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58 unusual facts about Kent


Amicable Grant

In Essex, Kent, Norfolk, Warwickshire, and Huntingdonshire, the grant provoked reactions ranging from reluctance to outright refusal.

Arthur Lee Dixon

The couple had one child, a daughter, who later married F.J. Baden Fuller; when Catherine died in 1930, Dixon moved in with his daughter and her husband in Sandgate, Kent, where he spent the rest of his life.

Baron Hothfield

On the Earl's death in 1849 he inherited the estates, which included Skipton Castle in Yorkshire and Hothfield Place, Maidstone, Kent, and became a British citizen the same year.

BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar

In July 2004, a group of 16 students and teachers presented as many as 50 programmes including the play Is Jagah Ek Gaon Tha at Woodville Halls Theatre, Gravesend, UK.

Benjamin Edes

She was the great great granddaughter of Dr. Comfort Starr of Boston, a founder of Harvard College and a surgeon who emigrated from Ashford, Kent, England.

Bryan Keith-Lucas

In 1965 he was appointed professor of government at the new University of Kent at Canterbury, and from 1970 to 1974 he was Master of Darwin College, Kent.

Buddleja davidii 'Florence'

Buddleja davidii 'Florence' is a variegated cultivar introduced and registered by the Stone Green Nursery, Bethersden, Ashford, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Sir John'

Buddleja davidii 'Sir John' is a variegated cultivar introduced and registered by the Stone Green Nursery, Bethersden, Ashford, UK.

Buxheim Charterhouse

In 1960 the sisters relocated to their other convent at Hythe, Kent, taking the carvings with them.

Carthage, Ohio

Kent, Ohio, includes an area that was originally platted as the village of Carthage in 1825

Charles Grimes

He was appointed paymaster at the recruiting depot, Maidstone, in September 1833 and was transferred to Chatham, Kent in 1836.

Cheriton, Kent

The Seabrook Stream flows through the west of the district, cutting a scenic valley between Dibgate Camp and St Martin's Plain.

Cossington

Cossington, Kent is a small settlement in Kent, home of a possible megalithic site

Custos Rotulorum of Kent

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Kent.

Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon

On 10 January 1972, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created additionally a life peer with the title Baron Salmon, of Sandwich in the County of Kent.

David Maltby

His body was recovered and he was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Wickhambreaux, Kent.

Eanswith

King Eadbald, whose sister St. Ethelburga married the pagan King Edwin two or three years before, recalled that this wedding resulted in Edwin's conversion.

Eleven plus exam

In Kent children will sit all four of the above disciplines, however the English paper will only be used in circumstances of appeal.

Ernulf

At Peterborough and Rochester, Ernulf had the old buildings torn down and erected new dormitories, refectories, chapter house, etc.

Fergus and Judith Wilson

As of 2013, they own nearly 1,000 two- and three-bedroom properties around Ashford and Maidstone in Kent.

Frank Runacres

Frank Runacres' paintings show rolling rural landscapes in Kent and Somerset, and boats and rocky seascapes in Plymouth.

Free tenant

The disparate nature of manorial holdings and local laws mean the Free Tenant in Kent, for example, may well bear little resemblance to the Free Tenant in the Danelaw.

Gladiateur

He first stood at Middle Park Stud in Kent in 1867 and 1868 and then at his owner's Haras de Dangu in France 1869 and 1870.

Gossamer Albatross

On July 7, 1981 the aircraft, piloted by Steve Ptacek, accomplished the 262 kilometer (163 mile) flight from Paris to Manston in the UK.

Grammar schools debate

Kent currently has 33 National Challenge schools, more than any other LEA in England.

Grove Ferry Picnic Area

Grove Ferry is near Upstreet, in Kent, England.

Henry George Smith

He was educated at schools at Ickham and Wingham, and also had private tuition from the Rev. Mr Midgley, M.A. He went to Sydney in 1883 for health reasons, and in 1884 obtained a semi-scientific position on the staff of the Sydney technological museum.

Jobbik

Griffin spoke at the party rally in August 2008, while former vice-president Zoltan Füzessy is presently resident in Gravesend, Kent, England.

