Lynne Truss was born and educated in the village at the Petersham Russell Infant School and Orchard Junior School.

Ham and Petersham Cricket Club was established in 1815 and cricket is still played throughout the summer on Ham Common.

Petersham gives its name to HMS Petersham which was a Ham class minesweeper and to Petersham a type of greatcoat.

It was built 1899-1909 by J Kelly for Mrs Rachael Warde as a memorial to her parents who had lived at Petersham House.

The main Shaysite force was scattered on February 4, 1787, after a surprise attack on their camp in Petersham, Massachusetts.

He scored 177 against Petersham in just five hours and was selected for the state Second XI.

10451 / 1922 and was recorded at the Petersham Registration District.

The municipal borough was expanded in 1892 by the addition of Kew, Mortlake and Petersham and in 1933 Ham was added to the borough.

In October 1748, a ball was held at Dublin Castle by the Viscountess Petersham.

In October 1748, a ball was held at Dublin Castle by the Viscountess Petersham.

The Newtown area was part of the land of the Cadigal band of the Eora people, who ranged across the entire area from the southern shores of Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay in the south-east and Petersham in the west.

Granted as Upper Coos in 1763 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth to Captain David Page of Petersham, Massachusetts, the town was settled in 1764 by his son, David Page, Jr. and Emmons Stockwell.

The area along the southern banks of the Parramatta River, west of Petersham to Rose Hill, was reported to belong to the Wanegal.

To give Soane some respite, Thomas Pitt invited him to stay in 1781 at his Thamesside villa of Petersham Lodge which Soane was commissioned to redecorate and repair.

Although the latter had his way Harrington remained secretary until the great minister's fall in 1742, when he was transferred to the office of Lord President of the Council and was created Earl of Harrington ( Northamptonshire ) and Viscount Petersham ( Surrey ).

He had already been created Baron Harrington, of Harrington in the County of Northampton, in 1730, and was made Viscount Petersham at the same time he was given the earldom.

The land remaining from the disincorporated towns was added to surrounding municipalities, including Belchertown, Pelham, New Salem, Petersham, Hardwick and Ware.

More specifically the Egyptian Room in the Petersham Temple, he was a Freemason himself.

He had received his first land grant in 1793, and accumulated land at a steady rate at Bankstown, Petersham and Concord.

Major sporting grounds include Henson Park, home of the Newtown Jets rugby league club, and Petersham Park, where Sir Donald Bradman scored his first century in grade cricket.

Formed from parts of Petersham, Greenwich, and Hardwick, it was incorporated in 1801, and was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir.

Petersham municipality was incorporated in 1872.

After reading a pamphlet by Doctor James Wilson, who operated a hydropathic establishment with James Manby Gully at Malvern, he stayed there for " some nine or ten weeks ", after which he " continued the system some seven weeks longer under Doctor Weiss, at Petersham ", then again at " Doctor Schmidt's magnificent hydropathic establishment at Boppart " ( at the former Marienberg Convent at Boppard ), after developing a cold and fever upon his return home.

His modest grave lies in St. Peters churchyard, Petersham, Surrey, in southern England.

Petersham is a place in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the east of the bend in the River Thames south of Richmond, which it shares with neighbouring Ham.

It provides the foreground of the scenic view from Richmond Hill across Petersham Meadows, with Ham House further along the River.

Petersham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Patricesham.

Explorer George Vancouver retired to Petersham, where he wrote the Voyage of Discovery whilst living in what is now called " Glen Cottage " in River Lane.

In 1847 Queen Victoria granted Pembroke Lodge in the Petersham part of Richmond Park to John Russell, 1st Earl Russell and it became their family home.

Ham Polo Club is situated at the end of a driveway off the Petersham Road and the Petersham Bowl is played for in June.

Petersham Road ( part of the A307 ) includes an extremely sharp right-angled bend and the passing motorist might glimpse a pair of handsome wrought-iron gates as he or she negotiates it.

This is the entrance to Montrose House, one of the most notable houses in Petersham.

Another interesting house in Petersham is Douglas House, just off the west drive to Ham House.

* The German School London is in Petersham.

Petersham is only served by two bus routes: the 65 and 371, both linking the town with Richmond and Kingston-upon-Thames.

With its southern borders now following former branches of the Swift River, New Salem now includes most of the former town of Prescott ( except for a small corner east of the Middle Branch of the Swift River, which is now in Petersham ), and parts of Greenwich and Enfield.

The town is bordered by Orange to the north, Athol to the northeast, Petersham to the east, Ware to the south, Belchertown to the southeast, and Pelham, Shutesbury and Wendell to the west.

For approximately the last half-mile the route is in New Salem, it is concurrent with Massachusetts Route 122, which enters New Salem through Petersham, heading northwest towards Route 202 before both enter Orange and split shortly thereafter.

Shay and his rebellioners were captured and surrendered at Petersham, Massachusetts.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.