Clifton was founded in the winter of 1852-53, when the families of Samuel Locker, Monroe Locker, Frank Kell, and T. A. McSpadden settled in the vicinity.

Some notable musicians who were members of the orchestra include violinists Samuel Antek, Henry Clifton, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet ( concertmaster 1952-54 ), Harry Lookofsky, Mischa Mischakoff ( concertmaster 1937-1952 ), Albert Pratz, David Sarser, Oscar Shumsky, Herman Spielberg and Andor Toth ; violists Carlton Cooley, Milton Katims, William Primrose, and Tibor Serly ; cellists Frank Miller, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro and Alan Shulman ; double bassists Homer Mensch and Oscar G. Zimmerman ; flutists Carmine Coppola, Arthur Lora and Paul Renzi ; clarinetists Augustin Duques, Al Gallodoro, David Weber and Alexander Williams ; saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer ; oboists Robert Bloom and Paolo Renzi ; bassoonists Elias Carmen, Benjamin Kohon, William Polisi, Leonard Sharrow and Arthur Weisberg ; French horn players Arthur Berv, Harry Berv, Jack Berv and Albert Stagliano ; and tuba player William Bell, among others.

* Mark Clifton & Frank Riley-They'd Rather Be Right

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.

More recent notable performers include Billy Carrion, Ken Ponticelli, Hamiet Bluiett ( who has also led a group of baritone players ), John Surman, Scott Robinson, James Carter, Stephen " Doc " Kupka of the band Tower of Power, Nick Brignola, Clifton Hyde, Gary Smulyan, Ronnie Cuber, Roger Rosenberg, Chad Makela, Frank Vacin, Claire Daly and Lauren Sevian.

In the game, Maylay starred alongside celebrities such as actors Samuel L. Jackson, James Woods, Peter Fonda, Clifton Powell, Faizon Love, Big Boy, David Cross, Andy Dick, Chris Penn, Danny Dyer, Frank Vincent, Sara Tanaka, Charlie Murphy and William Fichtner, rappers Ice-T, MC Eiht, Chuck D, The Game, Frost and Yo-Yo and musicians George Clinton, Axl Rose and Shaun Ryder.

In December 2003, Welling played Charlie Baker, the oldest son and second oldest in the Baker family which had 12 children in the film Cheaper by the Dozen, which is a remake of the 1950 movie starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, based on the 1948 book by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.

In 1975 he established his Maison de Soulrecord label, devoted to Creole and Zydeco music, including such artists as Clifton Chenier, Rockin ' Dopsie, Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin, Zydeco Force, Jeffery Brousard, and others.

* Cadet Frank Clifton Carper ( Class of 1899 ), 1897 – 1898, 1898 – 1899

* Sherman P. Lloyd, Utah State Senator and United States * Clifton and Norma Parker, high school principal and secretary for many years Representative from Utah

* Montclair State University, founded in 1908, is a public university located in Montclair, Little Falls and Clifton.

* Ira Clifton Copley, 19th Century American statesman who founded the Copley Press

The York Diocesan Church Building Society, founded in 1861, contributed to the building of the church in Clifton between 1867 and 1869.

Alfred Hudd was an aristocrat who belonged to the Clifton Antiquarian Club of Bristol, founded in 1884 to arrange meetings and excursions for the study of objects of archaeological interest in the West of England and South Wales.

Lytham Green Drive Golf Club was founded in 1913 and registered as " Lytham Golf Club Ltd .", opened with a match on Saturday 3 May, between the Captain, Mr. James Wallace and the President and Landlord, Mr. J. T. Clifton, which was played over 9 holes.

* Fairhaven Methodist Church, Clifton Drive ; founded 1909.

* Clifton S. Robbins left KKR to join competitor General Atlantic Partners in 2000 and later founded Blue Harbour Group, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, CT.

Clifton College is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England, founded in 1862.

The Lone Star Iconoclast was founded in December 2000 in Clifton, Texas to cover the area of Crawford, Texas, reportedly as a community newspaper.

The gallery was founded in 1961 by Jeremy Rees, and was originally located in Clifton.

The Clifton Club in Bristol was founded in 1818 and occupies an imposing building.

IFES was founded by F. Clifton White on September 19, 1987 as a direct response to Ronald Reagan ’ s 1982 Westminster speech in which he stressed the importance of promoting democracy.

Clifton Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club founded in Clifton, Bristol, England.

Clifton is a council estate and village in the city of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England founded by Sir Robert Clifton.

WAVL was founded by Reverend Cecil F. Clifton, a deeply patriotic minister who started the station on the principle of " serving God and Country by guarding America's spiritual heritage ".

The Clifton Brothers founded the band after deciding to give up their jobs as well diggers.

A new high school on the property now occupied by Clifton Middle School was erected in 1905, and in 1912 was greatly expanded by the addition of new buildings.

Clifton was home to Clifton High School from 1912 to 1944, when the school was torn down after the construction of Fairfax High School.

* Fairhaven United Reformed Church, Clifton Drive South ; opened 17 October 1912 ; built by Briggs, Wolstenholme & Thornley ; known locally as the " White Church ".

