Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 1894.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

In December 1941 Montgomery was given command of South-Eastern Command overseeing the defence of Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

Malden was born in Putney, Surrey, son of Jonas Malden, a surgeon.

The identity of the trumpeter was not public knowledge until 1994, when jazz musician and journalist Ron Simmonds revealed that it was the Surrey musician Ronnie Hunt.

The growth brought to Docklands enabled the Jubilee Line to be extended in 1999 to east London by a more southerly route than originally proposed, through Surrey Quays, Canary Wharf and the Greenwich Peninsula ( which was the next regeneration area ) to Stratford.

The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe ( built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks ) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels.

The first of the Georgian docks was the West India ( opened 1802 ), followed by the London ( 1805 ), the East India ( also 1805 ), the Surrey ( 1807 ), St Katharine ( 1828 ) and the West India South ( 1829 ).

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

During the ninth century, Essex was part of a sub-kingdom that included Sussex, Surrey and Kent.

Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, Surrey.

The film was shot mainly in London and the Home Counties, including Hampstead, Greenwich Hospital, Betchworth in Surrey, Amersham in Buckinghamshire, St Bartholomew-the-Great ( wedding # 4 ) and West Thurrock in Essex.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ), and successfully launched on 28 December 2005 by the European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint.

Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.

However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.

Major was born at the St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major and former Music Hall performer Tom Major-Ball ( né Abraham Thomas Ball ), who was 64 years old when John was born.

He was raised to the peerage as Baron Abinger, of Abinger in the County of Surrey and of the City of Norwich, in 1835, taking his title from the Surrey estate he had bought in 1813.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

Planning permission has been granted to open Surrey Canal Road station which will be on the East London Line phase 2 extension to Clapham Junction station.

The new station is due to open in the next couple of years and will be an alternative transport hub for residents in the Surrey Canal Triangle areas as well as residents on the periphery of New Cross and South Bermondsey.

It will also be the home ground of UniS Old Boys F. C., a football team for alumni of the university, which competes in the Surrey County Intermediate League ( Western ), at the 12th level of the English football league system.

If, in any given year, a publicly available open source Entry entered by the University of Surrey or the Cambridge Center wins the Silver Medal or the Gold Medal, then the Medal and the Cash Award will be awarded to the body responsible for the development of that Entry.

A team called Cambridgeshire will be formed to play in two specially arranged matches, one in 1869 v. Yorkshire and one in 1871 v. Surrey.

When completed in 2012, this extension will connect the South London Line to the East and West London Lines, from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction.

The ethos of the station will stay exactly the same – to entertain our listeners, brighten their day and tell them everything they need to know about life in Sussex or Surrey .”

When completed in 2012, this extension will connect the Inner South London Line to the East and West London Lines, allowing rail services to run across South London from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction.

Although land was purchased in Surrey that was to become the fair's new home, the PNE has since transferred ownership from the province to the city of Vancouver and will remain at Hastings Park.

His will contained two codicils: the first dated 12 April 1706, left the sum of £ 3000 and all his jewels to Barton ; a second dated 1 February 1713 left her an additional £ 5000 plus his interest in the rangership of Bushey Park and his manor of Apscourt in Surrey to pay for the repairs to Bushey Lodge.

| Sandra Lennon of Byfleet, Surrey gave birth to her son Joshua in the beginning of 2003, at the age of 57 ½, after IVF treatment ; she will still have a second son, Alex, by same treatment, in October 2004.

Other holding patterns serving Heathrow are at Biggin Hill, Kent ( BIG-SE Arrivals ), Lambourne, Essex ( LAM-NE Arrivals ) and Ockham, Surrey ( OCK-SW Arrivals ), where inbound aircraft will normally use the pattern closest to their arrival route.

Membership in the Steel Army is now even international with members joining the group from Sunderland and Surrey in the U. K., as well as Bray, in the Republic of Ireland, who will be following the Riverhounds from abroad.

A multi-million pound redevelopment of the area known as the Surrey Canal Triangle ( but will be branded as Surrey Canal: London's Sporting Village when it is complete ) has been granted permission by Lewisham Council.

