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Sir Charles Mark Palmer, 1st Baronet (3 November 1822 – 4 June 1907) was an English shipbuilder born in South Shields, County Durham, England. He was also a Liberal Party politician and Member of Parliament. His father, originally the captain of a whaler, moved in 1828 to Newcastle upon Tyne, where he owned a ship owning and ship-broking ...
Vestey Holdings. Vestey Holdings, formerly Vestey Group and previously also known as Vestey Brothers, is a privately owned UK group of companies comprising an international business focused mainly on food products and services. The company has owned vast holdings overseas, mainly in South America and Australia, and continues to own some.
Jarrow March. Coordinates: 54°58′53″N 01°29′24″W. Jarrow marchers en route to London. The Jarrow March of 5–31 October 1936, also known as the Jarrow Crusade, [n 1] was an organised protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the English town of Jarrow during the 1930s. Around 200 men, or "Crusaders" as they preferred ...
Mark Butchers. Mark Andrew Butchers (born 1959) is a British Anglican priest who served as Archdeacon of Barnstaple, 2015– [1] 2020. [2] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1981) and King's College London (MTh, 1990; PhD, 2006). [3] Ordained in 1988 after a period of study at Chichester Theological College, [4] he began his ...
On 5 May 1897, Marks was naturalised as a British subject. In 1903, Marks & Spencer became a limited company. Spencer's original £300 investment had grown to a value of £15,000 (equivalent to £1,622,449 in 2019) and he retired later that year. Michael Marks continued to develop the business until his death at Knolls House, 396 Bury New Road ...
St Paul's Church, Jarrow. St Paul's Church, Jarrow, is a Church of England parish church in the Parish of Jarrow and Simonside, on the south bank of the River Tyne in northern England. It was founded in 681 as a part of the Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey. Most of the church is later, but the chancel is the remains of a free-standing chapel of the ...
Mark Watts Bryant (born 8 October 1949) is a retired British Anglican bishop. From 2007 to 2018 he was the Bishop of Jarrow , the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Durham in the Church of England .
Jarrow & Gateshead. Jarrow and Gateshead East is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] The constituency is scheduled to be created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and will first be contested in the 2024 general election. [2]