George Wombwell (24 December 1777 – 16 November 1850) was a famous menagerie exhibitor in Regency and early Victorian Britain. He founded Wombwell's Travelling...

Wombwell (locally /ˈwʊmwɛl/) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split...

George Wombwell was a proprietor of Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie. George Wombwell may also refer to: Sir George Wombwell, 1st Baronet (1734–1780),...

Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet (23 November 1832 – 16 October 1913) was a British baronet. Wombwell was born on 23 November 1832. He was the son...

The Wombwell Baronetcy, of Wombwell in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 26 August 1778 for George Wombwell...

Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet (13 April 1792 – 14 January 1855) was a British baronet. Wombwell was born on 13 April 1792. He was the eldest son of...

James William Bostock (1814-1878) and his wife Emma Wombwell (1834-1904, granddaughter of George Wombwell). His father had left his father's farm in Horton...

From 1837 the Duke had known Louisa Beauclerk, third daughter of Sir George Wombwell, 2nd Baronet, whom he later described as "the idol of my life and my...

Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (née Wombwell; 14 April 1876 – 28 May 1969), was the wife of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and châtelaine...

George Wombwell, 1st Baronet (11 June 1734 – 2 November 1780) was Chairman of the Honourable East India Company and a Member of Parliament. Wombwell was...

Sir George Wombwell, 2nd Baronet (14 March 1769 – 28 October 1846) was an English first-class cricketer with amateur status who played for the Marylebone...

in 1825, when the property passed to the Wombwell family via the eldest son of her sister, Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet. Roger de Mowbray founded the...

be guaranteed in circuses. In chronological order George Wombwell (1777–1850), founder of Wombwell's Traveling Menagerie, raised many animals himself,...

foremost organ builder of the Victorian era Hugh Wilson, RAF test pilot George Wombwell, menagerie exhibitor Ellen Wood, author known as Mrs Henry Wood, there...

John Roberts William James 1777 George Wombwell (later Sir George Wombwell, Bt.) William Devaynes 1778 George Wombwell (2nd time) William James (2nd time)...

employed by George Wombwell, known professionally as Madame Pauline de Vere. They married on 1 December 1850 in Sheffield. John and George Sanger decided...

Wombwell was born at Stowlangtoft, Suffolk in April 1813, the son of Sir George Wombwell and his wife Eliza Little. He played in two first-class cricket matches...

Lion Queen", who was killed by a tiger while working in her uncle George Wombwell's menagerie, aged 17. Her shocking death made her a media sensation...

September 1987), was a British peer. He was the son of George, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Almina Wombwell. Styled Lord Porchester from birth, he described in...

1774 Succeeded by Hon. William Augustus Montagu Sir George Wombwell Preceded by John Rushout George Durant Member of Parliament for Evesham 1774–1780 With:...

in 1831. She was brought up by the Manders family who worked with George Wombwell who ran a travelling circus. Her mother was unknown but her father...

House. Wood salvaged from the Royal George was also used to make the coffin for the famous menagerie owner George Wombwell who died in 1850 and the covers...

1825, two more lion fights took place, staged by a promoter named George Wombwell, who travelled around England with his collection of caged wild animals...

largest majority for any member of parliament post-1832 until 2017, in which George Howarth won a 42,214 vote majority in Knowsley. The townships of Huntingdon...

sued Jamrach and was awarded £300 in damages. The tiger was sold to George Wombwell and became a popular attraction at his menagerie. The tiger's escape...

ranged in size but the largest was George Wombwell's which, by 1839, totalled fifteen wagons. By 1880 Bostock and Wombwell's Royal National Menagerie had eighteen...

foundation stone for the first church was laid on a site donated by Sir George Wombwell, at the corner of Cross Street and Burton Road. A new chapelry district...

good service led to his promotion to lieutenant on 17 March 1762 by Sir George Rodney, and Phipps went on to serve in the siege of Havana. He was further...

was sold to Thomas, Lord Fauconberg of Newburgh. His descendant, Sir George Wombwell sold the manor to William Wainman in 1866. The toponymy of the name...

population. These animal shows ranged in size but the largest was George Wombwell's. The earliest record of a fatality at one such travelling menagerie...