* Rawdon George Grey Clifton, 23rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn ( 1858 – 1912 )

Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. ( September 19, 1912 – February 21, 2000 ) was managing editor of the New York Times from 1964 to 1969.

The line to Whittlesea was opened in 1891, creating a direct line to Northcote, although the line initially journeyed via Royal Park, Carlton North, and Fitzroy North, before a line was built from Clifton Hill to Melbourne through the suburb of Richmond in 1901 to 1903.

The area was named by Benjamin Ware, a locally disliked hotelier who developed Clifton with the intention of creating a resort area.

Mr. Clifton would have preferred death and bankruptcy to having his son stay with his wife's people without contributing to his and his family's upkeep, and besides that there were the things that had to be bought for the baby, milk and orange juice and vitamins and soap, just plain soap.

The earliest academic studies of contemporary Paganism were published in the late 1970s and 1980s by scholars like Margot Adler, Marcello Truzzi and Tanya Luhrmann, although it would not be until the 1990s that the actual multidisciplinary academic field of Pagan studies properly developed, pioneered by academics such as Graham Harvey and Chas S. Clifton.

Clifton would often attempt to improvise comical lyrics that were intentionally unfunny before giving up entirely without seeming to care.

News programs interviewed Clifton as Kaufman's opening act, but the interviews invariably would turn ugly whenever Kaufman's name came up.

Promoters who thought they had caught on to the joke would hire Clifton because he was cheaper than booking Kaufman.

It was announced on May 16, 2008 that Comic Relief, in recognition of the 24th anniversary of Andy Kaufman's departure, would present " The Return of Tony Clifton ", with his Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra.

Clifton decided to bring Bow with him and offered her $ 50 a week, but added he couldn't say whether or not she would " fit the part ".

Clifton Springs, Australia, was also named for its local mineral springs, which would be found around Fairy Dell, if it were not closed due to possible landslips.

On reaching Penrith, the advanced portion of his army was repulsed on Clifton Moor in December 1745, and Cumberland became aware that an attempt to overtake the retreating Highlanders would be hopeless.

Actor Robert Wagner, who co-starred with Webb in the movies Stars and Stripes Forever and Titanic and considered the actor one of his mentors, stated in his memoirs, Pieces of My Heart: A Life, that " Clifton Webb was gay, of course, but he never made a pass at me, not that he would have.

" Clifton Chenier, Rockin ' Sidney and Queen Ida all garnered Grammy awards during this pivotal period, opening the door to emerging artists who would continue the traditions.

Wagons would in future be exchanged at Yeovil Town, but the GWR had to build a road for Mr Paul, the owner of a private siding which had connected with their line, so that he could bring his goods to the Clifton Maybank platform instead which was still served by the SR.

The comic book hero Colonel Clifton, who is retired from the RAF, is an example of this — his proper rank would be that of Group Captain.

In 1928, Lawrence returned to Broadway opposite Clifton Webb in Treasure Girl, a Gershwin work she was confident would be a huge hit.

In the 1850s, the land that would become Clifton Hill was crown land, but unincorporated, serviced by unsurveyed tracks leading to Northcote and bounded by the surveyed roads of Heidelberg Road and Hoddle Street, which provided access to private quarries in the area, which is between Ramsden and Roseneath Streets, Clifton Hill now days, as well as the City of Melbourne quarry, located between Yambla Street and the Merri Creek.

Henry Groom, a City of Melbourne Councillor, declared, not surprisingly, " The freeholders of Clifton Hill have no desire to depreciate the value of their property by suffering it to be annexed to a swamp which to drain itself would drain our resources.

In some passages characters debate whether Clifton could ever become viable and whether investment in real estate there would not be too risky-questions which were evidently quite relevant at the time though to the modern reader the answers are obvious.

The assistant charity commissioner proposed a scheme that would reorganise the objectives of the endowed schools and secure funding for the Grammar School and the new Clifton High School for Girls.

The locomotive would then have to change ends and the train return to Clifton Hill station, where it diverged east on the line to Heidelberg.

She was a contestant on the Dick Clark-hosted $ 25, 000 Pyramid and would later appear as a panelist on Super Password, including Nathan Cook, Richard Kline, Jamie Farr, Tom Villard, Dick Gautier, Edwin Newman, Nichelle Nichols, Clifton Davis, Stephen Furst and Bert Convy.

" Clifton told the national press that while he and the reporters involved in the story were willing to be jailed for not revealing sources, the legal department of the Plain Dealer Publishing Company was worried that the newspaper itself would be sued and strongly opposed the printing of the stories.

After much speculation it was announced in December 2011 that the Titans would remain at Clifton Lane for the foreseeable future due to the deal falling through.

Prior to the construction of the Eden Valley Railway, in the 1840s, several schemes had been proposed which would have run to the Eden Valley ; one was the York & Carlisle Junction Railway, backed by the Great North of England Railway, which would have run from Northallerton to Barnard Castle then across the Pennines to Kirkby Stephen, after which two branches would have been formed to connect with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway ; one to Tebay and the other to Clifton.