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People
- Angela LonsdaleAngela LonsdaleAngela Lonsdale , is an English actress.Born to a policeman father, Lonsdale's passion for acting was showcased in the Brewery Youth Theatre at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal. Working behind the box office, Lonsdale's talent was nurtured by the then Arts Centre Director, Anne Pierson...
- Bruce LonsdaleBruce LonsdaleBruce Lonsdale was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1982...
- Christopher LonsdaleChristopher LonsdaleChristopher Windley Lonsdale, was born in Thornthwaite, Cumberland, England in 1886 and died in 1952 at Parksville, British Columbia, on Canada's Vancouver Island. He was the founder and first headmaster of Shawnigan Lake School in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia on Vancouver Island.He was the...
- Corrine LonsdaleCorrine LonsdaleCorrine Lonsdale was the mayor of the District of Squamish, British Columbia, Canada from 1993–2002, and is currently a councillor. She worked as an employee of the Royal Bank for 30 years. In the most recent election she received the most votes for councillor.Mrs...
- David LonsdaleDavid LonsdaleDavid Lonsdale is an English actor. Until 2010 Lonsdale played David Stockwell in the long running television series Heartbeat. He also played Peter Barlow in Coronation Street in 1986 and appeared in a minor role as a repo man in the 1997 feature film The Full Monty...
- Derrick LonsdaleDerrick LonsdaleDerrick Lonsdale M.D., Fellow of the American Collegeof Nutrition , Fellow of the American College for Advancement in Medicine is a pediatrician and researcher into the benefits of certain nutrients in preventing disease and psychotic behavior...
- Earl of LonsdaleEarl of LonsdaleEarl of Lonsdale is a title that has been created twice in British history, firstly in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1784 , and then in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1807, both times for members of the Lowther family....
- Edmund LonsdaleEdmund LonsdaleEdmund Lonsdale was an Australian politician. Born in Morpeth, New South Wales, he was schooled in Maitland before becoming a bricklayer, builder and contractor. He was also an alderman on Armidale Shire Council...
- Frederick LonsdaleFrederick LonsdaleFrederick Lonsdale was an English dramatist.-Personal life:Lonsdale was born Lionel Frederick Leonard in St Helier, Jersey, the son of Susan and John Henry Leonard, a tobacconist. He began as a private soldier and worked for the London and South Western Railway...
, English dramatist - Gordon Arnold Lonsdale
- Gordon Lonsdale
- Harvey Lonsdale ElmesHarvey Lonsdale ElmesHarvey Lonsdale Elmes , the son of James Elmes, was born in Chichester, England. He was a distinguished architect....
- Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of LonsdaleHugh Lowther, 5th Earl of LonsdaleHugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, KG, GCVO was an English nobleman.-Biography:The second son of the 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, he succeeded his brother, the 4th Earl, in 1882. Lord Lonsdale was an avid sportsman and bon vivant and was known by some as "England's greatest sporting gentleman"...
- James Lowther, 1st Earl of LonsdaleJames Lowther, 1st Earl of LonsdaleSir James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale was the son of Robert Lowther and Catherine Pennington.He married Mary Crichton-Stuart, daughter of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and Mary Wortley-Montagu, 1st Baroness Mount Stuart on 7 September 1761.On 9 June 1792 he fought a duel with a Captain Cuthbert...
- Kathleen LonsdaleKathleen LonsdaleDame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE FRS was a crystallographer, who established the structure of benzene by X-ray diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by Fourier spectral methods in 1931...
- Lonsdale Baronets
- Michael LonsdaleMichael LonsdaleMichael Lonsdale , sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows....
, a French actor - William Lonsdale (colonist)William Lonsdale (colonist)William Lonsdale supervised the founding of the official settlement at Port Phillip from 1836 and went on to serve under the Superintendent La Trobe from 1839 to 1854.-Early life:...
- William LonsdaleWilliam LonsdaleWilliam Lonsdale , English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals.-Biography:...
Places
Australia- Lonsdale Street, MelbourneLonsdale Street, MelbourneLonsdale Street is located in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid, it runs roughly east-west. Lonsdale Street's eastern end intersects with Spring Street while its western end intersects with Spencer Street. It is home to multiple office buildings, courts,...
- Lonsdale, South AustraliaLonsdale, South AustraliaLonsdale is an industrial suburb located south of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Onkaparinga.Lonsdale was farmed from shortly after European settlement until the 1950s, when the South Australian Housing Trust acquired much of the land for industrial use...
, an industrial suburb of Adelaide- Lonsdale railway station
- Point Lonsdale, VictoriaPoint Lonsdale, VictoriaPoint Lonsdale is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, and included in the Borough of Queenscliffe. Point Lonsdale is also one of the headlands which, with Point Nepean, frame The Rip, the entrance to Port Phillip. The headland is dominated by the...
Canada
- Lonsdale QuayLonsdale QuayLonsdale Quay is a major transit hub for Vancouver's North Shore municipalities, as well as a public market and tourist destination. Located at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue in the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, it is the northern terminal for the SeaBus passenger ferry...
, Vancouver, British Columbia - Lonsdale TunnelLonsdale TunnelThe Lonsdale Tunnel is a freight railway tunnel in North Vancouver, British Columbia, running under Lonsdale Avenue, and running parallel to Esplanade Ave between St...
, North Vancouver, British Columbia - Lower LonsdaleLower LonsdaleLower Lonsdale is a historic waterfront neighbourhood in the City of North Vancouver. Lower Lonsdale runs up Lonsdale Avenue from Lonsdale Quay to Keith Road. Its history is inseparably connected to the lumber and shipbuilding industries on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, as well as ferry...
, North Vancouver - North Vancouver-LonsdaleNorth Vancouver-LonsdaleNorth Vancouver-Lonsdale is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.For other current and historical North Shore and City of Vancouver ridings, please see Vancouver - Demographics :...
, a provincial electoral district in British Columbia - Upper LonsdaleUpper LonsdaleUpper Lonsdale is a suburban area in both the City and District of North Vancouver. This area runs north of Highway 1 to the corner of Lonsdale and Rockland...
, North Vancouver
United Kingdom
- Kirkby LonsdaleKirkby LonsdaleKirkby Lonsdale is a small town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune. Historically within Westmorland, it is situated south east of Kendal along the A65. The parish had a population of 1,771 recorded in the 2001 census.Notable buildings include St...
, a small town in Cumbria, England - Lonsdale (hundred)Lonsdale (hundred)Lonsdale was a hundred of Lancashire, England. For many decades, it covered most of the northwestern part of Lancashire around Morecambe Bay, including the detached part around Furness, and the city of Lancaster....
, a hundred of the English county of Lancashire through which the River Lune flows - Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)Lonsdale was a county constituency in north Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post system.-Members of Parliament:...
- Lonsdale CollegeLonsdale CollegeLonsdale College is a constituent college of the University of Lancaster, UK. It was one of the two founding colleges, built when the university first opened in 1964. It is also one of the largest colleges on campus in terms of Junior Common Room membership, with over 1,200 JCR members...
, a college of Lancaster University - Lonsdale SquareLonsdale SquareLonsdale Square is a traditional London square in Barnsbury, North London, England.The square consists of tall brick town houses with distinctive steep gables, mullioned windows in white, arched front doors, and black railings...
, London - Morecambe and Lunesdale (UK Parliament constituency) ("Morecambe and Lonsdale", 1950-1983)
- North Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)North Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)North Lonsdale was a parliamentary constituency in north Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
- North Lonsdale Rural DistrictNorth Lonsdale Rural DistrictNorth Lonsdale was a rural district in the county of Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894 as the Ulverston Rural District, and was renamed in 1960....
- Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)Westmorland and Lonsdale is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
United States
- Lonsdale, ArkansasLonsdale, ArkansasLonsdale is a town in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the 'Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 118 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lonsdale is located at ....
- Lonsdale, MinnesotaLonsdale, MinnesotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 1,491 people, 560 households, and 394 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,127.3 people per square mile . There were 577 housing units at an average density of 436.2 per square mile...
- Lonsdale (Knoxville, Tennessee)Lonsdale (Knoxville, Tennessee)Lonsdale is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, located northwest of the city's downtown area. Established in the late-19th century as a land development project, Lonsdale incorporated as a separate city in 1907, and was annexed by Knoxville in 1917...
- Lonsdale, Rhode IslandLonsdale, Rhode IslandLonsdale is a village and historic district in Lincoln and Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, near Rhode Island Route 146 and Route 95. The village was originally part of the town of Smithfield until Lincoln was created in the 1870s. William Blaxton settled in the area in...
Other
- A vitola of cigarCigarA cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and the Eastern...
named after the 5th Earl of Lonsdale - Lonsdale (clothing), a clothing company
- Lonsdale (car)Lonsdale (car)Lonsdale was a marque of car sold in the United Kingdom by Mitsubishi Motors between 1982 and 1983. It took its name from the industrial suburb of Lonsdale in Adelaide, South Australia where Mitsubishi Australia had an engine production facility. The only car sold under this brand was the Lonsdale,...
, a defunct automobile brand - Lonsdale beltLonsdale beltThe Lonsdale Belt was a boxing prize introduced by Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, to be awarded to British boxing champions. It is still awarded to British champions today.-National Sporting Club:...
- Lonsdale CupLonsdale CupThe Lonsdale Cup is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at York over a distance of 2 miles and 88 yards , and it is scheduled to take place each year in August....