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unusual facts about Spencer-Stanhope family


A. M. W. Stirling

Her name at birth was Anna Marie Diana Wilhelmina Pickering, the daughter of Anna Marie Wilhelmina Spencer-Stanhope and her husband, Perceval Pickering.


Adelaide Fringe Festival

In 2014, the event's mascot will be Disco Cuttlefish, a 13 m long street performance puppet inspired by the Giant Australian Cuttlefish of Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

Ameen Rihani

He eventually became familiar with the writings of Shakespeare, Hugo, Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, Whitman, Tolstoy, Voltaire, Thoreau, Emerson and Byron, to name a few.

Arthur Foxton Ferguson

The premiere of the Vaughan William's Two Vocal Duets ("The Last Invocation" and "The Bird's Love Song") in 1904, which were the composers' first settings of Walt Whitman, were sung by Foxton Ferguson and Beatrice Spencer who had also sung the premieres of two of the German duets together.

Battle of Lower Sioux Agency

George H. Spencer was kept in captivity throughout the war and was later rescued at Camp Release.

Baywood, Virginia

The old-time banjo player Haywood Blevins was recorded at Baywood by Peter Hoover on August 25, 1961, and the banjo player James Spencer Caudill was recorded at his home in Baywood by Blanton Owen on March 21, 1974; both of these recordings are housed at the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Culture.

Bend in the Road

Spencer continued his tradition of recording songs by Elmore James and Homesick James, and also took inspiration from poetry and passages from the Bible.

Blazer's Scouts

Colonel Carr B. White organized the original cavalry company (initially known as the Brigade Scouts or Spencer's Scouts) at Fayetteville, West Virginia, in mid-September 1863.

Cecil Ponsonby

John, 5th Earl of Bessborough, played five games in the 1830s; Frederick, the 6th Earl, played more than 70 games between 1834 and 1856, and was a founder of both Surrey and I Zingari; while Spencer appeared over 60 times between 1841 and 1862.

Charles R. Spencer

Charles R. Spencer (generally called the Spencer) was a steamboat built in 1901 to run on the Willamette and Columbia rivers from Portland, to The Dalles, Oregon.

Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer

Cecil Edward Robert Spencer RN DSC Croix de guerre (1894–1928), died unmarried in a riding accident.

Charlotte Spencer, Countess Spencer

Charlotte Frances Frederica Spencer VA (née Seymour) (28 September 1835 – 31 October 1903) was a daughter of Frederick Charles William Seymour (a son of Lord Hugh Seymour) and Lady Augusta Hervey (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Bristol).

Citizen Joe

Bruce Woloshyn (digital effects supervisor) appears in a cameo as the garage sale homeowner who sells Joe Spencer the Ancient stone device.

Clemens Weiss

Clemens Weiss has works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Folkwang Museum (Essen), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), New York Public Library (The Spencer Collection), Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Palace of Nations (Geneva), University of South Florida (Art Museum), Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany) and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (USA).

Comparethemarket.com

In December 2012 another advert was launched this time featuring Maurice Wigglethorpe-Throom (played by Robert Webb) the founder of Compare the Market and his assistant Spencer who find out about Aleksandr (who makes a cameo appearance in a photograph) and Compare the Meerkat.

Countess Spencer

Victoria Aitken (formerly Victoria, Countess Spencer; born 1965), sister-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales

Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (born 1929), stepmother of Lady Diana Frances Spencer

Coward of the County

The movie added several characters not mentioned in the song, including: Car-Wash (Noble Willingham), a friend of the Spencer family, Violet (Ana Alicia), a local girl who also loved Tommy, and Lem Gatlin (Joe Dorsey), father of the Gatlin boys (brothers Jimmy Joe, Paul, and Luke).

David Spencer

Spencer has won the Verity Bargate Award twice, for his plays Releevo and Killing the Cat.

Don't Dress for Dinner

This production of the Roundabout Theatre is directed by John Tillinger, and features Ben Daniels, Patricia Kalember, Adam James, Jennifer Tilly, David Aron Damane, and Spencer Kayden.

F. Richard Spencer

On May 22, 2010, Spencer was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and titular bishop of Auzia by Pope Benedict XVI.

Father's Little Dividend

Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett had made films together two decades earlier, including Me and My Gal (1932), in which their characters marry, and She Wanted a Millionaire (1932).

Franklin W. Olin

They had three sons, Franklin W. Jr. (predeceased), John, and Spencer, all three of whom also graduated from Cornell.

George Spencer Academy

Students' forms are split into George Spencer's four houses: Armstrong, Hubble, Loxley and Socrates.

Henry Trivick

He was a visiting instructor at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) where he taught Spencer the art of lithography.

I Had a Ghetto Dream

# "Too Hott" (Southside Playaz featuring Ronnie Spencer, C-Note, Big Moe, Lil' O, Al-D, Big Pokey, Will-Lean, Lil' Keke, Big Steve & Big Hawk)

István Bujtor

Based on his real life similarity with Spencer, later a series of Hungarian comedies were created in the Bud Spencer-Terrence Hill genre, in which Bujtor played hard-hitting detective Csöpi Ötvös partnered with fellow Hungarian actor András Kern.