John Amherst

He was the fourth son of lawyer Jeffrey Amherst and Elizabeth Kerrill, of Riverhead, Kent, and his older brothers included Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst and Lieutenant-General William Amherst.

John Lankester Parker

In memory of his long association with the Medway area, a road in Rochester, Kent was named after him.

John Paul Cooper

After the death of his father his inheritance enabled him to give up teaching and he moved to a rented house in Hunton.

Kent Andersson

Kent-Erik Andersson (born 1951), retired Swedish hockey right winger who played 7 seasons in the National Hockey League

Kent-Valentine House

The house is the headquarters of the Historic Garden Week project of the Garden Club of Virginia, which is a massive house tour that runs for a week each April across the state of Virginia.

Kent, Connecticut

Seth MacFarlane (b. 1973), animator, TV producer and director and voice actor who created Family Guy, Cleveland Show, and American Dad!, born in Kent, as well as his sister Rachael MacFarlane (b. 1976)

Kent, Washington, D.C.

Kent is a triangular-shaped neighborhood between Loughboro Road to the north, MacArthur Boulevard to the southwest, and Chain Bridge Road and Battery Kemble Park to the southeast.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men

At the beginning of the book Johnny and his family live in London, however Johnny is sent to live with his Aunt Ivy in the town of Cliffe soon after his father enlists.

Manx Rumpy

On realizing that that these bantams live without tail feathers to escape foxes, Kent Poultry Club chairman Dudley Mallett gave the tiny chickens the name Rumpless Game Bantams.

Maria Ann Smith

Maria began work as a farm labourer and married another farm labourer, Thomas Smith (1799–1876) on 8 August 1819 in Ebony, Kent.

Marquess of Abergavenny

The 1st Marquess's ancestor, the de facto 17th (de jure 2nd) Baron Bergavenny, was created Earl of Abergavenny, in the County of Monmouth, and Viscount Nevill, of Birling in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of Great Britain on 17 May 1784.

Patrick Mackay

In 1973, near his mother's home in Kent, he met and was befriended by Father Anthony Crean, a priest.

Pure Strength

In 1988, the event became a 2-man team competition held at Allington Castle in Allington, Kent England.

Richard Dadd

On his return in the spring of 1843, he was diagnosed to be of unsound mind and was taken by his family to recuperate in the countryside village of Cobham, Kent.

Rochester, Massachusetts

The town was officially incorporated on June 4, 1686 as Rochester, and was renamed for Rochester, England, from which early settlers to the town came.

Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, New Brunswick

The 2010 Home County Folk Festival was held July 16–18, 2010 and featured the renowned singer Bruce Cockburn.

Shannon Chan-Kent

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Pinkie Pie (singing voice on most songs), Silver Spoon

SS Royal William

She departed from Pictou, Nova Scotia on 18 August 1833 with seven passengers, a small amount of freight and a load of coal and arrived at Gravesend on the River Thames after a 25-day passage.

Ted Roop

At the time, BEA-VER Communications owned and operated CKSY-FM and CFCO, its AM Oldies sister station, from their Chatham, Kent studios, but had an application in to the CRTC for a 3rd FM station.

Thames and Medway Canal

The canal towing contactor's home was converted into the ticket office for Higham railway station.

The Sea Lady

The inspiration for the novel was Wells's glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the Times drama critic, in a bathing suit, when she came to visit at Sandgate, Wells having agreed to pay her school fees after her father's death.

Titus Hosmer

The Hosmer family is traced to Rotherfield in Sussex (and much earlier to Dorset), where a certain Alexander Hosmer was native before a marian martyr in nearby Lewes and the family consequently moved to Kent in the following generations.

Top rope climbing

For example, in Kent and Sussex in south-east England, the sandstone rock is soft and prone to erosion, so placing protection into the rock would be both damaging and unreliable.

UKC Radio

When UKC Radio was granted a licence the chance was taken to build a full studios complex on the lowest floor of Eliot College.

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The station from 1966 was known as Radio Rutherford, and broadcast from the Student Newspaper offices on the lowest floor of Rutherford College.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).

William Colgate

Robert Colgate (1758–1826) was an 18th-century English farmer, politician and sympathiser with the American War of Independence and French Revolution, whose republican ideals impelled him to leave their farm in Shoreham, Kent in March 1798 and emigrate to Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States of America, after which the family settled on a farm in Harford County, Maryland.

