The right was under the command of Antony Bek, Bishop of Durham, while the King commanded the centre, still a little distance to the rear of the vanguard.

It was the third Henry Percy who purchased Alnwick Castle in 1309 from Antony Bec, Bishop of Durham and guardian of the last De Vesci, and from that time the fortunes of the Percys, though they still held their Yorkshire estates, were linked permanently with the little town on the Aln, and the fortress which commanded and defended it.

Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, commanded the right of the Scottish army in the Battle of Neville's Cross, near Durham.

At the Battle of Neville's Cross, outside Durham, on 17 October 1346 John, with Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale, commanded the right wing of the Scottish army He was killed during the first English attack.

On 5 November the Butte was attacked by the 1 / 9th Durham Light Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Boys Bradford who had just won the Victoria Cross at Eaucourt L ' Abbaye.

Following his recovery and receipt of the usual awards for a Trafalgar captain, Durham was transferred to HMS Renown which he commanded in the English Channel and the Mediterranean until 1810 when he was made a Rear-Admiral.

* Durham, Ontario, a small town in Grey County, Ontario

A small portion of the city of Raleigh is also in Durham County.

He was born at Sheffield and educated at the Sheffield Grammar School ( where his father Thomas Balguy was headmaster until his death in 1696 ) and at St John's College, Cambridge, graduated BA in 1706, was ordained in 1710, and in 1711 obtained the small living of Lamesley and Tanfield in Durham.

In 1083 he expelled the married clergy from the cathedral, and moved a small community of monks from Bede's old monastery at Jarrow to Durham, to form the new chapter.

At this time ( and up until 1836 ), the " Prince " Bishops of Durham still held vice-regal powers in the North of England, which included the maintenance of a small private army, garrisoned in Durham Castle.

Their attacks also provided a distraction for the Germans while Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson of the 1st Parachute Battalion led two companies of the 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry across the Simeto River using a small ford to establish another bridgehead on the northern bank.

After studying at Durham and York, he set up a small business as a chemist and druggist at 59 High Street, Stockton, around 1818.

Seaham, formerly Seaham Harbour, is a small town in County Durham, situated south of Sunderland and east of Durham.

Sedgefield is a small town and civil parish in County Durham, England.

A small part of the Park stretches into Wake County, but the majority of the land is in Durham County.

Peterlee is a small town built under the New Towns Act of 1946, in County Durham, England.

This was before retiring to County Durham and building a small observatory at Westerton. Wright's Observatory / Folly at Westerton

Vocalists Martin Brammer ( born 13 May 1957, Seaham, County Durham ) and Paul Woods, plus multi-instrumentalist Dave Brewis formed the trio in 1982, after meeting in small local bands, and signed to a small record label, which led to a deal with London Records in 1984.

Surrey Hills contains both the ' English Counties District ', which is a small area between Canterbury and Riversdale Roads, where the streets are named after English Counties, including Norfolk, Durham, Kent, Middlesex, Essex and Suffolk Roads and the ' Chatham Precinct ', which is located between Canterbury, Union, Mont Albert & Chatham Roads.

At the time, Durham University was very small, indeed so small that its continued existence was in some doubt.

Between 1970 and 1987 the institution's name ( then Lanchester Polytechnic ) caused a certain degree of confusion as it was occasionally mistaken for both Manchester Polytechnic and Lancaster University, whilst there is also a small town in Co. Durham called Lanchester.

There is a life-size statue of him in the Town Hall at Durham, together with a small display of his personal effects, including a suit, hat, cane, chair and violin.

The college has its origins in the small group of women, known as home students, who were first allowed to study at Durham in 1895.

* The small cross of St Cuthbert represents the College's patron saint ( it is modelled on St Cuthbert's own pectoral cross, which is kept in the Treasury at Durham Cathedral ).

No Place is a small village near the town of Stanley in County Durham, England, east of Stanley and west of Beamish.

Born into a small farming family and brought up at Thornton-le-Dale near Pickering, he studied at the University of Oxford, where he was accompanied by his patron Thomas de Neville, the Archdeacon of Durham.

