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21 unusual facts about Upton


Albert Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton

He attended an elementary school in Upton only before going to work as an agricultural labourer.

Albert Prefontaine

Born in Upton, Canada East (now Quebec), the son of Firman Prefontaine and Matilda Desautel, Préfontaine was educated in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Alice Greene

Greene was born at Upton, Northamptonshire on 15 October 1879, the daughter of Richard and Emma Greene.

Cambridge, New Hampshire

Most of the township is forested wilderness, but it contains the southernmost edge of Umbagog Lake, accessed via New Hampshire Route 26 from Errol or from Upton, Maine.

Energy Sciences Network

From there, ESnet delivers data from the LHC’s ATLAS detector to Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, to be processed and stored.

George Nelson Hunt, III

In 1956, he was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Gillette, Wyoming and in 1957, additionally, he became as priest in charge of St. John's Church in Upton, Wyoming, adding in 1959 the additional responsibilities of priest in charge of St. Francis Church, Reno Junction, Wyoming.

John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin

Llewellin lost his seat in the election and was raised to the peerage as Baron Llewellin, of Upton in the County of Dorset.

John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley

He was the only son of George Lumley (who had been executed in the lifetime of his father for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace), by Jane, second daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Knightley of Upton, Northamptonshire.

Joseph Zähringer

In 1955 he became an assistant at the university, and in 1956 he came to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.

Kislingbury

The earliest evidence of settlers in the area is the discovery of an Iron Age funeral pot, complete with ashes, dated c1500BC at Upton.

Resource Management Act 1991

The new Minister, Simon Upton, noted the divergent views of submitters on the proposed purpose and principles of the Bill.

However, the new National Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, continued the law reform process leading to the enactment of the RMA.

Sustainable Urbanism

Upton is part of the southwest district of Northampton, England, lying between the existing town edge and the motorway.

Upton-West Upton, Massachusetts

Upton includes several school systems: Memorial School, Nipmuc Regional High School, and Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School.

Upton, Baltimore

Pennsylvania Avenue was the premiere shopping strip for black Baltimorians, inspiring comparisons to Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

Upton, Bexley

It included for a short period Red House, the elegant brick and tile home designed by Philip Webb for William Morris, now preserved by the National Trust.

Upton, Kentucky

It is included in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Upton, Slough

Laid out in 1842, the grounds (a public park as Herschel Park since 1949) are believed to have been designed by Joseph Paxton.

It was the marriage place (7 May 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir William Herschel (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicting Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of Charles Hatchett who discovered niobium.

In 1895 a detached part of the parish was transferred to Gerrards Cross, and in 1900 and 1901 the rump of the parish was divided between the neighbouring parishes of Eton, Langley Marish, Slough and Wexham.

Winterfold House

He settled in Britain, taking a lease at favourable rates on Upton House at Poole, Dorset in 1961, but there were endless financial problems, and threats of eviction.


1974–75 West Ham United F.C. season

West Ham won the FA Cup Final for the second time, recording a 2-0 result against a Fulham side captained by former Upton Park legend Bobby Moore.

Arash Markazi

When Markazi took Sports Illustrated swimsuit models Damaris Lewis and Kate Upton to the Los Angeles Clippers-Oklahoma City Thunder game on April 2, 2011, he helped catapult Upton’s popularity when he recorded her doing The Dougie and posted it on his Twitter.

B. J. Upton

In April 2011, The Boston Globe reported that two evaluators in major league baseball opined that the Rays may explore a trade for Upton.

Battle of Upton

Cromwell, the same day, sent his second in command (General Charles Fleetwood) to take the command at Upton, ordering him at once to march there with a large force of troops, the whole of Colonels Lambert and Deane's brigades.

Boleyn

Boleyn Ground in London, often also known as Upton Park, the football stadium of West Ham United F.C.

Cranmore chase

Two local Westcombe land owners, Colonel Henry Upton Lamyatt and Mr Everard Creech, had bid a large proportion of their families’ wealth to acquire a small but valuable parcel of land in Britain’s growing Indian Empire.

