton Lodge (later Hall) which is shown in an 1839 lithograph.

Skelton-on-Ure

It was used as a location in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (2007) broadcast by PBS in its Complete Jane Austen series.

Skelton, York

It is mentioned by Nikolaus Pevsner in his 1966 The Buildings of England: Yorkshire North Riding, by John Betjeman in his 1958 English Parish Churches and by Simon Jenkins in his 1999 England's Thousand Best Churches.


Carl Breer

He also invited Owen R. Skelton to Studebaker, bringing together the Zeder-Skelton-Breer engineering team, which came to be known as "The Three Musketeers".

Central Band of the Royal Air Force

The current band master is Warrant Officer Skelton LRSM LTCL ALCM.

Charles Skelton

Skelton's uncle Abraham Doan was a member of the infamous Doan Outlaws, and was executed for his role as a Tory during the American Revolution.

Damned Good Show

Skull Skelton, a character in those earlier novels, is one of the protagonists of Damned Good Show. Like all of Robinson's novels, Damned Good Show points out the inadequacies of the pre-war establishment and the many hurdles that Bomber Command had to overcome during the course of the war, such as inadequate aircraft—in this case the Handley Page Hampden, and the inaccuracy of the night-time bombing raids on Germany.

Eden FM Radio

Local towns and villages covered by Eden FM Radio include Penrith, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Langwathby, Greystoke, Shap, Skelton and Melmerby.

Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

Joe Skelton, the father of Red Skelton, once worked as a clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.

Jack Bros.

The game allows players to play as one of three brothers - Jack Frost, Jack Lantern, or Jack Skelton - as they deal with the predicament of returning to the fairy realm on Halloween in time to not disappear from existence.

John Skelton

In Anthony Munday's Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Skelton acts the part of Friar Tuck, and Ben Jonson in his masque, The Fortunate Isles, introduced Skogan and Skelton in like habits as they lived.

Five of Skelton's 'Tudor Portraits', including 'The Tunnying of Elynour Rummyng' were set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in or around 1935.

John Skelton Williams

John Skelton Williams (July 6, 1865 - November 4, 1926) was a United States Comptroller of the Currency from 1914 to 1921 and the first president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway.

Lochmaben

Robert de Brus Lord of Skelton in the Cleveland area of Yorkshire, was a notable figure at the court of King Henry I of England, where he became intimate with Prince David of Scotland, that monarch's brother-in-law.

Margaret Seymour

Margery Wentworth, married name Margery or Margaret Seymour, mother of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII and muse of the poet John Skelton

Mark C. Hunter

Hunter's studies have been influenced primarily by the works of Jan Glete, Andrew Lambert, William B. Skelton, David Starkey (maritime historian) and the statistical methodologies employed by maritime historians of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project.

Marquess of Ailesbury

On 18 March 1664, Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland was created Baron Bruce, of Skelton in the County of York, Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, and Earl of Ailesbury, in the County of Buckingham, all in the Peerage of England.

Noel Skelton

Macmillan then used it as the intellectual basis for the 1950s house-building boom, while his successor as prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, owed his early political career to Skelton, as his PPS from 1931-35.

Owen Ray Skelton

Skelton was born on February 9, 1886, his family living in Edgerton, Ohio, at the time.

Philip Skelton

In 1744 Skelton published The Candid Reader, a satire on the verse-making of Hill the mathematician, on the Rhapsody of Lord Shaftesbury, and the Hurlothrumbo of Samuel Johnson.

Robin Skelton

Known as a practising Wiccan, Skelton also published a number of books on the subject of the occult and other neopagan religions.

Rogerius of Apulia

, A. Onnerfors (Berlin 1967); an English translation in R.A. Skelton, T.E. Marston, and G.D. Painter, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation (New Haven 1965) 54-101.

Ryedale

The district lost about half its population in 1996, when an expanded City of York became a unitary authority, specifically the parishes of Clifton Without, Earswick, Haxby, Heworth Without, Holtby, Huntington, Murton, New Earswick, Osbaldwick, Rawcliffe, Skelton, Stockton-on-the-Forest, Strensall, Towthorpe, and Wigginton.

The Footprints on the Ceiling

Harte and Merlini are soon swept up into a complex and bizarre plot involving the death of Linda Skelton, an agoraphobic heiress, at her home on Skelton Island, a tiny island in the East River of New York City.

The Four Knights

Seated:Verna Felton ("Grandma" to Skelton's "Junior" character), Rod O'Connor (announcer), Lurlene Tuttle ("Mother" to Skelton's "Junior" character).

The Wicked Lady

The story was based on the novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall, which in turn, was based upon the (disputed) events surrounding the life of Lady Katherine Ferrers, the wife of the major landowner in Markyate on the main London - Birmingham road.

Tom Mullica

He has also performed at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and toured the US and Canada with RED – A Performance Tribute, a Red Skelton Tribute show which Tom wrote and stars in as Red Skelton and his characters.

Xander Parish

He began dancing at the age of 8, at the Skelton-Hooper School in Kingston upon Hull, under the direction of Principal and former Royal Ballet and Northern Ballet Theatre soloist, Vanessa Hooper.


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