Haughton
Encyclopedia
In the United Kingdom
- Haughton CastleHaughton CastleHaughton Castle is a privately owned country mansion situated to the north of the village of Humshaugh on the west bank of the North Tyne. It is some 10 km north of Hexham, Northumberland ....
, Northumberland, England - Haughton, CheshireHaughton, CheshireHaughton is a village and civil parish which lies northwest of Nantwich in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England...
, England - Haughton, Greater Manchester, England
- Haughton, NottinghamshireHaughton, NottinghamshireHaughton is a hamlet in the English county of Nottinghamshire.Haughton lies on the south bank of the River Maun about one mile south west from Bothamsall...
, England - Haughton, StaffordshireHaughton, StaffordshireHaughton is a village in Staffordshire, England, approximately 4 miles outside the county town of Stafford. It lies on the A518 between Stafford and Gnosall....
, England - Haughton GreenHaughton GreenHaughton Green is a large village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It formed part of the ancient township of Haughton, Lancashire, along with Haughton Dale, Higher Haughton, Lower Haughton, Haughton Hall and Haughton itself....
, Greater Manchester, England - Haughton Le SkerneHaughton Le SkerneHaughton-le-Skerne is a suburb of Darlington in the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated in the north east of Darlington. The suburb lies to the west of the River Skerne....
, Co. Durham, England
People
- AaliyahAaliyahAaliyah Dana Haughton , who performed under the mononym Aaliyah , was an American R&B recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of 10, she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside...
, American singer and actress, real name Aaliyah Dana Haughton - Billy HaughtonBilly HaughtonBilly Haughton, or William R. Haughton was an American harness driver and trainer, and one of the most-winning drivers ever. He was one of only three drivers to win the Hambletonian four times, the only one to win the Little Brown Jug five times, and the only one to win the Messenger Stakes seven...
, American harness driver - Colin HaughtonColin HaughtonColin Haughton is an English badminton singles player from Denton near Manchester who held the No. 1 position in the national rankings and reached as high as 19th in the world rankings....
- Greg HaughtonGreg HaughtonGreg Haughton is a Jamaican 400 metres runner. He won three bronze medals, one at the 1996 Summer Olympics and two at the 2000 Summer Olympics. His personal best for the 400 m was 44.56 seconds....
, Jamaican track athlete - Moyra Haughton, wife of James Chichester-ClarkJames Chichester-ClarkJames Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL was the penultimate Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and eighth leader of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1969 and March 1971. He was Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for South Londonderry for 12 years beginning at the by-election...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland - Rosemary HaughtonRosemary HaughtonRosemary Luling Haughton is a British-born Roman Catholic lay woman theologian, now resident in the USA. Mother of ten and author of many books including The Passionate God and The Catholic Thing....
, theologian - Samuel HaughtonSamuel HaughtonSamuel Haughton was an Irish scientific writer.-Biography:He was born in Carlow, the son of James Haughton ....
, Irish geologist - Sydney H. Haughton, English geologist
- William HaughtonWilliam HaughtonWilliam Haughton was an English playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. During the years 1597 to 1602 he collaborated in many plays with Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, John Day, Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith....
, English playwright
Other
- Haughton v. SmithHaughton v. SmithHaughton v Smith, [1975] AC 476, [1973] 3 All ER 1109, [1974] 3 W.L.R. 1 was a case heard in the House of Lords, which held that it was impossible to commit the crime of handling stolen goods where the goods in question were not in fact stolen; nor could an offence of attempting to handle stolen...
- an important British legal case - Haughton-Mars ProjectHaughton-Mars ProjectThe Haughton–Mars Project is an international interdisciplinary field research project being carried out near the Haughton impact crater on Canada's northern Devon Island. human-centered computing studies are aimed at determining how human explorers might live and work on other planetary...
- a major geological project