* HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1679, rebuilt in 1700, and captured by the French in 1707.

* HMS Grafton, a fire ship purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696

In 1778, Lieutenant James Cook named the island after the family name of the Duke of Grafton, who was the British Prime Minister when his ship, the HMB Endeavour, had set sail.

Madelene Ferguson Allen's narrative about her great-grandfather, Robert Holding, and the wreck of the Scottish sailing ship the Invercauld, wrecked in the Auckland Islands in 1864, counterpoints the Grafton story.

His hopes of obtaining a new posting and organising a missionary project appeared to be failing, and he was organising the charter of a ship at his own expense to return the Fuegians with Matthews when his friend Francis Beaufort, Hydrographer to the British Admiralty, and his " kind uncle ", the Duke of Grafton, interceded on his behalf at the Admiralty.

* HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1679, rebuilt in 1700, and captured by the French in 1707.

* HMS Grafton was a fire ship purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696.

# Henry Fitzroy ( 1663 – 1690 ), created Earl of Euston ( 1672 ), Duke of Grafton ( 1675 ), also 7-greats-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales

* Grafton ( town ), Wisconsin, adjacent to the village

* Grafton ( publisher ), a British paperback book imprint, active 1981-1993

* USS Grafton ( APA-109 ), a Bayfield-class attack transport launched in 1944 and scrapped in 1974

* USS Grafton ( PCS-1431 ), a United States Navy patrol craft sweeper

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

Progressive Farmer rated Grafton County fourth in its list of the " Best Places to Live in Rural America " in 2006, citing low unemployment ( despite slow economic growth ), a favorable cost of living, and the presence of White Mountain National Forest, the state's only national forest.

Folklore has it that the city sits atop seven hills: Airport Hill, Bancroft Hill, Belmont Hill ( Bell Hill ), Grafton Hill, Green Hill, Pakachoag Hill and Vernon Hill.

Grafton is located at ( 39. 341757 ,-80. 019817 ), along the Tygart Valley River.

By late 1920, British Intelligence in Dublin, including what was known as the ' Cairo Gang ' ( the nickname came from their patronage of the Cairo Cafe on Grafton Street and from their service in British military intelligence in Egypt and Palestine during the First World War ), eighteen high-ranking British Intelligence officers, had established an extensive network of spies and informers around the city.

The false miracle for example ( dramatised in 2. 1 ) is found only in Grafton, not in Hall or Holinshed ( although a similar scene is also outlined in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ), with which Shakespeare may have been familiar ).

He moved with his family to Ulao, Wisconsin ( now Grafton, Wisconsin ), in 1850 and lived there until 1855, when his mother died.

The most upmarket chain is undoubtedly Brown Thomas ( known colloquially as BT ), founded as a haberdasher's in 1849 on Dublin's Grafton Street.

# REDIRECT Grafton ( town ), Wisconsin

Location of Grafton ( town ), WisconsinAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 21. 4 square miles ( 55. 5 km² ), of which, 19. 8 square miles ( 51. 3 km² ) of it is land and 1. 6 square miles ( 4. 1 km² ) of it ( 7. 47 %) is water.

The daily newspaper of Grafton is The Daily Examiner, owned by media conglomerate Australian Provincial Newspapers ( APN ), part of the media empire controlled by Irish magnate Tony O ' Reilly.

* Sir Grafton Elliot Smith ( 15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937 ), anatomist and palaeoanthropologist.

Since then Widden Stud has been home to some of the finest stallions and broodmares including the following who were all at various times Australia's champion sire ; Lochiel ( four times leading sire ), Grafton ( four times ), Maltster ( five times ), Bletchingly ( three times ), Vain ( once ) and Marscay ( twice ).

The Grafton, captained by Thomas Musgrave, was wrecked in Carnley Harbour in 1864.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

The expedition, consisting of the Grafton, 70 guns, Elizabeth, 74 guns, Europe, 64 guns, and the Iphigenia frigate, sailed on 16 January 1783, under the command of Commodore Robert Kingsmill.

St Stephen's Green is adjacent to one of Dublin's main shopping streets, Grafton Street, and to a shopping centre named for it, while on its surrounding streets are the offices of a number of public bodies and the city terminus of one of Dublin's Luas tram lines.

George Cavendish, Wolsey's chamberlain, records that the servants who waited on the king and Anne at dinner in 1529 in Grafton heard her say that the dishonour that Wolsey had brought upon the realm would have cost any other Englishman his head.

The name's earliest known appearance in print is in Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large ( 1569 ): Grafton uses it on three occasions, saying that " some writers name him the black prince ", and ( elsewhere ) that he was " commonly called the black Prince ".

At daylight on June 3, two columns of Union forces under the command of Col. Benjamin Franklin Kelley and Col. Ebenezer Dumont, with perhaps 3, 000 men, arrived from Grafton and attacked about 800 poorly-armed Confederate recruits under the command of Col. George A. Porterfield.

The Island has also been home to lighthouses warning ships in the Grafton Passage of the reefs around the island, and a small automatic light on Little Fitzroy Island, just off the north-east point, still serves this purpose.

There is a walking track that takes in the northern end of the island, the lighthouse on the north-west point which overlooks Little Fitzroy Island, and the island's peak, which offers stunning 360 degree views over the surrounding reefs and Cape Grafton.

The Court House, still in use, was designed by Dixon, Balbirnie and Dixon and completed within a year, constructed of limestone and marble donated by the Ridgely family, on land donated by Towson merchant Grafton Bosley.

* Grafton on the north

* Grafton on the west

This anomaly is heightened on maps that show county lines: Coos County lies immediately to the east and Grafton County to the west, but Hart's Location is part of Carroll County, though barely connected to it.

It is bordered on the west by the city of Troy ; on the north by Schaghticoke and Pittstown ; on the east by Grafton ; and on the south by Poestenkill and North Greenbush.

On the west, both originate in Troy, then pass through the town, and continue into neighboring towns on the east: Hoosick Road enters Pittstown and continues into Vermont and Brunswick Road enters Grafton and continues into Massachusetts.

Grafton was formed from the towns of Troy and Petersburgh on March 20, 1807, and even at this comparatively late day it had few inhabitants.

The ponds of Grafton are noted for the purity and high quality of their water, and some of them on this account were once considered as available sources of supply for Troy's drinking water.

* East Grafton – A hamlet east of Grafton village on NY-2.

* Grafton ( formerly " Grafton Center " and " Patroons Mill ") – The hamlet of Grafton on NY-2 in the central part of the town.