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unusual facts about St John's House Museum, Warwick


William Amey

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire), in St John's House, Warwick, England.


Arrows A11

It was raced to reasonably good effect by Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever in 1989, Warwick finishing in the top six on five occasions and briefly challenging for victory in the Canadian Grand Prix, and Cheever finishing third in the United States Grand Prix, held in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona.

Bishop Auckland College

It is located on Woodhouse Lane next to St John's Catholic School with Bishop Barrington School (now Bishop Barrington Sports with Mathematics College) opposite the aforementioned school.

Brownsover

The church has an interesting collection of English and foreign carved woodwork, including a splendid organ case, made in 1660 for St John's College, Cambridge.

C. Y. O'Connor

On 7 December 1898, his daughter Eva married Sir George Julius at St John's Church, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Castle Hedingham

The fine double hammerbeam roof is attributed to Thomas Loveday, who was responsible for work on St John's College, Cambridge.

Don Allum

In September 1987 Allum completed his westward crossing of the Atlantic, from St John's, Newfoundland to Dooagh on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland.

Francis Brokesby

After his wife's death Brokesby appears to have resided constantly at Shottesbrooke, and early in 1706 succeeded Mr Gilbert of St John's College, Oxford, as chaplain to the little society of nonjurors established there.

Francis Slacke

Francis Alexander Slack (post Slacke) was born in the parish of Saint Saviour in Jersey and educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, University College, Oxford and St John's College, Cambridge.

Francis Windebank

Francis was the only son of Sir Thomas Windebank of Hougham, Lincolnshire, who owed his advancement to the Cecil family, Francis entered St John's College, Oxford, in 1599, coming there under the influence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud.

George Boudier

George John Boudier (born 5 September 1820 at Warwick; died 18 December 1899 at Ewhurst, Sussex) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1840 to 1847.

Gerry Mackie

Before joining UCSD, Mackie was assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow at the Australian National University, and a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Goulburn Rugby Union

Among Goulburn's greatest representative players are such names as Simon Poidevin, Peter Lucas, John Klem, John Langford, Geoff Richardson, Warwick Watkins, Bruce Bailey, Lars Hedberg, Ken Player, John Shiel, Vince Fester, Gordon Cabot, Paul Southwell, Garry Brims, and Bruce Blackley.

Henry Bristow Wilson

He entered Merchant Taylors' School in October 1809, and was elected to St John's College, Oxford, in 1821.

Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore

The latter year, in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Honours, Eaton was raised to the peerage as Baron Cheylesmore, of Cheylesmore in the City of Coventry and County of Warwick.

Here Where There Is Love

Of note was Warwick's version of "Alfie", which became Warwick's signature song after she was selected to perform it at the Academy Awards the previous year.

Jewel House

Although a treasury had been found in the Tower of London from the earliest times (as in the sub-crypt of St. John's Chapel in the White Tower), from 1255 there was a separate Jewel House for state crowns and regalia, though not older crowns and regalia, which remained at Westminster Abbey.

John Arnold House

John Waterman Arnold House, Warwick, Rhode Island, listed on the NRHP in Rhode Island

John G. Warwick

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886.Warwick was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 14, 1892.He defeated William McKinley by 302 votes in an intensely fought race that gained national attention.

John Tooke

Tooke graduated in Medicine from St John's College, Oxford in 1974 and went on to become a Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Physiology and Honorary Consultant Physician at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School before moving to the Postgraduate Medical School of the University of Exeter in 1987.

John Woodville

Before leaving Calais to support the uprising, Warwick had published a manifesto citing the Woodvilles in general, and the Earl and John Woodville specifically, as his reason for supporting Clarence against the King.

Kutz

URJ Kutz Camp, teen leadership camp in Warwick, New York (Union for Reform Judaism)

Lee's Mill Earthworks

Confederate Major General John B. Magruder's extensive defensives beginning at Lee's Mill and extending to Yorktown along the Warwick River caused the Union Army of the Potomac Commander Major General George B. McClellan to initiate a month-long siege of the Warwick-Yorktown Line which lasted until May 3, 1862 and contributed to the eventual failure of McClellan's campaign.

