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The Old Speckled Hen logo. Old Speckled Hen is a bitter beer originally made by the Morland Brewery, but now brewed by Greene King Brewery.Old Speckled Hen was first brewed in 1979 in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire in England, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory there on 30 November 1979.
Morland was a brewery in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, [1] and the second oldest brewer in England, [2] until it was bought by Greene King in 2000. Morland's beers include Hen's Tooth, Old Speckled Hen, Tanner's Jack and Morland's Original. John Morland founded the brewery in West Ilsley in 1711.
Greene King plaque on the side of a pub in Sudbury, Suffolk. The brewery was founded by Benjamin Greene in Bury St. Edmunds in 1799. [3] In Richard Wilson's biographical analysis of the Greene family, he credits various family members for being able to achieve distinction in the worlds of business and banking, literature (Graham Greene, for example) and broadcasting in the nineteenth and ...
The following is a list of erotic illustrations of scenes from popular novels, designed probably by George Morland, and engraved by his brother-in-law, William Ward, or by John Raphael Smith, [2] which are described by Henry Spencer Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi') in Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885), the third and final volume of his bibliography of ...
Abingdon was originally home to the Morland Brewery, whose most famous ale was Old Speckled Hen, named after an early MG car. Greene King Brewery bought Morland for £182 million in 1999, closed the brewery and moved production to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing.
A speckled hen is a chicken of specked plumage. Speckled hen or Speckled Hen may refer to: Old Speckled Hen, an English ale; Problem of the speckled hen, a problem in the theory of empirical knowledge; Pet speckled hen, or Guineafowl, an African bird "The Speckled Hen ", an East Slavic nursery rhyme
George Morland – A Party Angling George Morland – The Anglers' Repast George Morland was born in London on 26 June 1763. He was the son of Henry Robert Morland, and grandson of George Henry Morland, said by Cunningham to have been lineally descended from Sir Samuel Morland, while other biographers go so far as to say that he had only to claim the baronetcy in order to get it.
Henry Robert Morland George Morland. His father was the genre painter George Henry Morland, and Henry Robert followed an art career as well, becoming a painter of portraits and domestic subjects, in both oil and crayon. [2] He exhibited some 118 works from 1760 to 1791 at the Society of Artists, the Free Society, and the Royal Academy.