Upon leaving Durham he completed his initial training at the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, and was posted to HMS Aurora, a Plymouth-based frigate.

* was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1845, becoming a training ship and being renamed HMS Tyne in 1867 and HMS Durham in 1867.

He was appointed flag captain to Sir William Parker in HMS Prince Regent in 1830 and flag captain to Sir Philip Durham on HMS Britannia in 1836.

Born in Tanfield Lea, County Durham, he served in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Victorious during the Second World War.

Destined to be one of the luckiest men in the Georgian Navy, Philip Charles Durham was born in Largo, Fife in 1763, the fourth child and third son of James Durham He came from a wealthy landed family, and entered the navy aged fourteen in 1777 aboard the ship of the line HMS Trident.

In 1778 Durham procured his discharged and afterwards obtained a position on HMS Edgar in British waters where conditions were far more pleasant and educational.

Durham was transferred to HMS Union in which he saw further service at the siege of Gibraltar before making a cruise to the West Indies and then another one down the African coast in HMS Raisonnable as a junior lieutenant.

Following the resumption of hostilities, Durham was given HMS Defiance, which he took to join Admiral Sir Robert Calder's fleet in 1804 and participated in the battle of Cape Finisterre after which he was informally reprimanded by Calder for being " over zealous " in pursuit of the enemy.

He became a student of the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth, and re-embarked on 2 April 1802 as a midshipman on board HMS Endymion of Captain Philip Durham.

United States president George W. Bush fulfilled his lifetime ambition of visiting a ' genuine British pub ' during his November 2003 state visit to the UK when he had lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham.

Reginald of Durham recounts another miracle, saying that his right arm was taken by a bird ( perhaps a raven ) to an ash tree, which gave the tree ageless vigor ; when the bird dropped the arm onto the ground, a spring emerged from the ground.

Durham and Guy had met when they both worked in an advertising agency – initially Durham only sang periodically with the Seekers, when not performing at jazz clubs.

These ( such as Murton, County Durham ) grew from hamlets when the sinking of a colliery in the early 20th century resulted in a rapid growth in their population and the colliery owners built new housing, shops, pubs and churches.

One of her biggest commercial successes came in 1988 when she starred in Bull Durham.

The tramway was removed in 1901 when the Durham and Charlotte Railroad was built to Star.

The town saw massive growth between the years of 1912 and 1950 when the Norfolk Southern Railway ( former ) purchased the old lines of the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad and the Durham and Charlotte Railroad.

When Ranulf became bishop, he married her to a burgess of Huntingdon, but remained on good terms with both Alveva and her spouse, often staying with them when he traveled away from Durham.

The chronicler Symeon of Durham asserted that when St-Calais was consecrated bishop by Archbishop Thomas of York, he managed to avoid professing obedience to the archbishop, which, if true, would have freed St-Calais from interference in his diocese.

The miracles worked in Cuthbert's name during the late Anglo-Saxon period were particularly flamboyant, and the Libellus contains engaging accounts of some of these, including the miracle of the three waves ( when Cuthbert turned a portion of the Irish Sea into blood in order to prevent his followers from taking his relics out of England, see Libellus ii. 11 ), the foundation of Durham ( when Cuthbert's body, being moved across England on a cart, refused to be moved, signaling his desire to remain at Durham, see Libellus iii. 1 ), and several picturesque deaths visited upon the enemies of Cuthbert's devotees.

Durham was first elected to Parliament for County Durham in the general election of 1812, a seat he held until 1828, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Durham, of the City of Durham and of Lambton Castle in the County Palatine of Durham.

Later the same year he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Lambton and Earl of Durham.

The monument by which his name is there commemorated was erected in 1632 by his friend Thomas Morton when Bishop of Durham.

However, he had always wanted to go in for the Church, and when he was forty-four he took Anglican orders, and became a curate first at Shipton, Gloucestershire, and then at Sedgefield, Durham.

Durham Wildlife Trust ( with RSPB assistance ) set up a wardening post during the period when the birds were nesting.