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unusual facts about William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse


William Moorhouse

William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, nephew of the above, first airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross


Adrian Moorhouse

Canadian Victor Davis first encountered Adrian Moorhouse at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane when Davis took gold in the 200 m breaststroke, and Moorhouse took the gold in the 100 m breaststroke.

Alhambra Theatre, Manchester

The Alhambra Theatre in Higher Openshaw, Manchester, England, was opened in 1910, part of the H. D. Moorhouse Theatre Circuit, but it had been converted to a cinema by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

Cass Peak

The original Gothic architecture railway station in Christchurch's Moorhouse Avenue, opened in 1876, was built of red brick, with stone facings from Cass Peak as architectural elements.

George Macfarlan

He was in partnership with William Sefton Moorhouse, prior to Moorhouse being elected Superintendent for the Canterbury Provincial Council in May 1866 for the second time, with their office located in Cathedral Square.

George Moorhouse

The first U.S. game, a 3-0 victory over Belgium on July 13, 1930 at Parque Central in Montevideo, made Moorhouse the first native-born Englishman to play in the World Cup.

Help Wanted, Male

In addition to original music by Nero Wolfe composer Michael Small, the soundtrack includes music by Alan Moorhouse (titles), Tony Kinsey and Dick Walter.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

Moorhouse did her HSC year in 1978 at Vermont High School where her mother taught art, which is the same high school that Gillian Armstrong attended a few years earlier.

Justin Moorhouse

Moorhouse was a salesman for many years before contacting a comedy club, the Frog and Bucket in Oldham Street, Manchester and performing a stand up comedy routine, aged 29.

Moorhouse's Brewery

In the 1930s the mineral water production was sold to Thwaites Brewery.

Scott Moorhouse

Despite having to miss training to concentrate on his academic studies beforehand, his results in an IWAS Series meet in Stadskanaal in the Netherlands saw Moorhouse beat his personal best with three of his throws.

Shadow Chasers

Shadow Chasers features strait-laced British anthropologist Jonathan MacKensie (played by Trevor Eve), who is blackmailed by his department head, Dr. Julianna Moorhouse (Nina Foch) of the fictional Georgetown Institute Paranormal Research Unit (PRU), into investigating a supposed "haunting" involving a teenage boy (Bobby Fite) in return for a research grant.

St. Mary's Church, Chennai

Numerous memorial-plaques and monuments exist within the church of which two, that of Sir Barry Close, who was Adjutant General to Gen. George Harris at the Siege of Seringapatam, and gave his name to Closepet, and that of Lt. Col. Joseph Moorhouse, who was killed at the Siege of Bangalore, in the Third Anglo-Mysore War, would be of particular interest to the historian.

Sydenham, New Zealand

Sydenham is separated from the central city by the South Island Main Trunk Railway and Moorhouse Avenue.

Threlfalls Brewery

Whitbread took over the entire Threlfall's Group in 1967, including the Moorhouses soft drinks company, and the Salford site became surplus to requirement in 1999.

William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse

After travelling extensively, on 15 September 1936 at Marylebone Rhodes-Moorhouse married Amalia Demetriadi, who had been approached to be screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind.

No. 601 were withdrawn to Tangmere on 17 June, in July flew against the initial Luftwaffe attacks over the Channel and the South coast.Rhodes-Moorhouse shared in the destruction of a Do17 on 7 July and 11 July.


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