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Billington (surname)
Billington is an English surname arising from several places in Lancashire and Staffordshire, and possibly Bedfordshire. Notable people with the surname include: *Adeline Billington (1826–1917), English actress and teacher * James Billington (1847 – 1901), English executioner * Thomas Billington (1872 – 1902), English executioner * William Billington (1875 – 1952), English executioner *John Billington (1880 – 1905), English executioner *Tom Billington (1958–2018), English professional wrestler best known as Dynamite Kid * Clyde Billington Jr. (1934-2018), American businessman, chemist, and politician *Craig Billington (born 1966), retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender *Elizabeth Billington (1765–1818), British opera singer * Francelia Billington (1895–1934), American actress * Fred Billington (1862–1917), English singer and actor * Geoff Billington, British showjumper *James H. Billington (1929-2018), United States Librarian of Congress *John Billington (1580s†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashire was created by the Local Government Act 1972. It is administered by Lancashire County Council, based in Preston, and twelve district councils. Although Lancaster is still considered the county town, Preston is the administrative centre of the non-metropolitan county. The ceremonial county has the same boundaries except that it also includes Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, which are unitary authorities. The historic county of Lancashire is larger and includes the cities of Manchester and Liverpool as well as the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas, but excludes Bowland area of the West Riding of Yorkshire transferred to the non-metropolitan county in 1974 History Before the county During Roman times the area was part of the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Billington
John Billington (also spelled as Billinton) (c. 1580September 30, 1630) was an Englishman who travelled to the New World on the ''Mayflower'' and was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. In England Nothing is known about John Billington's life in England. His son Francis was named in a 1612 lease of property in Cowbit, Lincolnshire and either John or Eleanor, or both, were associated with this area. Around Cowbit and Spalding, in Lincolnshire, Francis Longland named young Francis Billington, son of John Billington, an heir.''A genealogical profile of John Billington,'' (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013) Robert Charles Anderson, ''Pilgrim Village Family Sketch: John Billington'' (a collaboration between American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society/ref> ''Mayflower'' voyage John Billington, his wife Elinor, and their two sons, John and Francis, departed on the ''Mayflower'' from Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilf Billington
Wilfred Francis Billington (28 January 1930 – 1 October 2023) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in England and Australia. He began his career with Rochdale, later playing for Blackburn Rovers, Workington Reds, and Headington United. In Australia, Billington was best known as the goalkeeper for South Coast United's championship-winning side led by former England international Jim Kelly. Early life Born in Blackburn, Billington attended St Alban's School. His schoolmates included Jack Walker, who went on to help the Blackburn Rovers win the Premier League in 1995. Professional career After a brief stint at Rochdale, Billington joined Blackburn Rovers, his hometown club. He was with Blackburn for six years, playing regularly for the reserve team in the Central League. In the summer of 1954, Billington was signed by Workington manager Bill Shankly as the cover goalkeeper for Malcolm Newlands. After Newlands was injured, Billington p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Billington (poet)
William Billington (3 April 1825 – 3 January 1884) was an English poet, living in Blackburn, Lancashire and sometimes writing in dialect. He became known as "The Blackburn Poet". Life Billington was born in Samlesbury, Lancashire in 1825. His parents Benedict and Ann Billington were at the time unemployed hand-loom weavers, working for a contractor for roadmaking. His father died in 1832; three of his children died from tuberculosis before 1837. The surviving children were supported by Ann's hand-loom weaving. He learned to read and write at Catholic Sunday schools; otherwise he was mainly self-taught. The songs composed by his uncle Robert Bolton, and the works of local poet Richard Dugdale, a lifelong friend, helped to give an interest in poetry. In 1839 the family moved to Blackburn, and Billington passed through various stages of employment in the cotton mills, from "doffer" to weaver and "taper". On 24 June 1846 he married Elizabeth Walmsley; she died in 1857. Billingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Billington
Edwin "Teddy" Billington (July 14, 1882, Southampton – August 8, 1966, Pine Brook, New Jersey) was an American racing cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. An all round cycling talent he competed in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the ½ mile and three bronze medals in the ¼ mile, â…“ and the mile race. His fiercest competitors were fellow Americans Marcus Hurley and Burton Downing Burton Cecil Downing (February 5, 1885 – January 1, 1929) was an American racing cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. An all round cycling talent, he competed in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won two gold ... who mostly won gold and silver respectively. References External links *http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/biobi.htm American male cyclists Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in cycling Olympic silver medalists for the United States in cycling Cyclists at the 1904 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Billington-Greig
Teresa Billington-Greig (15 October 1876 – 21 October 1964) was a British suffragette who helped create the Women's Freedom League in 1907. She had left another suffrage organisation – the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) – as she considered the leadership too autocratic. In 1904, she was appointed by the WSPU as a travelling speaker for the organisation. On 25 April 1906, she unveiled a 'Votes for Women' banner from the Ladies Gallery during the debate in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. In June 1906, she was arrested in a fracas outside of Chancellor of the Exchequer H. H. Asquith's home, and as a result was the first suffragette to be incarcerated in Holloway Prison. She founded the Women's Billiards Association in 1931. Her publications include ''The Militant Suffrage Movement'' (1911), which contained criticism of suffragettes' tactics, and ''The Consumer in Revolt'' (1912), which explored links between consumerism and feminism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Allen Billington
