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4 unusual facts about Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore


Australian Army Cadets

In 1869, the Newington College Cadet Corps was formally incorporated by the Governor of New South Wales (Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore) and that unit is now believed to be the oldest continually running corps in Australia.

Belmore Park

The area was landscaped and in 1868 it opened as a park dedicated to Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore the then Governor of New South Wales.

Belmore, New South Wales

Belmore is named after the fourth Earl of Belmore, Governor of New South Wales from 1868-1872.

Goulburn railway station

The station buildings were opened in 1869 with arrival of the railway from Sydney, which was opened by the Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city), along with the completion of the line from Sydney to Albury in 1881 (and the connection with Victorian Railways in 1883), was a boom to the town.


Alaska Packers' Association

Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the APA began to replace its wooden ships with iron-hulled vessels by purchasing a number of ships built by Harland & Wolff Co. for James P. Corry and Co.'s Star Line.

Alexandre Colonna-Walewski

He married Lady Catherine Caroline Montagu (1808–1833), daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, and Lady Louisa Mary Anne Julia Harriet Lowry-Corry, on 1 December 1831.

Armar Lowry-Corry

There he and his brother, Lord Belmore, of Enniskillen, visited such sights as the Temple of Dendur, where Corry inscribed his name as graffiti in the Temple of Dendur.

Barber National Institute

In 1969, a facility was opened in Corry, Pennsylvania to provide services for individuals in southern Erie County.

Beragh

In the 1820s this village, the property of Earl Belmore, was described as having "one long wide street of very mean houses whose tenants for the most part appear to be poor".

Catherine Murray di Montezemolo

The Murray family was the main subject of Stephen Birmingham's book Real Lace: America's Irish Rich and John Corry's Golden Clan: The Murrays, the McDonnells, & the Irish American Aristocracy.

Corry

Eoghan Corry (b. 1961) Irish columnist, travel writer, author of sports history, and founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland.

Stephen Corry, Director of the British indigenous rights organisation Survival International

Corry Brokken

John Kennedy O'Connor's book, The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, notes that Corry is the only singer ever to have finished both first and last in the contest.

Derrymore House

Derrymore was sold by Corry in 1810, when he moved to Dublin, and was later acquired by the Young family.

I'll Bury You Tomorrow

I'll Bury You Tomorrow is a 2002 low-budget independent thriller written and directed by Alan Rowe Kelly produced by New Millennium Pictures, starring Zoë Daelman Chlanda, Bill Corry, and Katherine O'Sullivan.

Isaac Corry

In 1806 the changes in ownership of the Newry estates altered Corry's position; the lands had passed to a senior line of the Needham family and Lady Downshire, decided to return his brother General Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey at the general election.

John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore

Another important purchase was ‘The Leslie Conversation Piece’ by J.H. Mortimer, which had previously been at Castle Leslie in Glaslough, a village in the north-east corner of County Monaghan.

The Rt. Hon. John Armar Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore (born 4 September 1951), is an Irish peer and the son of The 7th Earl Belmore.

His most important acquisition was a painting of the ‘heavenly twins’ Castor and Pollux by Giovanni Battista Cipriani.

KV30

It was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1817, working on a commission from the Second Earl Belmore.

Pennsylvania oil rush

In 1862 the Oil Creek Railroad Company completed a line that connected Titusville to the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad and the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad in Corry, Pennsylvania.

Peter Corry

Corry's production company, 'PC Productions" brought One Enchanted Evening to the Odyssey venue. Joanna Ampil, Barbara Dickson and Brian Kennedy shared the stage with Corry and a choir of 850 and "The Night of 1000 Voices" at the Odyssey Arena. It also staged "The Night of 1000 Voices" starrind David Essex and Sir James Galway.

Red Rowdies

Two of them, Corry Worrell and Brandon Pittman, were guests on ESPN2's Cold Pizza on December 5, 2006.

RNLB Alfred Corry

The finance for the building of Alfred Corry came from a donation left to the RNLI from the estate of Mr Alfred J Corry of Putney.

Rockcorry

According to the Introduction to the Dartrey Papers (published by P.R.O.N.I. in Belfast and available to view online), part of the Fairfield Estate, the Corry family's country estate that included Rockcorry, was bought for The 3rd Baron Cremorne (1817-1897), the young head of the Dawson family of neighbouring Dartrey, in 1831.

Stephen Corry

Stephen Corry (born 1951) is a British anthropologist and indigenous rights activist, better known as the Director of the non-governmental organisation Survival International.

William M. Corry, Jr.

In August 1917, Lieutenant Corry began World War I service in France, where he commanded Naval Air Stations at Le Croisic and Brest during 1918 and early 1919.

WWCB

WWCB (1370 AM) is an oldies/classic hits radio station licensed to Corry, Pennsylvania and serving Corry, Union City, eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania and Clymer, New York from its studio located at 122 North Center Street (PA 426) in downtown Corry and a transmitter facility off of West Columbus Avenue (U.S. Route 6).


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