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  Arthur Conan Doyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859, in Edinburgh, to Irish parents Charles Altamont Doyle and Mary Doyle.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died of a heart attack in 1930, aged 71, and is buried in the Church Yard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire, England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle   (1754 words)

  
 Siege of Drogheda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drogheda was by this time garrisoned by an English Royalist regiment under Arthur Aston and Irish Confederate troops -a total strength of about 3100 (roughly half of them English the other half Irish).
Aston refused to surrender so Cromwell opened the bombardment, his cannon battered two large breaches in the town's medieval walls from long range and on the September 11th 1649, Cromwell ordered the assault.
Arthur Aston, the Royalist commander, was, reportedly, beaten to death with his own wooden leg, which the New Model Army soldiers thought had gold hidden in it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Drogheda   (1434 words)

  
 Biography - A - British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Aston was appointed governor of Oxford at the request of Queen Henrietta Maria, who preferred a Catholic to be in command.
Aston was appointed governor of Drogheda, which occupied an important strategic position at the mouth of the River Boyne between Dublin and Ulster.
Aston refused the summons to surrender and was killed during the storming of the town — bludgeoned to death with his own wooden leg, which the Parliamentarian soldiers believed to be filled with gold coins.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/index_a.htm   (2108 words)

  
 Arthur Mallock's Trials
By 1939 Arthur was in the army and constructing his first "trials special" Arthur was always a chassis and in particular a suspension man. He eschewed the fashion for brute power, in the form of the dominant Ford V8’s.
Arthur developed and raced WJ 1515 for several more years until the winter of 1957, when he designed and built the U2 Mk 1 from scratch, cannibalising WJ 1515 for many parts in the process and the famous old car was no more.
Arthur and his family went on to design and build a whole series of Mallock U2 racing cars, Arthur remaining true to his creed by believing the secret was in the suspension.
www.classictrials.co.uk /Gas00091.htm   (1664 words)

  
 woodgate - pafg11 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Valentine Aston was born on 18 Mar 1843 in Islington.
Sylvia Aston was born on 13 Jul 1849 in Cheltenham.
Elizabeth Aston was born in 1851 in Cheltenham.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~woodgate/pafg11.htm   (677 words)

  
 Aston
Aston is a district of Birmingham in England, though when both were towns it was for some time the larger of the two.
Aston is a small suburbanized community direcly to the outskirts of the Philadelphia region, located in the Pennsylvanian Delaware County.
Aston crater on the Moon, a formation with an eponym of Francis William Aston.
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 Profiles of Governors: Arthur Aston, c. 1625-1627
Around 1625, Sir Arthur Aston was named to the post of governor of the Province of Avalon by George Calvert.
One researcher, who says that Aston was a devout Catholic and had been recommended by a Catholic priest, puts the year of his arrival at 1625.
It is possible that Aston returned to England in the spring of 1627 and joined the Duke of Buckingham's company in France, only to die there the same year.
www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/governors/p07.html   (141 words)

  
 Never say never to an Aston Martin - Drive.com.au
As Jonathan Hoare tells it, an Aston Martin was his life's ambition after he saw James Bond and his DB5 in Goldfinger in his youth.
It appears that Arthur's car swept in and out of Hoare's life like some elusive wild stallion, tantalisingly beautiful, seemingly unattainable, yet it was to keep the dream alive.
As she tells it, Arthur indicated his car had been "nothing but trouble", it was in a shed somewhere waiting for parts and, in any event, it wasn't really for sale.
www.drive.com.au /editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=30   (958 words)

  
 State: Florida inmate Web sites mostly a fantasy
Aston, a 63-year-old Civil Air Patrol volunteer masquerading as a 50-year-old prison employee, portrayed the inmates as sex-starved vixens who hand it out to Florida prison officials every chance they get.
Florida's Corrections Department said Aston is not an employee and that allegations of sex between inmates and prison employees appear unfounded.
Aston, a second lieutenant in the West Virginia Civil Air Patrol, said most of the information on the sites - names, ages, criminal offenses and disciplinary records - is freely available under Florida's public records law.
www.sptimes.com /2006/02/19/State/Florida_inmate_Web_si.shtml   (999 words)

