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Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book [3] until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old English stān "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.
Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour Co-op MP. [n 2] The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1937–1940). Since 1953 it has elected a succession of female MPs.
Birmingham Edgbaston BC: 71,787 8,368 Preet Gill ‡ Ashvir Sangha † Birmingham Erdington BC: 77,463 7,019 Paulette Hamilton ‡ Jack Brookes ¤ Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley BC: 76,936 5,656 Tahir Ali ‡ Shakeel Afsar ¥ Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North BC: 77,737 1,566 Liam Byrne ‡ James Giles ♣ Birmingham Ladywood BC ...
Birmingham was the terminus for both of the world's first two long-distance railway lines: the 82-mile (132 km) Grand Junction Railway of 1837 and the 112-mile (180 km) London and Birmingham Railway of 1838. [87] Birmingham schoolteacher Rowland Hill invented the postage stamp and created the first modern universal postal system in 1839. [88]
The University of Birmingham is the main university in the region [37] and has the most funding. It has a large research grant, as does the University of Warwick, which is the next largest in terms of funding. Birmingham and Warwick are members of the Russell Group of public research universities. Keele and Aston have a moderate research grant ...
The Edgbaston ward is currently represented by two Conservative Councillors; Deirdre Alden (1999-), and Matt Bennett (2015-). The ward of Edgbaston forms part of the Parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston along with Bartley Green , Harborne , and Quinton , which has been represented by Labour Party MP Preet Gill since 2017 .
The Birmingham Oratory was to play a major role in the life of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, who was a parishioner there for about nine years during his childhood. After the unexpected death of their father in South Africa, their mother, Mabel Suffield Tolkien, began to seek a spiritual home where she could find support ...
Bahasa Indonesia; Italiano; ... People from Edgbaston (2 C, 74 P) People from Erdington (20 P) G. ... Pages in category "People from Birmingham, West Midlands" ...