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unusual facts about Virginia Clay-Clopton


Virginia Clay-Clopton

In rounds of dinners, she met other Congressmen, members of the diplomatic corps and President Franklin Pierce's administration.


Ben Clopton

Benjamin Ashby Clopton, Junior (July 27, 1906 - November 19, 1987) was an artist best known for his work on Walt Disney and Harman-Ising animated cartoons.

Billingsley, Shropshire

Then in 1147, it passed hands from Shrewsbury Abbey to the Abbey of Seez in Normandy After this it passed to the Morehall family, the Clopton family and the Harewell family.

George Carew

George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes (1555–1629), Baron Carew of Clopton, served under Elizabeth I and was appointed President of Munster, son of the Dean of Exeter

Hugh Clopton

In 1504 William had livery of his great-uncle Hugh's manors of Clopton and Little Wilmcote, and his lands in Stratford and Bridgetown.

Hugh Clopton was born about 1440 at Clopton House near Stratford-upon-Avon, where the Clopton family had settled in the thirteenth century in the reign of Henry III.

Clopton's chapel and Clopton Bridge are still notable features of modern Stratford.

In 1450 his father had received license to erect an oratory at the manor house, and in 1474 his elder brother, Thomas Clopton, obtained permission from Pope Sixtus IV to add a chapel to the house for the celebration of divine service.

Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom

He did not contest the 1964 election, when Labour returned to government under Harold Wilson, but was made a life peer in 1965, as Baron Winterbottom of Clopton in the County of Northampton.

Little Dunmow

The monastic buildings stood to the southwest of the church but, along with much of the Priory, were razed to the ground after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when the priory site, with the manors of Little Dunmow and Clopton Hall, were granted to the patron of the priory, Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex.

Platypezidae

Kessel, E. L. & Clopton, J. R. (1969): The Platypezidae of the Oriental zoogeographic region and islands to the east, with descriptions of four new species (Diptera).

William Clopton

William Clopton, born in 1538, was the great-great-great-nephew of Hugh Clopton (d.1496), Lord Mayor of London, builder of both New Place and the bridge at Stratford upon Avon.

After his death father's death, William Clopton resided at Clopton House, while his father's agent, William Bott, moved from his home in Snitterfield into New Place in Stratford upon Avon.


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