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55 unusual facts about Kent


1874 FA Cup Final

Oxford University and the Chatham-based Royal Engineers were among 28 entrants to the competition in the 1873–74 season.

Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham

Upon returning to the United Kingdom in 1881, he continued teaching at military institutes in Chatham, Dublin and Shorncliffe.

Baron Bridges

Baron Bridges, of Headley in the County of Surrey and of Saint Nicholas at Wade in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Hothfield

On the Earl's death in 1849 he inherited the estates, which included Skipton Castle in Yorkshire and Hothfield Place, Maidstone, Kent, and became a British citizen the same year.

BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar

In July 2004, a group of 16 students and teachers presented as many as 50 programmes including the play Is Jagah Ek Gaon Tha at Woodville Halls Theatre, Gravesend, UK.

Benjamin Edes

She was the great great granddaughter of Dr. Comfort Starr of Boston, a founder of Harvard College and a surgeon who emigrated from Ashford, Kent, England.

Bleak House, Broadstairs

Bleak House, formerly known as Fort House, is a large house on the cliff overlooking the North Foreland and Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent.

Brome County, Quebec

It takes its name from the name of a manor in the parish of Barham in Kent, England that was named after the broom plant.

Buddleja davidii 'Florence'

Buddleja davidii 'Florence' is a variegated cultivar introduced and registered by the Stone Green Nursery, Bethersden, Ashford, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Sir John'

Buddleja davidii 'Sir John' is a variegated cultivar introduced and registered by the Stone Green Nursery, Bethersden, Ashford, UK.

Buxheim Charterhouse

In 1960 the sisters relocated to their other convent at Hythe, Kent, taking the carvings with them.

Charles Grimes

He was appointed paymaster at the recruiting depot, Maidstone, in September 1833 and was transferred to Chatham, Kent in 1836.

Cliffe Woods

It was once just a hamlet and is situated next to Higham.

Cossington

Cossington, Kent is a small settlement in Kent, home of a possible megalithic site

Crundale

Crundale, Kent, a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England

Custos Rotulorum of Kent

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Kent.

David Maltby

His body was recovered and he was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Wickhambreaux, Kent.

De Bolotoff SDEB 14

The De Bolotoff SDEB 14 was a British two-seat utility biplane designed by Prince Serge de Bolotoff and one example was built at his de Bolotoff Aeroplane Works at Sundridge Aerodrome, Sundridge, near Sevenoaks, Kent.

Declaration and forfeiture

In a game against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend, Wright declared Nottinghamshire's second innings closed on 157 for 5 to set Kent a target of 231 to win.

Edward William Cole

Cole was born at Woodchurch near Tenterden, Kent, England, son of Amos Cole, labourer, and his wife Harriett.

Free tenant

The disparate nature of manorial holdings and local laws mean the Free Tenant in Kent, for example, may well bear little resemblance to the Free Tenant in the Danelaw.

Grammar schools debate

Kent currently has 33 National Challenge schools, more than any other LEA in England.

Henry de Baliol

William "le Scot" (c1251-c1313), who was the progenitor of the Scot/Scott family of Nettlestead and Scot's Hall in Kent

Jerwood Gallery

The outside of the gallery building is covered with over 8,000 black tiles that were glazed in Kent.

Jobbik

Griffin spoke at the party rally in August 2008, while former vice-president Zoltan Füzessy is presently resident in Gravesend, Kent, England.

John Amherst

He was the fourth son of lawyer Jeffrey Amherst and Elizabeth Kerrill, of Riverhead, Kent, and his older brothers included Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst and Lieutenant-General William Amherst.

John Bathurst

He was born in Sussex, his mother being Dorothy, daughter of Captain E. Maplesden of Marsden, a naval officer.

John Paul Cooper

After the death of his father his inheritance enabled him to give up teaching and he moved to a rented house in Hunton.

Jon Harley

Harley grew up in the Maidstone suburb of Allington, attending Oakwood Park Grammar School and playing for the local junior team Castle Colts.

Kent Glacier

It was named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) after the English county and the Dukedom of Kent.

Kent-Valentine House

The house is the headquarters of the Historic Garden Week project of the Garden Club of Virginia, which is a massive house tour that runs for a week each April across the state of Virginia.

Kent, British Columbia

However, this disaster unexpectedly benefited Kent as corn became the new primary agricultural product of the region, leading to Agassiz's claim as the "Corn Capital of BC"; this claim is still used today.

Kit Pedler

He died of a heart attack at his home in Doddington, Kent, while completing production of Mind Over Matter, a series for Thames Television on the paranormal that he presented with Tony Bastable.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Leaderboard Golf Ltd

Leaderboard Golf Ltd is a company that owns four renowned Golf Clubs in South East England, including The Oxfordshire Golf Club near Oxford, Sandford Springs Golf Club near Basingstoke and Newbury, Dale Hill Hotel and Golf Club near Tonbridge and Royal Tunbridge Wells and Chart Hills Golf Club near Ashford in Kent.

Leybourne Castle

Leybourne Castle is a 13th-century castle in the parish of Leybourne, Kent.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men

At the beginning of the book Johnny and his family live in London, however Johnny is sent to live with his Aunt Ivy in the town of Cliffe soon after his father enlists.

Marquess of Abergavenny

The 1st Marquess's ancestor, the de facto 17th (de jure 2nd) Baron Bergavenny, was created Earl of Abergavenny, in the County of Monmouth, and Viscount Nevill, of Birling in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of Great Britain on 17 May 1784.

Patrick Mackay

In 1973, near his mother's home in Kent, he met and was befriended by Father Anthony Crean, a priest.

Pure Strength

In 1988, the event became a 2-man team competition held at Allington Castle in Allington, Kent England.

Shannon Chan-Kent

In addition to her role as Pinkie Pie's singing voice, she also provides the voice of Silver Spoon on My Little Pony, she is also credited as the voice of Chief in Pucca, Misa Amane in the English dubs of the Death Note anime and its movies, and portraying Courtney's best friend Janet in Nickelodeon musical film Spectacular!.

Simon Gipps-Kent

Gipps-Kent starred in A Traveller in Time (1978), a BBC series based on the children's book by Alison Uttley, and in V for Victory, an episode of the TV series Enemy at the Door.

Squerryes Court

Squerryes Court is a late 17th century manor house that stands just outside the town of Westerham in Kent.

St. Margaret's Church, Rochester

St Margaret's Church, Rochester is now a Chapel of Ease within the parish of St Peter with St Margaret, Rochester.

Thames and Medway Canal

The canal towing contactor's home was converted into the ticket office for Higham railway station.

The Castle of Adventures

The series was filmed on location and at Saltwood Castle in Maidstone, Kent.

The Sea Lady

The inspiration for the novel was Wells's glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the Times drama critic, in a bathing suit, when she came to visit at Sandgate, Wells having agreed to pay her school fees after her father's death.

Titus Hosmer

The Hosmer family is traced to Rotherfield in Sussex (and much earlier to Dorset), where a certain Alexander Hosmer was native before a marian martyr in nearby Lewes and the family consequently moved to Kent in the following generations.

Top rope climbing

For example, in Kent and Sussex in south-east England, the sandstone rock is soft and prone to erosion, so placing protection into the rock would be both damaging and unreliable.

UKC Radio

When UKC Radio was granted a licence the chance was taken to build a full studios complex on the lowest floor of Eliot College.

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The station from 1966 was known as Radio Rutherford, and broadcast from the Student Newspaper offices on the lowest floor of Rutherford College.

Willem Baudartius

Born to Protestant parents in Flanders and a fervent counter-remonstrant, Baudartius left the Netherlands on the arrival of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo and landed in England at Sandwich.

William Colgate

Robert Colgate (1758–1826) was an 18th-century English farmer, politician and sympathiser with the American War of Independence and French Revolution, whose republican ideals impelled him to leave their farm in Shoreham, Kent in March 1798 and emigrate to Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States of America, after which the family settled on a farm in Harford County, Maryland.

