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58 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.

Barbie: Princess Charm School

Shannon Chan-Kent as Princess Isla - another one of Blair's best friends and fellow student at the charm school, who loves music.

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.

Baron Northbourne

Baron Northbourne, of Betteshanger in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Bryan Keith-Lucas

In 1965 he was appointed professor of government at the new University of Kent at Canterbury, and from 1970 to 1974 he was Master of Darwin College, Kent.

Carthage, Ohio

Kent, Ohio, includes an area that was originally platted as the village of Carthage in 1825

Charles Grimes

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

Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon

On 10 January 1972, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created additionally a life peer with the title Baron Salmon, of Sandwich in the County 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.

EUjet

It operated a network of services from its main base at Shannon Airport (SNN), with a hub at Kent International Airport (MSE), Manston, Kent, UK.

George Edward Cheney

George E. Cheney is a Professor of Communication at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

Grammar schools debate

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

Grove Ferry Picnic Area

Grove Ferry is near Upstreet, in Kent, 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

Henry George Smith

He was educated at schools at Ickham and Wingham, and also had private tuition from the Rev. Mr Midgley, M.A. He went to Sydney in 1883 for health reasons, and in 1884 obtained a semi-scientific position on the staff of the Sydney technological museum.

Hever

Hever, Kent, a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England

Jeanne de Casalis

Her second husband, whom she married around 1938, was RAF Wing Commander Cowan Douglas Stephenson; they lived at Hunger Hatch near Ashford, Kent.

Jobbik

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

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 Gardens

Kent, a town in England, referred to as the Garden town

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.

Kent, Connecticut

Seth MacFarlane (b. 1973), animator, TV producer and director and voice actor who created Family Guy, Cleveland Show, and American Dad!, born in Kent, as well as his sister Rachael MacFarlane (b. 1976)

Knowler

Knowler is an uncommon English surname, a toponymic derived from knoll (Old English cnoll), with the suffix -er common in Kent and Sussex.

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.

Learmonth White Dalrymple

William decided to emigrate to Wellington, New Zealand, and sailed on the Rajah from Gravesend on 14 June 1853 with Learmonth and three other of his children.

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.

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.

Maria Ann Smith

Maria began work as a farm labourer and married another farm labourer, Thomas Smith (1799–1876) on 8 August 1819 in Ebony, Kent.

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.

Maurice Clenock

During Mary of England's reign he became almoner and secretary to Cardinal Pole, prebendary of York, rector of Orpington (Kent), and dean of Shoreham and Croydon, and chancellor of the prerogative court of Canterbury.

Richard Dadd

On his return in the spring of 1843, he was diagnosed to be of unsound mind and was taken by his family to recuperate in the countryside village of Cobham, Kent.

Shannon Chan-Kent

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Pinkie Pie (singing voice on most songs), Silver Spoon

She is perhaps best known for her role as the singing voice of Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

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!.

Squerryes Court

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

Ted Roop

At the time, BEA-VER Communications owned and operated CKSY-FM and CFCO, its AM Oldies sister station, from their Chatham, Kent studios, but had an application in to the CRTC for a 3rd FM station.

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 Suspicions of Mr Whicher

It is discovered that Constance and her younger brother William Saville-Kent (Charlie Hiett) hate their stepmother Mary (Emma Fielding), their former nanny, and with whom their father had had an affair while their mother was still alive.

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.

Tom Starcevich

Tom Starcevich was the son of immigrants to Western Australia: Gertrude May Starcevich née Waters (born c. 1897, in Dunkirk, Kent, England) and Joseph Starcevich (born c. 1892, in Lič, Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire).

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.

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 Hemmant

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

William Hodge Mill

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

William Saville-Kent

On the recommendation of Huxley, in 1884 Saville-Kent became Inspector of Fisheries in Tasmania.


Acafellas

Recurring cast members who appear in "Acafellas" are Stephen Tobolowsky as former glee club director Sandy Ryerson, Patrick Gallagher as football coach Ken Tanaka, Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins, Kent Avenido as Sheets and Things employee Howard Bamboo, and Naya Rivera and Heather Morris as glee club members Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce.

Alfoxton House

During World War II it housed evacuees from Wellington House School Westgate on Sea Kent.

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.

Bartholomew Young

Wood thinks that Bartholomew Young was the same who lived at Ashhurst in Kent, and died there in 1621.

Bernard Darwin

Members of the Darwin family who are also buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent are: Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell; Charles Waring Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin; Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Mary Eleanor Darwin; Henrietta Etty Darwin, later Litchfield.

Bossom

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

British Rail Class 376

The units were ordered by Connex South Eastern, introduced in 2004/2005 by South Eastern Trains to replace Class 465 and Class 466 to be transferred to the Outer Suburban services to Kent and to first class added in the 34 Class 465/2 but which are renumbered as Class 465/9, and are now operated by Southeastern.

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.

Eastry

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

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.

Fun Run

After initially reading the script, Kate Flannery asked producer Kent Zbornak if Meredith was going to live, to which he replied "This isn't All My Children."

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

Great Mongeham

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

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.

Hed Kandi

Two stores were operated by the brand, one in the Liverpool One in Liverpool, England and one in the Bluewater in Greenhithe, Kent, England.

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

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

HM Prison Maidstone

Constructed using Kentish Ragstone from a local quarry, the original design of the prison was intended to house 552 prisoners, including 62 female inmates.

Ivor the Engine

Having produced the live Alexander the Mouse, and the filmed The Adventures of Ho for his employers Associated Rediffusion/ITV in partnership with Firmin, Oliver Postgate and his partner set up Smallfilms in a disused cow shed at Firmin's home in Blean near Canterbury, Kent.

John Vane

He died on November 19, 2004 in Princess Royal University Hospital, Kent, from long-term complications arising from leg and hip fractures he sustained in May of that year.

Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998.

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.

Little Linford

Today it is one of the best habitats for dormice, which were transferred to Linford Wood from Kent when the Channel rail link was constructed.

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.

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.

Philip I. Kent

Mr. Kent is responsible for TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, Turner South, Boomerang, TNT Latin America, Cartoon Network Latin America, TCM & Cartoon Network in Europe, TCM & Cartoon Network in Asia Pacific, Cartoon Network Japan, CNN News Group, which includes CNN/U.S., CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNNfn, CNN Radio, CNN Newsource, CNN Airport Network and CNN.com.

Quentin Tod

Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Robert Hamilton Russell

Russell was born at Farningham, Kent, England, the youngest son of James Russell, a farmer, and his wife Ellen, née Phillips.

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.

Sevenscore

Sevenscore is a hamlet on the B2048 secondary road about one mile (1.6 km) east of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, England.

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.

Simon Halliday

This was when he scored 113 not out against Kent in 1982, with a bowling lineup consisting of English Test cricketers Graham Dilley and Bob Woolmer.

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.

Sport Mastermind

The first champion and Sport Mastermind 2008 was Chris Bell from Kent, who took The British and Irish Lions as his specialist subject in his heat and The Life and Career of Geoff Boycott in the Grand Final.

The Bolitho novels

The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).

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.

William Hall-Jones

Hall-Jones was born in Folkestone, Kent, England, landed at Dunedin in 1873 and became a carpenter and later a builder in Timaru.

William Saville-Kent

He held various jobs in Britain, including at the British Museum from 1866 to 1872.

Williams baronets

The Williams Baronetcy, of Elham in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 November 1674 for Thomas Williams, Physician to Charles I and James II.

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.