• Sir Walter Aston, DL, JP (1 October 1530 – 1589), of Tixall and Heywood, Staffordshire, was a Knight of the Shire and Sheriff of Staffordshire. Walter Aston...
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  • Walter Aston may refer to: Walter Aston (14th-century MP) for Leominster Sir Walter Aston (MP for Staffordshire) (1530–1589), of Tixall, a Knight of the...
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  • This is a list of the sheriffs and high sheriffs of Staffordshire. The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. The sheriff was the principal...
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  • Sir Edward Aston (died 1598) of Tixall, Staffordshire was Sheriff of Staffordshire. Edward was the eldest son of Sir Walter Aston and his second wife Elizabeth...
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    Aston University (abbreviated as Aston for post-nominals) is a public university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the...
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    Stafford (/ˈstæfərd/) is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about 15 miles (24 km) south of Stoke-on-Trent, 15...
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  • descendant, also named William Aston, was the de jure 6th Lord Aston of Forfar. He was born at Leigh, Staffordshire, son of John Aston and his wife, Margery Walton...
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  • 2; Newport 5 John Strachey: Aston 1; Dundee 2, Dundee West 10 Earl Gower: St Mawes 4; Newcastle-Under-Lyme 4; Staffordshire 5 Shirley Williams: Hitchin...
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  • (1693–1746) was an attorney and early town clerk of Lichfield, Staffordshire, a prominent Staffordshire politician and landowner, and a member of a thriving Lichfield...
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  • (1931–1945) Charles Adderley; MP for Staffordshire North (1841–1878) William Addington; MP for Devizes (1863–1864) John Addison; MP for Ashton under Lyne (1885–1895)...
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    Stafford (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire)
    District of South Staffordshire wards of Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell, Penkridge South East, Penkridge West, and Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and...
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  • Thomas Trentham (category High sheriffs of Staffordshire)
    members for the County of Stafford. Later that year he was appointed High Sheriff of Staffordshire to replace the outgoing Sir Walter Aston and again...
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  • kilometres) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, it was granted university status...
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    Cannock (category Towns in Staffordshire)
    (/ˈkænək/) is a town in the Cannock Chase district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It had a population of 29,018. Cannock is not far from the...
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    Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire)
    House of Commons of the UK Parliament, based on the town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. The seat is currently represented by Sarah Edwards of the...
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    Edward Littleton (died 1610) (category High sheriffs of Staffordshire)
    Sir Edward Littleton (ca. 1555 – 1610) was a Staffordshire landowner, politician and rebel from the extended Littleton/Lyttelton family. A supporter of...
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  • John Ipstones (category People from South Staffordshire District)
    been concealed in Shropshire and Staffordshire. The others were Philip Sir Okeover, John Wollaston and John de Aston, all Ipstone's cronies in his acts...
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  • Conservative MP for East Staffordshire (1873–1880) and Taunton (1882–1887) and peer Sir Robert Anstruther, 5th Baronet (1834–1886), Liberal MP for Fife (1864–1880)...
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    only 3 and 4 miles from the Staffordshire and Shropshire borders respectively), the town is the main administration centre for the wider Wyre Forest District...
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    locally, the road was important for connecting Metchley Fort in Edgbaston with Letocetum, now Wall, in Staffordshire. The road is most visible from near...
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    Stone Priory (category Monasteries in Staffordshire)
    Crompton (d.1603) of Stone, who married Jane Aston, a daughter of Sir Walter Aston of Tixall, Staffordshire. William II Crompton's chest tomb with recumbent...
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    Tipton Catastrophe (category Disasters in Staffordshire)
    or Dudley Port explosion was a 1922 munitions explosion in the South Staffordshire town of Tipton, England, in which 19 teenaged girls, working in an unlicensed...
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    Puritan of Staffordshire origins. She married Sir Edward Bromley, a noted lawyer and judge of the period. After his death she established a base for sheltering...
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  • Parliamentary general election". Who Can I Vote For?. Retrieved 19 June 2024. Strathern was the incumbent MP for Mid Bedfordshire in Bedfordshire since a 2023...
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  • Nick Boles, former Minister of State for Skills (2014 to 2016) and former Conservative—and later independent—MP for Grantham and Stamford (2010 to 2019)...
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  • Staffordshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800...
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    Johnson who stayed in Birmingham for a short period and was born in nearby Lichfield. Arthur Conan Doyle worked in the Aston area of Birmingham whilst poet...
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  • constituencies in Shropshire List of parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire List of parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire List of parliamentary...
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    "plunderings and abuses" of the Royalist troops of Sir Thomas Aston, which had made it impossible for Bromsgrove and other places to pay their monthly contributions...
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    Great Hall in the Aston Webb Building was requisitioned by the War Office to create the 1st Southern General Hospital, a facility for the Royal Army Medical...
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