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67 unusual facts about St George


Ahead of the Class

After being Head teacher at The Douay Martyrs School, Ickenham, she takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in North West London.

Anthony Ogogo

A 1,000-plus capacity crowd watched the bout at the St George's Hall in Liverpool.

Arthur Grimshaw

He was appointed Assistant Chaplain at Geelong Grammar School from 1959 to 1961, vicar of Romsey and Sunbury with Lancefield from 1961 to 1964 and Precentor at St George's Cathedral, Perth from 1964 to 1968.

Brian Bainbridge

He was a right arm off break bowler, who took 20 wickets at an average of 17.90, with a match winning best of 6 for 53, in Yorkshire's 52 run win over Essex at St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate, in 1961.

Charles Ferdinand, Prince of Capua

Later, Charles applied for a Special marriage licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury in order to marry (or re-marry) Miss Smyth at St George's, Hanover Square.

Commission for Building Fifty New Churches

The Commission funded in part the rebuilding of five other churches – St George Gravesend, St George the Martyr Southwark, St Giles in the Fields, St Mary Magdalen Woolwich and St Michael, Cornhill.

Coventry United F.C.

The badge also features the name of the club at the top of the badge, while at the bottom it features the St George's Cross with the year 2013, the year which the club formed.

Douglas James Smith

He stood as an umpire six times in first-class cricket, including replacing Alfred Atfield for the fifth Test between South Africa and England at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth in 1913–14.

Flag of Sardinia

It was said that St. George miraculously appeared on the field of battle and that there were four severed heads of Saracen kings at the end; thus the red cross and white background of the St George's Cross and the heads of four Moors.

The flag is of medieval origin, and is composed of the St. George Cross and four heads of blindfolded Blackamoors (or Maures) which in the past were turned towards the left.

Francis Darwin

He then went to study medicine at St George's Medical School, London, earning an MB in 1875, but did not practice medicine.

Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter

He then studied medicine at St George's Hospital, London, graduating MB ChB (the standard medical degree at the University of London) in 1908.

Giorgi Mazniashvili

Wounded in the Russo-Japanese war (1904–1905), he was visited at a hospital by the Tsar Nicholas II, who awarded him St George’s Cross and invited the general to the palace.

James Cardwell Gardner

Gardner became a doctor (MB and BC 1894) and was house physician and resident house surgeon at St George's Hospital.

James Sperry

Sperry's only first-class match that was not for Leicestershire came in 1947, when he appeared in a festival match at Harrogate in which two teams composed largely of county rather than Test players played a game organised by Maurice Leyland, who had retired from full-time cricket the previous year.

John Gunning

He was the assistant surgeon to St. George's Hospital, London, from 21 January 1760 to 4 January 1765, and full surgeon from that date till his death.

Kevin Figes

Guesting with GBH big band at the Wiltshire music centre and St George's.

Massacre of St George's Fields

On 10 May 1768, the imprisonment in King's Bench Prison of the radical John Wilkes (for writing an article for The North Briton, that severely criticised King George III) prompted a riot at St George's Fields.

Mega City Four

It was announced on 7 December 2006 that Wiz had died at St George's Hospital, Tooting, South London from a blood clot on the brain on 6 December.

Mike Pittilo

Pittilo worked in research and education for most of his adult life, holding a number of positions at universities throughout the United Kingdom, notably as Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences at Kingston University and St George's, University of London, and as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.

Rangemore

The National Football Centre (NFC) of the English National Team received planning permission and funding from the Football Association in late 2010 to develop the nearby Byrkley Lodge site.

Roland Leather

Roland Sutcliffe Leather (17 August 1880 – 3 January 1913) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1906, against the West Indian tourists at St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate.

Royal Naval Cemetery

In addition, there is a First World War Special Memorial to a casualty buried in the churchyard of Portland's St. George's Church.

Royal Perth Hospital

It comprises the St George's Cross on a white shield with a black swan in the top left canton and a banner inscribed with the word 'Servio'.

Royal Yacht Squadron

The burgee (a triangular shaped flag identifying yacht club membership) is differenced with a St George's Cross and crown on a white background.

San Giorgio in Velabro

St George's Church for a list of other churches worldwide of the same name.

Sir John Stradling, 1st Baronet

John Stradling was born the son of Francis and Elizabeth Stradling of St George, Bristol, but adopted by his great-uncle, Sir Edward Stradling.

St George, Queensland

It gained national attention with the election of local accountant Barnaby Joyce to the Australian Senate following the 2004 federal election.

St George's Cathedral, Perth

It is planned to restore and develop other buildings in the complex, including the Burt Hall and the 1859 deanery building, which adjoins the cathedral, on the corner of Pier Street.

The site is near the "Rush Church" - the first church built in Perth, by Frederick Irwin, in December 1829, a few months after the city was founded.

St George's Church, Altrincham

He returned several times, his last visit being on Easter Monday, 1790, only one year before his death.His purpose on that occasion was to preach at the first Wesleyan chapel in the town in Chapel Walk – later to become Regent Road.

