Whittington, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, the home of the John Downie crab apple, holds an annual apple day fair on the third Saturday in October, with tastings, juicing, games and apple produce.
He was the son of John Noacks Mercer and Harriet Harrison Mercer, a descendant of the Baron of Whittington.
He became involved in athletics at the age of 11 when he joined his father's weight loss campaign by taking training runs around the Geelong suburb of Whittington.
The CR mainline from Whitchurch to Welshpool (Buttington Junction), via Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the more viable Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway route.
However, the 13th century building was destroyed by fire in 1760, and was rebuilt in Georgian style using sandstone quarried from Hopwas Hayes wood.
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It starred Tommy Lee Jones as Abner Snopes, Shawn Whittington as Sartoris Snopes, and Faulkner's nephew as De Spain.
Traveling back to Bellwood, Max takes Ben and Gwen to the location of the Hands of Armageddon, guarded by the few remaining Plumbers ranging from Ms. Dalton, Mr. Hawkins the Postman (Jeff Jensen), Fire Chief Whittington (Michael Runyard), Principal White (Robert Picardo), Mrs. Carlay the Plant Caregiver, Mr. Jenyx the Telephone Company Worker, and Mr. Enguells the Sanitation Worker.
Whittington played for Prairie View from 1970 to 1973, under head coach each year of his college career: Alexander Durley in 1970, Jim Hillyer in 1971, Theophilus Danzy in 1972, and Cornelius Cooper in 1973.
By 1220, Fulk had regained some favour with Henry III as he was allowed to rebuild and defend Whittington but in 1223 it fell to Llywelyn the leader of Wales.
After Whittington signed the blackboard as "Jerri Whittington," she told host John Daly that she was from West River, Maryland.
(The title page verso of the work contains an image of a bear being attacked by dogs.) This was a double-pronged reference, because in addition it parodied Whittington's pseudonym of "Bossus" ("bos" + "sus", the reasons for which are unknown), claiming that it was rather a reference to the "Bosse of Billingsgate" water tap, built in Billingsgate in London by Whittington's namesake, that Whittington had somehow fallen in love with.
On Saturday, February 11, 2006, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Whittington was accidentally shot by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney during a quail hunting trip, at a ranch in south Texas owned by Katharine Armstrong.
When the advancing enemy attempted to penetrate a roadblock, Sgt. Whittington, completely disregarding intense enemy action, mounted a tank and by shouting through the turret, directed it into position to fire pointblank at the leading Mark V German tank.
He was born in Whittington, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and was the son of John Brotherton, an excise collector, and his wife Mary.
Her talent was noticed by C. B. Cochran who auditioned her and she became one of Cochran's Young Ladies and on 30 November 1933, took the important role as Ena Hawkins in a production of "Mr Whittington" at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow, starring alongside Jack Buchanan.
Lauren W. Whittington is an American journalist who serves as politics editor for Roll Call newspaper.
He was succeeded in post by Surgeon Commodore C. J. G McArthur, who shall be promoted to Surgeon Rear Admiral in October 2012 on appointment as Commander Joint Medical Command, the MOD organisation tasked with HM Armed Forces' health based at Defence Medical Services, Whittington.
Samuel Pegge (1704-1796), antiquary and vicar of Whittington and Heath for many years, was buried here.
Second World War Victoria Cross winner John Brunt was born there in 1922 and his family lived there before moving to near Whittington some six years later.
There was also known to be a painted portrait of Whittington shown with a cat hanging at Mercer Hall, but it was reported that the painting had been trimmed down to smaller size, and the date "1572" that appears there was something painted after the cropping, which raises doubt as to the authenticity of the date, though Malcom who witnessed it ca.
Christmas of 2010 saw Shaun play the role of Sarah the Cook in the pantomime Dick Whittington at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, directed by Steve Marmion.
They had two sons, Voss Whittington Graham (born 1948), a motivational speaker in Cordova, near Memphis, Tennessee, and James E. Graham, Jr., of Dallas, Texas.
Adjacent to the house is the Whittington parish church which dates from the 12th century and is now dedicated to St Bartholomew.
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Whittington Court is an Elizabethan manor house, five miles east of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England.
Like the nearby Whittington Hospital, it is named after Dick Whittington, and a large topiary cat, in reference to Whittington's legendary pet, stands at the Holloway Road entrance.
Whittington was a Representative to the 69th United States Congress in 1925, and the twelve succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1951).