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20 unusual facts about Trent


Alfred Seymour

Alfred Seymour of Knoyle House, Wiltshire, and of Trent MP, JP (11 November 1824 – 15 March 1888) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Arthur Cecil Caporn

Born in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, he was the son of Arthur Leeson Caporn, owner of a Nottingham lace-making business.

Arthur Leslie

Arthur Leslie (Arthur Scottorn Broughton) 8 December 1901 – 30 June 1970 was a British actor who was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire but moved to Lancashire at an early age.

Aston-on-Trent

This manor came under the control of the King again following Morcar being murdered in 1015 and the lands were later given to Ælfgar, the Earl of Mercia, but he lost this at the Norman Conquest.

Playing in the Long Eaton Sunday League, the two teams are currently in the Oakes Insurance Premier Division and Division Three respectively.

County Ground, Stoke-on-Trent

The ground, located at Victoria Road, was situated close to Fenton Manor railway station and the North Staffordshire Railway which it served.

Edward Cromwell Disbrowe

Sir Edward Disbrowe was born at Walton Hall, Walton-on-Trent, South Derbyshire, the son of Colonel Edward Disbrowe, and his wife Lady Charlotte Hobart, fourth daughter of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Gunness and Burringham railway station

The station was opened by the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway and was situated on a short branch from the main line.

Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant

He succeeded his grandfather John Oliphant, 2nd Lord Oliphant, in 1516, and was one of the Scottish nobles taken prisoner at the battle of Solway Moss on 25 November 1542, reaching Newark on 15 December, on the way to London.

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.

Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent

The theatre is also known for its annual pantomime, frequently starring local celebrity Jonathan Wilkes.

Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald

The Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway opened in 1866, and Winn also built 193 houses in New Frodingham and enlarged the local school.

St. Chad's Church, Burton-on-Trent

The bells went back to Taylors for refurbishment and two new trebles were cast to take the peal up to an eight; one bell was donated by local football club Burton Albion F.C. whose ground is in the parish.

Stoke Minster

Stoke Minster is the town centre and civic church in Stoke-upon-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent in England.

Tadeusz Klimecki

Tadeusz Klimecki was buried in the cemetery of Polish airmen in Newark-on-Trent, England.

The Campden Wonder

The case, along with the Sandyford murder case, were mentioned in E.C. Bentley's 1920 detective story Trent's Last Case, and provided some of the inspiration for the novel's plot.

The Midnight Patrol

The Stoke-on-Trent Laurel & Hardy tent is named 'The Midnight Patrol Tent' in honour of this film as well as the San Jose, California tent.

Tony Monopoly

He was headhunted for a musical while appearing in Cinderella at Hanley, near Stoke-on-Trent.

Train reporting number

The china clay train from Cliff Vale (Stoke-on-Trent) – St Blazey (Cornwall) is limited to 60 mph, so it is a class 6 train.

Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway

The line ran for about 14 miles (22.5 km) through Frodingham to Wrawby Junction near Barnetby and included railway stations at Appleby, and Elsham.


2005 Presidents Cup

They were played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, USA.

Aeterni Patris

This high regard was most especially evident during the Council of Trent, in which his Summa was laid “upon the altar, together with sacred Scripture and the decrees of the supreme Pontiffs.”

American Association of Christian Counselors

Speakers for these events include, Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. John Townsend, Gary Smalley, Larry Crabb, T.D. Jakes, Ron Hawkins, John Trent, Emmerson Eggrich, Joni Tada, Arch Hart, John Eldredge and a host of other popular Christian writers.

Arnold Machin

In the 1956, while resident at number 15, The Villas, Stokeville, (an estate of 24 Victorian houses in Stoke-upon-Trent) he received publicity in the national press when he chained himself to an old metal lamp-post in protest at its planned removal.

Benito Arias Montano

León de Castro, professor of Oriental languages at Salamanca, to whose translation of the Vulgate Arias had opposed the original Hebrew text, denounced Arias to the Roman, and later to the Spanish Inquisition for having altered the Biblical text, making too liberal use of the rabbinical writings, in disregard of the decree of the Council of Trent concerning the authenticity of the Vulgate, and confirming the Jews in their beliefs by his Chaldaic paraphrases.

Beware the Gray Ghost

Batman and Trent travel to the Batcave, which Trent remarks bears a strong resemblance to the "Gray Ghost Lair" from the television show.

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) is elated to learn that his stepson, Trent Pierce (Brandon T. Jackson), has been accepted to attend Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Bleasby, Nottinghamshire

Following the marriage on 625AD which for the first time unified the whole of England, the court of Edwin descended upon Bleasby, the Trent considered to be equidistant from Kent and Northumbria, and were all baptised in the shallow waters there by the Roman priest, Paulinus, who later became the first Archbishop of York.

Boston Guildhall

In the Court Room are a set of ceramic tiles designed by John Moyr Smith depicting various scenes from Shakespearian plays; they date around 1878 and were made at the Minton China Works, Stoke-on-Trent.

Council of Trent

Much more than the Second Council of Nicaea (787) the Council fathers of Trent stressed the pedagogical purpose of Christian images.

De Situ Britanniae

:This province is divided into two equal parts by a chain of mountains called the Pennine Alps, which rising on the confines of the Iceni and Carnabii, near the river Trivona Trent , extend towards the north in a continued series of fifty miles.

Dennis Herod

Herod was born in Basford and joined Stoke City in 1940 from local non-league side Trent Vale United after impressing the watching Bob McGrory in the final of the Sentinel Shield.

