In 1824, Jackson wrote a letter saying that he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, South Carolina.

Backman was formerly manager of the Class A California League Lancaster JetHawks, one of the Diamondbacks ' minor-league affiliates.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

Burton Stephen " Burt " Lancaster ( November 2, 1913-October 20, 1994 ) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile ( which he called " The Grin ").

Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents ' home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza.

Lancaster was the son of Elizabeth ( née Roberts ) and James Henry Lancaster, who was a postman.

Lancaster grew up in East Harlem and spent much of his time on the streets, where he developed great interest and skill in gymnastics while attending the DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was a basketball star.

Lancaster was accepted into New York University with an athletic scholarship but subsequently dropped out.

Lancaster sought demanding roles, and if he liked a part or a director, he was prepared to work for much lower pay than he might have earned elsewhere.

Lancaster was an early and successful actor / producer.

The Midnight Man was in fact starred in, co-written, produced, and directed by Lancaster.

The connection was firmly cemented by the time Lancaster and Douglas reteamed for their final movie, Tough Guys.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

Lancaster was a vocal supporter of liberal political causes, and frequently spoke out in support of racial minorities, including at the March on Washington in 1963.

Lancaster was cremated and his ashes were buried under a large oak tree in Westwood Memorial Park located in Westwood Village, Los Angeles County, California.

The 120-page book, first published in the United States and then in Britain, was illustrated by Osbert Lancaster and became an instant best seller.

Attlee was given Mosley's post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

It lost the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay to Chariots of Fire, Best Director to Reds, and Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon, who were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress, lost to Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond.

Atlantic City was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Burt Lancaster ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Susan Sarandon ), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

In 1562 he was nominated by the Duchy of Lancaster as their MP for Preston but rejected by the townspeople in favour of a local worthy, James Hodgkinson.

In the fall of 1995, the president nominated Lancaster to become Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, a position for which the U. S. Senate confirmed him in January 1996.

It was not until the concluding months of 1943 that the only realized attempt to build a " true four engined " version of the A-series He 177, the He 177B emerged with only three airworthy prototypes produced by early 1944, some three years after the first flights of the Avro Lancaster prototypes, the most commonly encountered RAF bomber pounding Germany on strategic night raids from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe.

On April 20, 1960, Sir Milton Margai led the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation at the constitutional conferences that were held with Queen Elizabeth II and British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod in the negotiations for independence held at the Lancaster House in London.

* Lancaster is home to the Lancaster campus of Ohio University, offering a variety of two and four year baccalaureate degrees, and several master's programs.

The airline's initial fleet comprised four ex-military Douglas Dakotas and three Avro Lancastrians, the 13-seater civil version of the Lancaster Mark 3 bomber.

John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset, KG ( 1373 – 16 March 1410 ) was the first of the four legitimized children of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress Katherine Swynford, later his wife.

He was the third of four children ; the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress Katherine Swynford.

She later said the film was shot in four six-day weeks with an additional four days of location work in the desert at Lancaster, California.

The names of the original Lancaster County townships reflect the diverse array of settlers in the new county: two had Welsh names ( Caernarvon and Lampeter ), three had Native American names ( Cocalico, Conestoga and Peshtank or Paxton ), six were English ( Warwick, Lancaster, Martic, Sadsbury, Salisbury and Hempfield ); four were Irish ( Donegal, Drumore, Derry, and Leacock ), Manheim was German, Lebanon came from the Bible, and Earl the anglicization of the German surname of Graf or Groff.

The city is home to four municipal business parks: the Bridgeport Business Park, Grand River West Business Park, Huron Business Park and Lancaster Corporate Centre.

The Old Conestoga Road was the main path connecting Philadelphia to the west, but in 1792 the new Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was built, bypassing Strasburg four miles to the north.

It lies at the intersection of four townships: Jefferson, Lancaster, Polk and Wayne.

The district operates four schools ; Ossian Elementary, Lancaster Elementary, Norwell Middle School, and Norwell High School.

In medieval times the parish of Aylsham was established as four manors, the main manor of Lancaster, Vicarage manor, Sexton's manor and Bolwick manor.

Three of the four Lancaster bombers used in the film had also appeared in the Dirk Bogarde film Appointment in London two years earlier.

Following the Lancaster Witch Trial of 1634, William Harvey, physician to King Charles I of England, had been ordered to examine the four women accused, and from this there came a requirement to have material proof of being a witch.

There will be a reunion of the original four members ( Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan ) in March 2013, and the original lineup will also record an album in 2013.

# Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster ( 1245 – 1296 ), married Aveline de Forz in 1269, who died four years later without issue ; married Blanche of Artois in 1276, by whom he had issue.

Ron Lancaster won the Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy as the Western Conference's most outstanding player while George Reed, receiver Hugh Campbell and four other Riders were named league all-stars, the most from any team that year.

The town is home to Lancaster High School, four operating elementary schools ; Como Park, Court Street, Hillview, John A. Sciole ( which is actually located on the Cheektowaga side of the Village of Depew ), and the former Central Avenue Elementary School.

Therefore, German bombers were smaller than their British equivalents, and Germany never developed a fully successful four engined heavy bomber equivalent to the Lancaster or B-17, with only the similarly sized Heinkel He 177 placed into production and made operational for such duties with the Luftwaffe in the later war years.

Her husband survived her by four years, and was buried beside her ; in his will Richard requests to be buried " near to the tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster, my wife ; and I desire that my tomb be no higher than hers, that no men at arms, horses, hearse, or other pomp, be used at my funeral, but only five torches ... as was about the corpse of my wife, be allowed.