  
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Aston replied that he would rather starve and die, so Essex set up his siege guns round the town.
Aston was wounded in the head by a brick splinter thrown up by a cannon-ball.
At 10am a long dignified procession moved along the Oxford road led by the wounded Sir Arthur Aston, followed by wagons of the sick and wounded, four cannon and the main body of soldiers with raised colours and trumpets sounding.
www.thevickerage.worldonline.co.uk /ecivil/reading1.htm   (635 words)

  
 Doyle Clan - Cromwell Devastates Ireland
The Duke of Ormonde left Sir Arthur Aston, an English Catholic, at Drogheda with 2,200 infantry and 20 cavalry to delay Cromwell from marauding farther north.
Flanking the church on the town side was a steep ravine called the Dale, then the heavily guarded Duleek Gate, the entrance to this southern outpost, and behind that an imposing artificial mound called the Mill Mount.
Arthur Wellesley (an Irisman), the famous Duke of Wellington, later said in Cromwell's defense: "The practice of refusing quarter to a garrison which stands an assault is not a useless effusion of blood."
www.doyle.com.au /cromwell.htm   (4474 words)

  
 Aston - Family History, Genealogy, Surnames and Local History.
Elizabeth was born in Stourton and Charles in Frankton Warks.
Eliza married her second husband in 1879 in Edgbastion, Warwick, Frederick Richard COOPER the victullar of the Albion Pub in Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1881.
Arthur was living at home with his widowed mother at 4 Carlton Road, Aston.
www.curiousfox.com /history/warwickshire.lasso   (2615 words)

  
 Misc Profiles 1
Arthur Aston was the fourth child of William Baynham Aston and his wife Emma Harris.
Edwin was the sixth child of Charlotte Amelia Aston and her husband Joseph Albert Ault.
Nothing is known of her early life until, at the age of 20, (1886) she chose to emigrate to Victoria, Australia on the "Palm Tree" with Harriett Bosley and her younger brother George.
home.iprimus.com.au /raccos/Private_Howell/misc_profiles.htm   (3542 words)

  
 Berkshire History: The Siege of Reading
Aston twice demanded a loan of £2,000, besides a heavy contribution every week.
Aston retorted that either he would hold the town for the King or he would starve and die in it.
On the same day, Sir Arthur Aston was wounded in the head by a splinter of brick thrown up by a cannon-ball.
www.berkshirehistory.com /articles/reading_siege.html   (1681 words)

  
 War- Siege of Reading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The second part of the army went through Wokingham and surprised Arthur Aston as they circled around Reading coming in from the Newbury side of town.
The governor, Arthur Aston was asked to surrender.
Aston had been hit on the head by a piece of tile dislodged by a cannon ball, and his second in command, Richard Fielding had taken over.
atschool.eduweb.co.uk /radstock/rht/themes/war/siege.html   (232 words)

  
 Rare Astons for sale
This is a 1977 Aston Martin V8 Vantage (number 12 of the first 16 series 1 phase 1 built).
It has visited France 3 times in recent years, once to Le Mans for the fortieth anniversary of Astons famous victory, where it is seen in the photograph outside the famous garage belonging to the Hotel Du France at Les Chatres.
It is also one of the subjects of a book being written called Britain's First Supercar by Kean Rogers.
www.classiccarshop.co.uk /notfor.htm   (133 words)

  
 1643: The Siege of Reading and Chalgrove Field
The garrison of 2,000 soldiers was commanded by Sir Arthur Aston.
When he demanded Reading's surrender, Aston defiantly declared that he would die or starve rather than lay down his arms.
On 19 April, Sir Arthur Aston was struck on the head by a falling brick.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /military/1643-reading.htm   (866 words)

  
 Celtic journey through the sacred landscape of Cornwall by Cornish composer sue aston
Cornwall and King Arthur are two names that are intrinsically linked with each other.
At the one end is the magnificent St Nectan's Kieve with it's legends of ghostly monks and Arthur's knights.
It is still fondly believed to be the home of King Arthur's magical sword Excalibur, and the lady of the lake.
www.geniusloci.co.uk /sacred.htm   (2469 words)

