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Fishburn (other)
Fishburn is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Fishburn may also refer to: People * Dudley Fishburn (born 1946), business man with strong links to the not-for-profit world * M. S. Fishburn (1844–1926), American politician * Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021), pioneer in the field of decision-making processes * Sam Fishburn (1893–1965), American Major League Baseball player Other * Fishburn Airfield, a small grass strip airfield in Fishburn, County Durham * Fishburn Grassland Fishburn Grassland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Sedgefield district of County Durham, England. It lies between the villages of Fishburn and Trimdon, just north of the former. The site consists of a small area of specie ..., a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Sedgefield district of County Durham, England * ''Fishburn'' (ship), one of several vessels of that name See also * Fishburne (other) * Fishbourne (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishburn
Fishburn is a village and civil parish in County Durham, in England. It is situated about 12 miles west of Hartlepool. It had a population of 2,454, increasing to 2,588 at the 2011 Census. Location The village lies scattered along a dry swell of Magnesian Limestone, magnesian limestone rising north from the River Skerne (known locally as the "Stream, beck") to approx. 500 ft above sea level. The beck is one of the parish boundaries, as the township of Sedgefield begins on the other side of the river. History The earliest proprietors of the village (and then manor) on record were the family of "Fissebourne". There are a number of theories on how the village got its name. In one book it is stated that the name derives from the saxons, Saxon words "Fisc" meaning fish and " Bourne" meaning brook. Another theory is that it was derived from the monks who used to fish at this spot in early days; hence "fish in the burn", Fishburn. However it is more likely that the family of Fis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Fishburn
John Dudley Fishburn (born 8 June 1946) is a British businessman, journalist, and politician. He was Executive Editor of ''The Economist'' and Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom (MP) for Kensington. Early life and family Educated at Eton and Harvard College, from which he graduated in American history and literature and was a member of the Harvard Lampoon, he has an honorary Doctorate from the Open University and the University of Reading. He was married to Victoria Boles, who served as High Sheriff of Berkshire in 2016, a daughter of Sir Jack Boles and sister of one-time Conservative MP Nick Boles, by whom he has four children. Alice, the eldest, works as a journalist on the ''Financial Times''; Honor was an assistant at Downing Street, having been David Cameron's diary secretary. Business career Fishburn is the chairman of Bluecube Technology Solutions Ltd, and Mulvaney Capital Management Ltd. He is on the board of GFI Group, the European subsidiary of a Wall Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter C
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Fishburn (baseball)
Samuel E. Fishburn (May 15, 1893 – April 11, 1965) was an American Major League Baseball player from Haverhill, Massachusetts, who appeared in 9 games for the 1919 St. Louis Cardinals, with two hits in six at bats. An alumnus of Lehigh University, Fishburn died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bethlehem is a city in Northampton and Lehigh Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bethlehem had a total population of 75,781. Of this, 55,639 were in Northampton County and 19, .... He was Jewish. References 1893 births 1965 deaths Baseball players from Haverhill, Massachusetts St. Louis Cardinals players Lehigh Mountain Hawks baseball players Jewish American baseball players 20th-century American Jews {{US-baseball-second-baseman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishburn Airfield
Fishburn Airfield is a small grass strip airfield in Fishburn, County Durham. The airfield was opened on 30 June 1995 by the then local MP and Leader of the Opposition Tony Blair. It was named as "Airfield of the year" by aviation magazine Flyer in 2004 for its welcoming atmosphere and bacon butties. In 2005 the airfield hosted filming for a scene from the Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ... film Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors References Buildings and structures in County Durham Airports in North East England {{UK-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishburn Grassland
Fishburn Grassland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Sedgefield district of County Durham, England. It lies between the villages of Fishburn and Trimdon, just north of the former. The site consists of a small area of species-rich magnesian limestone grassland, a vegetation type that is rare nationally and mainly restricted to County Durham and Tyne and Wear. There are two distinct plant communities, the larger of which, dominated by blue moor-grass, ''Sesleria albicans'', and small scabious, ''Scabiosa columbaria'', is known only from east Durham. The other community, dominated by upright brome, ''Bromus erectus ''Bromus erectus'', commonly known as erect brome, upright brome or meadow brome, is a dense, course, tufted perennial grass. It can grow to . Like many brome grasses the plant is hairy. The specific epithet ''erectus'' is Latin, meaning "erect ...'', is common on limestone in southern England but is at its northern limit in Durham, where there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishburn (ship)
Several ships have been named ''Fishburn'': ''Fishburn'' (1753 ship) * ''Fishburn'', of 170 tons ( bm), was launched in 1753. In January 1755, she brought troops from Ireland to Virginia to participate in General Braddock's disastrous expedition against the French-occupied Ohio River Valley shortly thereafter. In 1762, ''Fishburn'' was at Norfolk. Between six and 24 enslaved people and six white men worked for three weeks at the same wages to unload her. ''Fishburn'' (1780 ship) * was built at Whitby. She was the largest of the three storeships of the First Fleet to Australia. She disappears from readily accessible online records in 1789, after her return from Botany Bay. ''Fishburn'' (1799 ship) * was launched at Sunderland. She was arrested at Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishburne (other)
Fishburne may refer to: People with the surname * John W. Fishburne, American politician * Laurence Fishburne, American actor * Lillian E. Fishburne, American admiral Other uses * Fishburne Military School See also * Fishburn (other) Fishburn is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Fishburn may also refer to: People * Dudley Fishburn (born 1946), business man with strong links to the not-for-profit world * M. S. Fishburn (1844–1926), American politician * ... * Fishbourne (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |