Kingston Sentence Examples

In this aspect the principal extension of London has been into the counties of Kent and Surrey, to the pleasant hilly districts about Sydenham, Norwood and Croydon, Chislehurst and Orpington, Caterham, Redhill and Reigate, Epsom, Dorking and Leatherhead; and up the valley of the Thames through Richmond to Kingston and Surbiton, Esher and Weybridge, and the many townships on both the Surrey and the Middlesex shores of the river.

The American commodore was now able to blockade the British flotilla at Kingston.

To Sir William Kingston she protested her entire innocence, and on the scaffold while expressing her submission she made no confession.

He became tutor to the son of Sir William Hickes, and was eventually glad to accept the patronage of William Pierrepont, earl of Kingston, whose kindly offer of a chaplaincy he had refused earlier.

Sackett's Harbor was the starting-point of a force of 700 men under a Pole named von Schultz, who in November 1838, during the uprising in Upper Canada (Ontario) attempted to invade Canada, was taken prisoner near Prescott, was tried at Kingston, being defended by Sir John Macdonald, and with nine of his followers was executed in Kingston in December.

Flowing past Hampton Court, opposite to which it receives the Mole on the right, and past Kingston (202),(202), it reaches Teddington (184).

Kingston House, long the seat of the dukes of Kingston, is a beautiful example of early 17th-century domestic architecture.

He was on intimate terms with apologists for assassination; there is some evidence that he favoured a project for the massacre of the Irish peers while in procession to the House of Lords for the trial of Lord Kingston in May 1798.

Valley gravel borders the Thames, with some interruptions, from Kingston to Greenwich, and extends to a wide belt, with ramifications, from Wandsworth south to Croydon, and in a narrower line from Greenwich towards Bromley.

Wyat took possession of Southwark, and expected to have been admitted into London; but finding the gates shut against him and the drawbridge cut down he marched to Kingston, the bridge at which place had been destroyed.

The principal Canadian ports are Kingston, at the head of the St Lawrence river; Toronto, where the harbour is formed by an island with improved entrance channels constructed both east and west of it; and Hamilton, at the head of the lake, situated on a landlocked lagoon, connected with the main lake by Burlington channel, an artificial cut.

At Kingston the Rideau canal, extending 128 m.

On the death of his father in 924, at some date after the 12th of November, Ethelstan succeeded him and was crowned at Kingston shortly after.

He was crowned at Kingston by Archbishop Odo, and his troubles began at the coronation feast.

These machines were soon adapted to the spinning of wool, and in 1804 a woollen factory was built at Peacedale, South Kingston.

West Indies And British Crown Colonies In Jamaica the Columbian Magazine was founded at Kingston in 1796 and ceased publication in 1800.

Hopeless of the attempt he resigned his commission and embarked for Kingston, Jamaica, in May 1814.

From Kingston Bolivar went to Aux Cayes in Haiti, where he was furnished with a small force by President Petion.

In 1733 he had established a press in Charleston, South Carolina, and soon after did the same in Lancaster, Pa., in New Haven, Conn., in New York, in Antigua, in Kingston, Jamaica, and in other places.

The first state constitution, adopted by a convention at Kingston, made few changes in the provincial system other than those necessary to establish it on a popular basis, but the powers of the governor were curtailed, especially his powers of appointment and veto.

Clinton met with little difficulty from the principal American defences of the Highlands, consisting of Forts Montgomery and Clinton on the western bank, together with a huge chain and boom stretched across the river to a precipitous mountain (Anthony's Nose) on the opposite bank, and ascended as far as Esopus (now Kingston) which he burned, but he was too late to aid Burgoyne.

The family emigrated to Canada in 1820, settling first at Kingston, Ontario.

At the age of fifteen Macdonald entered a law office; he was called to the bar in 1836, and began practice in Kingston, with immediate success.

In 1844 Sir Charles Metcalfe, in his contest with the Reform party led by Baldwin and Lafontaine, appealed to the electors, and Macdonald was elected to the provincial assembly as Conservative member for Kingston.

For forty-six years of a stormy political life he remained true to the cardinal policy that he had announced to the electors of Kingston in 1844.

Kingston is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Lehigh Valley railways.

Kingston (at first called "Kingstown," from Kings Towne, Rhode Island) was commonly known in its early days as the "Forty Township," because the first permanent settlement was made by forty pioneers from Connecticut, who were sent out by the Susquehanna Company and took possession of the district in its name in 1769.

