• Edward Wooler FSA (28 October 1851 – 7 July 1927) was a solicitor, author, councillor, alderman and antiquarian from Darlington. Wooler was born on 28...
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    spiky to touch. Slag wool was first made in 1840 in Wales by Edward Parry, "but no effort appears to have been made to confine the wool after production;...
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    Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in...
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    Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483...
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    Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death...
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    Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently...
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    Grade II* listed building and scheduled ancient monument. Around 1910, Edward Wooler discovered a large, worked Roman stone which he believed to have been...
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    Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling...
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  • the Lancashire Fusiliers, whose family seat was at Lilburn Tower, near Wooler, Northumberland. His great grandfather was a brother of Admiral Lord Collingwood...
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    starvation and economic ruin', the wool trade was a powerful political tool. Likewise, taxes on the wool trade financed Edward I's wars and enabled England...
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    Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer. Known for his influence in popular culture, showmanship, artistry, and philanthropy, he...
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  • winner Edward Harris (archaeologist), archaeologist and director of the Bermuda Maritime Museum Edward Harris (Rhode Island politician) (1801–1872), wool manufacturer...
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    exports of woven cloth quickly replaced the export of raw wool (the latter being heavily taxed by Edward III to help finance the war) and those engaged in the...
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    was a stockbroker before the war and became a wool commission merchant after the war. In early 1862 Edward joined his brother Norwood Penrose "Pen" Hallowell...
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    1965) is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, the youngest sibling of King Charles III. Sophie grew...
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  • World Without End (miniseries) (category Cultural depictions of Edward II of England)
    the crown and the church. Ben Chaplin as King Edward II / Sir Thomas Langley Charlotte Riley as Caris Wooler Nora von Waldstätten as Gwenda Oliver Jackson-Cohen...
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  • Ann Lambton (category People from Wooler)
    the inaugural lecture in this series in 2001. Lambton died at her home in Wooler, Northumberland, on 19 July 2008 at the age of 96 after a long illness....
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  • Edward Leonard Wool Jr., the son of concert pianist Claudine Lucas Wool, is an American electric blues guitar virtuoso, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist...
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  • or Dick Puddlecote), was an English wool merchant who, down on his luck, became an infamous burglar of King Edward I's Wardrobe treasury at Westminster...
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    Pease. His father had been a wool comber and his mother came from the Fry family known for manufacturing chocolate. Edward Pease was educated at home until...
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    system's general attributes were originally developed for the international wool trade in the Late Middle Ages, when trade was in recovery. It was historically...
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    A total of 1,480,000 pounds (740 short tons) of wool had been used in their manufacture. From wool to the innkeeping business, the Lawton family continued...
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    for quality Welsh woollen products. Wool processing includes removing the fleece by shearing, classing the wool by quality, untangling, carding and spinning...
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    Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed...
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    colony of New South Wales. He was also a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry, and was instrumental in agitating for, and organising, a rebellion...
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    wool trade since Flanders' principal cities relied heavily on textile production, and England supplied much of the raw material they needed. Edward III...
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    cargo of wool for London. The town of South Huskisson grew around the port, located on land granted in 1830 to Edward Deas Thompson. A wool store capable...
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  • World Without End (Follett novel) (category Cultural depictions of Edward III of England)
    Edmund Wooler: Alderman of the Parish Guild and father of Caris and Alice. Brother of Petranilla and Prior Anthony. Carries on the family wool business...
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    and one younger, they were children of the artist Alexander Dalziel of Wooler in Northumberland. George Dalziel trained under the wood-engraver Charles...
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    radiation as well as sizes of biological cells and bacteria, and for grading wool by the diameter of the fibres. The width of a single human hair ranges from...
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