Lincoln Theological College

Once Lincoln Theological College had closed, the only Anglican theological college in the East Midlands offering training for those entering stipendiary ministry was St John's College, Nottingham in Bramcote.

Lord Archer

Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer (1695–1768), British politician, Member of Parliament for Warwick and Bramber

Malcolm McColm

Born in Cardiff, Wales, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at Scotch College, Warwick, Queensland.

Mark Taylor

Mark P. Taylor, professor in economics and international finance and dean of Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick

Massachusetts Route 78

The route passes by several portions of Warwick State Forest and through the town center, before passing Mount Grace and entering Winchester, New Hampshire as New Hampshire Route 78.

Middleham Castle

Following Warwick's death at Barnet in 1471 and Edward's restoration to the throne, his brother Richard married Anne Neville, Warwick's younger daughter, and made Middleham his main home.

Peter Mews

Mews was born at Caundle Purse in Dorset, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St John's College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and fellow.

Richard Neville

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), known as "Warwick the Kingmaker", English noble, fought in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)

Samuel Shumack

For a year beginning Easter 1895, and again in 1904, Shumack was elected a churchwarden at St John's, Canberra.

Shire of Glengallan

On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas.

Sir John Crosse, 2nd Baronet

He married Mary Godfrey on 15 July 1746 at St John's, Westminster.

St John-at-Hampstead

These plans originally involved the demolition of the tower, but this was shelved on protests from William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown, Anthony Trollope, George du Maurier, Coventry Patmore, F. T. Palgrave and others, in favour of simple extensions westwards in 1877–78 designed by F.P. Cockerell (though these extensions moved the church's high altar to the geographical west end, rather than the more usual east end).

St John's Catholic School for the Deaf

Boston Spa was the only school in England that used a signed language other than British Sign Language which is Belgian Sign Language introduced from Brussels by the two Daughters of Charity.

St John's College Boat Club

The Club competes mainly on the North Eastern Rowing circuit, though has entered boats in the Head of the River Race (HoRR), Women's Head of the River Race (WeHorr), The Boston Rowing Marathon and Henley Royal Regatta.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell

St John's Gate is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past; it was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John - the Knights Hospitallers.

St John's Grammar School

It operates from three campuses; the Junior School is adjacent to Belair National Park and the Belair railway station, the Early Learning Centre is opposite the Junior School, and the Secondary School, set up in 1998, occupies the site of the former Retreat House and St Barnabas Theological College.

St John's RC High School

At that time, Roman Catholic Secondary Education was provided by the Sisters at Lawside Academy for both boys and girls.

Stuart Macintyre

From 1977 to 1978, Macintyre was a research fellow at St John's College at the University of Cambridge.

Studley College

Warwick Hostel expanded and moved to Studley Castle in Warwickshire in 1903, becoming Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women.

Thomas Lydiat

His rectory was pillaged more than once, and he was carried off to prison, once to Warwick, and again to Banbury.

Thorrington

The striking medieval flint church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene, and the patrons of the church are St John's College, Cambridge.

Toleman

Warwick also qualified only once; at the season-closing Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas.

Walter Rosenhain

Rosenhain then did three years research work with Professor James Alfred Ewing at St John's College, Cambridge.

Warwick Business School

QS World University Rankings "Top MBA 2014" ranks the Warwick MBA by distance learning 2nd in the world - just below IE Business School and above Kelley School of Business.

Wayne Perkins

This led to work at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with such names as David Porter and the Soul Children, Dave Crawford and Brad Shapiro, Dee Dee Warwick, Ronnie Milsap, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Jimmy Cliff, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood and Marlin Greene.

WIDS

Warwick International Development Summit, a student-run summit at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.


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