William Saville-Kent

In 1889, he became Commissioner of Fisheries for Queensland, and in 1892, Commissioner of Fisheries for Western Australia, a position he held until 1895.

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls, WGSG (Previously known as the Grammar School for Girls Wilmington) is a grammar school with academy status in Wilmington, Kent, England.


Acafellas

Recurring cast members who appear in "Acafellas" are Stephen Tobolowsky as former glee club director Sandy Ryerson, Patrick Gallagher as football coach Ken Tanaka, Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins, Kent Avenido as Sheets and Things employee Howard Bamboo, and Naya Rivera and Heather Morris as glee club members Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce.

Brickearth

Commercially useful deposits of about 2m to 4m thick are present in Kent, Hertfordshire and Hampshire, overlying chalk, Thanet Beds or London Clay.

British Rail Class 376

The units were ordered by Connex South Eastern, introduced in 2004/2005 by South Eastern Trains to replace Class 465 and Class 466 to be transferred to the Outer Suburban services to Kent and to first class added in the 34 Class 465/2 but which are renumbered as Class 465/9, and are now operated by Southeastern.

Cliftonville

Cliftonville is a coastal area of the town of Margate, situated to the east of the main town, in the Thanet district of Kent, South East England, United Kingdom.

Declaration and forfeiture

In a game against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend, Wright declared Nottinghamshire's second innings closed on 157 for 5 to set Kent a target of 231 to win.

Denehole

Isolated specimens have been discovered in various parts of Kent and Essex, but the most important groups have been found at Grays Thurrock, in the districts of Woolwich, Abbey Wood and Bexley, and at Gravesend.

Dulwich College Preparatory School

In 1938 headmaster John Leakey established an evacuation camp in the orchard on his father-in-law's land at Coursehorn, near Cranbrook, Kent, where the affiliated Dulwich Preparatory School still is today.

Eddie Crush

As well as being a lifelong member of the Kent County Cricket Club he was also a member (President 1996–2007) of the Kent Hoppers Tie Club which was founded by his very dear cricketing friends Hopper Levett and Les Ames.

Edmund Filmer

Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (1835–1886), MP for West Kent 1859–1865 and Mid Kent 1880–1884

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Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (1809–1857), Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kent 1838–1857

Edward Filmer

Filmer was born in or about 1657, was the second son of Sir Robert Filmer, 1st Baronet, of East Sutton, Kent, who died 22 March 1676, by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Maurice Tuke of Layer Marney, Essex.

Fox sisters

"Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity", Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Fun Run

After initially reading the script, Kate Flannery asked producer Kent Zbornak if Meredith was going to live, to which he replied "This isn't All My Children."

G. T. Abraham

While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

Gillingham bus disaster

An inquest was held on 14 December 1951 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Gillingham, where many of the injured were being treated, before the North-East Kent Coroner.

Harry Sutcliffe

The late 1990s saw Harry move into the business side of the music industry, initially as an A&R manager for Arista Records working closely with Blondie, Natalie Imbruglia, Kent, Beth Orton, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Brown and Death in Vegas.

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, KG PC (1671 – 5 June 1740) was a British politician and courtier.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

Ivor the Engine

Having produced the live Alexander the Mouse, and the filmed The Adventures of Ho for his employers Associated Rediffusion/ITV in partnership with Firmin, Oliver Postgate and his partner set up Smallfilms in a disused cow shed at Firmin's home in Blean near Canterbury, Kent.

James Murray Dobson

James Murray Dobson (Plymouth, England 1846 - Pescot, Longfield near Dartford, Kent, England, 27 February 1924) was a principal engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works in the late 1880s.

John Calcraft

John Calcraft the elder (1726 – 23 August 1772), of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English army agent and politician.

John Vane

He died on November 19, 2004 in Princess Royal University Hospital, Kent, from long-term complications arising from leg and hip fractures he sustained in May of that year.

Kitty Kirkpatrick

In 1805, the year of her father's death, she and her elder brother Mir Ghulam Ali, Sahib Allum, were sent to live with their grandfather Colonel James Kirkpatrick, in London and Keston, Kent, leaving their mother in India.

