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22 unusual facts about Sutton


10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

Charles Sladen

When the liberal Premier James McCulloch resigned in May 1868 during the conflict between the government and the Council over the proposed grant to retiring Governor Charles Darling, Sladen was asked by the new Governor, Sir John Manners-Sutton, to form a government.

CVS Charity Classic

It was held under various names at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts.

Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge

He was a great supporter of the project for an East to West railway from Sutton-on-Sea to Liverpool, of which only the eastern portion was completed He also supported the Sheffield Canal, and in 1889 lectured in the town on the possibility of bringing large vessels up the canal into Sheffield.

Gagny

In 1974, Gagny became twinned with the English towns of Sutton and Bishop Auckland

Hancock's Half Hour

Railway Cuttings and East Cheam were fictitious, but Cheam is a real town in Surrey, located to the west of Sutton.

Haxby

To the south is the garden village of New Earswick and the York Outer Ring Road (A1237) with the open farmland to the north as far as the villages of Sutton-on-the-Forest and Strensall.

London Underground battery-electric locomotives

The manufacturer was W. R. Renshaw and Co Ltd, who were based in Sutton-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, and the vehicles were fitted with current collector shoes, so that they could draw power from the rails when it was available.

Lord Robert Manners-Sutton

Bridget Sutton, and younger brother of the famous soldier Lord Granby, under whom he served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 21st Light Dragoons.

Manners Sutton Parish, New Brunswick

It was created in 1855 from Kingsclear Parish and Prince William Parish and named for Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton (1814-1877), lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick from 1854 to 1861.

Richard Aston

The Astons derived their name from Aston in Cheshire, where the family had been settled since the time of Henry II.

Sopley

Now being used as a youth activity centre; Avon Tyrrell House is a grade I listed building constructed in 1891 by W. R. Lethaby as a private, medium-sized country residence for John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Baron Manners (1852–1927).

St. Fintan's High School

Fintans High School is a boys secondary school, which is located in the suburb of Sutton in Fingal County, Ireland.

Superquinn

The business was founded in 1960 as 'Quinns Supermarkets' in Dundalk by Feargal Quinn, and the company headquarters were later moved to Sutton, Dublin.

Sutton Guardian

The Sutton Guardian is a weekly free local newspaper covering the London Borough of Sutton, South London, and surrounding areas.

Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley

It lies to the south of the urban part of the Borough, and consists of the two settlements named, both to the west of the River Darent, one of the parish boundaries.

Sutton-in-the-Isle

The land between them, known as the Ouse Washes, often floods and forms part of an internationally important wetland habitat.

Sutton, Dublin

Gerry Gannon, one of Ireland's biggest property developers, part owner of the K Club and MD of Gannon Homes, currently building, for example, Clongriffin housing estate, and with extensive land holdings in the area

Sutton, West Sussex

Coates Castle is a Site of Special Scientific Interest within the parish which at one time contained the entire known remaining British population of the field cricket Gryllus campestris.

Syerston

Some sixty years later in 1775 Lord George Sutton, a son of the third Duke of Rutland, sold Syerston to Lewis Disney Ffytche of Flintham.

Thomas Manners

Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners (1756–1842), British lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers

A young man tells his story about growing up working at a greasy spoon diner near Sutton, West Virginia.


Amos Sutton

By 1805, Baptist missionary society and later Amos Sutton under the auspices of Serampore Trio -- William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward attempted to preach Telugu-speaking people in northernmost parts of present Andhra Pradesh—adjoining areas to Orissa like Chicacole(present Srikakulam) and Vizagapatnam(present Vizag or Visakapatnam).

Borough of Buckingham

This formed part of the endowment of the prebend of Sutton cum Buckingham in Lincoln Cathedral.

Chart Sutton

The church shares its vicar with Sutton Valence and East Sutton; the three villages are collectively known as the "Three Suttons" and have close connections with each other.

Church of All Saints, Sutton Bingham

The Church of All Saints in Sutton Bingham in the civil parish of Closworth, Somerset, England dates from the 12th and 13th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Don Sutton

Sutton attended J. M. Tate High School in Cantonment/Gonzalez, Florida where he played baseball, basketball, and football.

Eddie Sutton

While at Arkansas, Sutton befriended future President Bill Clinton, then a law professor at the University's law school.

Edmund Sutton

Sir Edmund Sutton (1425 – c. 1485) was a Knight of Dudley Castle and Gatescombe.

Fading Suns

Author: Todd Bogenrief, Vidar Edland, Chris Wiese, Andrew Greenberg, Bill Bridges, Phil Cameron, Richard Ashley, Thomas Baroli, Ruben Ramos, Mark Stout, James Sutton

Garden Hills Elementary School

Residents zoned to Garden Hills are also zoned to Sutton Middle School and North Atlanta High School.

George Crennan

Crennan was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia in 1900, one of the large family of children born to Frederick William Crennan, and Elizabeth Sutton.

Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia

Charlotte Zeepvat, The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album, Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3049-7

Guilden Sutton

The local MP is Stephen Mosley, Conservative, as Guilden Sutton is part of the City of Chester constituency.

Henry Lafont

He moved to No. 1 School of Army Co-operation at Old Sarum on 29 July and then went to Odiham on 10 August where he flew 15 hours on Tiger Moths and Hectors.He was posted to 6 OTU, Sutton Bridge on the 19 August, converting to Hurricanes and joined No. 245 Squadron at Aldergrove on 11 September.

