Pickersgill is a surname, and may refer to: Barbara Pickersgill (born 1940), British botanist Edward Pickersgill (1850–1911), English politician Frank...
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Mary Pickersgill (born Mary Young; February 12, 1776 – October 4, 1857) was the maker of the Star-Spangled Banner hoisted over Fort McHenry during the...
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Austin & Pickersgill is a shipbuilding company formed in Sunderland in 1954. Austin & Pickersgill was formed in Sunderland in 1954 by the merger of S.P...
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Dedrick Pickersgill (May 28, 1915 – September 14, 1944) was a Canadian Special Operations Executive agent. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Pickersgill graduated...
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John Whitney Pickersgill PC CC (23 June 1905 – 14 November 1997) was a Canadian civil servant and politician. He was born in Ontario, but was raised in...
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Henry William Pickersgill RA (3 December 1782 – 21 April 1875) was an English painter specialising in portraits. He was a Royal Academician for almost...
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The Pickersgill Islands are a small archipelago to the west of the main island of South Georgia. They are 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Annenkov Island...
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Pacific voyages. Richard Pickersgill was born in 1749 in West Tanfield, near Ripon, to Richard and Ann Pickersgill (née Lee). Pickersgill was the nephew of John...
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Fay Pickersgill is a Jamaican diplomat who was Jamaican ambassador to China. She held the record of the longest serving Director of Tourism at the Jamaican...
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Barbara Pickersgill (born 1940) is a British botanist with a special interest in the domestication of crops, the genetics, taxonomy, and evolutionary...
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Sir John Pickersgill Rodger, KCMG (12 February 1851 – 19 September 1910) was a British colonial administrator. Rodger was born in 1851 at Marylebone in...
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Jeanette Pickersgill (30 November 1813 – 20 March 1885) was an English painter. She was the first person to be legally cremated in the United Kingdom...
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Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (25 September 1820 – 20 December 1900) was an English painter and book illustrator. Born in London into a family of artists...
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Brandon Pickersgill (born 29 March 1997) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback or stand-off for Keighley Cougars...
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Hare Pickersgill (1850 – 13 October 1911) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1911. Pickersgill was the...
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Conservative Party. Born John Cunliffe Pickersgill in 1819 to John Pickersgill, a banker, and Sophia Pickersgill (née Cunliffe), he assumed the name Cunliffe...
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Pickersgill is a village in the Pomeroon-Supenaam (Region 2) of Guyana. It is located near the Pomeroon River. The 2012 census has a population count...
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Steve Pickersgill (born 28 November 1985) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played at representative...
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William Pickersgill (1861 – 2 May 1928) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Caledonian Railway from 1914 until Grouping...
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Greg Pickersgill (born 1951), is a British science fiction fan. Pickersgill's love of science fiction led him into UK fandom where he has been involved...
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Caledonian Railway 0-4-4T (section William Pickersgill)
Drummond, John Lambie, John F. McIntosh and William Pickersgill. A development of the Pickersgill design was introduced by the LMS in 1925. 171 Class...
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Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway. The Caledonian Railway Locomotive Works were originally at Greenock but moved to St. Rollox, Glasgow, in 1856. The...
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president was Mary Pickersgill, the seamstress who made the Star Spangled Banner Flag, who served from 1828 to 1851. Under Pickersgill, the society opened...
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Caledonian Railway 60 Class were 4-6-0 passenger engines designed by William Pickersgill and introduced in 1916. Six were built by the Caledonian Railway at its...
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Maryland, United States. Built in 1793, it was the home of Mary Young Pickersgill when she moved to Baltimore in 1806 and the location where she later...
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TID 159 was among the last to be built, being assembled by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd in Sunderland in 1945. TID 159 has a single deck and a flat-bottomed...
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longingly at Duke Orsino. In the mid-19th century Frederick Richard Pickersgill painted a few scenes, including: in Act 1, Scene 4 after the character...
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Pickersgill's reed frog (Hyperolius pickersgilli), also known as Avoca reed frog, is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae. It is endemic to South...
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University Press. pp. xi+243+17 plates. ISBN 9780199549061. OCLC 784886646. Pickersgill B (2005). Prance G, Nesbitt M (eds.). The Cultural History of Plants...
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Economic Botany. 47 (3): 291–296. doi:10.1007/bf02862297. S2CID 20513984. Pickersgill, Barbara (2005). Prance, Ghillean; Nesbitt, Mark (eds.). The Cultural...
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