Davina McCall

With the help of historians Jean-Marc Berliere and Simon Kitson, McCall learned that she is the great-granddaughter of onetime Prefect of Police Célestin Hennion (1862–1915), and the great great great-granddaughter, on her father's side, of James Thomas Bedborough (1787–1860), a stonemason, councillor, Mayor, property developer and entrepreneur, who worked on Windsor Castle and Upton Park in Slough.

Donald Upton, Jr.

Upton is the son of broadcaster and songwriter Donald Niles Upton and former Miss Universe and model Miriam Stevenson.

Edward Gee

He married, on 25 January 1703, Jane, daughter of Henry Limbrey of London and Hoddington in Upton-Gray, Hampshire, and by her had several children, whose names are recorded in the Westminster Abbey registers.

Florence Kate Upton

Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for her Golliwogg series of children's books.

Harriet Taylor Upton

Harriet Upton was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1981, in the category of Government and Military Service.

Ian Bastow

He later concentrated on playing for Upton Athletic and was appointed as first-team player-coach of Upton in June 2006, succeeding his uncle, Richard Bastow, whose sons Alex, Darren and Paul all also play for Upton.

Jeff Rich

He attended school in Hackney at Upton House Comprehensive, and whilst there he appeared in the opera Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Jimmy Upton

He was survived by his mother; a son Timothy French "Tim" Upton (born 1971), a New Orleans lawyer, and his wife, Patricia Upton; a daughter, Allison Upton Cooper and husband, Brett Cooper, of Jena in La Salle Parish; sister, Ellen Upton Madden of Bossier City, and one grandchild.

Justin Upton

Scouts rave about Upton's talent, and he is often compared to Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball Tonight's Peter Gammons stated during an episode that a Major League general manager recently told him that "Upton was the best 20-year-old he's ever seen".

On April 11, Upton homered off Jeff Francis of Colorado for his fourth home run of 2008 campaign.

Maine State Route 26

SR 26 continues through the town of Upton before crossing into Cambridge, New Hampshire, where the highway continues as New Hampshire Route 26.

Mark Upton

Princess Alia of Jordan has also bought Mark Upton paintings.

Oretown, Oregon

In 1877, settlers James B. Upton and S. H. Rock petitioned Senator John H. Mitchell asking for a mail route to Grand Ronde and a post office.

Rebecca Night

She attended Yarrells Preparatory School in Upton, Dorset where she took great pleasure in being a part of the annual musical productions, and later Parkstone Grammar School in Poole as well as Brownsea Open Air Theatre.

Sherburne Hopkins

Their son, Sherburne Philbrick, later also a lawyer in the family firm, briefly became a social star when he married Margaret Upton, better known as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a famous stage actress.

Slough Borough Council

It was part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, although the hamlet of Slough (a few scattered houses and coaching inns along the Great West Road and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway arrived in the 1840s.

South Bend Silver Hawks

Notable former players include Brandon Webb, and Justin Upton, the #1 overall draft pick in 2005.

Thomas Haynes Upton

Hailing from Collingwood, Melbourne, Upton learned his trade in England as a consulting engineer designing bridges and buildings before returning to Australia to work for the Victorian Country Roads Board.

Thomas Samwell

Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet of Upton (1654–1694) MP for Northamptonshire 1689-1690 and Northampton 1690-1694

United States Power Squadrons

This flag was designed by Roger Upton and Charles F. Chapman for the United States Power Squadrons, and by 1915, the flag was officially adopted by the organization.

Upton Magna

Upton Magna is identifiably the "Upton-under-Amon" where John Plimmer (1812-1905) was reportedly born, "Amon" being Haughmond Hill.

Upton Magna is situated on the National Cycle Route 81 between Wellington and Shrewsbury.

Upton Warren

Upton Warren was a Manor, for many years inherited alongside Grafton first in the hands of John de Grafton, then the Staffords, followed by the Talbots and Earls of Shrewsbury.

WJCR

WJCR-FM, a radio station (90.1 FM) licensed to Upton, Kentucky, United States