Java Green

Java Green is operational at different locations including educational institutions like DA-IICT,SRM University and IIM Bangalore, hospitals like KDA Hospital, Mumbai and Fortis, corporate offices like DAKC, Mumbai and IBM, Reliance Web worlds and Spencer's retail.

Jennings Bryant

Bryant was a Spencer Foundation Fellow in Formative Evaluation for Children's Television Workshop in New York in 1972 where he worked on research underpinning the creation of new segments and formats for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

Jeremy Spencer and the Children

Released in 1972, this is his second solo album although it was credited to Jeremy Spencer and the Children, referring to his band made up of members of the Children of God (Family International) organisation.

Jez Spencer

Jez Spencer was an American rock band, based in Austin, Texas which was formed by Spencer Gibb and later evolved to 54 Seconds.

Lyn Spencer

During the early 1970s, Spencer was a youth worker at the Camden Youth Project in North London and an English & drama teacher at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School in Felling, Gateshead.

Megan Spencer

In June 2006 Spencer was criticised for a live on-air review for the movie X-Men: The Last Stand, in which she commented "Jews used to be oppressed and now they are the oppressors" (in reference to the character Magneto, a Jewish holocaust survivor).

Michael Plaskow

He was an Honorary Grand Chaplain of the Freemasons, and received the 1992 Norman B. Spencer award for research into Freemasonry.

Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

On April 26, 2006, a Taylor University van carrying nine students and staff members collided with a tractor-trailer being driven by Robert F. Spencer on Interstate 69 in Indiana.

North Carolina Superior Court

The first three judges elected by the North Carolina General Assembly were Samuel Ashe of New Hanover County, Samuel Spencer of Anson County, and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Iredell of Chowan County.

Orders, decorations, and medals of Hong Kong

Air Force Cross (AFC)
Danny Cheung Kwong (1965)
Richard Paul Seymour (1973)
Peter Stephen Boyland (1992)
Christopher Jeremy Spencer Fynes (1993)
Steven Derek Murkin (1993)

Paddy Boom

TSR recorded two album 1990s "From The From" and 1992's "Scram", the later produced by Mark Spencer, guitarist for Lisa Loeb, Freedy Johnston and Blood Oranges.

Radio Éireann Players

The founding actors (plus three who joined the following year) were: Tom Studley, George Greene, Éamonn Kelly, Joe Lynch, Arthur O'Sullivan, Laurence O'Dea, Frank O'Dwyer, Christine Spencer, Ginette Waddell, Marie Mulvey, Gerard Healey, Leo Leyden, Charles McCarthy, Deirdre O'Meara, Una Collins, Seamus Forde, Charles Davis, Ronald Ibbs, Florence Lynch, Mairín Ní Shuilleabháin, Joseph O'Dea, Christopher Casson, John Stephenson and Aidan Grennell.

Renzo Novatore

And so he is critical of thinkers such as "Darwin, Comte, Spencer and Marx" which he sees as sociologists who will tend to not being "able to understand the varied, the particular,... sacrifices the one or the other on the altar of the universal."

Republic RC-3 Seabee

In April 1943 Spencer left Republic Aircraft to join the Mills Novelty Company of Chicago, Illinois who wanted to use his Air Car to promote their company.

Robert Traill Spence Lowell

He was invited by Bishop Spencer, of Newfoundland, to go to Bermuda, where he was made deacon in December 1842, and priest in March 1843, and was also appointed domestic chaplain to the bishop and inspector of schools in the colony.

Second Battle of Algeciras

In France the battle was represented as a victory, largely based on a report sent to Paris by Dumanoir le Pelley on the strength of a letter written by Captain Troude, which claimed that he had fought not only Venerable and Thames, but also Caesar and Spencer (misidentified in the report as Superb).

Sir Frederick Arnold-Baker

Sir Frederick Spencer Arnold-Baker (born 1 April 1885) was the son of Frederick Arnold-Baker (born 30 Dec 1845) and Helen Catherine Nairne (born 1 Sept 1843), and grandson of the New Zealand watercolourist Major Richard Baker (1810–1854).

Spencer P. Jones

In August 1983 while a member of The Johnnys, Spencer formed a side-project, Beasts of Bourbon (1983–85, 1988–93, 1996–97, 2003–08, 2013) with James Baker on drums (ex-Hoodoo Gurus), Tex Perkins on vocals (Dum Dums), Kim Salmon on guitar and Boris Sujdovic on bass guitar (both ex-The Scientists).

Spencer, Indiana

Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan‘s mother was from Spencer.

Vienna, West Virginia

In 1794, Dr. Joseph Spencer gave the city its name after Vienna, New Jersey, where he had participated in a Revolutionary War battle.

William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire

James Lees-Milne: The Bachelor Duke: Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858 (1991).

Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday

Background vocals by The Originals (Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Hank Dixon, C.P. Spencer) and The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps)


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