After holding the rich living of Stanhope, Durham, from 1820, and the Deanery of Chester from 1828, he was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in 1831, holding with the see a residentiary canonry at Durham which he secured permission to hold along with his bishopric, one of the last cases of the benefice in commendam by which medieval and later bishops had often profited.

* 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.

* 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser ( pocket battleship ) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.

In 1920 after the resumption of the Football League following World War I, United's local teams Plymouth Argyle and Exeter City were both elected to the Football League as founder members of the Football League Third Division, this prompted a movement in the town to merge the two remaining teams together and create a new entity capable of competing at this level and being elected into the new league.

In the Second World War Gillingham's position on the railway from London to Exeter was key to its rapid growth.

The Baptist World Alliance is a worldwide alliance of Baptist churches and organizations, formed in 1905 at Exeter Hall in London during the first Baptist World Congress.

Following his time at Philips Exeter, Knowles spent eight months serving in the U. S. Army Air Forces in World War II after which he attended Yale.

The 1946 – 47 season was the first full season of competitive football in England following the end of the Second World War ; Allen made his Football League debut on 7 September 1946 in a 2 – 1 defeat to Exeter City.

During World War II RAF Exeter was important RAF Fighter Command airfield during the Battle of Britain, with some two dozen different RAF fighter squadrons being stationed there for varying periods through 1944, and just about all the operational fighter types of those years had been present.

No. 691 Squadron's target-towing Vultee A-31 Vengeances, which had been present for more than a year, proved to be the last RAF flying unit of the Second World War period based at Exeter.

The two had a positive impact early on as they guided Southampton into the League One Play-Off positions for the first time after a 4 – 0 win over Dagenham & Redbridge at St Mary's on 2 November 2010 going on to enter the top two on New Year's Day 2011 after a 4 – 0 win at home to Exeter City.

The abbey church of St. Peter's at Exeter became Leofric's cathedral and he was enthroned as Bishop of Exeter there on St Peter's Day in 1050 with King Edward in attendance.

Although not located on Turl Street the college has links with the three Turl Street colleges ( Lincoln, Jesus, and Exeter ). The College is also physically linked to Lincoln College through a connecting door, which Brasenose College members are permitted to enter Lincoln College through on Ascension Day each year.

Rovers recorded their second best ever league finish in 2003 under Colin Addison of 9th as well as an appearance on Match of the Day in the first round of the FA Cup where they drew 0 – 0 at The Lawn with Football League side Exeter City.

In recent seasons the club's lower league position has had an impact on attendances, although the visit of Exeter City on Boxing Day, 2009 in a League One fixture attracted an attendance of 30, 890.

Upon his release on Christmas Day 1762, he joined his two surviving brothers in the interlocking partnerships of John and Francis Baring & Co. of London and John and Charles Baring & Co. of Exeter.

Both cities Jackson and Madison, along with Exeter, New Hampshire and Crawfordsville, Iowa, bill themselves as the " Birthplace of the Republican Party ," however, Jackson is most often associated with this idea, as the event taking place was the first official mass Republican Party convention., with Madison, Wisconsin only a week later.

* Official Ten Tors website at Exeter University, which includes accounts written by past team-members telling of their experiences of the event.

Horse trials have been held at Burghley House since 1961 when its owner the 6th Marquess of Exeter, an Olympic gold medallist in athletics and IOC member, heard that a three day event at Harewood House could no longer be held.

Joe Amato ( born June 13, 1944 in Exeter, Pennsylvania ) is an American dragster driver, who won the NHRA Top Fuel championship a record five occasions and scored 52 event victories, most of them with crew chief Tim Richards.

Exeter, UK: Quail Map Company.

* Brown, Miracles and the Critical Mind, Paternoster, Exeter UK / William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1984.

Examples include the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, USA ), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ( GFDL, in Princeton, New Jersey, USA ), the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research ( in Exeter, UK ), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, or the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l ' Environnement ( LSCE ), France, to name but a few.

In 2005, Exeter University conferred an Honorary Doctorate on Robinson, and Honorary Professorships on principal presenter Mick Aston and producer Tim Taylor, to reflect its great appreciation for what Time Team has done for the public understanding of archaeology in the UK.

* Greenpeace Research Laboratories, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter UK

Miracles and the Critical Mind, Paternoster, Exeter UK / William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids.

* In national or international research laboratories specialising in this field, such as the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, USA ), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ( GFDL, in Princeton, New Jersey ), the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research ( in Exeter, UK ), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, or the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace ( IPSL in Paris, France ).

Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text ( Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2008 ) ( Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies ).

There are regular train services from other parts of the UK to the south west, principal destination stations being Barnstaple, Exeter, Newquay, Penzance and Plymouth.