St George's Church, Brighton

After Revd James Anderson became curate of the church in 1828, his close association with Queen Adelaide, the consort of King William IV, made the church very popular.

It was built at the request of Thomas Read Kemp, who had created and financed the Kemp Town estate on the cliffs east of Brighton in the early 19th century, and is now regarded as the parish church of the wider Kemptown area.

St George's Church, Gravesend

John Rolfe's Native American wife, Rebecca (Pocahontas) was buried under the chancel of this church after her death on March 21, 1617.

Services were transferred to the town hall until the church (restored in the Georgian style and part-funded by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches) was completed in 1731.

St George's Church, Millom

It was designed by Christine Boyce, inserted in 2000, and includes depictions of a bee orchid, a bloody cranesbill, Halley's Comet, and quotations from Nicholson's work.

St George's Church, Portobello

In 2010 a nesting box was placed on the church rooftop, which is now home to a breeding pair of peregrine falcons and can view on live stream webcam.

St George's Church, Stalybridge

In 1835 the incumbent approached Lord Stamford, the patron of the living, to provide land for a new church on a different site.

The foundation stone was laid on 3 September 1838, the same day as the foundation stone for Sharpe's St John's Church at Dukinfield, by Lord Viscount Combermere, a former Grand Master of the local Masonic Lodge.

St George's Church, Sunderland

St George's with Trinity and St James Church (abbreviated to St George's) is a United Reformed church in the Ashbrooke area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.

St George's Church, Thornton Hough

The interior of the church is richly and elaborately decorated, the sculptor being Edward O. Griffith.

St George's Church, Thornton Hough, is in Manor Road, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Merseyside, England.

St George's Church, Tyldesley

After 1912 the town council was responsible for the cost of repairs and illumination and in 1937 electricity superseded gas for lighting its faces.

The churchyard contains the graves of victims of a disaster at Yew Tree Colliery.

St George's Church, Worthing

Its boundaries are the railway line to the north, the border with Adur district to the east, the English Channel to the south and the High Street and Steyne to the west.

St George's Day in England

The 23 April is also the anniversary of the birth of the artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), the death of the Romantic poets William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and Rupert Brooke (1887–1915).

BBC Radio 3 had a full programme of St George's Day events in 2006, and Andrew Rosindell, Conservative MP for Romford, has been putting the argument forward in the House of Commons to make St George's Day a public holiday.

St George's Forane Church, Kulathuvayal

Utilizing the 6000 Rupees he contributed, a new car was bought from Coimbatore by late Prof. K. M. Chandy (former Gujarat Governor) and the bishop was taken to Kulathuvayal in that along the new road.

St George's Hall and Apollo Room of the Winter Palace

Most historically, it was the setting of the opening of the First State Duma by Nicholas II, in 1906.

St George's Hall, Liverpool

The niches contain the statues of William Roscoe by Chantrey, Sir William Brown by Patrick MacDowell, Robert Peel by Matthew Noble, George Stephenson by John Gibson, Hugh Boyd M‘Neile by George Gamon Adams, Edward Whitley by A. Bruce Joy, S.

St George's House, Perth

Although originally planned for demolition due to its dilapidated condition, Lord Alistair McAlpine (property developer, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party and Chairman of St Georges Investments (ACP)) decided to retain and refurbish the building and rename it St George's House.

St George's Interdenominational Chapel, Heathrow Airport

The three apses were originally intended for each of the contributing denominations, but in 1972 the main altar was rededicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council for shared ecumenical use.

St George's Market

Writer Ruth Carr, Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari, print maker Robin Cordiner, musicians Nikki Such, Patrick and Bronagh Davey and Irish, Greek and Indian dancers worked with the children and their older counterparts in discovering new ways of looking at themes of cultural diversity, memory and the Irish Famine.

St George's Park

St George's Oval, a cricket facility common called St George's Park

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

The complex also contains the Master Harold tearoom which was used as the setting for the apartheid era play "Master Harold"...and the Boys by Athol Fugard.

St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate

Two double centuries were scored at the ground, 277* by Percy Holmes against Northamptonshire in 1921, as part of that 548, and 217* by Viv Richards for Somerset in 1975.

St George's Roman Catholic Secondary School

Following the tragedy of Mr Lawrence’s death, the school went through many years of difficult transition and continued its spell in the limelight as part of the television drama Ahead of the Class which followed the headship of Marie Stubbs.

St George's School in Switzerland

The school's campus covers 45,000 square metres and is located in the residential suburb of Clarens.

The school enters students for the International Baccalaureate, the Cambridge International Examinations International General Certificate of Secondary Education, College Board tests, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music exams and Diplôme d'études en langue française, among others.

St George's Walk

It was completed in 1964 by Ronald Ward and Partners, the designers of St George's House and Millbank Tower.

St. George's Hospital Medical School RFC

St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC was founded in 1863 for the students of the St. George’s Hospital Medical School.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Anglican Archbishop Peter Carnley used the story as a reference and a metaphor for the situation of women in the church in his sermon at the ordination of the first women priests in Australia on 7 March 1992 in St George's Cathedral, Perth.

Tommy Jones-Davies

He was educated ar Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen and St George's School, Harpenden before gaining a place at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St. George's Hospital, London.

