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Raglan
Raglan may refer to: People *FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), British Army officer, commander of British troops during the Crimean War *Raglan (surname) *Raglan Squire (1912–2004), British architect Places Australia *County of Raglan, a cadastral division in Queensland *Raglan, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst *Raglan, Queensland, a town in Gladstone Region *Raglan, Victoria, a town Canada * Raglan, Chatham-Kent, Ontario *Raglan, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario, a hamlet in Oshawa *Raglan Mine, a nickel mining complex in northern Quebec New Zealand *Raglan, New Zealand, a town on the west coast of the North Island **Raglan (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary electorate centred on the town United Kingdom *Raglan, Monmouthshire, a large village in Wales **Raglan Hundred, a division of the traditional county of Monmouthshire Other uses *Raglan sleeve, a type of clothing sleeve *Baron Raglan, a title in the Peerage of the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan, New Zealand
Raglan is a small beachside town located 48 km west of Hamilton, New Zealand on State Highway 23. It is known for its surfing, and volcanic black sand beaches. History The Ngāti Māhanga iwi occupied the area around Raglan in the late 18th century. There are at least 81 archaeological sites in the area, mainly near the coast. Limited radiocarbon dating puts the earliest sites at about 1400AD. The Māori people named the site ("the long pursuit"). One tradition says that Tainui priest, Rakataura, crossed Whāingaroa on his way to Kāwhia. Another says it was among the places the early Te Arawa explorer, Kahumatamomoe, with his nephew Īhenga, visited on their expedition from Maketū. The first Europeans to settle in the area, the Rev James and Mary Wallis, Wesleyan missionaries, were embraced and welcomed by local Māori in 1835. European settlement, including large scale conversion of land to pasture, began in the mid-1850s after a large sale of land by Chief Wirem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan, Queensland
Raglan is a rural town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Raglan had a population of 146 people. Geography Raglan is located on Raglan Creek, part of the Casuarina Creek drainage system that empties into Keppel Bay. The locality contains the following mountains: * King Solomon Spur () * Marble Mountain () * Mount Alma () * Mount Bennett () * Mount Bomboolba () * Mount Despair () * Mount Erebus () * Mount Holly () * Mount Wendy () These ranges are a significant source of marble and calcite, and the South Ulam mine is located there. The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the east (Ambrose), passes through the town along Raglan Street, and exits to the north-west ( Marmor). The North Coast railway line runs roughly parallel and north of the highway, passes through the locality with the following stations (from east to west): * Epala railway station () *Amos railway station (), now abandoned *Raglan railway stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan, Monmouthshire
Raglan (; ( cy, Rhaglan) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom. It is located some 9 miles south-west of Monmouth, midway between Monmouth and Abergavenny on the A40 road very near to the junction with the A449 road. The fame of the village derives from Raglan Castle, built for William ap Thomas and now maintained by Cadw. The community includes the villages of Llandenny and Pen-y-clawdd. Raglan itself has a population of 1,183. History and buildings The village stands at the crossing point of two Roman roads, that from Gloucester to Usk, and that from Chepstow to Abergavenny. Raglan was first mentioned in the will of Walter de Clare. The earliest market in Raglan was recorded in 1354. The market cross in the town, which stands in the centre of the cross roads between the church and the Beaufort Arms Inn, consists now only of a massive base on which has been mounted a lamp post. In the large space around this stone the markets were held, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, (30 September 1788 – 28 June 1855), known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy Somerset, was a British Army officer. When a junior officer, he served in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign, latterly as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He also took part in politics as Tory Member of Parliament for Truro, before becoming Master-General of the Ordnance. He became commander of the British troops sent to the Crimea in 1854: his primary objective was to defend Constantinople, and he was also ordered to besiege the Russian port of Sevastopol. After an early success at the Battle of Alma, a failure to deliver orders with sufficient clarity caused the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Despite further success at the Battle of Inkerman, a poorly coordinated allied assault on Sevastopol in June 1855 was a complete failure. Raglan died later that month, after having dysentery and depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Raglan
Baron Raglan, of Raglan in the County of Monmouth, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 October 1852 for the military commander Lord FitzRoy Somerset, chiefly remembered as commander of the British troops during the Crimean War. History The title was created for Lord FitzRoy Somerset, the youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (see Duke of Beaufort for earlier history of the family). His second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli. He was succeeded by his son, the third Baron. He held office as Under-Secretary of State for War between 1900 and 1902 in the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury. His eldest son, the fourth Baron, was a soldier and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. The fifth Baron was active in the House of Lords but lost his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan (New Zealand Electorate)
Raglan is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It existed for three periods between 1861 and 1996 and during that time, it was represented by 13 Members of Parliament. Population centres In the 1860 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of representatives by 12, reflecting the immense population growth since the original electorates were established in 1853. The redistribution created 15 additional electorates with between one and three members, and Raglan was one of the single-member electorates. It was created by splitting the electorate into two areas, and the eastern part was called , while the western part was called Raglan. The electorates were distributed to provinces so that every province had at least two members. Within each province, the number of registered electors by electorate varied greatly. The Raglan electorate had 482 registered electors for the 1861 election. In 1861 it was named Raglan, but that town had the onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan (garment)
