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Spalding
Spalding may refer to: People * Spalding (surname) * Spalding Gray (1941–2004), American actor, screenwriter, and playwright * Spalding (comics), a fictional character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé Places Australia * Spalding, South Australia, a town north of the Clare Valley * Spalding, Western Australia, a suburb of Geraldton Canada * Rural Municipality of Spalding No. 368, Saskatchewan ** Spalding, Saskatchewan, a village England *Spalding, Lincolnshire *Spalding Rural District, a rural district in Holland, Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1974 *Spalding Moor, a wetland in the East Riding of Yorkshire *Holme-on-Spalding Moor, village in East Riding of Yorkshire United States * Spalding, Georgia * Spalding, Idaho * Spalding, Missouri * Spalding, Nebraska * Spalding County, Georgia * Spalding Township, Michigan * Spalding Township, Minnesota Other * Clan Spalding, Scottish Sept of Clan Murray * King & Spalding, American law firm in Atlanta, Georgia, US * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding (company)
Spalding is an American sports equipment manufacturing company. It was founded by Albert Spalding in Chicago in 1876 as a baseball manufacturer, and is today headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It sells softballs through its subsidiary Dudley Sports. In the past, Spalding has manufactured balls for other sports, including ball (gridiron football), American football, ball (association football), soccer, volleyball, tennis, and golf. For a brief period in the 1980s, Spalding was also a designer of Automotive aftermarket, aftermarket Custom wheel, automotive wheels. History The company was founded in 1876 when Albert Spalding was a pitcher and manager of an early professional baseball team in Chicago, the Chicago White Stockings (1870–89), Chicago White Stockings. The company standardized early Baseball (ball), baseballs and developed the modern baseball bat, a derivation of the cricket bat. The Spalding "League Ball" was adopted by the National League (baseball), Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holme-on-Spalding Moor
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor (also known as Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor) is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-east of Howden and south-west of Market Weighton. It lies on the A163 road where it joins the A614 road. The civil parish is formed by the village of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor and the hamlets of Bursea, Hasholme, Tollingham and Welhambridge. According to the 2011 UK Census, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor parish had a population of 3,172, an increase on the 2001 UK Census figure of 2,948. History Holme-on-Spalding-Moor village is named for its location on the Spalding Moor. In very early censuses of England (before the 16th century) the village was sometimes listed as Holme, Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, though there is little evidence of any other towns scattered across the moor at that or any time. The word Holme is Danish origin and means ''island''. Spalding Moor was a marsh, dominated by a single hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding, Nebraska
Spalding is a village in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 408 at the 2020 census. History Spalding was originally called Halifax, and under the latter name was founded in 1875 by a colony of Irish Catholics. It was renamed in 1881 in honor of bishop John Lancaster Spalding. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 487 people, 217 households, and 128 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 254 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 96.3% White, 0.6% African American, 0.4% Native American, 2.3% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.7% of the population. There were 217 households, of which 21.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.3% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding Priory
Spalding Priory was a small Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine house in the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding, Lincolnshire, dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus, St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas. It was founded as a cell of Croyland Abbey, in 1052, by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife, Lady Godiva, Godiva, Countess of Leicester. It was supported by Leofric's eldest son. Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia and the monks were confirmed in their property in 1074, after the Norman Conquest of England. Until 1220, Alkborough Priory Cell was a dependency of Spalding. After 1071 one monk only remained in Spalding, so the house was refounded in 1074 as a dependent priory of :fr:Abbaye Saint-Nicolas d'Angers, St Nicholas's Abbey, Angers. The monks secured their independence from Angers in 1397, and remained so until 1540, when the house was surrendered at the dissolution. Six human skeletons found during building work in Bridge Street are presumed to indicate the site of the Priory b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding, Lincolnshire
Spalding () is a market town on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. The main town had a population of 30,556 at the 2021 census. The town is the administrative centre of the South Holland District. The town is located between the cities of Peterborough and Lincoln. The town was well known for the annual Spalding Flower Parade, held from 1959 to 2013. The parade celebrated the region's vast tulip production and the cultural links between the Fens and the landscape and people of South Holland. At one time, it attracted crowds of more than 100,000. Since 2002 the town has held an annual pumpkin festival in October. In 2023 a new flower parade was organised by former councillor Steve Timewell. As well as the Flower Parade Spalding Round Table also host Spalding Festival. Notable people Maurice Johnson - Born in 1688, Johnson was the founder of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society and a prominent figure in the founding of the Society of Antiquar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding (surname)
