* Stafford Corners – A location at the west town line, north of West Parishville.

In August 1853, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway ( BBB & C ), began operating its first twenty miles ( 32 km ) of rail line that stretched from Harrisburg ( now Houston ) to Stafford's Point ( now Stafford ).

The route between Rugby and Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stafford was the original main line until the shorter line was built in 1847 via the Trent Valley.

The L & BR purchased the Trent Valley Railway in 1846 on behalf of the LNWR ; this fifty-mile line connected Rugby on the L & BR with Stafford on the Grand Junction Railway thus creating a more direct line from London to Liverpool and Manchester by avoiding the original route through Birmingham.

Atherstone has its railway station on this line, with an hourly service 7 days a week to both London and Crewe via Stafford and Stoke.

The line is in the top 36 ' Lines that should reopen ' listing published by the Campaign for Better Transport and with the Telford International Freight Park in Donnington, Telford needing better connections to the east coast and Scotland, this could mean a line going past the town and on towards Gnosall and Stafford.

* Stafford Corners – A location south of Potsdam village at the southeast town line.

Sir Stafford Northcote, the Conservative leader in the Lower House, was forced to take a strong line on this difficult question by the energy of the fourth party.

When the battle reopened the next day, the defenses were much stronger: the front line was held predominantly by British infantry with exceptionally strong backing by U. S. and British artillery which had been organised into a single fire unit under the US artillery's commander Brigadier General Stafford LeRoy Irwin.

The line passed through Stafford, also opened on 4 July 1837.

There were plans to reopen Willenhall Bilston Street railway station, which was one of two old railway stations in the town ( the other being Willenhall Stafford Street railway station ), however recently funding for the line which the station would have served has been axed and the service was then withdrawn in December 2008.

Both of the towns two railway stations ( Willenhall Bilston Street railway station and Willenhall Stafford Street railway station ) have been closed for over 40 years, and although plans were bought to reopen Bilston Street, this never materialised due to the withdrawal of funding for the rail line it would serve.

The railway line which passed through Mickleover ( the station was about from the centre of the village, entitled Mickleover for Radbourne ) originally formed part of the Great Northern Railway's cross country route from Grantham to Stafford and was opened in April 1878.

it joined the Derby to Crewe line of the North Staffordshire Railway which it left at Uttoxeter to journey on to Stafford.

* Roger Stafford, 6th Baron Stafford ( c. 1573 – 1640 ) Title surrendered due to poverty in 1637 ; line extinct in 1640

The present company is part of a line of bellfounders dating back to Johannes de Stafford in the 14th century.

A goods only link to a rail head at Donnington, on part of the former Wellington to Stafford line, has been re-opened.

The concept of re-establishing the railway line through Newport and on to Stafford has been raised.

The Wellington to Stafford Railway line once ran through the village, but is now closed and dismantled and its route is a footpath.

The Route 15 designation was created as part of the 1932 state highway renumbering and originally ran from New Haven through Middletown, East Hartford and Stafford Springs to the Massachusetts state line in Union.

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

* 1965 – Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

The HeroQuest game system, written by Robin Laws in collaboration with Greg Stafford, is radically different from RuneQuest in that it emphasises narrativist aspects of role-playing ; in contrast, RuneQuest emphasised simulationist aspects.

William Withering – like Small a physician – was already an acquaintance of Darwin, Boulton and Wedgwood when he moved from Stafford to Birmingham and became a member of the Society in 1776.

Lord Stafford had told the King, " Sir, you have done your duty, and your subjects have failed in theirs ; and therefore you are absolved from the rules of government, and may supply yourself by extraordinary ways ; you have an army in Ireland, with which you may reduce the kingdom.

* 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.

Several major routes run through the town including the A456 which runs from Birmingham to Woofferton, Shropshire, a few miles south of Woofferton, the A451 which runs from Stourbridge to Abberley, the A442 which runs from Droitwich to Hodent, Shropshire, a few miles north of Telford, the A449 road which runs from Newport in south Wales to Stafford and crosses the A456 at the Land Oak, and the A448 road which starts in the town and goes to Bromsgrove.

Category: People from Stafford

The move to ABC caused a fair amount of cast turnover as Nancy Stafford left the series and Julie Sommars followed, although she would play a recurring role in several episodes, while Don Knotts ' character was cut from the series.

