Although it appears clear that Badminton House, Gloucestershire, owned by the Duke of Beaufort, has given its name to the sports, it is unclear when and why the name was adopted.

As well as Jahangir's white cheetah at Agra, a report of " incipient albinism " has come from Beaufort West according to Guggisberg.

The breakup of the Ellesmere Ice Shelves has continued in the 21st century: the Ward Ice Shelf experienced a major breakup during summer 2002 ; the Ayles Ice Shelf calved entirely on August 13, 2005 ; the largest breakoff of the ice shelf in 25 years, it may pose a threat to the oil industry in the Beaufort Sea.

The project involved over-wintering the Amundsen in the Banks Island flaw lead in the Southern Beaufort Sea, the first time this has ever been done.

The city has also annexed lands across the Beaufort River on Lady's Island.

Beyond shopping and dining, Ribaut Road has numerous medical offices clustered near Beaufort Memorial Hospital.

The Beaufort area has several printed publications.

Beaufort has one local television station, WJWJ-TV ( PBS ).

Beaufort has been the setting or the inspirational setting for several novels by native son Pat Conroy and a popular filming location for major motion pictures, including The Big Chill, The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, Forrest Gump, Something To Talk About and G. I.

The University of South Carolina – Beaufort has a performing arts center which attracts regional and national acts to the community.

Beaufort has several geographic areas of economic activity.

The remains of Civil War field fortifications can be observed along U. S. 21 and 17A between Yemassee and Pocotaligo ( that section of highway is now a part of Yemassee, as the town has now greatly expanded into Beaufort County of 2006 ).

The Festival has hosted over 1800 artists from across Canada's north, and from as far away as Japan and Australia over 22 years and is the largest annual tourism event in the Beaufort Delta.

Having signed away his rights old Philpot offers to marry her, but the lawyer reveals himself as Beaufort, and explains that he has swapped the deeds, so that Philpot has unwittingly signed his agreement for Maria to marry Beaufort.

Due to Tudor propaganda efforts, it was long believed that they were both murdered not long afterward on Richard III's orders ; however, the lack of any conclusive proof of their fate has led to alternative scenarios being proposed, for instance that that both boys were murdered on the orders of one of Margaret Beaufort, Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, John Morton or Henry VII, or that Richard survived.

Beaufort, like other patrons of exploration, has had his name applied to many geographical places.

The new Beaufort Bar has an Art Deco interior of jet-black and gold, serves champagne and cocktails and offers nightly cabaret.

The University of South Carolina Beaufort has numerous student organizations.

USC Beaufort has a branch in Bluffton, USC Union has a branch in Laurens and USC Salkehatchie has its main campus in Allendale with a branch in Walterboro.

With the deaths of Somerset and his younger brother, the House of Beaufort, who were distant cousins of Henry VI and had a remote claim to succeed him, had been almost exterminated.

Her surname probably reflects her father's lordship of Beaufort in Champagne, France, where she might also have been born.

She had a dispute over land with Henry VIII in 1518 ; he awarded the contested lands to the Duchy of Somerset, which had been held by his Beaufort grandfather — and were now in the possession of the Crown.

This may have been the start of the hatred that York felt for the Beaufort family, that would later turn into civil war.

Portions of Lady's Island have been annexed by Beaufort, though the city does not have complete jurisdiction of the entire island.

Jews have been residents of Beaufort and Charleston since the 18th century.

For three years consecutively, Israeli films have been nominated for Academy Awards, namely, " Beaufort " ( 2008 ), " Waltz with Bashir " ( 2009 ) and " Ajami " ( 2010 ).

However, he found the city had been occupied by Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, and the men of the Gloucester Militia.

Margaret Beaufort had previously been married to Edmund Tudor, the eldest half-brother of Henry VI, and had given birth to the future Henry VII two months after Edmund's death.

