Desborough Hundred is a hundred in Buckinghamshire, England.

Desborough hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, ( formerly medieval vills ):

In 1905, Grenfell was raised to the peerage as Baron Desborough, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham, a title he took from the old hundred of Desborough in Buckinghamshire.

Hazlemere used to be a small hamlet in the ancient Desborough Hundred and the name is recorded as long ago as the 13th century.

The office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham is a sinecure appointment which is used as a device allowing a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament ( MP ) to resign his or her seat.

Desborough is a town in Northamptonshire, England.

Modern Desborough is a residential centre, with new homes and industry being developed to the north of the old town centre.

The Desborough Mirror is an example of this.

Desborough is south-east of Market Harborough, north-west of Kettering and south-west of Corby.

The most important archeological find was the 1st Century Desborough Mirror which is now in the British Museum as is an Anglo-Saxon necklace found in the Paddock Lane area of the town which comprises gold beads, a gold cross and a red garnet.

Close by the church is the 18th century Church House the 19th century Desborough House with its stucco and Doric pillars, now the Services Club.

St Giles is part of the United Benefice of Desborough and Brampton Ash with Braybrooke and Dingley.

The Energos plant in Sarpsborg is of the type that is proposed for Desborough.

A group of local residents under the name of ' Fresh Air for Desborough ' is campaigning against this development.

It is located south of Desborough, southeast of Market Harborough, southwest of Corby and northwest of the larger town of Kettering.

Shepperton is an English town in the borough of Spelthorne, Surrey which was in the former historic county of Middlesex south west of CentralLondon, bounded by the Thames at Desborough Island to the south and in the north-west bisected by the M3 motorway.

Desborough Sailing Club is based here with its own dinghy basin, private inlet and secluded reach of the river Thames and international medal-winner training club Queen Mary Reservoir Sailing Club lies between Shepperton and Ashford.

Kettering constituency is a semi-rural constituency, predominantly based around the towns of Kettering, Desborough, Rothwell and Burton Latimer within the borough of Kettering ( all of which is in the constituency ) but, additionally, includes wide tracts of rural land.

The witchfinder, Matthew Hopkins, John Desborough, parliamentarian general, and William Prynne, lawyer, all make appearances, and the character of Sidrophel is variously seen as either William Lilly or Paul Neale.

Two " divisions " i. e. half-regiments of three troops each, one from each of Fairfax's and Whalley's regiments, under Major Christopher Bethel and Major John Desborough, mounted a remarkable charge at the Battle of Langport, where they galloped up a narrow lane and attacked the Royalist Army of Lord Goring in front, putting the entire army to flight.

Desborough Cut from one of the bridges

* Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham

Believing that after the panel's decision his position was " untenable ", he resigned as an MP ( by the traditional procedural device of becoming Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham ), thereby forcing a by-election.

The three hundreds of Stoke, Desborough, and Burnham, which are situated in the wooded Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, have been Crown property since at least the 13th century.

On 26 February 1931, Gage married Alexandra Imogen Clair Grenfell ( Lady Imogen ), daughter of William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough ; they had three children:

Lord Desborough married Ethel Fane, daughter of Julian Fane and granddaughter of John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, in 1887, They had three sons and two daughters.

In local government, Kettering falls within the areas of Northamptonshire County Council and Kettering Borough Council, which incorporates the small, satellite towns of Burton Latimer, Desborough and Rothwell.

The first meeting of the Hakluyt Society, under the chairmanship of the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, established an eight-man steering group which included the geographer and historian William Desborough Cooley, the Army medical officer Dr Andrew Smith, the naval officer and surveyor Sir Charles Malcolm, the antiquary Bolton Corney, the British Museum Principal Librarian Sir Henry Ellis, W. R. Hamilton, FRS, and John Edward Gray, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum.

Grenfell Park contains many unusual trees, the seeds of which were collected by Lord Desborough as he travelled the world.

He planned and oversaw the construction the Desborough Cut a channel in the Thames between Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge which was opened in 1935.

Desborough had the unfortunate distinction of having his obituary erroneously published on 2 December 1920 in The Times which had confused him with Lord Bessborough.

The dimensions of the Taplow Court built by Lord Desborough in 1892 became the standard.

Desborough himself became an object of ridicule, his regiment even revolted against him, and on the return of the Rump he was ordered to quit London.

Essayist and novelist Nick Hornby was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School ( now Desborough School ), as were children's television presenter and radio show host Toby Anstis, author and broadcaster John O ' Farrell, athlete Mark Richardson and well known " Dragon " Peter Jones.

Wright was educated at Desborough County Primary School, then Kettering Grammar School ( now known as the Tresham Institute although the old building has been recently knocked down ) on Windmill Avenue in Kettering.

That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant for the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present parliament for the Constituency of area in the room of the Honourable individual, who since election for the said County Constituency has accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty's Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in the County of Buckingham.

Desborough developed around the spinning and weaving industries, by the nineteenth century specialising in silk.

A pleasure boat service runs regularly on a stretch of the river that includes a loop around Desborough Island.

With the return of King Charles II in May 1660, Kelsey felt safer removing himself to the Netherlands, but with others including John Desborough was instructed to return to England in 1666.

** John Desborough, English soldier and politician ( d. 1680 )

Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane.

The new line ran from Wigston toward Market Harborough, through Desborough, Kettering, Wellingborough and Bedford, then on the Bedford to Hitchin Line joining the GNR at Hitchin to run into King's Cross.

The forest's original boundaries stretched from Market Harborough through to Stamford and swallowed up Corby, Kettering, Desborough, Rothwell, Thrapston and Oundle.

As vice-chancellor he acted with readiness and spirit when a Royalist rising in Wiltshire broke out in 1655 ; his adherence to Cromwell, however, was by no means slavish, for he drew up, at the request of Desborough and Pride, a petition against his receiving the kingship.

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough was an all round sportsman, politician and public servant who performed many good works for the town A number of notable figures can be counted amongst Maidenhead's current and former residents.

These were of the House, and to them were joined from without Major-General Lambert, Col. Desborough, and Col. Berry

Cromwell and four other officers – Lambert, John Desborough, Harrison and Matthew Tomlinson – were then co-opted as members.

Kettering's nearest towns are Desborough, Burton Latimer and Rothwell with the larger towns of Corby and Wellingborough a bit further away.

The historian William Desborough Cooley's The Negro Land of the Arabs Examined and Explained ( 1841 ) has excerpts of translations of Khaldun's work that were not affected by French colonial ideas.

He was first elected as a Desborough Town Councillor, then Kettering Borough Councillor, representing the Desborough Loatland Ward from 1977 to 1997.

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough lived at Taplow Court.

Monster Manual V was released in July 2007, with David Noonan as lead designer, and additional design by Creighton Broadhurst, Jason Bulmahn, David Chart, B. Matthew Conklin III, Jesse Decker, James " Grim " Desborough, Rob Heinsoo, Sterling Hershey, Tim Hitchcock, Luke Johnson, Nicholas Logue, Mike McArtor, Aaron Rosenberg, Robert J. Schwalb, Rodney Thompson, and Wil Upchurch.

John Desborough was quartermaster.