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Sir John Wenlock, as portrayed in stained glass window in the Wenlock chapel at St. Mary's Church, Luton. The Wenlock chapel. Arms of Sir John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock KG. John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock KG (c.1400/04 – 4 May 1471) was an English politician, diplomat, soldier and courtier.
William Brookes School in Much Wenlock is named after him. [14] In 1994, the then President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch , laid a wreath on the grave of William Penny Brookes saying, "I came to pay homage and tribute to Dr Brookes, who really was the founder of the modern Olympic Games".
William Brookes School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Much Wenlock in the English county of Shropshire. [1] The school is named after William Penny Brookes, a surgeon, magistrate, botanist, and educationalist from Much Wenlock especially known for inspiring the modern Olympic Games with the Wenlock Olympian Games.
With difficulty, the Lancastrians were assembling an army and a fleet at Sandwich, under Earl Rivers, to reinforce Somerset.On 15 January 1460, Dynham and Sir John Wenlock surprised them and captured Rivers, his wife and son, 300 of his soldiers and several ships. [5]
John Wilkinson Primary School, Broseley; Kinlet CE Primary School, ... William Brookes School, Much Wenlock [1] Special and alternative schools
Baron Wenlock is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1461 when the soldier Sir John Wenlock was summoned to Parliament as Lord Wenlock.
The Wenlock Olympian Games, a nine-day event staged on eight sites across Shropshire, are still held annually during July, and are still organised by WOS. Much Wenlock's secondary school is named William Brookes School after Dr Brookes. [21] The London 2012 Summer Olympics mascot was named Wenlock [22] to honour Brookes, WOS and Much Wenlock ...
It is thought to have been made for William Wenlock (d. 1391), Canon of St Paul's Cathedral from 1362, Archdeacon of Rochester from 1376, and Canon of the King's Chapel, Westminster in 1381, who is buried at St Mary's Church, Luton, or his great-nephew John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock, whose brick-built manor house Someries Castle is near Luton.