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Lady Anne's immediate family still ranked quite high, 511th nationally by wealth, per the Sunday Times Rich List in 2008. [8] Much of this wealth was in land and buildings. At the time of her death, she was said to own 17,000 acres (69 km 2) (just over 3%) of Nottinghamshire and 62,000 acres (250 km 2) in Scotlan
(1860–1937) J. M. Barrie, Scottish playwright and novelist, lived in Nottingham in 1883–1885, working as a leader writer at the Nottingham Journal. [ 33 ] (1875–1943) Arthur Mee , compiler of the Children's Encyclopædia and author of the King's England series, was born in Stapleford .
Donald Henry Pleasence (/ ˈ p l ɛ z ə n s /; [2] 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) [3] was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character roles in films including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The ...
Like something out of a Dickens novel, 81 years ago a loss left a family so bereft that they essentially tried to freeze time. Grocer William Straw Sr. lived for about 10 years with his wife and ...
Worksop (previously Blyth and Cuckney) was a Rural District in Nottinghamshire, England.. It originated as Worksop Rural Sanitary District in 1872. In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, the Worksop RSD was split to match county borders, with the West Riding of Yorkshire part becoming the Kiveton Park Rural District, and the Derbyshire part becoming Clowne Rural District.
Neil Entwistle (born 18 September 1978) is an English man convicted of murdering his American wife, Rachel, and their infant daughter, Lillian, on 20 January 2006, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States.
Bruce Dickinson, English rock musician and lead singer for Iron Maiden; in Worksop, Nottinghamshire Yardley Died: Herbert Yardley , 69, American cryptographer who directed the cryptanalysis bureau of the American Black Chamber , a U.S. government agency financed by both the War Department and the State Department and broke the code used by the ...
St. John's Church, Worksop is the parish church of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. History