Tony Fox

Fox completed his medical training at St George's Hospital and joined the family general practice on Guernsey with his father, brother and uncle.

Tyldesley Coal Company

Some of the victims are buried in the churchyard at St George's Church.

Will Osborne

He died at his home, 53 The Nabb, Oakengates, on 24 March 1942, aged sixty-six, and was buried at the parish church of St George's.

Woodside, Glasgow

Public transport includes Kelvinbridge and St George's Cross Subway stations.


19;29 Performance

The action began in St George's Field cemetery, and ended at DN:10 Railway Arches beneath Leeds railway station.

20 Battery Royal Artillery

The now renamed 20 Battery RA has been deployed on Operation Telic (Iraq) being the first United Kingdom unit to deploy using the Counter RAM system and after the move of the regiment to St George's Barracks, North Luffenham, deployed to the Falkland Islands.

Alexandra Park, Harare

Located in Alexandra Park are: The National Botanic Garden (Zimbabwe) and National Herbarium; National Parks and Wildlife services of Zimbabwe (Head Office); St George's College (private secondary boys school); Alexandra Park Primary School; Hartmann House (private boys primary school); Embassy of Bulgaria.

Belene

The Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1860, the Eastern Orthodox Church of St George in 1874 and the Catholic Church of Saint Anthony of Padua was constructed in 1893.

Carlton Dramatic Society

Prince Philip aware of the hype surrounding the production invited the society to perform the play in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Economy of Croydon

Plans include the construction of a new shopping centre to replace St George's Walk and older properties on George Street.

Edith Weston

St George's Barracks is located to the south and east of the village; this was previously RAF North Luffenham.

Flag of Lord Howe Island

The yellow centre of the flag evokes the island's topography and depicts a Kentia palm, while the surrounding area of flag utilizes the pre-1801 Union Jack, excluding the red St George's Cross.

Gayatri Nair

Concert performances include Nocturne in C Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, Après un rêve by Gabriel Fauré in St George's Cathedral, Southwark; Model in Disney Fashion show along with Selena Gomez as part of Wizards of Waverly Place clothing range launch; Acoustic covers of many popular Soul, R&B and Pop songs in Croydon Fairfields Hall; Singing in Olympic Gala Concert with National Youth Choir of Great Britain in Royal Albert Hall.

Glasgow Inner Ring Road

The North Flank of the ring (the Townhead and Woodside sections) runs between an interchange at St George's Cross in Woodside and an interchange at Townhead, passing through the districts of Garnethill and Cowcaddens.

Guildford Museum

Objects on display include a 400,000-year-old hand axe from Swanscombe in Kent, and a napkin used by Queen Elizabeth I which features her embroidered portrait and an image of St George slaying the Dragon.

Hugh Pearson

From 1876 until his death in 1882, Pearson was also a Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

James Catnach

Very shortly after, they were evicted and moved firstly to a small shop in Wardour Street, Soho (while living in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square), followed by another move to Gerard Street, where, after falling down stairs on 29 August 1813, John Catnach was taken to St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, where he died on 4 December 1813.

James Goyen

The builder, James Goyen, (10 May 1905 to 3 April 1984) constructed many houses and other buildings in the St George District, south of the Cooks River, New South Wales, Australia.

Land of Hope and Glory

On St George's Day, 23 April 2010, the Commonwealth Games Council for England launched a poll to allow the public to decide which anthem would be played at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

Mark Talbott

The Talbott Squash Academy, a well-respected summer camp for juniors and adults, was established in 1991, and is currently held at St George's School in Newport, Rhode Island and at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Prince Aribert of Anhalt

On 6 July 1891, he married Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.

Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton

The oldest son of John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton and Daphne Strutt, daughter of Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, he was educated at St George's College, Harare in Zimbabwe and at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he emerged with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 (later, he would receive a Master of Arts from the same institution).

Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg

Its cathedral church is St George's Cathedral Limburg an der Lahn.

Rugby league in Western Australia

On 14 February 2009 Members Equity Stadium in Perth played host to the first NRL pre-season match for the year between St George-Illawarra Dragons and Sydney Roosters.

Sanchet D'Abrichecourt

In 1348 he was selected by Edward III as a founder Knight of the Garter and allocated stall number 25 in St George's Chapel at Windsor, the spiritual home of the new order of chivalry.

The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

Every friend member is also given a personalized written Membership Certificate which bears an illumination of the patron saint and dragon known as The George, and is signed by the Dean of Windsor; and a college heraldic badge which bears the heraldic shield of St George's Cross.

The society includes more than 5,100 members worldwide (including more than 900 AmFriends members of the American Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter Inc.) to "protect, preserve and enhance" the college, its St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and the royal chivalric knighthood, the Order of the Garter.

William Child

In 1630 he began his lifetime association with St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, becoming first a lay-clerk and, from 1632, Master of the Choristers there until the dissolution of the chapel in 1643.

William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt

A statue of Lord Harcourt was commissioned (from Robert William Sievier) with the intention that it should be erected at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, but at the insistence of the royal family, it was placed, instead, in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.