Alford
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Places

Australia
  • Alford, South Australia
    Alford, South Australia
    Alford is a settlement in South Australia. Alford is in the Hundred of Tickera, northern Yorke Peninsula, about mid-way between the towns of Kadina and Port Broughton. The natural landform is undulating fertile plains, which often feature limestone and dunes...



Canada
  • Alford, Saskatchewan


England
  • Alford, Lincolnshire
    Alford, Lincolnshire
    - Notable residents :* Captain John Smith who lived in nearby Willoughby* Anne Hutchinson, pioneer settler and religious reformer in the United States* Thomas Paine, who was an excise officer in the town....

    • Alford Manor House
      Alford Manor House
      The Manor House is a Grade II listed building which can be found on West street within Alford, Lincolnshire, England. It is believed to be the largest thatched manor house in England and was built to a traditional H plan in 1611. It is a very rare example of a composite structure, featuring a...

    • Alford Windmill
      Alford Windmill
      Alford Windmill is a five-sailed windmill in Alford, Lincolnshire and the only surviving windmill out of four. Today the windmill has been restored to working order, and grinds grain to organic flour...

    • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford
      Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford
      Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford is a selective, co-educational, foundation status Grammar School and Sixth Form College in Alford, Lincolnshire, England.-Admissions:...

  • Alford, Somerset
    Alford, Somerset
    Alford is a village and parish on the River Alham, in Somerset, England, situated south of Shepton Mallet and two miles west of Castle Cary in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 63. It lies on the River Cary.-History:...

  • Alford Crossways
    Alford Crossways
    Alford Crossways is a small village in the civil parish of Alford in the Waverley district of Surrey, England. The village lies on the Surrey-West Sussex border, just south-west from Cranleigh, its nearest town. The name of the village gives from its railway station....



Scotland
  • Alford, Scotland
    • Alford Valley Railway


United States
  • Alford, Florida
    Alford, Florida
    Alford is a town in Jackson County, Florida, United States. It is located in the Florida Panhandle near Marianna. The population was 466 at the 2000 census. According to the 2004 U.S...

  • Alford, Massachusetts
    Alford, Massachusetts
    Alford is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 494 at the 2010 census.- History :...


People

  • M.A. Alford
    M.A. Alford
    "Mark Allen Alford Jr". , is an American multimedia artist known for his controversial installations and symbolic imagery. His most noted work is a progressive installation commenting on teen pregnancy entitled, "Sex-ed" which featured 50 helium-filled condoms and a baby-doll and was featured on...

    , American artist
  • Andrew Alford
    Andrew Alford
    Andrew Alford was an American electrical engineer and inventor.Born in Samara, Russia, Alford invented and developed antennas for radio navigation systems, now used for VHF omnidirectional range and instrument landing systems....

    , American inventor of antennas for radio navigation systems
  • Dale Alford
    Dale Alford
    Thomas Dale Alford, Sr. was an ophthalmologist and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who served as a conservative Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Little Rock from 1959 to 1963....

    , American politician from the State of Arkansas
  • Dean Alford
    Dean Alford
    Clarence "Dean" Alford is an American politician and businessman, a member of the Republican Party, a conservative, and a former member of the General Assembly in the U.S. state of Georgia. Alford is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Allied Energy Services and spokesman of...

    , American businessman and politician from the State of Georgia
  • Henry Alford
    Henry Alford
    Henry Alford was an English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer.-Life:...

    , English churchman and scholar
  • John Alford (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
  • Kenneth Alford
    Kenneth Alford
    Frederick Joseph Ricketts was a British composer of marches for band. Using the pen name Kenneth J. Alford, his marches are considered to be great examples of the art...

     (1881-1945), English composer of many marches
  • Lynwood Alford
    Lynwood Alford
    Lynwood A. Alford is a former professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. Alford grew up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. His father, Lynwood Alford, Sr. , was a close childhood friend of Beaver Falls native Joe Namath. Alford attended Aliquippa High School where he...

    , American football player
  • Michael Alford
    Michael Alford
    Michael Alford was an English Jesuit missionary. He left two major works, Britannia Illustrata, Annales Ecclesiastici et Civiles Britannorum also known as Annales Ecclesiae Britannicae....

    , Jesuit missionary born in London (1587-1652), author of Fides Regia Britannica, 1663
  • Steve Alford
    Steve Alford
    Stephen Todd Alford is a retired American basketball player and the current head coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team...

    , Head Coach for New Mexico (2007-present)
  • William P. Alford
    William P. Alford
    William P. Alford is a US legal scholar. He is currently Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School...

    , Professor at Harvard Law School
  • W. R. (Red) Alford
    W. R. (Red) Alford
    William Robert "Red" Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory.-Biography:...

    , American mathematician


Other

  • Alford plea
    Alford plea
    An Alford plea in United States law is a guilty plea in criminal court, where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence...

    , in United States law
    • North Carolina v. Alford
      North Carolina v. Alford
      North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 , was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed that there are no constitutional barriers in place to prevent a judge from accepting a guilty plea from a defendant who wants to plead guilty while still protesting his innocence...

      , the Supreme Court case concerning the Alford plea.
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