Kingston was incorporated as a borough in 1857.

The exports, chiefly to the United States, include salt, sponges and sisal hemp. Grand Turk is in cable communication with Bermuda and with Kingston, Jamaica, some 420 m.

During the same year Dr Stuart of Kingston died and was succeeded by his son George O'Kill Stuart, incumbent at York, the capital of the province.

Esquimalt, Halifax, Kingston (Ont.) and Quebec have wellequipped graving-docks.

At Kingston (Ont.) is the Royal Military College, to the successful graduates of which a certain number of commissions in the British service is annually awarded.

He knew how to control the ferocious Iroquois, who had cut off France from access to Lake Ontario; to check them he had built a fort where now stands the city of Kingston.

Al' Gill University at Montreal has been enlarged and splendidly endowed by the munificence of a few private individuals; Toronto University by the provincial legislature of Ontario; Queen's University at Kingston largely by the support of its own graduates and friends.

In 1696 the first church charter in New York was granted to the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (now the Collegiate Church) of New York City; at this time there were Dutch ministers at Albany and Kingston, on Long Island and in New Jersey; and for years the Dutch and English (Episcopalian) churches alone received charters in New York and New Jersey - the Dutch church being treated practically as an establishment - and the church of the fort and Trinity (Episcopalian; chartered 1697) were fraternally harmonious.

Kingston was held at the east end of Ontario.

Sound reasoning would have led the Americans to direct their chief attacks on Kingston and Montreal, since success at those points would have isolated the British posts on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron.

On Ontario the Americans pushed on their preparations at Sackett's Harbour under Isaac Chauncey; the English were similarly engaged at Kingston.

At the conquest Wimborne was a royal borough, ancient demesne of the crown, and part of the manor of Kingston Lacy, which Henry I.

The town was governed until the 19th century by two bailiffs, chosen annually at a court le g it of the royal manor o Wimborne borough, part of the manor of Kingston Lacy.

Kingston Academy was organized in 1773, and in 1864 was transferred to the Kingston Board of Education and became part of the city's public school system; its present building dates from 1806.

Kingston's principal manufactures are tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, street railway cars and boats; other manufactures are Rosendale cement, bricks, shirts, lace curtains, brushes, motor wheels, sash and blinds.

In 1777 the convention which drafted the new state constitution met in Kingston, and during part of the year Kingston was the seat of the new state government.

In 1908 the body of George Clinton was removed from Washington, D.C., and reinterred in Kingston on the 250th anniversary of the building of the stockade.

In 1787 Kingston was one of the places contemplated as a site for the national capital.

Canals of Greenwich 88 Longitude West important cities are Ottawa (the capital of the Dominion) (59,9 28 in 1 9 01), Hamilton (52,634), London (37,981), Kingston (17,961).

The others are Queen's University, Kingston (Presbyterian); the Western University, London (Anglican); and the university of Ottawa (Roman Catholic).

At Kingston it supports a dairy school and a large school of mining.

Thereafter for almost twenty years, Ontario was traversed only by wandering bands of trappers, chiefly belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company; but in 1782 bands of American loyalists began to occupy the fertile country along the Bay of Quinte, and in the Niagara peninsula, the first settlement being made in 1782 at Kingston.

Ross (q.v.), higher education was aided and a school of practical science established in Toronto and of mining in Kingston; agriculture was fostered, .and an excellent agricultural college founded at Guelph in 1874.

He was admitted to the bar and began to practise law at Kingston, N.Y.

Towards the west, along the Upper Richmond and Kingston roads, there is considerable open country, undulating and well wooded.

The township was incorporated in 1637; it originally included Bridgewater and parts of Pembroke and Kingston.

Here is the Protestant Kingston College, a home for poor gentlefolk, founded by James, Lord Kingston, in 1760.

The seat of the earls of Kingston was built in 1823.

The defences had been strengthened, a fort was built at Cataraqui (now Kingston), Ontario, bearing the governor's name, and conditions of peace had been fairly maintained between the Iroquois on the one hand and the French and their allies, the Ottawas and the Hurons, on the other.

Surbiton is the headquarters of the Kingston Rowing Club and the Thames Sailing Club.

Within The Kingston Suite smart casual attire is required.

