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4 unusual facts about Strafford


Barbara Moraff

Moraff's first child, Alesia, was born in 1966, and shortly afterward Moraff bought a remote hilltop farm in Strafford, Vermont.

Strafford, New Hampshire

Strafford County had been organized in 1773 during the administration of Colonial Governor John Wentworth, and named in honor of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.

Strafford, Pennsylvania

Architectural Record stated that Tredyffrin Library and the library built in Condon Hall of the University of Washington School of Law, which was also designed by Mitchell/Giurgola, have common underlying concepts.

Strafford, Vermont

Justin Smith Morrill, US Representative and Senator, known as the chief sponsor and author of the Land Grant College Acts was born in Strafford.


Center Strafford, New Hampshire

The former Austin Cate Academy, now owned by the New Hampshire National Guard, plus the town offices, post office, and Austin Hall (Strafford Historical Society) are all in Center Strafford.

First Civil Service Commissioner

George Byng, Viscount Enfield (later 3rd Earl of Strafford) (1880-88)

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford

He did not wish to alter the government of the church, was on good terms with Archbishop Laud, and, although convinced of the guilt of Strafford, was anxious to save his life.

George Strafford

Strafford was acquainted with John Ruskin, who thought so highly of him that he employed him to make designs for his Shield of Achilles.

James Margetson

It appears from the correspondence of William Laud and Strafford (as Wentworth now was) intended to restore the almost ruinous cathedral of Christ Church, but that he found neither time nor money.

Jamie Byng

He is the second son of the 8th Earl of Strafford and Jennifer May, brother to the author Lady Georgia Byng, and through his stepfather, Sir Christopher Bland, the former Chairman of the BBC, British Telecom and Royal Shakespeare Company, he is the half-brother of print journalist and now Deputy Editor of The Independent newspaper, Archie Bland.

Laurence Esmonde, Lord Esmonde

In 1639 he was summoned before the Star Chamber for having conspired with Lord Mountnorris and Sir Piers Crosby to libel the Lord Deputy Strafford in the matter of one Robert Esmonde, a relative of Lord Esmonde, whose death Strafford was accused of causing by ill-treatment while he was being questioned about customs evasions.

Lee Strafford

Lee Strafford is an English businessman, the former chairman of Sheffield Wednesday F.C., the Football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Malignants

Strafford and Laud; were so called by the Parliamentarians, who blamed them for the evils of the country; the name was afterwards applied to the whole Royalist party.

MASS Engineering

The company, currently based at North Anston between Sheffield and Worksop, was originally founded in 1998, by Michael Strafford.

NH4

New Hampshire Route 4, a short state highway located in eastern Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States

Paul Delaroche

His dramatic paintings include Strafford Led to Execution, depicting the English Archbishop Laud stretching his arms out of the small high window of his cell to bless Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, as Strafford passes along the corridor to be executed, and the Assassination of the duc de Guise at Blois.

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

This is shown in his analyses of the characters of James I, Francis Bacon, William Laud, Strafford and Cromwell.

Thorough

Although "Thorough" is largely attributed to Strafford, its implementation can also be accredited to the Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud.

Wentworth Castle

The estate of Wentworth Woodhouse, which he believed was his birthright, was scarcely six miles distant and was a constant bitter sting, for the Strafford fortune had passed from William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, the childless son of the great earl, to his wife's nephew, Thomas Watson; only the barony of Raby had gone to a blood-relation.


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