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Eagle House Hotel
Eagle House Hotel is a Grade II* listed building located in Castle Street, Launceston, Cornwall. Formerly a townhouse, it is now a hotel and is built in the Georgian style in red brick. Charles Causley, Launceston's most renowned poet, wrote about the statues outside the property. The building dates back to 1764, having been commissioned as a townhouse by Coryndon Carpenter, a former mayor of Launceston and the constable of Launceston Castle. Reputedly the house was partly financed by a £10,000 lottery win. In 1963 the building was converted into a hotel, also equipped with a restaurant area. By 2015 the building had fallen into disrepair and was considered for conversion back into a private house. It was eventually bought by the current owners, who renovated the property as a hotel with restaurant. It reopened in spring 2017. Early residents Coryndon Carpenter (1731-1776) who built Eagle House in 1764 was born in Launceston in 1731. His father was Nathaniel Carpenter, a ...
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Coryndon Carpenter
Coryndon is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Robert Coryndon (1870–1925), British colonial administrator in Africa ** Coryndon Farm ** Coryndon Museum ** SS ''Robert Coryndon'', a 1929 British twin-screw passenger and cargo ferry *Shirley Coryndon Shirley Cameron Coryndon (1926–1976) was a British paleontologist and authority on fossil hippopotami. In the 1950s she studied paleontology with Donald MacInnes at the Museum of Nairobi. Coryndon was the paleontological assistant to Louis Lea ...
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New South Wales
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Grade II* Listed Buildings In Cornwall
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. As the county of Cornwall contains 586 of these sites they have been split into alphabetical order. * Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall (A–G) * Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall (H–P) * Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall (Q–Z) See also * Grade I listed buildings in Cornwall There are approximately 372,905 listed historic buildings in England and 2.5% of these are Grade I. This article comprises a list of these buildings in the county of Cornwall. Cornwall ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornwall Lists of Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall ...
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Crackington Haven
Crackington Haven ( kw, Porthkragen, meaning "sandstone cove") is a coastal village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of St Gennys at at the head of a cove on the Atlantic coast. The village is seven miles (11 km) south-southwest of Bude and four miles (7 km) north-northeast of Boscastle.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 ''Bude & Clovelly'' Middle Crackington and Higher Crackington are associated settlements. They are situated on the hill southeast of Crackington Haven, half-a-mile and one mile distant respectively. Geography Crackington Haven is popular with tourists, walkers and geology students. The surrounding cliffs are well known for their visible folded sedimentary rock formations. The village gives its name to the Crackington formation, a sequence of Carboniferous sandstones and grey shales. The village has two café-style tea rooms, and a pub called the Coombe Barton Inn in a building which was originally the house ...
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Francis Hamilton Stuart
Francis Hamilton Stuart (20 July 19121 February 2007) was a former Australian public servant and diplomat. Early life and education Stuart was born in Melbourne on 20 July 1912. His parents separated when he was 8 years old and he went to live in Sydney with his mother as a child. He later boarded at Geelong Grammar School and went on to higher education at Oxford University. Career He began his career in the 1930s as a consular officer in the British Legation in Bangkok. He shifted to the Australian Department of External Affairs in 1941. In 1942, he enlisted in the Australian Army to serve during World War II. Between 1964 and 1957 Stuart was chief of protocol in the external affairs department in Canberra. In May 1957, Stuart, along with his wife and children, left Canberra for Phnom Penh to take up his appointment as Australian Minister to Cambodia. His nomination had been approved by King Norodom Suramarit in April that year. The Australian Legation in Phnom P ...
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NatWest
National Westminster Bank, commonly known as NatWest, is a major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom based in London, England. It was established in 1968 by the merger of National Provincial Bank and Westminster Bank. In 2000, it became part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which was re-named NatWest Group in 2020. Following ringfencing of the group's core domestic business, the bank became a direct subsidiary of NatWest Holdings; NatWest Markets comprises the non-ringfenced investment banking arm. The British government currently owns around 48.1%, previously 54.7% of NatWest Group after spending £45 billion ($61.87 billion) bailing out the lender in 2008. NatWest is considered one of the Big Four clearing banks in the UK, and it has a large network of over 960 branches and 3,400 cash machines across Great Britain and offers 24-hour ''Actionline'' telephone and online banking services. Today, it has more than 7.5 million personal customers and 850,000 ...
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Will Of John Dingley 1930
Will may refer to: Common meanings * Will and testament, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death * Will (philosophy), or willpower * Will (sociology) * Will, volition (psychology) * Will, a modal verb - see Shall and will People and fictional characters * Will (comics) (1927–2000), a comic strip artist * Will (given name), a list of people and fictional characters named Will or Wil * Will (surname) Will is a surname found in the English-speaking world. People with this surname include: * Clifford Martin Will (born 1946), Canadian-born mathematical physicist * Conrad Will (politician) (1779–1835), American physician, politician, and pione ... * Will (Brazilian footballer) (born 1973) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Will: G. Gordon Liddy'', a 1982 TV film * Will (1981 film), ''Will'' (1981 film), an American drama * Will (2011 film), ''Will'' (2011 film), a British sports drama * ''Bandslam'', a 2008 film with the working title ''Will'' L ...
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