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Thorndon Park Primary School
Thorndon may refer to: People * Giles Thorndon (1388–1477), official of the English Crown * Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon (1926–2006), New Zealand judge and member of the British House of Lords Buildings and places ;New Zealand * Thorndon, New Zealand, suburb of Wellington :* Thorndon Railway Station, former railway station :* Thorndon School, primary and intermediate school :* Thorndon (New Zealand electorate), New Zealand general electorate ;United Kingdom * Aspall and Thorndon railway station, former railway station on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway * Thorndon Hall, Georgian Palladian country house in Ingrave, Essex :* Thorndon Park Chapel, former Roman Catholic private chapel in the grounds of Thorndon Hall * Thorndon, Suffolk, village and civil parish in Suffolk Other * Thorndon Mile The Thorndon Mile (formally WRC George Adams Handicap) is a Group One (G1) Thoroughbred horse race contested at Trentham Racecourse by the Wellington Racing Club. The race is run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Thorndon
Giles Thorndon ( 1388 – August 1477) was a senior official of the English Crown in the fifteenth century, who was noted for his long and loyal service to the House of Lancaster and for his troubled and unsuccessful career as Lord Treasurer of Ireland. Early career He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne shortly before 1390.Curry, Anne E. and Matthews, Elizabeth ''Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages'' Boydell and Brewer 2000 p.91 Little is known of his family; there is no evidence that he was related to Roger Thornton, the long-serving Mayor of Newcastle, who died in 1430. By his own account he entered the household of the future King Henry V of England, Henry V in 1404, when he must still have been in his teens. He continued to serve the Prince after he became King, and remained in the household of Henry VI of England, Henry VI. For several years he was the ''Royal sewer'' i.e. the household official with responsibility for overseeing the kitchens. From these ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke Of Thorndon
Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon (9 May 1926 – 30 August 2006) was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is widely considered one of New Zealand's most influential jurists, and is the only New Zealand judge to have sat in the House of Lords. He was a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2006. Early life and education The son of the Supreme Court judge, Justice Philip Brunskill Cooke and his wife, Valmai, Lord Cooke was born in Wellington and attended Wanganui Collegiate School. He graduated with an LL.M. from Victoria University College, and subsequently studied at Clare College, Cambridge as a Research Fellow. While on a travelling scholarship, Lord Cooke was awarded an MA in 1954 from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and subsequently a PhD in 1955. In 1952, he married Annette Miller, with whom he had three sons. One of their sons, Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorndon, New Zealand
Thorndon is a historic inner suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Because the suburb is relatively level compared to the hilly terrain elsewhere in Wellington it contained Wellington's elite residential area until its best was destroyed in the 1960s by a new motorway and the erection of tall office buildings on the sites of its Molesworth Street retail and service businesses. Before Thorndon was Thorndon it was Haukawakawa and in 1824 Pipitea Pā was settled at its southern end. More recently Pipitea Marae and the land under the Government Centre have been separated from Thorndon and the name Pipitea returned to them in 2003. The reclamations have been included in the new suburb Pipitea. Thorndon combines the home of government and upmarket residential accommodation. It is located at the northern end of the Central Business District. History Pipitea has been said to have been named for the pipi beds along Thorndon Quay.Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorndon Railway Station
Thorndon railway station in Wellington, New Zealand, was opened in 1885 as the southern terminus of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company’s Wellington-Manawatu Line and then known as Wellington and Manawatu railway station. This line is now part of the Kapiti section of the North Island Main Trunk. The station closed on the evening of Saturday 19 June 1937, the day the new Bunny Street building opened. Tracks were moved and the building was demolished by the end of July. Description and location The station began with one side platform and lit by electricity. The line's main terminus it was set up with a goods yard, engine shed, workshop and maintenance facilities. It was built on land reclaimed in 1882. The company was allocated 19 of the 30 acres of reclamation made with spoil from the tunnels. Davis Street was extended in a dogleg across the reclamation to the new Thorndon Esplanade since covered by Aotea Quay. Road access to Thorndon station was from it but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorndon School