* Raglan Lodge-a Regency building in the town centre, Beaufort Square, built above a vaulted stone cellar which may have been a town hall or administrative centre for the mediaeval lordship

Francis Beaufort had a lifelong keen awareness of the value of accurate charts for those risking the seas, having been shipwrecked himself at age fifteen due to a faulty chart, and his life's biggest accomplishments were in nautical charting.

Beaufort converted what had been a minor chart repository into the finest surveying and charting institution in the world.

Along its northern coast the seagoing commerce of the state has, in consequence, been restricted ; Beaufort Harbor and the Cape Fear River, however, furnish excellent ports.

It had been used as a supporter for the arms of John, Duke of Bedford, and by England's House of Beaufort.

The original Duke of Montmorency title was transferred to the duchy of Beaufort, which had been conferred on Charles François Frederic of Montmorency-Luxembourg, Prince de Tingry, in 1688.

The Beaufort Road ran through the center of this line, and here General Foster placed the howitzers that had been dragged along.

Beaufort, are situated on the sea-shore, a little to the eastward of the river Xanthus, and consist of a theatre excavated in the northern side of a small hill, a ruined temple on the side of the same hill, and a deep circular pit, of singular appearance, which may have been the seat of the oracle.

Badminton House is a large country house in Gloucestershire, England, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century, when the family moved from Raglan Castle, which had been ruined in the English Civil War.

Successive Dukes of Beaufort have been masters of the Beaufort Hunt, which is probably one of the two most famous hunts in the United Kingdom alongside the Quorn Hunt.

Recent gouging activity has been documented at much shallower depth, for instance in the Beaufort Sea, where they occur at water depths ranging from ( Weeks 2010, p. 395 ).

William Jones was born in London at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster ; his father ( also named William Jones ) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for devising the use of the symbol pi.

The Beaufort Club, a fine dining society of Christ's College Cambridge, was named after her.

She was named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, her grandmother.

* Land-based maritime patrol aircraft were named for naval explorers-Avro Anson ( George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ), Lockheed Hudson ( Henry Hudson ), Avro Shackleton ( Ernest Shackleton ), Bristol Beaufort ( Francis Beaufort ).

Margaret's first cousin, also named Margaret Beaufort ( 1443 – 1509 ) was the mother of Henry VII, the latter Margaret being the daughter of 1st Duke of Somerset.

Lady Margaret Road is named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, foundress of St John's College.

His eldest brother John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln ( c. 1464-1487 ), was named heir to the throne by his maternal uncle, Richard III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort.

It is named for nearby Lake Ruth, Lake George, and Beaufort Lake.

The college was named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, renowned patron of scholarship and learning.

Beaufort was also named as a " Top 50 Adventure Town " and the No. 7 Waterfront Adventure Town by National Geographic Adventure.

* Beaufort, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Bellerophon before 1895

The Michael J. Smith Field airfield in his home town of Beaufort, North Carolina is named after Smith.

At least eight municipalities in South Carolina have a street named " Wade Hampton " ( Beaufort, Charleston, Duncan, Greenville, Greer, Hampton, Taylors, and Walterboro ) and approximately 47 towns in the state have streets named " Hampton ".

The four apartment buildings are named after the surrounding counties: Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper.

* Alexander Mackenzie journeys to the Beaufort Sea, following what would later be named the Mackenzie River.

The sea is named after hydrographer Sir Francis Beaufort.

Four houses are named after families who fought in the Wars of the Roses, Beaufort ( red ), Howard ( blue ), Seymour ( yellow ), and Tudor ( green ).

It is named after the Burnt Bridge Hotel, which was operated by Elizabeth Moore and Lucy Dawson as early as the 1840s and was located along the Lilydale Trail, near the present day junction of Maroondah Highway, Old Lilydale Road and Beaufort Roads.

The club is named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, foundress of the College.

Also in 1912, Warren was named county attorney for Beaufort County, North Carolina, and elected the chairman of the executive committee for the county Democratic Party ; he would hold both posts until 1925.

Joan was named after her aunt, Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland.

It was named for Beaufort, South Carolina, where it was signed in 1787.