Stawell may refer to:
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People
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John Stawell
Sir John Stawell or Stowell, 29 August 1600 – 21 February 1662, was MP for Somerset at various times from 1625 to 1662, and one of the leading Royalists in the West Country during the First English Civil War.
Captured at Exeter in 1646, h ...
(1600–1662), English MP
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Baron Stawell
Baron Stawell was a title that was created twice in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1683 when Colonel Ralph Stawell was made Baron Stawell, of Somerton in the County of Somerset. The title became extinct on ...
, a historical English barony (1683–1755 and 1760–1820)
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Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell
Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell (c.1641 – 1689) was an English landowner, soldier, Member of Parliament and peer.
He was born c.1641, the fifth son (third surviving) of John Stawell (1600–1662), who was MP for Somerset and one of the leadin ...
(c. 1640–1689), son of John
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Mary Bilson-Legge, 1st Baroness Stawell (1725/26–1780)
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Henry Bilson-Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell
Henry Bilson-Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell (22 February 1757 – 25 August 1820) was a British peer and landowner, serving as a member of the House of Lords from 1780 until his death in 1820.
Stawell was the only son of the statesman Henry Bilson-L ...
(1757–1820)
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William Stawell
Sir William Foster Stawell KCMG (27 June 181512 March 1889) was a British colonial statesman and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Stawell was the first Attorney-General of Victoria, serving from 1851 to 1856 as an ap ...
(1815–1889) Australian colonial statesman
Places
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Stawell, Victoria, Australia, named after William
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Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory
The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) is a laboratory 1 km deep in the Stawell Gold Mine, located in Stawell, Shire of Northern Grampians, Victoria, Australia. Together with the planned Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site (ANDES) ...
, located in the Stawell gold mine
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Stawell, Somerset, England
Other uses
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HMAS ''Stawell'', a Bathurst class corvette named after the Australian settlement
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Stawell School
Stawell School was a short-lived (1927–1940) private school for girls founded by Mabel Hardy and Patience Hawker near the summit of Mount Lofty.
History
Mabel Phyllis Hardy (1890–1977) was born in Malvern, South Australia, a member of the o ...
, once a private school for girls on Mount Lofty, South Australia
See also
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