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Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
John George Haigh,commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer,was an English serial killer convicted for the murder of six people,although he claimed to have killed nine. Haigh battered to death or shot his victims and disposed of their bodies using sulphuric acid before forging their signatures so he could sell their possessions and collect large sums of money. His actions were the subject of the television film A Is for Acid.
Kathleen Mary Griffin is an American comedian and actress who has starred in television comedy specials and has released comedy albums. In 2007 and 2008,Griffin won Primetime Emmy Awards for her reality show Kathy Griffin:My Life on the D-List. She has also appeared in supporting roles in films.
Warwick Windridge Armstrong was an Australian cricketer who played 50 Test matches between 1902 and 1921. An all-rounder,he captained Australia in ten Test matches between 1920 and 1921,and was undefeated,winning eight Tests and drawing two. Armstrong was captain of the 1920–21 Australian team which defeated the touring English 5–0:one of only three teams to win an Ashes series in a whitewash. In a Test career interrupted by the First World War,he scored 2,863 runs at an average of 38.68,including six centuries,and took 87 wickets. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2000.
Schofield Haigh was a Yorkshire and England cricketer. He played for eighteen seasons for Yorkshire County Cricket Club,for England from the 1898/99 tour to 1912,and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1901.
Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh is an English-born Australian journalist and non-fiction author who writes about sport,business and crime in Australia. He was born in London,was raised in Geelong,and lives in Melbourne.
Night Train to Murder is a 1985 British comedy television film,directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Morecambe and Wise. It was the last work that Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise worked on together before Morecambe's death in 1984. It was written as a pastiche of the works of writers including Agatha Christie and Edgar Wallace,and is set in 1946—featuring Morecambe and Wise ostensibly as 1940s versions of themselves.
Mervyn George Haigh was an Anglican clergyman who served as the third bishop of the restored see of Coventry in the modern era and the 97th Bishop of Winchester in a long line stretching back to the 7th century.
The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Protestant Reformation,a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity in Western and Central Europe.
Robert "Bob" Haigh is an English former rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s,and coached in the 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain,England and Yorkshire,and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (captain),Leeds and Bradford Northern,as a second-row,or loose forward,i.e. number 11 or 12,or,13,during the era of contested scrums.
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot,also spelt Vivien,was the first wife of American-British poet T. S. Eliot,whom she married in 1915,less than three months after their introduction by mutual friends,when Vivienne was a governess in Cambridge and Eliot was studying at Oxford.
Joanna Dorothy Haigh is a British physicist and academic. Before her retirement in 2019 she was Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London,and co-director of the Grantham Institute –Climate Change and Environment. She served as head of the department of physics at Imperial College London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS),and a served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Juliette Anne Haigh,also known by her married name Juliette Drysdale but better known by her maiden name,is a retired professional rower.
Haigh Hall is a historic country house in Haigh,Metropolitan Borough of Wigan,Greater Manchester,England. Built between 1827 and 1840 for James Lindsay,7th Earl of Balcarres,it replaced an ancient manor house and was a Lindsay family home until 1947,when it was sold to Wigan Corporation. The hall is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building and is owned by Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.
Grainsby is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire,England. It is situated 5 miles (8 km) south from Grimsby,and just to the west from the A16 road. The nearest village is North Thoresby,1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-east.
Andrew Haigh is a British filmmaker.
Daniel G. Griffey is an American firefighter and politician from Washington. Griffey is a Republican member of Washington House of Representatives. In 2014,Griffey defeated Democratic incumbent Kathy Haigh to pick up one of four House seats gained by Washington Republicans that year.
Louise Margaret Haigh is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport since 2021. A member of the Labour Party,she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Heeley at the 2015 general election,as the youngest Labour member of that parliament. She served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2020 to 2021.
Haigh is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan,Greater Manchester,England. It contains 30 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these,one is listed at Grade II*,the middle grade,and the others are at Grade II,the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Haigh,the estate of Haigh Hall,and the surrounding countryside. The most important building in the parish is Haigh Hall;this and a number of buildings in the estate are listed. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs through the parish,and three bridges associated with it are listed. The other listed buildings include farmhouses,farm buildings,a set of stocks,houses,workers' cottages,a church and associated structures,a school,and a bridge over a disused railway.
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- ↑ "Kathy Haigh". votesmart.org. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
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