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Luddington And Haldenby , Lincolnshire
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Luddington may refer to: Places * Luddington, Lincolnshire, England *Luddington-in-the-Brook, Northamptonshire, England *Luddington, Warwickshire, England People *Camilla Luddington, British-American actress * Sir Donald Luddington (1920–2009), British colonial government official and civil servant *Elam Luddington (1806–1893), the first missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to preach in Thailand * Henry Luddington (1854–1922), English cricketer * William Luddington (1843–1888), Primitive Methodist missionary * Other *Luddington railway station Luddington railway station was a station in Luddington, Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luddington, Lincolnshire
Luddington is a village, part of the civil parish of Luddington with Haldenby, on the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer Map 280: Isle of Axholme, Scunthorpe and Gainsborough: (1:25 000) : The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 419. It is north-west from Scunthorpe, 6 miles south-east from Goole and north-east from Doncaster. History After the last Ice Age Luddington was covered by Lake Humber, until about 9,000 BC. When the melt water lake finally disappeared the Luddington area became dry, surrounded by wetlands, on a branch of the River Don. Luddington was amongst the last of a chain of islands in the marshlands of the Isle of Axholme, stretching from Epworth northwards. The site of St Oswald's pre-conquest church sits on an island separated from the rest of the village and River Don, in a circular enclosure, suggesting it might have been a ritual site well into the first millennium. At the time of the ''Domesday survey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luddington-in-the-Brook
Luddington-in-the-Brook or Luddington in the Brook is a village in North Northamptonshire, England. The name of its civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ... is ''Luddington''. Owing to its small size, for census purposes the population of the parish is combined with the neighbouring parish of Hemington. The village's name means 'farm/settlement connected with Lulla'. St. Margaret's Church, a Gothic Revival building designed by Richard Carpenter, is Grade II listed. References Villages in Northamptonshire North Northamptonshire Civil parishes in Northamptonshire {{Northamptonshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luddington, Warwickshire
Luddington is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. The population in 2001 was 457, increasing to 475 at the 2011 Census. It is located about 5 kilometres (3 miles) outside the town of Stratford-upon-Avon on the banks of the river Avon and has views south over the Cotswolds. Facilities and communications include a phone box, a 19th-century church, a post box, a marina with a 17th-century lock, a village green and a recently refurbished village hall originally built in 1953. The parish encompasses Dodwell Caravan Park to the north of the village. The village is reputed to be the meeting place of Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare, as Anne was from the parish, and local lore states that they probably conducted their courtship in the area. History The name Luddington is of Old English origin meaning Luda's farmstead. Dodwell is also of Old English origin and means Dodda's well or spring. The village was originally accessed via a road run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Luddington
Camilla Anne Luddington (born 15 December 1983) is a British actress, best known for her role as Dr. Josephine "Jo" Wilson in the ABC medical drama series ''Grey's Anatomy''. She is known for voicing Lara Croft in the ''Tomb Raider'' video games, for which she provided the motion capture. Early life Luddington was born in Ascot, Berkshire, and at age 11 began studying at the Italia Conti Academy in England. She moved to suburban Austin, Texas, United States when she was fourteen, and attended Westwood High School for one year. She returned to England after one year, and completed her education at The American International School in England (TASIS), in July 2002. When she was nineteen, Luddington enrolled in Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. However, she had not visited the university before she arrived as a student, and after six months she left and transferred to the New York Film Academy. In 2003, she was part of the school's first one-year acting class progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Luddington
Sir Donald Collin Cumyn Luddington, (, 18 August 1920 – 26 January 2009) was a British colonial government official and civil servant who served firstly in the Hong Kong Government and became District Commissioner, New Territories and the Secretary for Home Affairs successively, during which he had also served as an official member of the Legislative Council. He was later promoted to Oceania and was High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and Governor of the Solomon Islands during the period from 1973 to 1976. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977 to replace Sir Ronald Holmes as chairman of the Public Service Commission. He was the second person, after Sir Jack Cater, to hold the post of Commissioner of ICAC from 1978 until his retirement in 1980. Biography Early years Luddington was born on 18 August 1920 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Norman John Luddington, was a civil servant in British Ceylon and his mother was Myrtle Amethyst Payne.''Who's Who'', London: A & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elam Luddington
Elam Luddington, Jr. (also spelled Ludington; November 23, 1806 – March 22, 1893) was a Mormon pioneer, officer in the Mormon Battalion, first Mormon missionary, missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to preach in Thailand, and 2nd City Marshall for Salt Lake City. Luddington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, to Elam Luddington, Sr. and Lena Monger. Luddington traveled to Nauvoo and met Joseph Smith, Jr. in the winter of 1840. On May 16 of that year, he was Baptism, baptized by Smith into the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was ordained as an Elder that fall, and shortly thereafter Luddington and Eli G. Terrill were assigned as missionaries to the city of New Orleans (making them among the first The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Louisiana, Mormon missionaries to proselyte in the state of Louisiana). Luddington spent nearly three years in New Orleans. In June 1844, Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Luddington
Henry Tansley Luddington (9 December 1854 – 14 April 1922) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the "Gentlemen of England" side in the 1870s. He was born at Littleport, Cambridgeshire and died at Ashdon, Essex. Luddington was educated at Uppingham School, where he was coached by the famous cricketer H. H. Stephenson, at King's Ely and at Jesus College, Cambridge. He had a trial match for the Cambridge University cricket team in 1874, but did not get into the first eleven until 1876 when he achieved some success with his right-arm fast bowling, delivering the ball round arm. His batting as a right-handed tail-ender was negligible. Picked for the 1876 University Match against Oxford University, he took 5 for 51 in the first innings and 4 for 72 in the second as Cambridge won by seven wickets; in the first innings, he shared the Oxford wickets with William Patterson, with whom he had been at school at Uppingham. Luddington's bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Luddington
William Broadbent Luddington (March 1843 – November 1888) was a Primitive Methodist missionary who went to the island of Fernando Po (today Bioko in Equatorial Guinea) in about 1880. His father was also a Primitive Methodist Minister. Background and Primitive Methodist ministry He was born in Brampton, Lincolnshire in March 1843, and became a Primitive Methodist minister at Malton in Yorkshire in 1864. From 1873 until his death in 1888 Luddington divided his life between missionary work in Fernando Po, particularly among the Bubi people, missionary deputation work and ministerial work in England. He and his wife returned from their third term in Fernando Po in a very poor state of health. Bubi primer Luddington compiled the first Bubi primer in 1875 along with co-missionary William Barleycorn William Napoleon Barleycorn (1848–1925), born in Santa Isabel, Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea and a Krio Fernandino of Igbo descent, was a Primitive Methodist missionary who went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