  
 St. Catherine's Index: Births
Oundle '' Isabella Ann Prentis Bath '' James Prentice, Bermondsey (of Charles & Elizabeth) 1853 Sept Allen Cosford '' Arthur Kensington '' Frederick Thomas Stepney '' Henry Edward Bermondsey '' Julia Henrietta W. Derby '' Mary Prentice, Ann Newington '' Robert Bosmere '' William Stratford '' William Banbury '' m.
Aston '' Agnes Ethel Prentis Pontefract '' Henry George Buckingham '' Lizzie Orsett '' Sarah Harriet Prentice, St. Saviour 1884 Mar Alfred Prentice, Thomas Camberwell 1d 568 marriage?
Milton 1887 Sept Arthur Augustus Birkenhead '' Arthur John Prentice, Hackney '' George Leighton Buzzard '' George Victor Warwick '' Harry Victor Downham 4b 351 '' Henry Camberwell '' Herbert Ipswich '' John Prentice, Prestwich '' John James Prentice, Hackney '' John Thomas Barnet '' Laura Elizabeth Stratford '' Lily Florence St. Geo.
www.prenticenet.com /news/ukrecords/stcatherinesindex_births.htm   (897 words)

  
 Arthur Martin Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Parents of the couple are Daryl and Susan Bessler, Lake George, and Arthur and Jayne Martin, Grand Rapids.
One of the big advantages from selling Arthur fox watercolor online rather than using a shop front Arthur fox watercolor stores is that the capital costs are significantly less.
The Office's long-suffering Martin Freeman plays pyjama-wearing Earthman Arthur Dent, whose resentment at having his house bulldozed by the local counsel pales in comparison to the imminent demolition of Earth by the Vogons, a slobbering race of alien bureaucrats.
www.mutiarthur.info /arthur-martin   (4597 words)

  
 EDKINS Database of individuals
Anthony Gibbs, 1864, Aston Cantlow, WAR,ENG = Jayne WAYTE
Josiah, 1828, Aston Cantlow, WAR,ENG = Mary Ann NEALE
Josiah, 1866, Aston Cantlow, WAR,ENG = Gertrude DAVIES
www.gwydir.demon.co.uk /edkins/edkindex.htm   (1989 words)

  
 Carl's Cam: War Memorial, Aston by Sutton, Cheshire.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Carl's Cam: War Memorial, Aston by Sutton, Cheshire.
Near St Peter's Church, Aston by Sutton, Cheshire.
A stone obelisk engraved with the names of those of the area who fell in the two world wars.
www.carlscam.com /warmem/astons.htm   (35 words)

  
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That fateful morning of Monday 9th September 1649 dawned and Cromwell had risen in time to summon Sir Arthur Aston, the Governor of the town to surrender at 8.00 a.m.
He was well supplied with stores and equipment while Aston was virtually without cannon or gunners to fire them.
So the rejection of Cromwell's summons was merely a formality.
www.millmount.net /html/history/cromwell.htm   (240 words)

  
 Ancestors of
Arthur W.H. BRYANT Son Male 6 Steeple Aston, Oxford, England Scholar
Arthur William Hughes son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Bryant (gardner)
Arthur Bryant son S 26 gardener domestic worker Steeple Aston
homepage.ntlworld.com /sue.gebbels/gebbels/i44.htm   (1689 words)

  
 Aaron George Nelson, NZ 1970   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Arthur William James Nelson, NZ 1899 1978 1923 Melba Trewavas
Thomas Wheaton Aston 1712 ?1775 1749 Elizabeth Clarke
Wheaton Aston c1525 c1549 Thomas M [W] Eleanor.....
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 William Thomas KNIBBS\Emily Elizabeth UNKNOWN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Born: in December, 1892 Aston District, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Died: in March, 1894 Aston District, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Born: in March, 1898 Aston District, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
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