Past fellows have included academics from the UK based Universities of Reading and Exeter, as well as the international Universities of Brown, Harvard, Khartoum, Tehran and Sultan Qaboos University in Oman

* Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, ( now part of the University of Exeter ), UK

* John Pollard ( died 1575 ), MP for Plympton Erle, Barnstaple, Exeter and Grampound ( UK Parliament constituency )

: Other UK locations include Bristol-Bath, Cambridge, Exeter, Glasgow, Jersey, Manchester, Milton-Keynes, Newscastle-upon-tyne, Oxford and York.

The Exeter Ship Canal, sometimes just called the Exeter Canal, downstream of Exeter, Devon, England was built in the 1560s which means it pre-dates the " canal mania " period and is one of the oldest artificial waterways in the UK.

Exeter, Kelso and Perth were featured by ATR, but from May 2012, races at these courses are now shown on Racing UK

BPCC Wheatsons Ltd., Exeter, UK.

Owen Holland ( Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic ).

The UK Stop the War Coalition, in particular John Rees of the SWP, initiated the signing of the declaration by European leftists, including: Jeremy Corbyn MP, George Galloway MP, Tony Benn, Susan George ( scholar / activist based in France ), Bob Crow, Mick Rix ( general secretary, UK train drivers ' Aslef union ), Julie Christie, George Monbiot, Harold Pinter, Ghayasuddin Siddiqui ( Muslim Parliament ), Tommy Sheridan ( Scottish socialist ), Dr Ghada Karmi ( research fellow, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter ), Tariq Ali.

The Inquisitio Eliensis is a record of the lands of Ely Abbey ; and the Exon Domesday ( so called from the preservation of the volume at Exeter ), which covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire ( however only one manor of Wiltshire is included and parts of Devon, Dorset and Somerset are also wanting ) also all contain the full details supplied by the original returns.

At two of the Oxford colleges, Lincoln College and Exeter College, the head is called " rector ".

After teenage years spent in flowery shirts and a short spell at Westminster School while living in Hampstead, he graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with a " Congratulatory " First in English — " the sort where you are called in for a viva and the examiners tell you how much they enjoyed reading your papers.

That family was from a town called Bradninch, England, just outside the town of Exeter.

The first community created in Exeter was called Snydersville.

Henry Phillpotts ( 1778 – 1869 ), often called " Henry of Exeter ", was the Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869.

" He compiled in 1645 a small volume of prayers and meditations — the Good Thoughts in Bad Times — which, set up and printed in the besieged city of Exeter, where he had retired, was called by himself " the first fruits of Exeter press.

The two Exeter undergraduates, together with a small group of Jones ' friends from Birmingham known as the Birmingham Set, speedily formed a very close and intimate society, which they called " The Brotherhood ".

The L & SWR was able to build its own station, called Queen Street station ( now Exeter Central ), but due to the geography of the area the LS & WR was forced to construct a link line to the GWR station, where its trains would run briefly on GWR metals until they could proceed on their own line to Okehampton which opened in 1871 and reached Plymouth in 1876.

Exeter was for a time Constable of the Tower of London, and afterwards the rack there came to be called " the Duke of Exeter's daughter ".

The fall and execution of the Marquess of Exeter left a power vacuum in the southwestern counties of England, which Russell would be called upon to fill.

This wit was taught with a form of oral tradition called the riddle, a collection of which were bound, along with various other gnomic verses, poems and maxims in the tenth century and deposited in Exeter Cathedral in the eleventh century-the so-called Exeter Book, one of the most important surviving collections of Old English manuscripts.

The estate's train stop on the Pacific Great Eastern ( now CNR ) railway is to the west of town and called Exeter.

* Cecil House, also called Exeter House or Burghley House, was on the north side of the Strand ; it was built in the 16th century by Lord Burghley as an expansion of an existing Tudor house.

The section from Plymouth to Exeter is called the ' Devon Expressway ', it forms the southern border of Dartmoor National Park, and serves as a southward extension of the M5 motorway opening in 1977.

* There is a Masonic Lodge in Exeter, called " Lodge Semper Fidelis.

He was also called " the best that Exeter and Harvard can produce " and regarded as " among the most promising economists of his generation " by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson.

While Coldwell attended Exeter University ( at the time called Royal Albert Memorial College ), he met Norah Gertrude Dunsford in 1907, and in December 1909, they became engaged.

This was to have been called the Exeter to Uphill Canal ; as it involved a route from Topsham or Exeter to Taunton, then the use of the River Tone and a second canal from Burrow Bridge, via Bridgwater, Glastonbury, Wells and Axbridge, to Uphill.

It is called the " Harkness " discussion method because it was developed at Phillips Exeter Academy with funds donated in the 1930s by Edward Harkness.