Catesby may refer to:
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Catesby, Northamptonshire
Catesby is a civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. There are two hamlets, Lower Catesby and Upper Catesby, each of which is a shrunken village. The site of the abandoned village of Newbold is also in the parish. The 2001 Census record ...
, England, a civil parish
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Catesby, Oklahoma
Catesby is an unincorporated community located in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States. Named for Catesby ap Roger Jones
Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 – June 21, 1877) was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became a commander in t ...
, United States, an unincorporated community
People
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Catesby (surname) Catesby is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* John Catesby (died 1486), British judge
* John Catesby (MP for Warwickshire) (died 1405), MP for Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)
* John Catesby (MP for Northampt ...
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Catesby ap Roger Jones
Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 – June 21, 1877) was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He assumed command of during the Battle of Hampton Roads and engaged in ...
(1821–1877), American Civil War naval commander
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R. Catesby Taliaferro
Robert Catesby Taliaferro (1907–1989) was an American mathematician, science historian, classical philologist, philosopher, and translator of ancient Greek and Latin works into English. An Episcopalian from an old Virginia family, he taught in ...
(1907–1989), American mathematician, science historian, classical philologist, philosopher and translator of ancient Greek and Latin works
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Robert Catesby (1572-1605), English catholic and leader of the 1605
Gunpowder plot.
See also
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Lower Catesby
Lower Catesby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Catesby, Northamptonshire, about southwest of Daventry. Lower Catesby is beside the nascent River Leam, which rises about to the south in the parish of Hellidon. The Jurassic Way long-distance ...
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Upper Catesby
Upper Catesby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Catesby, Northamptonshire, about southwest of Daventry. The hamlet is about above sea level, at the top of a northwest-facing escarpment. The population is included in the civil parish of Helli ...
, two hamlets in Catesby, Northamptonshire
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Catesby Priory
Catesby Priory was a priory of Cistercian nuns at Lower Catesby, Northamptonshire, England. It was founded in about 1175 and dissolved in 1536.
History
Robert de Esseby founded Catesby Priory in about 1175. He endowed it with Catesby parish chur ...
, in Lower Catesby, a former priory of Cistercian nuns
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Catesby Tunnel
Catesby Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel in Northamptonshire on the route of the former Great Central Main Line. Its northern portal is about south of Catesby Viaduct and west of Upper Catesby, with the tunnel ending at Charwelton to the so ...
, a disused railway tunnel in Northamptonshire
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Catesby's snail-eater
Catesby's snail-eater (''Dipsas catesbyi''), also commonly known as Catesby's snail sucker, Peters JA (1956). "An Analysis of Variation in a South American Snake, Catesby's Snail-Sucker (''Dipsas catesbyi'' Sentzen)". ''American Museum Novitates' ...
, a species of non-venomous snake
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Sistrurus miliarius
:''Common names: pygmy rattlesnake, eastern pygmy rattlesnake, ground rattlesnake, leaf rattler, death rattler, #Common names, more.''Albert Hazen WWright AH, Anna Allen WWright AA (1957). ''Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. I ...
'', a species of venomous snake also known as Catesby's small snake
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