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45 unusual facts about Surrey


1642 in poetry

John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many times and later received high praise from Samuel Johnson, although Denham's reputation later ebbed

2011 BMW PGA Championship

The 2011 BMW PGA Championship was the 57th edition of the BMW PGA Championship, an annual professional golf tournament on the European Tour, contested 26–29 May at Wentworth Club in Surrey, England.

Alexander Morison

He was made inspecting physician of lunatic asylums in Surrey in 1810, and 7 May 1835 physician to Bethlehem Hospital.

Alice E. Gillington

The family moved to Bisley, Surrey when her father found a role as a chaplain at the Brookwood Hospital, the local asylum.

American Board of Hospital Medicine

Canadian ABHM board member, Dr. Luay Dindo of Surrey, British Columbia, said, “The ABHM is not a subspecialty of another board of certification but a fully fledged, comprehensive board in hospital medicine. I believe that hospital medicine is its own specialty and necessitates a board of certification reflecting that fact.”

Angela Lascelles

In 1955, the Lascelleses moved to Fort Belvedere, Surrey, the former country home of Gerald Lascelles's uncle, Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor).

Anthony Kingston

Kingston married firstly, before October 1524, Dorothy Harpur, the daughter of Robert Harpur, and secondly, by 1537, Mary Gainsford, widow of Sir William Courtenay (d.1535) of Powderham, and daughter of Sir John Gainsford of Crowhurst, Surrey.

Army Operational Shooting Competition

Part of the Central Skill at Arms Meeting (CENTSAAM), it is based at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA) at Bisley Camp, in Brookwood, Surrey.

Buxus sempervirens

Box Hill, Surrey is named after its notable box population, which comprises the largest area of native box woodland in England.

Chilworth railway station

Chilworth railway station serves the village of Chilworth, Surrey, England.

Clandon Park

The estate had been bought in 1641, together with Temple Court Farm at Merrow, by Sir Richard Onslow, MP for Surrey in the Long Parliament, from Sir Richard Weston, canal builder & pioneering agriculturalist, of nearby Sutton Place.

Daniel Eliason

Eliason killed himself some months afterwards, but before he did so he sold the diamond (this was in about 1830) to Henry Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey.

EasyBus

The other three were treated for less severe injuries at East Surrey Hospital, Redhill.

Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley

Invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, he was created Baron Tangley, of Blackheath in the County of Surrey on 22 January 1964.

Excel mobile phones

The factory in Camberley, Surrey used by Technophone was then used for the development and manufacture of the base stations which make the networks' mobile phones work on Nokia Networks.

Fort Belvedere

Fort Belvedere, Surrey, the country home of King Edward VIII, scene of his 1936 abdication

Francis William Beaumont

In 1924, while serving in the RAF, it was announced that Beaumont was engaged to Enid Corinne Ripley of Outwood, Surrey and in October 1926 the couple were married in London.

Guildford Black Friary

Guildford Black Friary was a medieval monastic house in Surrey, England.

Henry Alleyne Lash

After leaving India, Henry Lash lived in Bridge End, Churt, Surrey, England.

Henry Maxwell Lefroy

He had studied at Guildford Grammar School in Surrey, where he became acquainted with the Stirling family and first developed an interest in the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.

Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth

Lord Falmouth married Hannah Catherine Maria Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith, of Worplesdon, Surrey, and widow of Richard Russel, in 1736.

Jacobs Well

Jacobs Well, Surrey, a village near Guildford, also called Jacobswell

John Kenneth Macalister

Captain Ken Macalister is honored on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey in Brookwood, Surrey, England and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, he is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département of France.

John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden

Lord Camden survived her by eleven years and died at Seale, Surrey, on 8 October 1840, aged 81.

Jonathan Frost

In 1994, alongside his curacy, he became a police chaplain until he moved on from both posts in 1997 when he became Rector of Ash until 2002.

Kenneth J. Warren

Kenneth John Warren (born 25 September 1929, Parramatta, New South Wales - died 27 August 1973, Effingham, Surrey, England) was an Australian actor.

Loaded TV

The majority of shows are produced in house at the extensive Loaded TV studios in Hersham, Surrey.

Maria Louisa Charlesworth

Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1 October 1819, The Rectory, Blakenham Parva – 6 January 1880, Nutfield, Surrey) was an English author of religious books.

Non-Partisan Association

There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.

North Pacific Yachts

North Pacific Yachts is a privately held company based in Surrey, British Columbia which builds 28 to 43 foot recreational trawler motoryachts, which it produces in Ningbo, China.

Operation Willi

Edward, being notoriously lax in security, often left top secret government files sent to him unguarded in his Fort Belvedere residence, giving Mrs. Simpson every opportunity to do so.

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe full German name: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899, in Hannover, Germany – 7 November 1929, in Caterham, Surrey) was a son of Prince Maximilian August Jaroslav Adalbert Hermann of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871–1904) and Princess Olga Alexandra Marie of Württemberg (1876–1932).

Pullingers

Pullingers Art Shop (aka Pullingers) is a chain of art shops with four retail outlets in Farnham, Kingston upon Thames and Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom and online at Pullingers.com.

Ruger Bisley

This was in turn inspired by the classic 1894 Colt Bisley revolver, so named after the famous English shooting range at Bisley which was the site of many notable shooting matches in the late 19th century and is still in regular use.

Samuel Dicker

Samuel Dicker ( died 1760), was an English politician who represented Plymouth in the British House of Commons in the eighteenth century, and was also responsible for the building of the first Walton Bridge in Surrey.

Sidney Richard Percy

He moved after his 1857 marriage to the Florence Villas on Inner Park Road in Wandsworth, Surrey, and then moved his family about 1863 to Hill House in the village of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

He spent his final years at Mulgrave Road in Sutton, Surrey, where his knee was injured when he was thrown from a horse in a riding accident.

Silvester Jenks

Upon his return to England, he laboured as a missionary in or near London and was appointed Archdeacon of Surrey and Kent.

Upper Halliford

Elevations range between 12m AOD which applies for most of the village, with a maximum of 12.4m excluding bridge in the west, to 10.8m AOD in the residential road closest to one of the River Colne's many distribuaries, the River Ash.

Walter Watson Hughes

Hughes subsequently returned to England, bought the Fancourt estate at Chertsey, Surrey, and died there on 1 January 1887 after a long illness.

Westerham railway station

b) the difficult choice between boggy land in the valley bottom and the gradients encountered on the A25 route at Limpsfield and Nutfield,

Westfield L.F.C.

Westfield Ladies are the women’s football team affiliated with Westfield F.C., based in Westfield, Woking, Surrey.

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901–1987) was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey (1959–83).

William Kingston

Sir Anthony Kingston, who married firstly, before October 1524, Dorothy Harpur, the daughter of Robert Harpur, and secondly, by 1537, Mary Gainsford, widow of Sir William Courtenay (d.1535) of Powderham, and daughter of Sir John Gainsford of Crowhurst, Surrey.

Woking Council election, 2003

The election saw 13 seats being contested with the contest in Brookwood ward being a by-election after the previous Conservative councillor, Mark Pritchard, resigned his seat on the council.


1905 English cricket season

Lancashire went unbeaten until July, their fifteenth game, when Surrey overcame them at Aigburth, but Yorkshire were behind on the table with three losses before their match with Yorkshire at Bramall Lane.

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Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, Surrey, the first purpose-built mosque in the United Kingdom

Alexander McNeill

McNeill was educated Wimbledon, Surrey, England and at Trinity College, Dublin.

Æthelwulf of Wessex

His most notable victory came in 851 at "Acleah", possibly Ockley in Surrey or Oakley in Berkshire.

Baron Bridges

Baron Bridges, of Headley in the County of Surrey and of Saint Nicholas at Wade in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Cecily Lefort

She is recorded on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England; and, as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in Valençay, in the Indre departément of France.

Circular 10/65

As a result, a number of LEAs otherwise supporting the tripartite system, such as Bromley and Surrey, felt forced to go comprehensive.

Darell baronets

The Darell Baronetcy, of Richmond Hill in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 12 May 1795 for Lionel Darell, Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis and Hedon.

Edgar Crow Baker

Baker was born in Lambeth, then part of Surrey, England, the son of Edward William Whitley Baker, and was educated at the Royal Hospital School in Greenwich.

Edward Badham

Edward Badham (born in 1860 in Barnes, Surrey - Date of death unknown) was a police sergeant involved in the investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders, particularly those of Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly.

Edward Champion Streatfeild

Born in Nutfield, Surrey, son of Alexander Streatfeild (1837–1887) and Helen McNeill (1838-1902), he was a member of the Streatfeild family, a well known family in Kent.

Elizabeth Whitlock

She and her husband returned to America for the years 1812–14, before settling at Addlestone, Surrey.

Eric Bedser

A flip of the coin saw Alec win the toss, and Eric consequently took up off-spin bowling, for which he became very adept in a Surrey county team that was dominated by famous spinners such as Jim Laker and Tony Lock, and concentrated on his batting.

F. S. Ashley-Cooper

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden

Restoration of the house and the formal gardens required immediate attention so work upon the woodland and water garden did not begin until the following year when he moved to South Walsham Hall from Surrey where he had already developed a garden at Bakenham House, Englefield Green.

