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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 .
The Shankill Butchers were an Ulster loyalist paramilitary gang – many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) – that was active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was based in the Shankill area and was responsible for the deaths of at least 25 people, most of whom were killed in sectarian attacks.
Jarrow ( / ˈdʒæroʊ / or / ˈdʒærə /) is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in County Durham, it is on the south bank of the River Tyne, about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the east coast. The 2011 census area classed Hebburn and The Boldons as part of the town, it had a population of 43,431. [1]
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 ...
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 ...