Lanchester may refer to:
Places
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Lanchester, County Durham
Lanchester is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, west of Durham, England, Durham and from Consett. It had a population at the 2011 Census of 4,054.
Although there was a small Drift mining, drift mine on the edge of the vil ...
, a village in England
*Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of
Coventry University
Coventry University is a Public university, public research university in Coventry, England. The origins of Coventry University can be linked to the Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry School of Design in 1843. It was known as Lancheste ...
People
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Ann Margaret Lanchester (fl. 1803), British fashion designer
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John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist
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William Forster Lanchester (1875–1953), British zoologist
Lanchester family
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Henry Jones Lanchester (1834–1914), English architect; father of:
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Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953), architect and brother of Frederick W
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Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), his son, engineer who devised
Lanchester's laws (mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces) and founded Lanchester Motor Company
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Edith Lanchester (1871–1966), English socialist and suffragette; mother of:
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Waldo Lanchester
Waldo Sullivan Lanchester (6 May 1897 – 15 December 1978) was a British puppeteer who founded the Lanchester Marionettes (1935–1962), a puppet theatre that was based in Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern, and later in Stratford-upon-Avon. He ...
(1897–1978), British puppeteer
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Muriel Lanchester (née Bell) (1902–1992), British ceramicist and wife of Waldo
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Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.Obituary '' Variety'', 31 December 1986.
Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World ...
(1902–1986), Oscar-nominated English character actress
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George Lanchester (1874–1970), British engineer
Other uses
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Lanchester Motor Company
The Lanchester Motor Company Limited is a marque & former British car manufacturer in active trade between 1899 and 1955. Though the Lanchester Motor Company Limited is still registered as an active company and accounts are filed each year, th ...
, a now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer
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Lanchester armoured car, of World War I
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Lanchester 6×4 armoured car, post World War I
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Lanchester submachine gun, used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War
See also
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Lancaster (disambiguation)
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