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2 unusual facts about Wolverton


John le Hunt

He married Margaret de Wolverton, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John de Wolverton of Wolverton.

Wolverton, Hampshire

Pipe Rolls identify the existence of a royal household in the village as early as the 12th century, and that Eleanor of Aquitaine resided there in 1165 while her husband – Henry II – was in Normandy.


Graphic Story Magazine

There were nine issues of Graphic Story Magazine with pages per issue varying from 32 pages to the 64-page Basil Wolverton issue #14 (Winter 1971-72) which featured Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper, Shock Shannon, The Story of Man, The Counter Culture, Common Types of Barflize and Wolverton caricatures, plus an interview with Wolverton.

Haversham

Near to Haversham, along the Ouse towards Wolverton, is the Wolverton Railway Viaduct of a 'typical' Stephenson's design, carrying the West Coast Main Line over the river Great Ouse.

John Cooke Bourne

Another of his famous prints shows a large landslip on the London and Birmingham Railway just north of Wolverton railway works which occurred during the construction of the Wolverton viaduct over the River Ouse.

Monte Wolverton

Monte Wolverton is an American editorial cartoonist who is best known for his satiric pages in Mad, his Weekly Wolvertoon website and his contributions as the managing editor of The Plain Truth.

Padbury

It remained in this family (who later took the name 'de Wolverton' after the village of Wolverton) until 1442 when it was sold to All Souls College, Oxford.

Terry Wolverton

Even as a child Wolverton was interested in the arts, especially writing, music, and drama; she graduated from the Performing Arts curriculum of Cass Technical High School in 1972.

Troy Wolverton

Prior to his current post, Wolverton was a senior writer for TheStreet.com and a writer for CNET.

Van Wolverton

Wolverton has written other computer books, addressing MS-DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, WordPerfect, Netscape FastTrack, VisiCalc, QBasic and more.


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