His agitations for a united socialist front of all parties of the left ( including the Communist Party of Great Britain ) led to his brief expulsion from the Labour Party in March to November 1939 ( along with Stafford Cripps and C. P.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and his second wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Stafford ( daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham ), so he was descended from kings on both sides of his family tree.

Stafford County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and just across the Rappahannock River from the City of Fredericksburg.

This occurred in the eastern part of Stafford County, from where they took her to a secondary English settlement, known as Henricus ( or Henrico Town ).

In 1664 it established Stafford County from territory previously part of Westmoreland County.

Prince William County was created by an act of the General Assembly of the colony of Virginia in 1731, largely from the western section of Stafford County as well as a section of King George County.

The Legislature of 1875, with the intention of obliterating the county from the map, gave the territory in Stafford County to other counties.

* Moses G. Leonard ( 1809 – 1899 ), a United States Representative from New York, grew up in Union but was born in nearby Stafford.

What is now Barnegat Township was incorporated as Union Township on March 10, 1846, from portions of both Dover Township ( now Toms River Township ) and Stafford Township, while the area was still part of Monmouth County.

These schools are part of the Southern Regional School District, which serves the five municipalities in the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District, along with students from Beach Haven, Stafford Township and Ocean Township who attend as part of sending / receiving relationships.

These schools are both located in Manahawkin and are part of the Southern Regional School District, which serves the five municipalities in the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District, along with students from Beach Haven and Stafford Township, as well as the sending district of Ocean Township.

Stafford is represented by William J. Howell in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Northcote was named for Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, an English Statesman and financier who had financial interests in James J. Hill's projects.

Ship Bottom is known as the " gateway to Long Beach Island ", as Route 72 provides the sole road access from Manahawkin in Stafford Township, ending in Ship Bottom as it crosses Manahawkin Bay via the Manahawkin Bay Bridge ( formally known as the Dorland J. Henderson Memorial Bridge ).

Stafford Township is the gateway to the resort communities on Long Beach Island, with Route 72 providing the sole road access, ending in Ship Bottom as it crosses Barnegat Bay via the Manahawkin Bay Bridge ( formally known as the Dorland J. Henderson Memorial Bridge ).

West of the campus and just east of the Charles Benbow House, around the intersection of Oak Ridge Road and Linville Road, is an important collection of architectural styles including the 1863 log I-house belonging originally to the Moore family, the 1898 Neoclassical Robert M. Stafford House with its large vernacular doric-style columns, the 1924 National Folk side gable J. F.

File: StaffordPoliceDepartment. JPG | Stafford Police Department, part of the J. C. " Buster " Public Safety Complex

He was twice married-to Lottie J. Stafford and also to Catherine Paulson and had five children.

* Granatstein, J. L., & Stafford, David, " Spy Wars ", Key Porter Books Ltd., 1990.

After the outbreak of the Civil War, she joined a field hospital at Fort Donelson, working alongside Mary J. Stafford.

Former UND students who have gone on to notable careers in athletics include former NBA player and current NBA coach Phil Jackson, ice hockey player who played in the 1980 Winter Olympics " Miracle on Ice " game Dave Christian, NHL professional ice hockey players Ed Belfour, Tony Hrkac, Jonathan Toews – captain of the Chicago Blackhawks, Zach Parise – New Jersey Devils, Travis Zajac – New Jersey Devils, T. J. Oshie – St. Louis Blues, Ryan Bayda – Pittsburgh Penguins, Drew Stafford – Buffalo Sabres, Brian Lee – Ottawa Senators, Matt Smaby – Tampa Bay Lightning, Matt Jones – Toronto Maple Leafs, Mike Commodore – Columbus Blue Jackets, Jason Blake – Anaheim Ducks, Ryan Johnson – Vancouver Canucks, NFL professional football players Jim Kleinsasser – and Dave Osborn, both of the Minnesota Vikings, CFL professional football players Weston Dressler, David Griswold – Saskatchewan Roughriders.