Department of Alto Adige

Its capital was Trent and the administrative language Italian, but the German-speaking areas temporarily adopted bilingualism in the public notices and used German in city government.

Dos Dedos Mis Amigos

This was the only PWEI album (excluding the Amalgamation EP) released on Trent Reznor's Nothing Records, although Clint Mansell would collaborate with Trent Reznor on various future projects.

Duwenbeek

It flows through the Rügen municipalities of Bergen auf Rügen, Parchtitz and Kluis and forms parts of the boundaries of the municipalities of Bergen, Trent and Gingst.

Harry Croxton

One of his daughters, Clara, won the Staffordshire ballroom dancing championship in 1937 with her partner, Basset Riseley, whose father was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent.

Hugh Bourne

Bourne's conversion at the age of twenty seven led him to join the local Wesleyan society at Burslem, one of the historical six towns of the City of Stoke-on-Trent.

James Murray Mason

While traveling to his post as Confederate envoy to Britain and France, on the British mail steamer RMS Trent, the ship was stopped by USS San Jacinto on November 8, 1861.

Jamie Shepherd

During his degree at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Jamie was freelancing at Dee 106.3 in Chester, Brmb in Birmingham, Heart 100.7 in Birmingham and Heart Radio in North Wales and Cheshire.

Jenny Barker

Jenny Barker (born December 29, 1974) was the drive time presenter on Cross Rhythms City Radio in Stoke-on-Trent in 2005.

Joe Landon

2002 Grabby Awards winner of Best Actor and Best Three-Way Sex Scene in "Apprentice 2: Dark Heart" with Trent Atkins and Danny Rhymes (Delta Video).

John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent

John Campbell Boot, 2nd Baron Trent KBE (19 January 1889–8 March 1956) was the son of the Jesse Boot who turned the Boots Company, founded by his father John Boot, into a major national company.

John Forrester

Forrester was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent and was educated at Eastwood (local authority run) School, the City School of Commerce in Stoke-on-Trent, and Alsager teacher training college in Cheshire.

John Henry, Margrave of Moravia

Thus, after Henry of Gorizia-Tyrol had died in 1335, Emperor Louis IV gave Carinthia and southern Tyrol including the overlordship of Trent and Brixen to the Habsburg dukes, who themselves could refer to their mother Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, sister of deceased Henry.

Kelsey Ramsden

Her only sibling, brother Trent Kitsch is also an entrepreneur, founding SAXX Underwear.

Leonard Arthur

He served on the Council of the British Paediatric Association, was secretary of the Paediatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and chaired the Trent Regional Advisory Sub-committee in Paediatrics, sitting also on the Regional Medical Committee.

Leonard Henry Trent

In September 1939 Trent went to France as part of No. 15 Squadron RAF, flying Bristol Blenheims on high-level photo-reconnaissance missions over enemy territory.

Matt Othick

With his brother, Trent, Othick helped finance the Magnolia Pictures film Yonkers Joe, on which he is listed as an executive producer.

Midland Mainline

The service used the Midland Main Line as far as Trent Junction, before taking the Erewash Valley Line (avoiding Derby) to Clay Cross, rejoining the Midland Main Line until Dore South Curve, before heading west along the Hope Valley Line towards Manchester Piccadilly.

Nicholas Bozon

He was, by his own admission, del ordre de freres menours ("of the order of the Friars Minor"), and probably associated with the Nottingham friary, since he refers in his own writings to the Trent and Derwent rivers.

Publius Ostorius Scapula

He apparently (based on an emendation of a corrupt passage in Tacitus's Annals) declared his intention to disarm all the Britons south and east of the rivers Trent and Severn.

Rolls-Royce Trent 900

Rolls-Royce has seven risk and revenue sharing partners on the Trent 900: Industria de Turbo Propulsores (low pressure turbine), Hamilton Sundstrand (electronic engine controls), Avio S.p.A. (gearbox module), Marubeni Corporation (engine components), Volvo Aero (intermediate compressor case), Goodrich Corporation (fan casings and sensors) and Honeywell (pneumatic systems).

SATEB

SATEB organizes an annual residential weekend at The Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent.

Sons of Thunder

This episode introduced the characters of childhood friends Carlos Sandoval, a Dallas PD Detective, and Trent Malloy, an Army sergeant and a protégé of Walker.

The Flying Saucer

A wealthy American playboy, Mike Trent (Mikel Conrad), who was raised in that remote region, is recruited to assist a Secret Service agent in exploring that area to determine what the Soviets have found.

Trent FM

Launched on 3 July 1975 as Radio Trent and based in the converted Nottingham Women's Hospital at 29-31 Castle Gate, Nottingham, the station broadcast on FM and medium wave.

Trent Park

Trent Park dates back to the fourteenth century when it was a part of Enfield Chase, one of Henry IV's hunting grounds.

Tyson Meade

Meade installed Kittens-obsessed Chicagoan Matt Johnson on bass and Eric Harmon on drums, promoted Trent Bell to lead guitarist, and the Kittens set to work on their third album, Pop Heiress, with A-list producer John Agnello.

United Kingdom and the American Civil War

They slipped out of Charleston, South Carolina, on a blockade runner at the beginning of October and went via the British Bahamas to Spanish Havana, where they took passage for England on the British mail steamer Trent.

Wedgwood Memorial College

This came about partly through the influence of Horace Barks, the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, who was an advocate of Esperanto.

William Drury Lowe

After his marriage in 1827 to Caroline Esther Curzon daughter of Lord Scarsdale they lived at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent for a while before he took up the challenge of running the estate near Kimbolton in Bedfordshire.