Lanchester may refer to:

Places

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

Ann Margaret Lanchester Ann Margaret Lanchester (fl. 1802 – fl. 1810), was a British fashion merchant and fashion designer. She was a leading figure within the British fashion industry and referred to as 'The Bonaparte of her day' in the contemporary ''The Complete ...

(fl. 1803), British fashion designer *

John Lanchester John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England; between 1972 and 1980 at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, then at St John's College, ...

(born 1962), British journalist and novelist *

William Forster Lanchester William Forster Lanchester (1875–1953) was a British zoologist. Life He was born in Croydon on 14 March 1875 to Dr Henry Thomas Lanchester MD and his wife Catherine Forster. He was one of eight children, but the only son. In 1893 he was admitt ...

(1875–1953), British zoologist

Lanchester family

* Henry Jones Lanchester (1834–1914), English architect; father of: ** Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953), architect and brother of Frederick W ** Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), his son, engineer who devised

Lanchester's laws Lanchester's laws are mathematical formulas for calculating the relative strengths of military forces. The Lanchester equations are differential equations describing the time dependence of two armies' strengths A and B as a function of time, wi ...

(mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces) and founded Lanchester Motor Company **

Edith Lanchester Edith 'Biddy' Lanchester (28 July 1871 – 26 March 1966) was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. She became well known in 1895 when her family had her incarcerated in an asylum for planning to live with her lover, who was an Irish ...

(1871–1966), English socialist and suffragette; mother of: ***

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 **** Muriel Lanchester (née Bell) (1902–1992), British ceramicist and wife of Waldo ***

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 **

George Lanchester George Herbert Lanchester (1874 – 13 February 1970) was an English engineer. He was one of three brothers who played a leading role in the early development of the UK auto-industry. In 1909, following the departure from full-time involvemen ...

(1874–1970), British engineer

Other uses

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 **

Lanchester armoured car The Lanchester armoured car was a British armoured car built on the chassis of the Lanchester "Sporting Forty", it saw wide service with the Royal Naval Air Service and British Army during the First World War. The Lanchester was the second mo ...

, of World War I **

Lanchester 6×4 armoured car The Lanchester 6×4 armoured car was a British armoured car with a 6×4 drivetrain produced in limited numbers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. A heavier, more rugged development of the earlier Lanchester 4x2 armoured car, it remained in ...

, post World War I * Lanchester submachine gun, used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War

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