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Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada, the 13th since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and Go ...

(1866–1941), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India

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Burnaby-Willingdon Burnaby-Willingdon was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is the deliberative assembly of the Parliament of British Columbia, in the province of Br ...

, a former electoral district for British Columbia, Canada from 1966 to 2009 *

Willingdon, Alberta Willingdon is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within the County of Two Hills No. 21. It is located approximately northeast of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. History Willingdon originally incorporated as a village on August 31, 1928. It ...

, Canada *

Willingdon (electoral district) Willingdon was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1940 to 1963. History Willingdon was created in 1940 when Victoria and Whitford were split betwe ...

, a former electoral district in Alberta, Canada from 1940 to 1959 *

Willingdon Heights Willingdon Heights is a neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is named after a major Burnaby thoroughfare Willingdon Avenue connecting North Burnaby with Kingsway and the Metrotown area in the south. Willingdon Heights was develop ...

, a neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ;England *

Willingdon, East Sussex Willingdon and Jevington is one of the civil parishes in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.OS Explorer map Eastbourne and Beachy Head Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. The t ...

, a village in the parish of Willingdon and Jevington, East Sussex, England *

Willingdon Down Willingdon Down is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Willingdon, a suburb of Eastbourne in East Sussex. Part of it is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure which is a Scheduled Monument This steeply sloping site on the South ...

, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England ;India *

Willingdon Airfield Safdarjung Airport is an airport in New Delhi, India, in the neighbourhood of the same name. Established during the British Raj as Willingdon Airfield, it started operations as an aerodrome in 1929, when it was India's second airport after the ...

, former name of Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi, India *

Willingdon Island Willingdon Island is the largest artificial island in India, which forms part of the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala. Much of the present Willingdon Island was claimed from the Lake of Kochi, filling in dredged soil around a previously e ...

, a man-made island located in Kochi, Kerala, India *

Willingdon Hospital Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (formerly known as Willingdon Hospital) is a government hospital in New Delhi, India. The hospital was founded, with 54 beds, in 1932 by the British Raj for their own government staff. In 1954, in the newly inde ...

, later known as Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi * Willingdon Bridge, later known as

Vivekananda Setu Vivekananda Setu (also called Willingdon Bridge and Bally Bridge) is a bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. It links the city of Howrah, at Bally, to Kolkata, at Dakshineswar. Completed on 1931, it is a multispan truss bridge ...

, Kolkata

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Marquess of Willingdon Marquess of Willingdon was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 26 May 1936 for the Liberal politician and colonial governor Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon. He was Governor-General of Canada from 1926 t ...

, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom *

Willingdon College Willingdon College, Sangli, is a college named after the former Governor of Bombay, The 1st Baron Willingdon (who has later created The 1st Marquess of Willingdon). Lord Willingdon later served as Viceroy of India, from 1931 until 1936. The c ...

, Sangli, Maharashtra, India *

Willingdon Cup The Willingdon Cup is an annual amateur golf team competition among Canada's provinces. History The Governor General of Canada, Lord Willingdon, donated the cup to Golf Canada (then known as the Royal Canadian Golf Association) in 1927, for annu ...

, an annual amateur golf team competition among Canada's provinces *

Willingdon Sports Club The Royal Willingdon Sports Club is a private sports club in South Mumbai. The club was founded in 1918 by Lord Willingdon, at that time Governor of Bombay. Amenities include an 18-hole golf course, six tennis courts, squash and badminton cour ...

, a sports club in Mumbai, India * Willingdon Beauty, given name of the proto-revolutionary boar known as

Old Major Major (also called Willingdon Beauty, his name used when showing) is the first major character described by George Orwell in his 1945 novel ''Animal Farm''. An elderly Middle White boar, his "purebred" of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosophe ...

in George Orwell's ''Animal Farm''

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