Thorndon School is a New Zealand primary and intermediate school located in the suburb of Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand. It was first established on 5 April 1852 as St Paul's School in Sydney Street. After initial success, the school's reputation declined until William Mowbray took over as headmaster in 1859. He broadened the curriculum to an extent that his methods were copied by other Wellington schools. In 1873, the school was taken over by the education board of the Wellington Province Wellington Province, governed by the Wellington Provincial Council, was one of the provinces of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. It covered much of the southern half of the North Island until November 18 ..., and Mowbray was kept on as headmaster. Around that time, the name was changed to Thorndon School, and it moved to a new site in 1880. Mowbray retired in 1902 after 43 as headmaster. Since then the school and the district have been through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorndon (New Zealand Electorate)
Thorndon is a former parliamentary electorate in the city of Wellington, New Zealand from 1881 to 1890. Population centres The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–1876 election. In the six years since, New Zealand's European population had increased by 65%. In the 1881 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of European representatives to 91 (up from 84 since the 1875–76 election). The number of Māori electorates was held at four. The House further decided that electorates should not have more than one representative, which led to 35 new electorates being formed, including Thorndon, and two electorates that had previously been abolished to be recreated. This necessitated a major disruption to existing boundaries. The electorate was based on the inner-city suburb of Thorndon. The boundaries were defined as follows: The district is bounded towards the West, North, and East by the limits of the Borough of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspall And Thorndon Railway Station
Aspall and Thorndon was a railway station on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway. This station was located with Aspall to the south, Debenham 2.5 miles further south and Thorndon 3.5 miles to the north-east. History Opened by the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway (MSLR) was a standard gauge railway intended to open up an agricultural area of central Suffolk; it took advantage of the reduced construction cost enabled by the Light Railways Act 1896. It was launched with consi ..., Aspall station was located eight miles from Haughley and had a similar sized building to Mendlesham but the station was the only one on the line not to have an open-fronted waiting room. References *Comfort, N. A. (1986) ''The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway'', The Oakwood Press. *Paye, P. (1986) ''The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway'', Wild Swan Publications Ltd. Disused railway stations in Suffolk Former Mid-Suffolk Light Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorndon Hall
Thorndon Hall is a Georgian Palladian country house within Thorndon Park, Ingrave, Essex, England, approximately two miles south of Brentwood and from central London. Formerly the country seat of the Petre family who now reside at nearby Ingatestone Hall, the house is located within nearly of ancient medieval deer park, meadows and forest. The garden is designed by Capability Brown. Thorndon Hall is Grade-I listed with English Heritage, and the park is Grade II*-listed. Old Thorndon Hall The estate of Thorndon Hall, known previously as the manor of West Horndon, can trace its records back to the 1086 Domesday Survey commissioned by William the Conqueror. However, a building on the site of Old Thorndon Hall was first recorded in 1414 when King Henry V of England gave licence for its new owner, a merchant from South Wales called Lewis John, to "empark , to surround his lodge within this park with walls and to crenellate and embattle the lodge". The current house replaced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorndon Park Chapel
Thorndon Park Chapel (The Petre Chapel) is a former Roman Catholic private chapel situated in Thorndon Park, near the grounds of Thorndon Hall near Ingrave, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Historic Chapels Trust. History The chapel was built as a private chantry chapel and mausoleum for the Roman Catholic Petre family who lived in Thorndon Hall. It was built in about 1850, and dedicated in 1857. The architect was William Wardell. Having become redundant and subject to decay and deterioration, the chapel was given to the Trust by Lord Petre in 2010. Architecture Constructed in Kentish ragstone with freestone dressings, the chapel has a tiled roof. Its architectural style is Decorated. The plan of the chapel is L-shaped in three bays, with a vestry and a bellcote on the south side. On the sides of the chapel are buttresses and two-light windows. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorndon, Suffolk
Thorndon is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. , accessdate= April 2014 The village is located around three miles south of Eye, close to the A140. It is located 92 miles North East of London. In 2011 the population was 648, recorded by the 2011 census. Village facilities include All Saints' Church and a local primary school. History The origin of the name Thorndon, traces back to Old English meaning 'Thorn Hill', coming from 'þorn' meaning a hawthorn-tree and 'dūn' meaning A hill. Throndon was documented in the Doomsday book as being within the hundred of Hartismere in 1066, describing it as ''Hill where thorn-trees grow'' and having a population of just 43 people in 1086. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
