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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO & Three Bars (11 January 1915 – 14 December 1955), best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards. He was an amateur boxing champion , qualified as a solicitor and was capped for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions at rugby union before becoming a ...
Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, SAS co-founder, was born and lived in Newtownards and attended Regent House Grammar School. A bronze statue of him stands outside the town hall. He played rugby for Ireland and for the Lions in the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa. [51] Barry McClements, Commonwealth Games para swimming medallist [52]
Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne (1915–1955), lieutenant colonel in the British Army, solicitor, Irish rugby union international, amateur boxer, and a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS). Initiated 25 September 1945, passed 28 May 1946, raised 24 September 1946 in Eklektikos Lodge No. 542 (IC), Newtownards, Northern Ireland. Affiliated ...
Tollymore Forest Park between Castlewellan and Newcastle. Scrabo Tower, in Newtownards, was built as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. An area of County Down is known as the Brontë Homeland (situated between Rathfriland and Banbridge, where Patrick Brontë had his church.)
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Paddy Mayne, Irish soldier, co-founder of the Special Air Service, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order and Legion of Honour; as Robert Blair Mayne, in Newtownards, Ireland (d. 1955 ) [ citation needed ]
A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 1800s. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and freed slaves worked and lived together.