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unusual facts about Theobald's Road


Conway Hall Ethical Society

Conway Hall was designed by Frederick Mansford, being built on land which the society had acquired between Theobald's Road and Lamb's Conduit Passage.


Augusta Webster

They had a daughter, Augusta Georgiana, who married Reverend George Theobald Bourke, a younger son of the Joseph Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo.

Benjamin Marten

Benjamin Marten (c1690 - 1752) was an English physician from "Theobald's Row" near Red Lyon Square, Holborn, and one of several sons of a tailor.

Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne

In the 1230s, in order to settle with Alice, Theobald IV had to sell his overlordship over the counties of Blois, Sancerre, and Châteaudun to Louis IX of France.

Cade's Road

The road ran northwards through Thorpe le Street and Market Weighton, before gradually turning westwards (possibly following the line of another Roman road) until it reached York (Roman Eboracum).

Central Market, Hong Kong

Located between Jubilee Street, Queen Victoria Street, Queen's Road Central and Des Voeux Road Central, it was the first wet market in Hong Kong.

Chelsea Classic Cinema

The Chelsea Classic Cinema was a cinema originally opened in 1913 as the Chelsea Picture Playhouse, in the King's Road, Chelsea.

Chemical chirality in popular fiction

In Larry Niven's Destiny's Road, the title planet's indigenous life is based upon right-handed proteins.

Cox's Road, Hong Kong

It is bordered on its east side for most of its length by the Kowloon Cricket Club.

James Cox was a drug trade merchant who did smuggling, selling and doing deals with opium.

Densill Theobald

Following the retirements of Dwight Yorke and Dennis Lawrence from international football, Theobald has since been named captain of the 'Soca Warriors'.

Dillon's Regiment

Dillon's Regiment (French: régiment de Dillon) was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon, for the Jacobite side in the Williamite War.

Fiona Scott Lazareff

Boulevard magazine attracted well-known contributors such as :fr:Emmanuel de Brantes, CZ Guest, :fr:Yves de Pozzo di Borgo, Édouard Carmignac, and talented writers and photographers such as Lucy Yeomans, Diana Geddes, Stephanie Theobald and Lyu Hanabusa.

Henry I of Navarre

Henry initially sought to recover territory lost to Castile by assisting the revolt of Philip, brother of Alfonso X of Castile, in 1270, but eventually declined, preferring to establish an alliance with Castile through the marriage of his son Theobald to Violant of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. This failed with the death of the young Theobald after he fell from a battlement at the castle of Estella in 1273.

Highweek

Theobald's guardians were Henry and Matilda de Bickleigh and it is likely that they abandoned Castle Dyke in favour of a new manor house built in the nearby valley of the River Lemon around this time.

King's Road

No. 213 has a blue plaque to film director Sir Carol Reed, who lived there from 1948 until his death in 1978.

Lionel Gamlin

He also chose the stage name of John Theobald Clarke, known as the actor and director Bryan Forbes.

Merian family

The founding father of all the Merians of Basel is one Theobald Merian (c.1415 – c.1505), a Basel episcopal bailiff or steward in Lüttelsdorf (now Courroux) in the Swiss canton of Jura.

Meux baronets

The Meux Baronetcy, of Theobald's Park in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831 for Henry Meux, head of Meux's Brewery.

Mosley Street Metrolink station

It was located on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre and was unique to Metrolink in that it was unidirectional, with a single platform serving southbound passengers travelling towards Altrincham Interchange, Eccles Interchange, MediaCityUK and St Werburgh's Road only.

Nell Theobald

She later drew notoriety for obsessively stalking opera singer Birgit Nilsson for nine years; beginning at the summer of 1968 at the Bayreuth Festival and ending upon Theobald's suicide in 1977.

Prince Edward's Road

Prince Edward's Road is a one-way road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Queen's Road, Gibraltar

Also of note, apart from the nature reserve, are the Great Siege Tunnels at the northern end.

Queen's Road is the longest road the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Queen's Road, Hong Kong

Lo Ta-yu, a song writer, has written a song with Albert Leung titled 皇后大道東 (Queen's Road East), performed by Lo Ta-yu and Ram Cheung Chi Kwong (蔣志光) in 1991, to describe the change in this transition period.

Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

In the era when animal power dominated transportation there was no safe way to cross east-west in the middle of the range; crossing was only possible nearer its extremes except for a few rough passages opened mid-range during the colonial era such as Braddock's Road and Forbes Road, later improved into America's first National Roads (respectively Cumberland Road, Lincoln Highway or designated U.S. 40 and U.S. 30 in later years).

Robert Alfred Theobald

Theobald joined the General Board of the United States Navy early in 1940, and was promoted to rear admiral in June 1940, serving as Commander of Cruiser Division Three and then as Commander of Destroyer Flotilla One in the Pacific Fleet.

Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine

His successor was Matthias his brother; his widow remarried his old rival, Theobald of Champagne.

Theobald III, Count of Champagne

There was little enthusiasm for the crusade at first, but on November 28, 1199 various nobles of France gathered at Theobald's court for a tournament (in his Ecry-sur-Aisne's castle), including the preacher Fulk of Neuilly.

Theobald le Botiller, 2nd Chief Butler of Ireland

Henry III of England requested the marriage of Theobald to Rohese de Verdon, daughter of Nicholas de Verdon of Alton, Staffordshire and Joan de Lacy, and the widow of William Perceval de Somery.

Theobald VI, Count of Blois

Theobald VI of Blois (French: Thibaut) (died 1218) was count of Blois and Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1205 to 1218.

Theobald von Oer

Theobald Reinhold Freiherr von Oer (9 October 1807 – 1885 in Coswig) was a German painter, illustrator and etcher.

Thomas Bourke, 4th Baron Bourke of Connell

Theobald was later created Baron of Brittas in 1618, and Edmund, having established his legitimacy, continued the line of the Barons of Castleconnell.

Wolfe Tone

He was baptised as Theobald Wolfe Tone in honour of his godfather, Theobald Wolfe of Blackhall, County Kildare, a first cousin of Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden.

Wrekenton

Wrekenton is believed to have been the meeting point of two Roman roads, Cade's Road, which ran all the way from the Humber, via York to Newcastle and the Wrekendyke which branched away to the north-east passing close to Jarrow and ending at the Roman fort and harbour of Arbeia, at South Shields.

Yarbridge

The bridge over the River Yar, defended by a Second World War pillbox, was constructed in the Middle Ages by Sir Theobald Russell who was killed fighting a French invasion, dying of his wounds at Knighton Gorges.


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