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unusual facts about Weld-Blundell



Aelred Carlyle

Born Benjamin Fearnley Carlyle, he was educated at Blundell's School.

Angelina Grimké

Although not an onstage character, Angelin Grimké Weld is referred to many times in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood – commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia – by the characters Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Weld Grimké.

Angelina Weld Grimké

Both Angelina Weld Grimké and her great aunt Sarah Moore Grimké appear as main characters in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood, commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Bob Justin

Justin’s style, as described by an Assistant Curator from the New Jersey State Museum, Alison Weld, ranges from the minimal to obsessive and expressionistic, and thus his pieces vary from obsessively adorned objects to simple spare masks and sculptures.

Campbell, Australian Capital Territory

Many buildings built by Robert Campbell and his family are still standing around Canberra, including Blundell's Cottage, St John the Baptist Church, Reid, Duntroon House (now part of RMC Duntroon) and Yarralumla House (now Government House).

Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester

he assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal licence in 1811, upon inheriting Willey Park from his cousin George Forester.

Chlorinated polyvinyl chloride

Due to its specific composition, dealing with CPVC requires a specialized solvent cement, with high strength solvent cement variants being first introduced in 1997 by Weld-On, then followed closely by other products such as Henkel's Tangit line.

Daniel S. Weld

Weld co-founded Netbot Incorporated (1996), which was acquired by Excite; AdRelevance (1998), which was acquired by Media Metrix and then by Nielsen NetRatings; and Nimble Technology (1999), which was acquired by Actuate.

David Hutchins

Hutchins was educated at Blundell's School and the École nationale des eaux et forêts (National School of Water Resources and Forestry) at Nancy, France.

Eadric the Wild

Among the families that claim descent from Eadric are the Weld-Blundell family of England and the Weld family of the United States.

Egon Orowan

In 1944, he was central to the reappraisal of the causes of the tragic loss of many Liberty ships during the war, identifying the critical issues of the notch sensitivity of poor quality welds and the aggravating effects of the extreme low temperatures of the North Atlantic.

Francis Slacke

Francis Alexander Slack (post Slacke) was born in the parish of Saint Saviour in Jersey and educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, University College, Oxford and St John's College, Cambridge.

George Bellairs

Harold Blundell's personal papers are held by the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester, England.

George Bull

He was born, 25 March 1634, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Wells, and educated in the grammar school at Wells, and then at Blundell's School in Tiverton under Samuel Butler.

George Walker Weld

George Walker Weld (1840-1905), youngest son of William Fletcher Weld and member of the Weld Family of Boston, was a founding member of the Boston Athletic Association (organizers of today's Boston Marathon) and the financier of the Weld Boathouse, a landmark on the Charles River.

Greg Weld

Weld also founded Weld Wheel Industries, a firm manufacturing forged alloy wheels for various vehicles, including race cars, and was an active sponsor of both race cars and series, including the United States Auto Club series, and ran the firm until its acquisition by American Racing Equipment in 2006.

Harold Iremonger

Harold Edward William Iremonger, eldest son of the Rev. E R Iremonger, vicar of Goodworth Clatford, Andover, was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and was gazetted to the Royal Marine Artillery in 1900.

Heat fusion

Electrofusion is a method of joining HDPE and other plastic pipes with special fittings that have built-in resistive wire which is used to weld the joint together.

Henry Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell

Henry Blundell-Hollinshead Blundell died on 28 September the same year, and was buried on 2 October at Halsall near Ormskirk.

Henry Bowyer Lane

Lane's education included time at Blundell's School in Tiverton and subsequent professional training in England before he emigrated to Canada in 1841, living first in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and then in Toronto.

Humber derby

The most recent derby took place on 9 November 2013 with a 0-0 draw in the F.A. Cup First Round between Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United at Blundell Park, meaning a further meeting will take place in a replay at Glanford Park.

J-B Weld

The company is famous for its advertisements showing engine block repair with J-B WELD.

Johnstown, Colorado

Johnstown is a Home Rule Municipality in Larimer and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

Maurice Keen

He was an enthusiastic Governor of Blundell's School in Tiverton for many years, the school being linked to Balliol by a scholarship and fellowship foundation gift.