Ray Allen Billington (September 28, 1903 in Bay City, Michigan - March 7, 1981 in San Marino, California) was an American historian focusing his work on the history of the American frontier and the American West, becoming one of the leading defenders of Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" from the 1950s to the 1970s, expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961. Career Billington studied at the University of Michigan, but was expelled (for a student prank). He held a Ph.B. from the University of Wisconsin (1926), an M.A. from the University of Michigan (1927), a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1933), and an M.A. from Oxford University (1953). He also received nine honorary degrees. He taught at Clark University, Smith College, Northwestern University, and served as Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University (1953–54). He retired from his teaching career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Billington
Lady Rachel Mary Billington (''née'' Pakenham; born 11 May 1942) is a British author, the third daughter of the 7th Earl and Countess of Longford; both parents were writers, as was her aunt, Christine Longford. Career Billington worked in television in London and New York before taking up full-time writing in 1968. She has published twenty-one novels for adults, including the bestsellers ''A Woman's Age'' and ''Bodily Harm''. Her novel ''Glory'' (2015) describes the First World War Gallipoli campaign through the eyes of the participants and their wives and girlfriends at home. She has also written six children's novels, six religious books for children and three non-fiction books, including ''The Great Umbilical'', about mothers and daughters. She has written plays for BBC Television's '' Play for Today'' series (''Don't Be Silly'' and ''Life After Death''), and several radio plays, and has contributed to film scripts including ''The Light at the Edge of the World'' (1971) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Billington
Polly Billington (born 1967) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for East Thanet since 2024. Prior to her election she was an environmental campaigner and had worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC before becoming a special advisor to Ed Miliband. She was the media director for his successful bid in the 2010 Labour leadership election. In 2016 she founded the climate politics network UK100. Education Billington was educated at the Ursuline High School, Wimbledon, and Sussex University, before taking a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire in 1993. Professional career Billington was a BBC reporter for the '' Today'' programme, News 24, the ' Politics Show' ' Newsbeat and on Radio 1 as the first dedicated Political Reporter for Newsbeat. Billington was the Head of Communications and Campaigns at Citizens Advice from Jan 2013 - Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Billington (activist)
Michael O. Billington is an activist in the LaRouche Movement, Asia editor for the ''Executive Intelligence Review'', and author of ''Reflections of an American Political Prisoner: the Repression and Promise of the LaRouche Movement''. Billington graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1967. He then joined the Peace Corps, where he taught Mathematics and Music, first in Guyana, then in Thailand. Upon returning to the U.S. he joined the LaRouche movement in 1972, in the early stages of the movement's history. His wife, Gail, and his brother, Joe, and his sister, Margaret Greenspan, were also members of the movement."Convicted LaRouche aide won't renounce his leader" THOMAS J. BRAZAITIS, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio: Jul 5, 1991 Billington's book provides an "insider" look at the history of this highly controversial movement. Billington ran on the U.S. Labor Party platform for County Executive of Westchester County, New York in 1977, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Billington (critic)
Michael Keith Billington OBE (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic. He writes for ''The Guardian'', and was the paper's chief drama critic from 1971 to 2019. Billington is "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic" and the author of biographical and critical studies relating to British theatre and the arts. He is the authorised biographer of the playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008). Early life and education Billington was born on 16 November 1939, in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, and attended Warwick School, an independent boys' school in Warwick. He attended St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 1958 to 1961, where he studied English and was appointed theatre critic of '' Cherwell''. He graduated with a BA degree. As a member of Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), in 1959, Billington played the Priest in '' The Birds'', by Aristophanes, his only appearance as an actor, and, in 1960, he directed a production of Eugène Ionesco's ''The Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Billington (actor)
Michael Billington (24 December 1941 – 3 June 2005) was a British film and television actor. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Career Television In 1966 Billington appeared in ''Incident at Vichy'' at the Phoenix Theatre in London, but was best known for his role as Colonel Paul Foster in the 1970 science fiction TV series ''UFO'' and for creating the character of Daniel Fogarty from 1971 to 1974 in the historical drama ''The Onedin Line''. He also appeared as Sergeant Jacko Jackson of the Royal Wessex Rangers in the series '' Spearhead'' and as Czar Nicholas II in the ITV drama series ''Edward the Seventh'' (1975). He played gangster John Coogan in one episode ("The Rack") of '' The Professionals''. Billington lived in the U.S. from around 1979 until 1985. Although he had some good roles, notably as Count Louis Dardinay in '' The Quest'' (1982), he did not reach the same level of success as he had in Britain. Billington's last major TV role came in the 1986 BB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
