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Cuthbert (other)
St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne () was an Anglo-Saxon saint, bishop, monk and hermit. Cuthbert may also refer to: Places in the United States: *Cuthbert, Georgia, a city *Cuthbert, South Dakota, an unincorporated community *Cuthbert, Texas, a ghost town People: *Cuthbert (given name) *Cuthbert (surname) Other uses: *Cuthbert, Western Australia, a locality in the City of Albany *"Cuthbert", World War II Allied spy Virginia Hall's nickname for her prosthetic leg See also *St Cuthbert (other) *Cuthberts Building, Johannesburg, South Africa {{disambiguation, , geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne () ( – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Hiberno-Scottish mission, Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monastery, monasteries of Melrose Abbey#History, Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, today in northern England and southern Scotland. Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult (religious practice), cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria. His feast days are 20 March (Catholic Church, Church of England, Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church) and 4 September (Church in Wales, Catholic Church). Cuthbert grew up in or around Lauderdale, near Melrose Abbey, Old Melrose Abbey, a daughter-house of Lindisfarne, today in Scotland. He decided to become a monk after seeing a vision on the night in 651 that Aida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert, Georgia
Cuthbert is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,520 in 2019. History Cuthbert was founded by European Americans in 1831 as seat of the newly formed Randolph County, after Indian Removal of the historic tribes to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. John Alfred Cuthbert, who represented Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1819 to 1821, is its namesake. The county was developed for cotton plantations, the major commodity crop, and the rural area had a high proportion of enslaved African-American workers. Cuthbert was incorporated as a town in 1834 and as a city in 1859, serving as the trading center for the area. The Central of Georgia Railway arrived in Cuthbert in the 1850s, stimulating trade and growth, and providing a means of getting cotton and other crops to market. A few years before 2022, the city's hospital closed. Geography Cuthbert is located at 31º46'15" North, 84º47'37" West (31.77 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert, South Dakota
Cuthbert is an unincorporated community in Sanborn County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state, state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota people, Dakota Sioux .... History A post office called Cuthbert was established in 1908, and remained in operation until 1954. An early variant name was Espe. References Unincorporated communities in Sanborn County, South Dakota Unincorporated communities in South Dakota {{SouthDakota-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert, Texas
Cuthbert is a ghost town in Mitchell County, Texas, United States. Cuthbert was established in 1890 when the founder D. T. Bozeman built a wagon yard and store. The community and post office were named for Thomas Cuthbertson, a family friend of the Bozemans. By the early 1920s, Cuthbert had a church, two stores, a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin, telephone office, and a school. In 1920, the T. and P. Abrams No. 1 oil well, one of the first commercial oil ventures in the Permian Basin, was drilled just over a mile north of the town. A post office, two businesses, and a population of twenty-five were reported at the community in 1936, the year that its school was consolidated with that of Colorado City. After World War II, the improvement of rural roads in the area led to Cuthbert's decline as it lost its trade to Colorado City. The Cuthbert post office was discontinued ''circa'' 1960, when the town reported one business and a population of twenty-five. By 1974, only a cemetery and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert (given Name)
Cuthbert is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Cuthbert of Canterbury (floruit, fl. 736–760), Archbishop of Canterbury *Cuthbert of Lindisfarne *Cuthbert (), scribe and artist of the eponymous Cutbercht Gospels *Cuthbert Bardsley (1901–1977), Anglican Bishop of Coventry *Cuthbert Brodrick (1821–1905), British architect *Cuthbert Bromley (1878–1915), English First World War officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross *Cuthbert Burbage (1566–1636), a key figure in the construction of the Globe Theatre in London *Cuthbert Burby (died 1607), London bookseller and publisher *Cuthbert Burnup (1875–1960), English amateur cricketer and footballer *Cuthbert Christy (1863–1932), British doctor and zoologist, author of the Christy Report *Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (1748–1810), Royal Navy vice admiral, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Trafalgar and Trafalgar Campaign *Cuthbert Constable (1746), English physician and antiq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert (surname)
Cuthbert is an Anglo-Saxon English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan William Cuthbert (1932–2016), a British pharmacologist and fellow of University College London * Alfred Cuthbert (1785–1856), United States Representative and Senator from Georgia *Betty Cuthbert (1938–2017), Australian athlete * Charles Cuthbert, American architect of Kansas * Cheslor Cuthbert, baseball player *Chris Cuthbert (born 1957), Canadian sportscaster * Dylan Cuthbert, British programmer *Elisha Cuthbert (born 1982), Canadian actress * Erin Cuthbert (born 1998), Scottish footballer * Frederick Alexander Cuthbert (1902-1978), Landscape Architect * Grace Cuthbert MBE (1900 – 1988), Australian doctor and Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare * Jack Cuthbert (born 1987), English rugby union player *Jeffrey Cuthbert (born 1948), Welsh politician, member of the National Assembly of Wales * John Cuthbert (Royal Navy officer) (1902-1987), vice admiral * Josh Cuthbert, English singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert, Western Australia
Cuthbert is a town and locality of the City of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Cuthbert is about west of the Albany city center. Cuthbert was originally established as a siding on the Great Southern Railway and called Eastwood at the time. In 1909 the decision was made to establish a town site at Eastwood but the name was already in use in three other Australian states and therefore deemed unsuitable. The alternative names of Karajinup and Atwell were considered but, eventually, Werillup was chosen and the townsite was gazetted in 1914. Werillup, meaning "place of swamps", was rejected as a name the following year and the town was officially renamed to Cuthbert in September 1916, after an early European settler. Demographics As of the 2021 Australian census, 157 people resided in Cuthbert, up from 156 in the . The median The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a Sample (statistics), data sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Hall
Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre, (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II. The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE and OSS agents in France allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. After World War II, Hall worked for the Special Activities Division of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Hall was the first female SOE agent to take up residence in France, arriving in Vichy France in August 1941. She created the Heckler network in Lyon. Over the next 15 months, she "became an expert at support operations – organizing resistance movements; supplying agents with money, weapon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Cuthbert (other)
St Cuthbert may refer to: ;English saints *St Cuthbert (634–687) *Cuthbert of Canterbury (d. 760) *Cuthbert Mayne (1544–1577) St Cuthbert or St Cuthbert's may also refer to ;Places * Saint-Cuthbert, Quebec, a municipality in Canada * St Cuthbert Out, a civil parish in Somerset, England * St Cuthbert Without, a civil parish in Cumbria, England * St. Cuthbert's Mission, an indigenous village in Guyana ;Churches * St Cuthbert's Church (other) ;Educational institutions * St Cuthbert's Catholic High School, St Helens, England * St Cuthbert's College (other) * St Cuthbert's High School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England * St Cuthbert's RC High School, Rochdale, England *St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stockton on Tees, England *St Cuthbert's Society, a college of the University of Durham, England ;Other *St Cuthbert Gospel The St Cuthbert Gospel, also known as the Stonyhurst Gospel or the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, is an early 8th-century pocket gos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