J. Paul Getty

They were picking up Sutton Place phones and placing calls to girlfriends in Geneva or Georgia and to aunts, uncles and third cousins twice-removed in Caracas and Cape Town.

James Sutton

James Sutton a.k.a. James Files (born 1942), alleged participant in the assassination of John F. Kennedy

JJB Sports

The original JJB sportshop was founded in the early 1900s and expanded in 1971, when ex-footballer and supermarket chain operator Dave Whelan acquired a single sports shop in Wigan and immediately opened a second sports goods outlet in his Sutton, St Helens, supermarket.

Joseph Sutton

Just prior to the couple's departure to Japan, where Sutton was slated to become an exchange Professor at Tenri University, they were involved in a car accident.

King's Sutton

Olga Kevelos was landlady of The Three Tuns in Kings Sutton for a number of years.

Lady Susan Vane-Tempest

John Van der Kiste, Edward VII's Children, published by Alan Sutton, 1989

Ledsham railway station

Ledsham railway station was on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway near Little Sutton and about a mile from the hamlet of Ledsham on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England.

Lionel Pickering

Joining him in that season were Paul Kitson, Tommy Johnson & Paul Simpson, followed by Steve Sutton, Mark Pembridge, Darren Wassall, Craig Short & Martin Kuhl a year later.

Long Sutton, Somerset

The village of Long Sutton has a village green with a lime tree at each corner and a chestnut tree in the centre.

Neil March

He then studied with David Sutton-Anderson, also receiving some instruction from Avril Anderson at Birkbeck, University of London in 2006/7 before studying for his masters (mmus.) in music composition at Goldsmiths, University of London with the New Complexity Composer Roger Redgate from 2008 to 2010 and receiving some assistance from Russian composer Dmitry Smirnov.

New Guildford Line

These trains go to London Victoria and London Bridge via Sutton and West Croydon, with one train per hour in each direction on both routes.

RAF Sutton Bridge

Royal Air Force station Sutton Bridge or more simply RAF Sutton Bridge is a former Royal Air Force station found next to the village of Sutton Bridge in the south-east of Lincolnshire.

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford

On 25 December 1357, she married Sir John de Sutton III (1339 – c. 1370 or 1376), Knight, Master of Dudley Castle, Staffordshire.

Ralph Sutton

Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri.

Reg Hollingworth

Hollingworth, born in Doncaster but raised in Rainworth, was training as a mechanical engineer and playing amateur football for Sutton Junction when he was spotted by Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Robert L. Caslen

Other generals that appeared in the video included Vincent K. Brooks and Air Force generals Peter U. Sutton and Jack J. Catton Jr.

Runcorn Railway Bridge

In 1861 Parliamentary approval for a bridge was obtained by the LNWR as part of building a line from Aston, to the southeast of Runcorn where it joined the line from Crewe to Warrington at Weaver Junction, to the west of Widnes, where it joined the line from Warrington to Garston at Ditton Junction.

Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet

# John Sutton, who married Sophia Frances Chaplin, daughter of Charles Chaplin, esq., of Tathwell, Lincolnshire.

Solon McDade

Susie Arioli Swing Band, Pennies From Heaven featuring Ralph Sutton (Juno Award Nomination)

South Sutton Meeting House

South Sutton Meeting House is a historic meeting house at 17 Meeting House Hill Road in South Sutton, New Hampshire.

Sutton Coldfield Town Hall

A moot hall was built in Sutton Coldfield during the time of John Vesey, Bishop of Exeter, at a site at the top of Mill Street.

Sutton District High School

It is the primary secondary school for most communities in the town of Georgina, including Sutton West, Pefferlaw, and Udora.

Sutton House, London

At the turn of the 18th century, Hackney was renowned for its many schools, and Sutton House contained a boys' school, with headmaster Dr Burnet, which was attended in 1818 by the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Sutton Town A.F.C.

Another now defunct club (1996), Oakham United, based close to the King's Mill Hospital on the boundary between Sutton and Mansfield, applied to change their name to Sutton Town when the previous club became defunct but were denied permission by the Nottinghamshire FA.

The Strong

These are the National Museum of Play, the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the National Toy Hall of Fame, the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, and the American Journal of Play.

UCB Home Loans

UCBHL operated out of a single location in Sutton with over 300 employees, relocating to Bournemouth and merging with the Portman Building Society's The Mortgage Works in 2007 following Nationwide's merger with the Portman.

Waters House

Waters Farm, Sutton, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Wayne Sutton

In 1946 Sutton was by appointed Monrad Wallgren, Governors of Washington, to the state's horse racing commission.

William Hulbert

To do so, he convinced Illinois native and star Boston pitcher Al Spalding to sign with Chicago for the 1876 season and also signed Boston stars Cal McVey, Deacon White, and Ross Barnes and Philadelphia stars Cap Anson and Ezra Sutton, though Sutton later backed out of his deal.

World in Motion 1

Special thanks: Mike Corkran, Bill Mueller, Gordon Miller Music, Edward S. Feldman & Bob Sellars for the custom guitars, Derek Sutton, Bob Goldstein (it's in the mail), Peter Sullivan, Elton, Marvin & Stevie, Don Wehner, Barton Kenney, Casey Dansicker, Nancy Scaggs, Jeff Miller (it's in the mail II), Walt Copeland, Randy, Paul, Jeep, and everyone at MSI