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Haversham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Haversham-cum-Little Linford, [2] in the City of Milton Keynes unitary authority area, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated to the north of (and separated by the River Great Ouse from) the Milton Keynes urban area , near Wolverton and about 5 miles (8 km) north of ...
Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens ' 1861 novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place".
Baron Haversham is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. Both creations are extinct. The first creation came on 4 May 1696, when Sir John Thompson, 1st Baronet was created Baron Haversham , of Haversham in the County of Buckingham, in the ...
HMS Haversham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham . The minesweeper was named after Haversham in Buckinghamshire .
Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
The Play That Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company. The story follows a performance of a murder mystery, where the ill-fated theatre company encounters numerous mishaps. The original production has been running since 2012 in London, where it won Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence ...
James Habersham (26 January 1712 – 28 August 1775) was an English-born American merchant, planter, missionary, teacher and politician who lived the majority of his life in the Province of Georgia. [1] Habersham is credited with opening the first direct trade between Savannah, Georgia, and London. He was an influential advocate for slavery in ...
Godwin-Austen. Signature. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, surveyor, naturalist and geologist. He explored the mountains in the Himalayas and surveyed the glaciers at the base of K2, also known as Mount ...