The scheme will change the Surrey Canal Road and wider areas around South Bermondsey and North Deptford beyond recognition when it is completed sometime after 2015.

There will also be significant accessibility enhancements with the opening of Surrey Canal Road station on the phase 2 extension of the East London Line to Clapham Junction.

Middlesex played the western shire last summer, but Kent, Surrey, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire and Lancashire will next summer test the merits of the eleven, which showed such good all round cricket, under Mr. H. T.

Two wards are currently split between the two constituencies: Bramley, Busbridge and Hascombe, which will be placed entirely in South West Surrey ; and Alfold, Cranleigh Rural and Ellens Green which will be placed entirely in Guildford.

In his will, he bequeathed financial support for the releasing and discharging of poor prisoners for debt out of prisons in London, Middlesex and Surrey and made various provisions for the homeless as well as sick.

In his will he left £ 1, 000, 000 ( a fabulous amount at that time ), with which the Whiteley Village, near Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, was created.

Surrey's director of cricket, Gus Mackay, described Davies as " an exciting, young, international player ... will play a massive role in bringing long term success to Surrey ".

In horse racing, there is the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey.

In April the Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, wrote to King Philip of Spain that it had been proposed that if Anjou were to travel to England to negotiate his marriage to the Queen, Oxford, Surrey and Windsor should be hostages for his safe return.

Still, Richard Bennett was in 1941, six years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by King George VI as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

In 825 or 826 he overturned the political order of England by decisively defeating King Beornwulf of Mercia at Ellendun and seizing control of Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Essex from the Mercians, while with his help East Anglia broke away from Mercian control.

* September 9 – Battle of Flodden Field: King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.

* Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's brother, is created Duke of Surrey by King Richard.

These include King George Hospital in London ; King George VI Highway and King George Station in Surrey, British Columbia ; George VI Sound in Antarctica ; and the King George VI Chase, a horse race in the United Kingdom.

James had been excommunicated, and although Henry VIII had obtained a breve from the Pope on 29 November 1513 to have the King buried in consecrated ground at St. Pauls, the embalmed body lay unburied for many years at Sheen Priory in Surrey.

The King had Surrey imprisoned-with his father-sentenced to death on 13 January 1547, and beheaded for treason on 19 January 1547 ( his father survived impending execution only by it being set for the day after the king happened to die, though he remained imprisoned ).

The old Southwark borough had been the location of many Courts and Prisons of Royal Prerogative, the Marshalsea and King ’ s Bench, as well as the manorial and borough courts the Surrey County magistrates had both sessions and a prison there.

His titles were declared forfeit after his death by King Henry VII, but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke ( the Barony of Howard, however, remains forfeit ).

The Expo Line connects Waterfront Station in Vancouver to King George Station in Surrey, principally along a route established by the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company as an interurban line in 1890.

In 1994 the terminus of Expo line became King George Station in Central Surrey.

Fought in the county of Northumberland, in northern England, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.

The reason for his attack is not recorded, but he may have wished to prevent King Hlothhere of Kent from regaining control of Surrey, which had been recently brought into the Mercian orbit by Wulfhere.

The university currently validates courses at North East Surrey College Of Technology ( NESCOT ), Guildford School of Acting, Guildford College of Further & Higher Education, King Edward VII Hospital Department of Staff Development, The Nuclear Department at, St John's Seminary, Southern Theological Education & Training Scheme ( STETS ), the Pre-Retirement Association and SHL ( UK ) Ltd.

Frithuwald, however, seems to have been the subject at that time of Ecgberht, King of Kent, and the charter is stated to have been confirmed by Wulfhere, King of Mercia, to whom the overlordship of Surrey must have been passed before his death in 675.

In the autumn of that year Norfolk and Surrey suppressed a rebellion against the King by the Duke of Buckingham.

Both Howards remained close to King Richard throughout his two-year reign, and fought for him at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, where Surrey was wounded and taken prisoner, and his father killed.

Surrey was attainted in the first Parliament of the new King, Henry VII, stripped of his lands, and committed to the Tower of London, where he spent the next three years.