Raglan may refer to: People *FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), British Army officer, commander of British troops during the Crimean War * Raglan (surname) *Raglan Squire (1912–2004), British architect Places Australia *County of Raglan, a cadastral division in Queensland *Raglan, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst *Raglan, Queensland, a town in Gladstone Region * Raglan, Victoria, a town Canada * Raglan, Chatham-Kent, Ontario * Raglan, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario, a hamlet in Oshawa *Raglan Mine, a nickel mining complex in northern Quebec New Zealand *Raglan, New Zealand, a town on the west coast of the North Island **Raglan (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary electorate centred on the town United Kingdom * Raglan Castle, a building in Raglan, Monmouthshire * Raglan, Monmouthshire, a large village in Wales ** Raglan Hundred, a division of the traditional county of Monmouthshire Other uses *Raglan sleeve, a type of clothing sle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan, New South Wales
Raglan is a locality in the Bathurst Region of New South Wales, Australia. It was named after FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the Crimean War from 1850 to 1855. It had a population of 1,199 people as of the . Raglan Public School opened in December 1870, and has been on its current Nelson Street site since 1988. It had an enrollment of 273 in 2017. St James Anglican Church has bi-monthly services on the first Sunday of the month in odd-numbered months, alternating with St John the Evangelist Church at Peel in the even-numbered months. The Raglan Community Hall remains in operation and is managed by the Raglan Community and Sporting Committee. The Raglan Rural Fire Brigade celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2017. Bathurst Airport is located at Raglan. Mars Petcare opened a $100 million upgrade of their Raglan manufacturing facility in May 2015. The suburb was formerly home to the Bathurst Brick Company factory, which relocated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Raglan
HMS ''Raglan'' was a First World War Royal Navy monitor, which was sunk during the Battle of Imbros in January 1918. Design On 3 November 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of eight /45 cal BL MK II guns in twin gun turrets, originally destined for the Greek battleship . These turrets could not be delivered to the German builders, due to the British blockade. The Royal Navy immediately designed a class of monitors, designed for shore bombardment, to use the turrets. Construction ''Raglan'' was laid down at the Harland and Wolff Ltd shipyard at Govan on 1 December 1914. The ship was named ''Robert E Lee'' in honour of the CSA General Robert E Lee, however as the United States was still neutral, the ship was hurriedly renamed HMS ''M3'' on 31 May 1915. She was then named HMS ''Lord Raglan'' on 20 June 1915 and again renamed HMS ''Raglan'' on 23 June 1915. Career ''Raglan'' sailed for the Dardanell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan, Victoria
Raglan is a town in western Victoria, Australia. It is located north west of the state capital, Melbourne in the Shire of Pyrenees local government area. At the , Raglan and the surrounding area had a population of 456. History Many of the residents of Raglan are descendants of the first European settlers of the area who displaced Aboriginal hunter-gatherers from the valleys and slopes below Mount Cole, with various roads and lanes bearing the family names of those settlers. Djab wurrung was the primary language before European settlement and some early arrivals in the region like Tom Wills of Ararat, spoke it. Major Thomas Mitchell, surveyor, reported surprising two women of the Utoul balug and their children near Mount Cole in 1836. Conflicts with settlers continued into the 1840s, broken by 1848 by the Border Police and the Native Police Corps. The remaining Mount Cole clans were taken to Framlingham and Coranderrk stations. The Campbell brothers on Mount Cole protected Beeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan Mine
Raglan Mine is a large nickel mining complex in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, Canada. It is located approximately south of Deception Bay. Discovery of the deposits is credited to Murray Edmund Watts in 1931 or 1932. It is owned and operated by Glencore Canada Corporation. The mine site is located in sub-arctic permafrost of the Cape Smith Belt, with an average underground temperature of . Transportation and accommodations The complex is served by and operates the Kattiniq/Donaldson Airport, which is west of the principal mine site. There is a gravel road leading from the mine site to the seaport on Deception Bay. It is the only road of any distance in the province north of the 55th parallel. As the complex is remote from even the region's Inuit communities, workers must lodge at the mine site, typically for weeks at a time. From the mine site employees are flown to Val D'or, or in the case of Inuit employees, their home community. Ore produced from the mine is mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan, Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Raglan is a community in Ontario. In 1792, Governor Simcoe declared all of Rondeau Bay as "ordnance land" which reserved the waters and peninsula for naval and military purposes. Shrewsbury was surveyed as a future naval base and prospective capital of the "Western District". A channel to the lake was dredged through the bay and through the sandy islands where the present village of Erieau now stands. A long wharf was constructed along the Shrewsbury shoreline to accommodate large sailing vessels. It was to have been a port and, indeed, did have a dock in Rondeau Bay. Rondeau Bay had a post office from 1882 to 1948. Shrewsbury's first school, School Section #13, was built on the new Scotland Line in 1860–61, by Mr. Addison Smith. It was an integrated school and its first teacher was Mrs. Emeline Shadd. However, during the 1860s Raglan was a thriving harbor and community of its own. Because a common school could be started where there were at least 20 students, the Raglan commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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