Felbridge

Felbridge is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey with a playing field and Felbridge Nurseries within its focal area, narrowly in West Sussex.

Henry Percival Biggar

Henry Percival Biggar (Carrying Place, Ontario, August 9, 1872 — Worplesdon, Surrey, July 25, 1938) was a historian and Canadian archivist.

Hit the ball twice

An example of the dismissal occurred in 1906 when John King, playing for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval tried to score a run after playing the ball twice to avoid getting bowled.

Jack Agazarian

Jack Agazarian is honored on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England, on the SOE memorial at Flossenbürg and also on the Roll of Honor on the Valençay SOE Memorial in Valençay, in the Indre département of France

James Weller Ladbroke

He had no children, and his heir was a distant cousin named Felix Ladbroke of Headley, Surrey, who found himself in possession of absolute title to the estate.

Jardine baronets

The Jardine Baronetcy, of Godalming in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1916 for John Jardine, Liberal Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire from 1906 to 1919.

Joyce Wethered

She played most of her golf at (and was a member of) Worplesdon Golf Club in Surrey.

Khizar Humayun Ansari

Ansari is married and has two sons including the Surrey county cricketer, Zafar Ansari.

Kingsmill Key

In the course of a long career he played for, among others, Surrey (whom he captained for several years in the 1890s), Oxford University, MCC and the Gentlemen.

Leontine Cooper

Leontine was born in Battersea, Surrey to Frenchman Jean François (aka 'John Francis') Buisson and his English wife Dorothy.

Lewis Elton Gallery

The Gallery was named in 1997 after Professor Lewis Elton who initiated the display of original artwork at Surrey University's Physics Department in Battersea in 1963.

Martin Bicknell

His brother Darren Bicknell was a sound county batsman formerly with Surrey and finishing his career with Nottinghamshire.

Mother Ludlam's Cave

Mother Ludlam's Cave, also known as Mother Ludlum's Cave or Mother Ludlum's Hole, is a small cave in the sandstone cliff of the Wey Valley at Moor Park, near Farnham, Surrey, in England.

Oxenford Farm

Oxenford Farm was formerly an abbey farm, a dependency of Waverley Abbey in the civil parish of Milford, Surrey, England, with several listed buildings around a courtyard, including three by Augustus Pugin.

Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale

He lived for many years in Englefield Green, Surrey, was chairman of the council of Royal Holloway College during its merger with Bedford College in 1985.

Reynold Higgins

Reynold Alleyne Higgins (born 26 November 1916 in Weybridge (Surrey); died 18 April 1993 in Dunsfold (Surrey) was a Classical Archaeologist and Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.

Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow

The family seat was Clandon Park, East and West Clandon, Surrey the centrepiece of which, a National Trust mansion and gardens was for the most part commissioned by his father.

Roger Elliott

Roger leased Byfeld House in Church Road, Barnes, Surrey on 24 June 1712 where the couple settled and raised a small family.

Samuel Ringgold Ward

Ward, having met Mrs. Stowe at the house of Rev. James Sherman next door to his Surrey Chapel on Blackfriars Road, in May 1853, was invited to stay at the 'Surrey Chapel Parsonage' along with Mrs Stowe's husband, the Rev. Dr. Stowe, and brother Rev. C. Beecher, for three weeks.

School District 36 Surrey

In May 2007, the Surrey School Board made national news when it voted to instruct teachers not to show Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary on Climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, until trustees are able to review the film.

Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1st Baronet

When about ten years old he was taken to Surrey by his uncle, Joseph Pratt, main owner of a distillery at Vauxhall.

Surrey Heath

Surrey Heath was voted the 6th best place to live in Channel 4's 2007 Location, Location, Location 'best and worst' survey.

Surrey Record Society

The Society has also published two editions of registers of medieval bishops of Winchester, Surrey having historically formed part of the Diocese of Winchester.

Tandridge District

Tandridge is a local government district in Surrey, England containing part of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, part of the Weald and the towns of Warlingham, Caterham, Oxted, Godstone and Lingfield.

Tom Sidwell

The resulting disagreement between the cricket administrative body and Surrey's captain Percy Fender created a minor media stir.

Wilfred Nevill

Nevill joined the East Yorkshire Regiment but transferred to the East Surrey Regiment and was the originator of the East Surrey’s famous “Football Charge” on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.

William Bosomworth

Bosomworth was born in Carlton-Husthwaite, Thirsk, and made his Yorkshire debut on 17 June 1872, against Surrey at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, then played twice against Middlesex at North Marine Road, Scarborough in 1874, and at Prince's Road Ground in Chelsea, in 1875.

WinterKids

Beginning in September 2009, WinterKids hosted production of the magazine-style television series Little House TV, based in the band's "Little House" home and production studio in Peaslake, Surrey, England.