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Spottiswoode
Spottiswoode or Spottiswood may refer to: People *Spottiswoode (surname) Commerce * Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., London-based printing firm Places * a former (until 1903) name of Spotswood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia * Spottiswoode Park Estate, a housing area and former plantation in Singapore * Famoso, California, an unincorporated community formerly known as Spottiswood See also *Spotswood (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spottiswoode (surname)
Spottiswoode, also Spottiswood, is a surname of Scottish origin. It was first used by Robert de Spottiswoode and his descendants. Notable people with the surname include: * Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (1810–1900), Scottish songwriter * Andrew Spottiswoode (1787–1866), British politician * Frank Spottiswoode, English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s * Spottiswoode Aitken, Frank Spottiswoode Aitken (1868–1933), Scottish-American silent film actor * James Spottiswood (1567-1645), bishop, 2nd son of next * John Spottiswood (reformer), John Spottiswood (1510-1585), religious reformer * John Spottiswoode (1565–1633), Archbishop of St Andrews, elder son of prec. * Jonathan Spottiswoode (born 1964), British musician, writer, and filmmaker * Roger Spottiswoode (born 1945), Canadian-British film director and screenwriter * William Spottiswoode, FRS (1825–1883), English mathematician and physicist, son of Andrew References {{surname Surnames of Scottish origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd
Eyre may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eyre (given name), a list of people * Eyre (surname), a list of people and fictional characters Places Australia South Australia * Eyre Peninsula (other) * Eyre, South Australia, a suburb * Lake Eyre Western Australia * Electoral district of Eyre * Eyre River (Western Australia) * Esperance Plains, biogeographic region of Australia also known as Eyre Botanical District Elsewhere * Eyre, Saskatchewan, Canada * Eyre, Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland * Eyre, Raasay, a location in Highland, Scotland * Eyre (river), France * Eyre River (New Zealand) * Eyre Creek (other), various creeks in Australia, New Zealand and Canada * Eyre Hall, Virginia, United States, a plantation house on the National Register of Historic Places, home of the Eyre family * Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland Other uses * Eyre (legal term), in medieval England * Eyre Highway, a highway connecting South Australia and Western Australia * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotswood, Victoria
Spotswood is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Spotswood recorded a population of 2,820 at the . The suburb is bounded by the Newport–Sunshine railway line, Newport–Sunshine freight railway line in the west, the West Gate Freeway in the north, the Yarra River in the east and the Burleigh Street in the south. Spotswood was named after John Stewart Spotswood, who was one of the first farmers who owned much of the area in the 1840s. History Spottiswoode Post Office opened on 1 February 1882 and was renamed Spottiswood around 1903 and Spotswood around 1906. Locality Spotswood is known for the Victorian Science Museum, known as Scienceworks (Melbourne), Scienceworks. Scienceworks is near the old sewage pumping station of Spotswood, constructed in 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spottiswoode Park Estate
Spottiswoode or Spottiswood may refer to: People *Spottiswoode (surname) Commerce * Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., London-based printing firm Places * a former (until 1903) name of Spotswood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia * Spottiswoode Park Estate, a housing area and former plantation in Singapore * Famoso, California Famoso ( Spanish for "Famous") is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located on Poso Creek south-southeast of McFarland, at an elevation of . Famoso is located at the junction of State Route 99 and the eastern term ..., an unincorporated community formerly known as Spottiswood See also * Spotswood (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north. In its early history, Singapore was a maritime emporium known as '' Temasek''; subsequently, it was part of a major constituent part of several successive thalassocratic empires. Its contemporary era began in 1819, when Stamford Raffles established Singapore as an entrepôt trading post of the British Empire. In 1867, Singapore came under the direct control of Britain as part of the Straits Settlements. During World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famoso, California
Famoso ( Spanish for "Famous") is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located on Poso Creek south-southeast of McFarland, at an elevation of . Famoso is located at the junction of State Route 99 and the eastern terminus of State Route 46. The town is famous for its nut groves and especially the race track - Auto Club Famoso Raceway (Famoso Raceway). History The Spottiswood post office opened in 1888, changed its name to Famoso in 1895, closed for a period in 1919, moved in 1940, and closed for good in 1946. The name Poso was bestowed by the Southern Pacific Railroad when it reached the site in the 1870s. Famoso is a Spanish word meaning "famous" or "celebrated". Early in its history, the city of Famoso was named Poso, California. This name conflicted with the community of Pozo along the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route in San Luis Obispo County and officials in Washington renamed it Spottiswood. The residents later requested the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |