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unusual facts about garter



1774 English cricket season

On Friday 25 February 1774, the Laws of Cricket were revised by a committee meeting at the Star and Garter on Pall Mall in London.

Abdülaziz

His fellow Knights of the Garter created in 1867 were Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Franz Joseph I of Austria and Alexander II of Russia.

Australian one-dollar note

The note features Queen Elizabeth II wearing Garter robes on the obverse with the Australian Coat of Arms.

Bartholomew de Burghersh

Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh (died 1369), son of the above, English nobleman and soldier and Knight of the Garter

Call Out the Marines

The fast paced Hellzapoppin' type comedy uses the spy plot as merely an excuse for five musical numbers by Harry Revel and a variety of comedy sequences such as barroom brawls over thrown garters, spies and policemen with speech impediments, and jeep, motorcycle and car chases.

Charles Wriothesley

Thomas Wall was made Garter King of Arms, and Charles was made Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary.

Claude d'Annebault

Jean was invited to the court of Edward VI of England on 23 April to see the Garter Knight's communion and took part in a tournament to entertain the French ambassadors on 25 May.

Elizabeth Lucy

The 18th century antiquarian John Anstis in The Register of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1724) identified her with "Elizabeth Wayte", the daughter of Thomas Wayte of Southampton, saying she was the mother of Arthur Plantagenet.

Folklore of Lancashire

# Cramp is effectually prevented by placing the shoes with the toes just peeping from beneath the coverlet; the same is also prevented by tying the garter round the left leg below the knee.

George Nayler

A year later, Nayler succeeded Heard as Garter and went on foreign missions to award the Garter to Frederick VI of Denmark in 1822, John VI of Portugal (who created Nayler a Knight Commander of the Order of the Tower and Sword) in 1823, Charles X of France in 1825 and Nicholas I of Russia in 1827.

Hugh Wrottesley

George Frederick Beltz, Memorials of the most noble Order of the Garter (1841)

John Anstis

Sir Henry St George was nominated to be Garter and succeeded his brother in June 1703.

When the Garter King of Arms, Sir Thomas St George, died in March 1703 Anstis was in a position to advise Lady Howard on how to protect her son's rights from the threat of a royal nomination of a new Garter on the one hand and the assumption of the nomination by the deputy earl marshal.

John de Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun

He married Joanne, daughter of Sir Bartholemew de Burghersh the elder, who was sister to Sir Bartholemew de Burghersh KG, one of the founders of the Garter.

John Stanley

John II Stanley of the Isle of Man (1386–1437), Knight of the Garter and King of Mann

Laws of cricket

In 1755 there is further reference to the laws being revised by "Several Cricket Clubs, particularly the Star and Garter in Pall Mall", followed by a revision of the Laws by "a committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex and London at the Star and Garter" in 1774.

Mitchell F. Jayne

Jayne also hosted a radio show in Salem, Missouri at KMOS that attracted national attention for its satire, including the Snake and Tick Market Report, a regular feature that reported market prices for Hoo-Boy White Dot Crushproof Dry Valley Wonder Ticks and black, copperhead, coachwhip, garter and rattle snakes.

Northwestern garter snake

The northwestern garter snake is small, with adults averaging around 36–53 cm (14–21 inches) in total length.

Richard Fitz-Simon

Elias Ashmole: Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Robert de Umfraville

Sir Robert was appointed governor of Roxburgh Castle in 1399, in 1408 he was appointed a knight of the order of the Garter, and in 1410 was appointed Vice Admiral of England until his death.

Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond

Then known as the Count and Countess de Neuilly, and formerly Louis-Philippe I, King of the French and his queen Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, the couple and their entourage stayed at the Star and Garter while Maria recovered from the effects of the water at Claremont House.

Sunol Regional Wilderness

Common amphibians and reptiles include the California red-legged frog, Pacific tree frog, California newt Diablo Range garter snake, Western rattlesnake and San Francisco Alligator lizard.

The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

The society includes more than 5,100 members worldwide (including more than 900 AmFriends members of the American Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter Inc.) to "protect, preserve and enhance" the college, its St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and the royal chivalric knighthood, the Order of the Garter.

Thomas Hastings

Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (c. 1396–1455), Knight of the Garter and English courtier

Trews

They were fastened at the lower leg, below the knee, by a garter (the precursor to the flashes of the Highland Dress) as can be seen in the painting by David Morier of the Battle of Culloden.

Walter Hungerford

Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford, 1378–1449, Knight of the Garter, English nobleman and Speaker of the House of Commons

White Conduit Club

In the 1730s and 1740s, the Star and Garter Club had Frederick, Prince of Wales as its chairman.


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