Melleray Abbey

Through the generosity of Sir Thomas Weld, a wealthy English Catholic and the father of Cardinal Weld, they settled (1795) at Lulworth, Dorset, England.

Olympic-class ferry

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee was the one to strike the first weld on the Samish.

Owen Blundell

Blundell was brought to the attention of Triple M's Wil & Lehmo show, when Lehmo's mother revealed the secret of Blundell to the world when she mistook singer Ben Lee for him in a segment of Can Lehmo's Mum guess who the celebrity is?.

Richard Blundell

Blundell was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 2003; by the University of Mannheim in 2011; and by the Norwegian School of Economics NHH, Bergen in 2011.

Robin Skynner

He was educated at St Austell County School and at Blundell's School, after which, at the age of 18, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force, and was selected as a prospective bomber pilot.

Roger Vaughan

He arrived at Liverpool and died nearby at Ince Blundell Hall, the seat of his Weld-Blundell relations, on 18 August, where he was buried in the family vault.

Samuel Badcock

While living at Barnstaple, Badcock became acquainted with the daughter of Samuel Wesley, the master of Blundell's School in Tiverton and elder brother of John Wesley.

Samuel F. Tappan

After helping train the regiment at Camp Weld near Denver, Tappan was placed in command of Fort Wise with a detachment of the regiment until news arrived of the invasion of New Mexico Territory by Confederates from Texas.

Seal of Colorado

It is also of interest "The Luttrell Psalter", a famous medieval manuscript dated by the 14th century, contains inside its binding an armorial bookplate of Thomas Weld (1750–1810) of Lulworth Castle, one of the book's owners, and the motto on the plate's ribbon reads "nil sine numine".

Sensors for Arc Welding

The general term “Sensors for Arc Welding” denotes devices which – as a part of a fully mechanised welding equipment – are capable to acquire information about position and, if possible, about the geometriy of the intended weld at the workpiece and to provide respective data in a suitable form for the control of the weld torch position and, if possible, for the weld process parameters.

St Matthew's Church, Wigan

It was paid for by Colonel Henry Blundell, owner of the Pemberton Colliery, in memory of his wife, Beatrice who had died in 1884.

Stephen Minot Weld

After Appomattox, a battle in which his son Stephen Minot Weld Jr. served with distinction, Weld was instrumental in raising the quarter million dollars that funded the construction of Memorial Hall, a monument to Harvard's war casualties.

Theodore Dwight Weld

Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895), was one of the leading architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years, from 1830 through 1844.

Trust PA

It was established in 2002 in memory of Cardiff born Paul-André Blundell (known to his friends as P.A.) who, during an away rugby match for Keynsham RFC in September 2001, sustained a SCI leaving him instantly paralysed from the chin down and unable to breathe for himself.

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1996

On the same day the spending cap was agreed upon, Governor Weld jumped into the Charles River after signing a bill and spoke at the 1996 Republican National Convention on August 14 before debating U.S. Senator Kerry again on August 19.

Vic Marks

Born 25 June 1955, Middle Chinnock, Somerset, Marks was educated at Blundell's School and Oxford University, for whom he played between 1975 and 1978 (alongside Imran Khan and Chris Tavaré, and opposite Peter Roebuck of Cambridge University, subsequently Marks' captain at Somerset).

WELD

WELD-FM, a radio station broadcasting at 101.7 MHz on the FM band, licensed to Moorefield, West Virginia

Weld Boathouse

This bridge was designed with "a high enough arch to admit the passage of all sorts of pleasure craft." Both the Weld Boathouse and the Anderson Memorial Bridge were funded by heirs to the fortune of 19th century magnate William Fletcher Weld.

Weld County Veterans Memorial

Joe P. Martinez of Ault, Colorado, the first Weld County resident to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Will Randall

Educated in London, he taught languages in the English west country for ten years, including 5 years at Blundell's School, before moving to live in the South Pacific islands.

William Blundell

Blundell painted works with the style of, among others, Australian artists Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Sidney Nolan, Lloyd Rees, Arthur Streeton, Elioth Gruner, Brett Whiteley and also Claude Monet.


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