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Spottiswoode Family
Spottiswoode may refer to: People * Spottiswoode (surname) Commerce * Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., London-based printing firm Places * a former (until 1903) name of Spotswood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia * Spottiswoode Park Estate, a housing area and former plantation in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ... See also * Spotswood (other) {{disambiguation, surname ...
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Spottiswoode (surname)
Spottiswoode is a surname of Scottish origin. It was first used by Robert de Spottiswoode and his descendants. Notable people with the surname include: * Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (1810–1900), Scottish songwriter * Andrew Spottiswoode (1787–1866), British politician * Frank Spottiswoode, English professional rugby league footballer * Frank Spottiswoode Aitken (1868–1933), Scottish-American silent film actor * John Spottiswoode (1565–1633), Archbishop of St Andrews * Jonathan Spottiswoode (born 1964), British musician, writer, and filmmaker * Roger Spottiswoode (born 1945), Canadian-British film director and screenwriter * William Spottiswoode William H. Spottiswoode HFRSE LLD (11 January 1825 – 27 June 1883) was an English mathematician, physicist and partner in the printing and publishing firm Eyre & Spottiswoode. He was president of the Royal Society from 1878 to 1883. Biogra ..., FRS (1825–1883), English mathematician and physicist, son of Andrew Reference ...
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Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd
Eyre may refer to: Name *Eyre (given name) *Eyre (surname) Places Australia National *Eyre Highway, a highway connecting South Australia and Western Australia South Australia * Eyre Peninsula (other) *Eyre, South Australia, a suburb * Lake Eyre (other) Western Australia *Electoral district of Eyre *Esperance Plains, biogeographic region of Australia also known as Eyre Botanical District *Eyre Bird Observatory * Eyre Telegraph Station Elsewhere * Eyre, Raasay, a location in Highland, Scotland * Eyre, Saskatchewan, Canada *Eyre, Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland *Eyre Creek (other) *Eyre Hall, home of the Eyre family in Virginia *Eyre River (other) *Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland *Leyre (river), France Other uses *Eyre (legal term), in medieval England *Jane Eyre (other) See also *Eyre legend, about the Eyre/Ayre family *Eyre Methuen, a publishing company *Éire, island of Ireland *Ayre Ayre ( ; gv, Inver Ayre) is one of the six ...
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Spotswood, Victoria
Spotswood is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Spotswood recorded a population of 2,820 at the . The suburb is bounded by the Newport–Sunshine freight railway line in the west, the West Gate Freeway in the north, the Yarra River in the east and by Burleigh Street in the south. Spotswood was named after John Stewart Spottiswoode (shortened to Spotswood), one of the first farmers who owned much of the area in the 1840s. History Spottiswoode Post Office opened on 1 February 1882 and was renamed Spottiswood around 1903 and Spotswood around 1906. Locality Spotswood is known for the Victorian Science Museum, known as Scienceworks. Scienceworks is near the old sewage pumping station of Spotswood, constructed in 1897. This location was also used as the police headquarters in ''Mad Max'' and for the Academy Award-winning short film '' Harvie ...
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Spottiswoode Park Estate
Spottiswoode may refer to: People *Spottiswoode (surname) Commerce * Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., London-based printing firm Places * a former (until 1903) name of Spotswood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia * Spottiswoode Park Estate, a housing area and former plantation in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ... See also * Spotswood (other) {{disambiguation, surname ...
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Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ...
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