Spalding is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *A. G. Spalding (1850–1915), American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer *Albert Spalding (violinist) (1888–1953), American composer and concert violinist *Al Spalding (naval architect) (1932–2022), American naval architect *Baird T. Spalding (1872–1953), English-American author *Brian Spalding (1923–2016), English professor, physics *Burleigh F. Spalding (1853–1934), Chief Justice of North Dakota *Catherine Spalding (1793–1858), American Roman Catholic nun *Charles F. Spalding (Chuck Spalding, 1919–2000), American heir, political advisor, television screenwriter and investment banker *Dick Spalding (1893–1950), American soccer player *Douglas Spalding (1840–1877), English biologist *Esperanza Spalding (born 1984) American jazz bassist and singer *Esta Spalding (born 1966), Canadian author and poet *Eva Ruth Spalding (1883–1969), English composer *Georg Ludwig Spalding (1762–1811), Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding Club
The Spalding Club was the name of three successive antiquarian and text publication societies founded in Aberdeen, which published scholarly editions of texts and archaeological studies relevant to the history of Aberdeenshire and its region. The clubs were named after the 17th-century historian John Spalding. First club The original club was founded by Joseph Robertson (1810–1866) in 1839, and included among its members Cosmo Innes and John Stuart. Stuart served as secretary and was editor of many of the works published. 38 quarto volumes appeared in the club's main numbered series, as well as another six volumes uniform with but not part of that series. Its last volume appeared in 1871. Seventeen of these volumes were edited by John Stuart: his more important works included ''Sculptured Stones of Scotland'' (1856 and 1867), a highly valued work of antiquarian reference; and '' The Book of Deer'' (1869), an edition of an important manuscript Gospel Book held at one time at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding Gentlemen's Society
The Spalding Gentlemen's Society is a learned society based in Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, concerned with cultural, scientific and antiquarian subjects. It is Britain's oldest such provincial body, founded in 1710 by Maurice Johnson (antiquary), Maurice Johnson (1688–1755) of Ayscoughfee Hall. Membership is open to anyone aged 18 or over: the term "gentlemen" in the title is historical – there is no discrimination between men and women. Its Grade II listed museum in Broad Street, Spalding, was designed by Joseph Boothroyd Corby and opened in 1911; additions to the building ensued in 1925 and 1960. The carved outside panels were by Jules Tuerlinckx of Malines, a Belgian refugees#First World War, Belgian refugee in the First World War, and likely a grandson of Flemish sculptor Joseph Tuerlinckx. History The Spalding Gentlemen's Society started in 1710 with informal meetings of a few gentlemen at a local English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding Grammar School
Spalding Grammar School (SGS), fully known as The Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Spalding, is an 11–18 boys' grammar school in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. By November 2015, a total of 985 boys were enrolled at the school, 277 of which were enrolled on 16 to 19 study programmes. History The school was founded in 1588 by royal charter, applied for by a Rev. Johnson, and within part of Spalding Parish Church, called St Thomas's Chapel, until the 19th century. It was founded on its current site in 1881. The school amalgamated with Moulton Grammar School of Moulton in 1939. Moulton Grammar School was founded under the will of John Harrox (died 1561) who was steward to Sir John Harrington of Weston. The School opened in 1562 with ten pupils and continued to educate boys from the district until it amalgamated with Spalding. The old school buildings still exist but are now private residences. The school magazine, '' The Bentleian'', dates to July 1922. Anne, Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding House
Spalding House, also known as the Cooke-Spalding House was an art museum and sculpture garden in Honolulu, Hawaii (now closed). It was called Nuumealani (heavenly terrace) by Anna Rice Cooke, who commissioned it. The house and gardens constituted a -acre former art museum in the Makiki Heights district of Honolulu. Spalding House was built as a residence in 1925 by Mrs. Cooke, the widow of Charles Montague Cooke, a local businessman and missionary descendant. At the same time, the Honolulu Academy of Art (later renamed Honolulu Museum of Art), which Mrs. Cooke endowed, was being built on the site of her former home on Beretania Street in Honolulu. The Makiki Heights home was designed by Hart Wood and later enlarged by the firm of Bertram Goodhue and Associates. In 1950, Cooke's daughter, Alice Spalding (Mrs. Phillip Spalding), engaged Vladimir Ossipoff to remodel the ground floor. The Honolulu Museum of Art acquired the estate as a bequest from Alice Spalding in 1968 and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spalding High School (other)
Spalding High School may refer to: * Spalding High School (Georgia), USA * Spalding High School, Lincolnshire, England * Spaulding High School (New Hampshire), USA * Spalding Institute, Illinois, USA * Archbishop Spalding High School, Maryland, USA See also * Spaulding High School {{schooldis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Spalding
Clan Spalding is a highland Scottish clan and sept of Clan Murray.Electric Scotland Web Clans: Clan Murray. Retrieved 25 Sep 2009 The clan does not have a chief recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms so the clan is considered an . The Spalding family lived in Perthshire, Scotland, for one hundred and sixty three years before 1746, and dispersed to , |