William Disney

In 1777 he became vicar of Pluckley in Kent, a living in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he died 28 March 1807.

William Hodge Mill

He died 25 December 1853, at Brasted, Kent, a living to which he had been presented by the archbishop in 1843.


Allhallows, Kent

Situated in the northernmost part of Kent, and covering an area of 23.99 km², the parish is bounded on the north side by the River Thames, and in the east by the course of Yantlet creek, now silted up.

Allison Krause

Allison Beth Krause (April 23, 1951 – May 4, 1970) was an honor student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, when she was shot and killed by the Ohio Army National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting against the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus.

Bossom

Bossom baronets, of Maidstone in the County of Kent, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Brickearth

Commercially useful deposits of about 2m to 4m thick are present in Kent, Hertfordshire and Hampshire, overlying chalk, Thanet Beds or London Clay.

Broadcloth

Around 1500, broadcloth was made in a number of districts of England, including Essex and Suffolk in southern East Anglia, the West Country Clothing District (Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, east Somerset - sometimes with adjacent areas), at Worcester, Coventry, Cranbrook in Kent and some other places.

Commercial Horticultural Association

Finally in 2009 the administration passed to the Federation of Garden and Leisure Manufacturers based in Brasted, Kent.

Dartford Loop Line

The station at Hither Green, near Lewisham, where the line deviates from the main line, was built after the opening of the third North Kent route, the Bexleyheath Line in 1895.

Detling Summer Conference

Detling Summer Conference, or Detling, is an annual summer gathering of christians at the Kent Showground, near the village of Detling, Kent, UK, from which the conference takes its current name.

East Kent College

East Kent College has close links with local companies such as Kent International Airport, Pfizer in Sandwich, P&O Ferries and Thorley Taverns (pubs, hotels and hospitality).

Eastry

One of Kent's oldest legends concerns King Ecgberht of Kent and the murder of his cousins within the palace walls.

Eddie Crush

As well as being a lifelong member of the Kent County Cricket Club he was also a member (President 1996–2007) of the Kent Hoppers Tie Club which was founded by his very dear cricketing friends Hopper Levett and Les Ames.

Edgar Willsher

His older brother, senior by over ten years, William Willsher, would go on to have an inauspicious career with Kent three years before Edgar's own debut when, in 1847, he appeared in one first class match, scoring a pair at number eleven and not bowling.

Edmund Filmer

Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (1809–1857), Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kent 1838–1857

Edward Filmer

Filmer was born in or about 1657, was the second son of Sir Robert Filmer, 1st Baronet, of East Sutton, Kent, who died 22 March 1676, by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Maurice Tuke of Layer Marney, Essex.

G. T. Abraham

While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

General-purpose macro processor

It was developed in 1968 by Steven Caine and E. Kent Gordon at the California Institute of Technology.

George Kent

Walter George Kent (1858–1938), chairman and managing director of the engineering firm George Kent Ltd which was started by his father George Kent

GKD sports cars

GKD Sports Cars is a small volume car manufacturer based in Boughton Monchelsea, near Maidstone, Kent, with workshops at Lenham.

Grands Express Aériens

Goliath F-GEAD was damaged in a forced landing at Smeeth, Kent, United Kingdom.

Great Mongeham

William Crayford led a contingent of Kent men in the Wars of the Roses on the Yorkist side.

Harry Sutcliffe

The late 1990s saw Harry move into the business side of the music industry, initially as an A&R manager for Arista Records working closely with Blondie, Natalie Imbruglia, Kent, Beth Orton, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Brown and Death in Vegas.

Hartley Alleyne

Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90.

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, KG PC (1671 – 5 June 1740) was a British politician and courtier.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

Jo Siffert

Siffert won the 1971 Austrian Grand Prix, but then was killed in the non-championship World Championship Victory Race at Brands Hatch, Kent, England, the scene of his first and greatest victory in 1968.

Kitty Kirkpatrick

In 1805, the year of her father's death, she and her elder brother Mir Ghulam Ali, Sahib Allum, were sent to live with their grandfather Colonel James Kirkpatrick, in London and Keston, Kent, leaving their mother in India.

Lambert Blackwell Larking

For many years Larking collaborated with the Revd Thomas Streatfeild (1777–1848), in the collection and compilation of materials for a new history of the county of Kent and, when Streatfeild died in 1848 the materials were left in Larking's hands.

Lisebergshallen

The venue has hosted concerts for rock bands like Metallica, Slayer, Alice Cooper, Europe (band), Joe Bonamassa, Manowar, Jethro Tull, In Flames, Hammerfall, Kent, Motörhead, Nightwish, Helloween, Hardcore Superstar and Bullet for My Valentine.

Maid of Kent

Joan of Kent, 14th century Countess of Kent and Princess of Wales

Manx Rumpy

On realizing that that these bantams live without tail feathers to escape foxes, Kent Poultry Club chairman Dudley Mallett gave the tiny chickens the name Rumpless Game Bantams.

Mark Croucher

On leaving school at the age of 16, he attended Erith College (now Bexley College) for a year before enlisting in the United States Air Force at the age of 17, where he served for three years as a radio operator before taking an early discharge and returning to the UK to attend Merchant Navy College (formerly the Thames Nautical Training College), Greenhithe, Kent, qualifying as a Radio Officer in 1989.

Mercian Supremacy

Mercia’s hold over the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Essex, Sussex and Kent seems to have been tenuous until 716, when Æthelbald of Mercia restored Mercia’s hegemony for over forty years.

Miracle Monday

She infiltrates Clark Kent's circle of friends by becoming Lois Lane's assistant.

Nephrurus

In the first episode of the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Planet newspaper, producing an article on Knob-Tailed Geckos as proof of his writing skills.

Pearl Hackney

She died in Herne Bay, Kent on 18 September 2009 and is buried with her husband in the churchyard of St. Mary's Stalisfield.

Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike

From Franklin to Au Sable Forks, the Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike used a series of roadways that are now primarily local roads.

River Wantsum

Formerly, the River Wantsum and the River Stour together formed the Wantsum Channel, which separated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland of Kent.

Robert Sidgwick

Born in Embsay, near Skipton, Yorkshire, England, Sidgwick was a right-handed batsman, who scored 72 runs at 4.80, with a best score of 17 against Kent.

Samuel Rousseau

Baptised Samuel Kent Rousseau in St Ann's Church, Blackfriars, London on 20 November 1763, he was the eldest son of Phillip Rousseau, a printer working for William Bowyer, and his wife Susannah.

Shumei University

Prior to the establishment, the Chaucer College Canterbury, also called as the Shumei Canterbury College, was established by Hiroshi Kawashima in 1992 in the area of the University of Kent in Kent, England.

Spencer Summers

His son Shane Summers was a racing driver who competed in a few non-Championship Formula One races, but was killed in an accident practicing for the 1961 Silver City Trophy at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent.

Susan Goatman

Susan Goatman, born 5 February 1945 in Thanet, Kent, is a retired cricketer who has played three women's Test matches for England and 21 women's one-day internationals including the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup in England, 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup in India and the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

The Hundred of Hoo Academy

The Hundred of Hoo Academy (formerly The Hundred of Hoo School) is a secondary school with academy status located in the Hoo Peninsula, in the village of Hoo in Kent, England.

Thomas Hyde Page

In 1783 he married Mary Albinia (d. 1794), daughter of John Woodward (formerly captain in the 70th regiment) of Ringwould, Kent, and they had five children.

Thomas St. Leger

Sir Thomas St Leger KB (c. 1440 – executed 8 November 1483) was the second son of Sir John St Leger of Ulcombe, Kent, and his wife, Margery Donnet.

Tyler Kent

With a position that required him to encode and decode sensitive telegrams, Kent had access to a wide range of secret documents, especially the communications between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he began to take many of the more interesting ones home with him.

William Hemmant

After he left politics in 1876, he returned to England with his family, settling in Kent.

Wulfnoth Cild

In 1008, King Æthelred the Unready ordered the construction of a fleet, and the following year 300 ships assembled at Sandwich in Kent to meet a threatened Viking invasion.