Jardines is controlled by the Keswick family, who are direct descendants of William Jardine's sister Jean through the marriage of her daughter to Thomas Keswick, father of William Keswick, an early Tai-pan of the firm.

A great-nephew of Jardine who would be taipan from 1874 to 1886, William Keswick ( 1834 – 1912 ), is the ancestor of the Keswick branch ( pronounced Ke-zick ) of the family.

In 1988, instigated by Brian Powers, the first American taipan of Jardines, the entire corporate structure of Jardine, Matheson & Co., including all its allied companies, were restructured so that a holding company based in London and controlled by the Keswick family would have overall policy and strategic control of all Jardine Matheson Group companies.

Keswick gave the job of editor simply to " the only journalist he knew ", Alexander Chancellor, an old family friend and his mother ’ s godson, with whom he had been at Eton and Cambridge.

* The Keswick family ( East Asia and United Kingdom )

* The Keswick family, descendants of the founders of Jardine Matheson

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge moved to Keswick with his family in 1800 and visited and collaborated with William Wordsworth in nearby Grasmere, frequently walking back and forth between the towns.

Joseph initially attended Whitchurch Highlands Public School until the family relocated to the Keswick area.

Until the early twentieth century much of the area, comprising a large part of Keswick, was owned by the family living at Castlerigg Manor.

The tie-up was prompted by the long-standing family links between the Flemings and the Keswick family of Scotland, who have run Jardine Matheson since its founding.

This resulted in substantially less Hambro family influence in the banking group and, in July 1997, in the promotion of Chips Keswick to Chairman of the Bank and Charles Perrin ( of Reksten fame ) to Vice Chairman and later CEO.

It in effect owns its own corporate parent, enabling the Keswick family to control the group without providing a majority of the capital.

Mr. Weatherall is a member of the Keswick family which control Jardine Matheson through complex cross-shareholdings, despite holding only around 10 % of the shares in the company.

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* Keswick family

Whilst the eastbound section follows the straight line of the disused Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, the westbound section has numerous bends with climbs and dips.

Many of the bus services to and from Alston are operated by Wright Brothers Coaches, which has depots at Nenthead, three miles from Alston and at Blucher, near Newcastle upon Tyne, and operates an 82-mile route linking Newcastle with Keswick via Hexham, Haydon Bridge, Alston and Penrith from July to September each year.

The name is sometimes also applied to the whole valley, which connects Grasmere in the south with the Vale of Keswick in the north.

In his adopted home of Keswick, a section of the town museum was dedicated to Walpole's memory in 1949, with manuscripts, correspondence, paintings and sculpture from Brackenburn, donated by his sister and brother.

The route starts in the former coal-mining and industrial lands of Whitehaven, West Cumbria, travels through the stunning scenery of the northern Lake District, heading into Keswick before passing through Penrith and the Eden Valley with its lush valleys and sandstone villages.

A northward extension to Ravenshoe Road near Keswick is currently under construction, with completion tentatively scheduled for December 2012.

In the mid-sixties Jencks moved to the United Kingdom where he has houses in Scotland and London, where he lived with his late wife Maggie Keswick Jencks.

In his most recent work he collaborated with the late Maggie Keswick on fractal designs of building and furniture as well as extensive landscape designs base on complexity theory, waves and solitons.

The round is named after Bob Graham ( 1889 – 1966 ), a Keswick guest-house owner, who in 1932 set the record for the number of Lakeland fells traversed in 24 hours which he held for twenty eight years until its repeat, with Graham's encouragement, by Alan Heaton in a quicker time in 1960.

Both described Long Meg and Her Daughters, another large stone circle, and recounted local legend and folklore associated with this monument, but neither writers mentions a visit to Castlerigg or the area around Keswick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in 1799, visited Castlerigg with William Wordsworth and wrote of it, that a mile and a half from Keswick stands “… a Druidical circle the mountains stand one behind the other, in orderly array as if evoked by and attentive to the assembly of white-vested wizards ”.

Groove Beck, which divides the north east ridge into two, becomes Thornsgill Beck and then Trout Beck, before finally uniting with the waters of Mosedale to head west for Keswick as the River Glenderamackin.

CMFOT's founder, Major W. Ian Thomas ( 1914-2007 ), was an evangelical teacher and has often been identified with the Keswick Convention ministry.

In 1887 work began to drive a tunnel right under Dale Head into Newlands Valley, connecting with a proposed tramway to join the railway at Keswick.

The area suffered greatly and much of the village was lost to the sea along with neighbouring Keswick.

In 1889, he established Hongkong Land with James Johnstone Keswick.

Hawse End is also served by the Derwent Water Motor Launch and this enables visitors to Keswick to combine a sail on the lake with an ascent of the fell.

* A Critique of the Keswick Movement taken ( by the author's permission ) from Keep in Step with the Spirit by J. I. Packer.

The station is also a hub for Stagecoach bus services connecting Windermere with Coniston, Grasmere, Keswick, and other destinations in Cumbria.

They held the first Keswick Convention in a tent on the lawn of St John's vicarage, Keswick, beginning with a prayer meeting on the evening of Monday, 28 June.

The next section follows a meandering path through several hamlets, before reaching the village of Bothel, where the A591 from Keswick terminates.

AN's remaining longer distance trains continued to arrive and depart from Adelaide station for several years, paying an access charge to the STA, until AN's new Keswick Passenger Terminal opened on 18 May 1984, a kilometre or two west of the Adelaide CBD in an industrial suburb.

Many people climb Little Man via the tourist path from Keswick on the way to the summit of Skiddaw, however there are several better and more interesting but steep ascents from the hamlets of Millbeck and Applethwaite to the south of the fell.

… for a mile before we came to Keswick, on an eminence in the middle of a great concavity of those rude hills, and not far from the banks of the river Greata, I observed another Celtic work, very intire: it is 100 foot in diameter, and consists of forty stones, some very large.

In 1975, The Spectator was bought by Henry Keswick, chairman of the Jardine Matheson multinational corporation.

One of these was auctioned by a radio station in South Africa ( current whereabouts unknown ), the other was bought by Gerry Cottle's circus ( touring Austria and Germany ) before being sold to the former Cars of the Stars Motor Museum in Keswick, Cumbria, England.