William Spalding (other)
William Spalding may refer to: *William de Spalding (before 1300 – after 1321), accidentally killed a man whilst playing medieval football in 1321 * William Spalding (MP) (before 1355 – after 1400), represented Southwark (UK Parliament constituency) *William Spalding (writer) (1809–1859), Scottish author and educator See also * William Spaulding (other) *Spalding (other) Spalding may refer to: People * Spalding (surname) * Spalding Gray (1941–2004), American actor, screenwriter, and playwright * Spalding (comics), a fictional character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé Places Australia * Spalding, Sou ...

Medieval Football
Mob football is a modern term used for a wide variety of the localised informal football games which were invented and played in England during the Middle Ages. Alternative names include folk football, medieval football and Shrovetide football. These games may be regarded as the ancestors of modern codes of football, and by comparison with later forms of football, the medieval matches were chaotic and had few rules. The Middle Ages saw a rise in popularity of games played annually at Shrovetide (before Lent) throughout England, particularly in London. The games played in England at this time may have arrived with the Roman occupation but there is little evidence to indicate this. Certainly the Romans played ball games, in particular Harpastum. There is also one reference to ball games being played in southern Britain prior to the Norman Conquest. In the ninth century Nennius's ''Historia Brittonum'' tells that a group of boys were playing at ball (''pilae ludus'').Magoun, Fran ...
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William Spalding (MP)
William Spalding may refer to: *William de Spalding (before 1300 – after 1321), accidentally killed a man whilst playing medieval football in 1321 * William Spalding (MP) (before 1355 – after 1400), represented Southwark (UK Parliament constituency) *William Spalding (writer) (1809–1859), Scottish author and educator See also * William Spaulding (other) *Spalding (other) Spalding may refer to: People * Spalding (surname) * Spalding Gray (1941–2004), American actor, screenwriter, and playwright * Spalding (comics), a fictional character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé Places Australia * Spalding, Sou ...

Southwark (UK Parliament Constituency)
Southwark ( ) was a constituency centred on the Southwark district of South London. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English Parliament from 1295 to 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the UK Parliament until its first abolition for the 1885 general election. A seat of the same name, covering a smaller area than the last form of the earlier seat in the west of the original and beyond its boundaries to the southwest, was created in 1950 and abolished in 1974. In its last creation the seat's broad electorate heavily supported the three successive Labour candidates, who won Southwark with a majority of greater than 36% of the votes cast at its eight elections – an extremely safe seat. Creation, boundaries, abolition ;First creation – or Southwark dual-member constituency The constituency was created in 1295 as a parliamentary borough (also known as burgh) when its electorate was restricted to the owners of ...
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William Spalding (writer)
William Spalding (22 May 1809 – 16 November 1859) was a Scottish writer and academic. For the last twenty years of his life he served as professor of rhetoric and logic, in addition to authoring essays, reviews and historical texts. Life Born in Aberdeen, to advocate James Spalding and his wife, Frances Read, young William was educated in the city's grammar school and at Marischal College. Moving to Edinburgh in 1830, he read law and was called to the bar in 1833. In that year he published a ''Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of the Two Noble Kinsmen'' (reprinted for the New Shakspere Society in 1876, seventeen years after his death), which attracted the notice of leading literary critic Francis Jeffrey, who invited Spalding to contribute to the '' Edinburgh Review''. Having devoted much time to studying Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists, he continued to write on these topics for the ''Review''. His other writings included contributions to ''Blackwood's Magazin ...
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William Spaulding (other)
William Spaulding may refer to: * William H. Spaulding (1880–1966), American sports coach * William J. Spaulding Sr. (1923–1997), American musician * William R. Spaulding (1924–2021), American legislator * Bill Spaulding (sportscaster) (born c. 1991), American sports announcer See also * William Spalding (other) William Spalding may refer to: *William de Spalding (before 1300 – after 1321), accidentally killed a man whilst playing medieval football in 1321 * William Spalding (MP) (before 1355 – after 1400), represented Southwark (UK Parliament constitu ... * Spaulding (other) {{hndis, Spaulding, William ...
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