Knowler

Knowler is an uncommon English surname, a toponymic derived from knoll (Old English cnoll), with the suffix -er common in Kent and Sussex.

Lady Flora Hastings

The unmarried Lady Flora was alleged to have had an affair with John Conroy, the "favourite" and also suspected lover of the Duchess of Kent.

Little Linford

Today it is one of the best habitats for dormice, which were transferred to Linford Wood from Kent when the Channel rail link was constructed.

Maid of Kent

Joan of Kent, 14th century Countess of Kent and Princess of Wales

Marty Belafsky

Belafsky also voiced Kent Swanson in the video game series Dead Rising released in 2006.

Michael Fitzmaurice

He played Jimmie Kent on Myrt and Marge, and he also appeared on Joyce Jordan, M.D., When a Girl Marries and Pepper Young's Family.

Miracle Monday

She infiltrates Clark Kent's circle of friends by becoming Lois Lane's assistant.

Nephrurus

In the first episode of the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Planet newspaper, producing an article on Knob-Tailed Geckos as proof of his writing skills.

Pearl Hackney

She died in Herne Bay, Kent on 18 September 2009 and is buried with her husband in the churchyard of St. Mary's Stalisfield.

Quaife

Based near Sevenoaks, Kent they have two sites, one in Sevenoaks and the other, their OEM production facility, in Gillingham.

Quentin Tod

Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Richard Risby

12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Observant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (St.John's College, Cambridge), parson of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex and Richard Master M.A. (King's College, Oxon)rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some oversight Master's name is included and Risby's omitted in the catalogue of praetermissi.

River Wantsum

Formerly, the River Wantsum and the River Stour together formed the Wantsum Channel, which separated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland of Kent.

Sevenscore

Sevenscore is a hamlet on the B2048 secondary road about one mile (1.6 km) east of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, England.

Simon Halliday

This was when he scored 113 not out against Kent in 1982, with a bowling lineup consisting of English Test cricketers Graham Dilley and Bob Woolmer.

Sport Mastermind

The first champion and Sport Mastermind 2008 was Chris Bell from Kent, who took The British and Irish Lions as his specialist subject in his heat and The Life and Career of Geoff Boycott in the Grand Final.

The Castle of Adventures

The series was filmed on location and at Saltwood Castle in Maidstone, Kent.

Thomas Bickley

Returning to England after the accession of Elizabeth I, he enjoyed rapid promotion, being made, within ten years, chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker, rector of Biddenden in Kent, of Sutton Waldron in Dorset, archdeacon of Stafford, chancellor in Lichfield Cathedral, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.

Thomas Hyde Page

In 1783 he married Mary Albinia (d. 1794), daughter of John Woodward (formerly captain in the 70th regiment) of Ringwould, Kent, and they had five children.

Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation

It is particularly well exposed throughout the region between East Grinstead, West Sussex, and Tunbridge Wells, Kent, at localities such as; Stone Farm south of East Grinstead; Chiddinglye Rocks near West Hoathly; Toad Rock, Bull’s Hollow and Happy Valley west of Tunbridge Wells; and Harrisons Rocks, Bowles Rocks and High Rocks near Crowborough.

Tyler Kent

With a position that required him to encode and decode sensitive telegrams, Kent had access to a wide range of secret documents, especially the communications between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he began to take many of the more interesting ones home with him.

Viola von Cramon-Taubadel

From 1992 to 1993 Viola von Cramon was an Erasmus Scholar at Wye College in Kent Country followed by the Language and Study visit to Russia in 1993, traineeship in Voronezh and Belgorod within the World Bank Feasibility study project in 1994 and Study visit to Estonia in 1995.

William Hall-Jones

Hall-Jones was born in Folkestone, Kent, England, landed at Dunedin in 1873 and became a carpenter and later a builder in Timaru.

William Johnstone Hope

In 1799, the Kent was Duncan's flagship in supporting the Anglo-Russian invasion of the Batavian Republic, with Hope being present at the surrender of the Dutch fleet in Texel to the Royal Navy.

Yard of ale

John Evelyn records in his Diary the formal yet festive drinking of a yard of ale toast to James II at Bromley in Kent, 1685.