In all, the astronauts who trained at the planetarium were Buzz Aldrin, Joseph P. Allen, William A. Anders, Neil A. Armstrong, Charles A. Bassett II, Alan L. Bean, Frank Borman, Vance D. Brand, John S. Bull, M. Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr, Eugene A. Cernan, Roger B. Chaffee, Philip K. Chapman, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, R. Walter Cunningham, Charles M. Duke Jr., Donn F. Eisele, Anthony W. England, Joe H. Engle, Ronald E. Evans, Theodore C. Freeman, Edward G. Givens Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Fred W. Haise Jr., Karl G. Henize, James B. Irwin, Joseph P. Kerwin, William B. Lenoir, Don L. Lind, John A. Llewellyn, Jack R. Lousma, James A. Lovell Jr., Thomas K. Mattingly Jr., Bruce McCandless II, James A. McDivitt, F. Curtis Michel, Edgar D. Mitchell, Story Musgrave, Brian T. O ’ Leary, Robert A. Parker, William R. Pogue, Stuart A. Roosa, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Russell L. Schweickart, David R. Scott, Elliot See, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Donald K. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford, John L. Swigert Jr., William E. Thornton, Paul J. Weitz, Edward H. White, Clifton C. Williams Jr., Alfred M. Worden, and John W. Young.

J. Francis Stafford, D. D.

* J. L. Granatstein David Stafford.

Demand persisted for a similar school in Tonbridge ; in July 1888, William J. D. Bryant, previously an assistant master at Tonbridge School, was named headmaster of Sir Andrew Judd's Commercial School, which opened on 17 September at Stafford House on East Street, Tonbridge.

Writers included Al Aronowitz, George Barkin, Ann Louis Barsach, Chip Berlet, Steve Bloom, Michael Bloomfield, Victor Bockris, William S. Burroughs, Mark Christensen, Ed Dwyer, Bruce Eisner, David Enders, Thomas King Forcade, Andrew Kowl, Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Kinky Friedman, Steven Hager, Debbie “ Blondie ” Harry, J. Hoberman, Mark Jacobson, David Katz, Paul Krassner, Dean Latimer, Carlo McCormick, Barry Miles, Cookie Mueller, Glenn O ' Brien, Joey Ramone, Ron Rosenbaum, Jerry Rubin, Luc Sante, Larry “ Ratso ” Sloman, Terry Southern, Peter Stafford, Richard Stratton, Teun Voeten, Andy Warhol, Andrew Weil, Mike Wilmington, Robert Anton Wilson, and Frank Zappa.

Stafford enjoyed a brief period of domestic happiness with her third husband, A. J. Liebling, a prominent writer for The New Yorker.

John Crowe Ransom ( right ) with Robie Macauley as he prepares to become editor of The Kenyon Review in 1959. In 1959 Robie Macauley succeeded Ransom as editor of The Kenyon Review, where he published fiction and poetry by John Barth, T. S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Richmond Lattimore, Doris Lessing, Robert Lowell, V. S. Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O ' Connor, V. S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon, J. F. Powers, Karl Shapiro, Jean Stafford, Christina Stead, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren, as well as articles, essays and book reviews by Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Ellmann, Leslie Fiedler, Martin Green, and Raymond Williams.

: Death in Mexican Popular Culture by Harvey Stafford, edited by Adam Parfrey, illustrated by J. G. Posada, photographs by the ¡ Alarma!

Dismorr exhibited with Fergusson and S. J. Peploe in October 1912 at the Stafford Gallery, London, at the same time as Roger Fry's second Post-Impressionist show, in which they were not included.

Branch, T. A., Stafford, K. M., Palacios, D. M., Allison, C., Bannister, J. L., Burton, C. L. K., Cabrera, E., Carlson, C., Galletti Vernazzani, B., Gill, P. C., Hucke-Gaete, R., Jenner, K. C. S., Jenner, M-N. M., Matsuoka, K., Mikhalev, Y. A., Miyashita, T., Morrice, M. G., Nishiwaki, S., Sturrock, V. J., Tormosov, D., Anderson, R. C., Baker, A. N., Best, P. B., Borsa, P., Brownell Jr., R. L., Childerhouse, S., Findlay, K. P., Gerrodette, T., Ilangakoon, A. D., Joergensen, M., Kahn, B., Ljunglad, D. K., Maughn, B., McCauley, R. D., McKay, S., Norris, T. F., Oman Whale And Dolphin Research Group, Rankin, S., Samaran, F., Thiele, D., Van Waerebeek, K. and Warneke, R. M. 2007b.

Former recipients include Paul Ryan, John R. Bolton, Peggy Noonan, Thomas Patten Stafford, Larry Arnn, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan and son Michael Reagan, Tommy Franks, J. C. Watts, John T. Walton, William F. Buckley, Jr., Clarence Thomas, Cal Thomas, Steve Forbes, and Jeane Kirkpatrick.

The Jones Store Company was founded in 1887 as an store in Stafford, Kansas by J. Logan Jones.