The Parlington Estate holds a monument to the independence of the United States, built by a member of the Gascoigne family ( Sir Thomas Gascoigne, last of the Gascoigne blood line ).

Parlington Hall was left to run to ruins from 1905 after the death of Col F. C. T. Gascoigne, the Hall was largely demolished in the 1950s and 1960s, though the west wing is still intact.

It became the main residence of the Gascoigne family after the death of Richard's father Frederick at Parlington Hall in 1905.

The house is sited on part of the Gascoigne estate, and was presented for public access to the City of Leeds in 1968 by Sir Alvary Gascoigne and his wife, last of the Gascoigne family, whose roots were at Parlington Hall.

For some time the Manor of Barwick and Scholes was in the ownership of the Gascoigne family of Parlington and Lotherton.

Parlington Hall was the seat of the Gascoigne family, Aberford near Leeds in the county of Yorkshire, in England.

Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th and last Baronet, left his property, including Parlington Hall, to his stepdaughter on the condition that her husband, Richard Oliver of Castle Oliver in County Limerick, change his name to Richard Oliver Gascoigne ( see Oliver Gascoigne ).

Mary Isabella and her husband Frederick Charles Trench, who took the surname Trench Gascoigne, lived at Parlington, while Lotherton became the property of Elizabeth Gascoigne, who married Frederick Charles ' cousin Frederic Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown.

Colonel Gascoigne further inherited Parlington in 1905, but preferred Lotherton.

* Parlington Hall, a history of the hall and the Gascoigne family

* Gascoigne Family Members at Parlington Hall from Sir Edward Gascoigne onwards

Paul was the in-house graphic designer for Tottenham Hotspur, he had an office in White Hart Lane and designed merchandise for Spurs, Derby County, Southampton FC and Aston Villa for the company Hummel ( doing caricatures of Paul Gascoigne for school lunchboxes etc .).

He was born in Stanley, County Durham and was recruited by Newcastle United as an apprentice after scouts had spotted his useful left foot, he went on to be a member of the Newcastle United FA Youth Cup winning side of 1985 that included the likes of Paul Gascoigne.

* here are connections with the line from Castleford to York ( Gascoigne Wood Junction )

It was first occupied by a Lord Mayor in 1752, when Sir Crispin Gascoigne took up his residence in it.

The first ever micrometric screw was invented by William Gascoigne in the 17th century, as an enhancement of the vernier ; it was used in a telescope to measure angular distances between stars and the relative sizes of celestial objects.

The program, presented by Bamber Gascoigne, produced by Granada Television and broadcast across the ITV network, was very popular and ran until it was taken off the air in 1987.

The show, and the catch phrase used Gascoigne ( and later Paxman ) before each toss-up question, " Your starter for 10 ," was the inspiration for the novel Starter for 10, and the subsequent film.

With managers such as Jack Charlton and then Willie McFaul, Newcastle remained in the top-flight, until key players such as Waddle, Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne were sold, and the team was relegated once more at in 1989.

He is also the question master of University Challenge, succeeding Bamber Gascoigne when the programme was revived in 1994.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Soon after Theo's return, Miriam tells him that Gascoigne was arrested as he was trying to rig a Quietus landing stage to explode.

Steele was largely raised by his uncle and aunt, Henry Gascoigne and Lady Katherine Mildmay.

In 2006, it was alleged that Gallagher had a drunken fight with Paul Gascoigne at the Groucho Club which ended with Gallagher setting off a fire extinguisher in Gascoigne's face.

From its inception in 1962, University Challenge was hosted by Bamber Gascoigne.

It was presented by Bamber Gascoigne, and screened on BBC2 on 28 December 1992.

Gascoigne was born in London and won scholarships to both Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge ( 1955 ), where he read English literature.

William Gascoigne was the first who commanded a chief advantage of the form of telescope suggested by Kepler: that a small material object could be placed at the common focal plane of the objective and the eyepiece.

It was not till about the middle of the 17th century that Kepler's telescope came into general use: not so much because of the advantages pointed out by Gascoigne, but because its field of view was much larger than in the Galilean telescope.

Paul Gascoigne made a guest appearance in the strip in 1993 in the issue celebrating Roger The Dodger's 40th anniversary when Roger who was appearing in every strip in that week's comic arranged for Gascoigne to sign up for the team.

He was the eldest son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving the university is supposed to have joined the Middle Temple.

George Whetstone says that Sir John Gascoigne disinherited his son on account of his follies, but by his own account he was obliged to sell his patrimony to pay the debts contracted at court.

In 1568 an inquiry into the disposition of William Breton's property with a view to the protection of the children's rights was instituted before the Lord Mayor, but the matter was probably settled in a friendly manner, for Gascoigne continued to hold the Walthamstow estate, which he had from his wife, until his death.

For reasons that are still unclear, the book was republished, with certain additions and deletions, two years later under the alternative title, The Posies of George Gascoigne, Esquire.

Rangers won the league title again in 1996 – 97, their ninth in succession, and also the League Cup where Gascoigne scored twice in the Final.

He was a regular player in the first of his seasons back at Ibrox, but managed just 11 appearances in the 1994 – 95 season ( when Rangers won their seventh successive title and their fifth that Steven had been involved in ) and with the arrival of Paul Gascoigne he managed only six league appearances.

Griff Rhys-Jones plays the title character, a parody of real-life University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne, while Jones ' partner-in-comedy Mel Smith has a cameo as the security guard.

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.

* Gascoigne, J., ' Rise and Fall of British Newtonian Natural Theology ', Science in Context, 2 ( 1988 ), 219-256.

Williams appeared in West End revues including Share My Lettuce with Maggie Smith, written by Bamber Gascoigne, and Pieces of Eight with Fenella Fielding.

Andrew Chapman, Carl Sargent ( aka Keith Martin ), Marc Gascoigne and Peter Darvill-Evans.

* October 7 – George Gascoigne, English poet ( b. c. 1525 )

** William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of England ( approximate date ; d. 1419 )

* Gascoigne, John ( 1998 ) Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, The British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.

* Loose ties to a person's name with an attached suffix: Gazza for English footballer Paul Gascoigne ( though used more widely in Australia for Gary ) and similar " zza " forms ( Hezza, Prezza, etc.

Outstanding contributions from Player of the Season winners Ally McCoist ( 1991 – 92 ), Andy Goram ( 1992 – 93 ), Mark Hateley ( 1993 – 94 ), Brian Laudrup ( 1994 – 95 and 1996 – 97 ) and Paul Gascoigne ( 1995 – 96 ), were crucial to maintaining success.

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, the ownership of Bushmead Priory became the subject of a dispute between the St. John family of Bletsoe and Sir William Gascoigne of Cardington, the latter being Cardinal Wolsey's controller of the household.

Its invention is variously ascribed to Lieutenant General Robert Melville in 1759, or to Charles Gascoigne, manager of the Carron Company from 1769 to 1779.

Rolf, their leader and Julian's husband, is hostile, but the others — Miriam ( a former midwife ), Gascoigne ( a man from a military family ), Luke ( a former priest ), and Julian — are more personable.

The Conyers, Wyville, Gascoigne, Stapleton and Lovell families were all notable gentry.