A planning brief has been presented to Kingston council, which controls the Chessington area.

He also makes Kingston Black cider and sells bottled ciders.

A Small Business Council discussion paper drawn from a report commissioned from Kingston University ' Measuring Training in Small Firms ' .

The hi-tech courtroom being unveiled today at Kingston marks a key milestone.

He served his first curacy at St Nicholas, Kingston upon Hull in the Diocese of York.

Pages about related topics Some photos I took of a World War II bombing decoy near Kingston upon Hull.

In Hull, however, Kingston Communications charges £ 5 per annum to go ex-directory.

We also have the fiche for Croydon, Kingston and Richmond.

Well, for a start, many Kingston people believe debt slavery is totally immoral.

The Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University, Professor Peter Scott, will deliver the final keynote of the conference.

By Post Make checks payable to Kingston Corporation and crossed ' A/C payee only ' .

General Information Before the ceremony On arrival at the Kingston Suite, University Ushers will direct graduands and guests to their allocated seating.

Mark Kingston was once a light welterweight amateur boxer, although he admits that nowadays he probably weighs nearer twelve stone.

The first group arrived on the 8th of February, the first division of the larger body on the 12th of May, and the five original towns of WilkesBarre (q.v.), Kingston, Hanover, 2 Plymouth and Pittston were soon founded.

On the 3rd of July 1778, while a considerable number of the able-bodied men were absent in the Connecticut service, a motley force of about 400 men and boys under Colonel Zebulon Butler were attacked and defeated near Kingston in the "battle of Wyoming" by about I 100 British, Provincial (Tory) and Indian troops under Major John Butler, and nearly three-fourths were killed or taken prisoners and subsequently massacred.

In 1877 Grant was appointed principal of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, which through his exertions and influence expanded from a small denominational college into a large and influential educational centre; and he attracted to it an exceptionally able body of professors whose influence in speculation and research was widely felt during the quarter of a century that he remained at its head.

Grant did not live to see the conclusion of peace, his death occurring at Kingston on the 10th of May 1902.

Macdonald made his first acquaintance with public business as an alderman of Kingston.

Paulowitz (1813), Cain (1822), Ion (1835), Wild Dayrell (1852), and his son Buccaneer (1857) bring down Sir Paul's blood; whilst Walton is represented through Phantom (1806), Partisan (1811) and his sons Glaucus (1829) and Venison (1833) and Gladiator (1833), Venison's sons Alarm (1842) and Kingston (1849), Gladiator's son Sweetmeat (1842), Sweetmeat's sons Macaroni (1860) and Parmesan (1857), and Parmesan's sons Favonius (1868) and Cremorne (1869).

The house is ideally located moments from local shops and within easy reach of the many amenities of Kingston town center.

With new " reparation orders " Kingston magistrates can soon require vandals to clean up graffiti mess.

Kingston Maurward is signposted from the roundabout at the Eastern end of the Dorchester bypass.

McGovern had a smear test early in 2000 at Kingston hospital.

Computer memory module manufacturer's like Kingston and Crucial also have pull-down menus that provide this information, as well as other information regarding your particular computer's needs.

A Chesterfield bookcase with sliding wooden doors and a gorgeous Kingston hall tree bench are also pieces suited to easily matching function with many different styles.

However, the term was also recorded in Jamaica's Kingston newspaper, "The Gleaner," on December 18th 1999.

Sean Paul was born Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques in Kingston, Jamaica on January 9, 1973.

He grew up in St. Andrew's Parish, just north of Kingston, relatively insulated from the poverty that is rife in Kingston.

Entries discuss everything from Gwen Stefani's struggle to balance her career with caring for her son Kingston to the plans Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have made for baby Suri's first Christmas.

The seasonal sailings depart from Kingston, New York and cruise past million-dollar mansions, historic lighthouses, sleepy villages and bountiful local vineyards.

The company has been in business for more than 30 years and departs from Kingston, New York.

Dr. Kang Lee of the Department of Psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, observed young children telling so-called "white lies" to avoid disappointing the researcher.

Instead, tracks included Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne, Thunder by Boys Like Girls and Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston.

The 1914 uniform, which is currently on display at Girl Scout Camp Hoffman in West Kingston, RI, consisted of a khaki color blouse and skirt, a kerchief style tie and a wide brimmed hat with a GS logo pin on the front center.

Part of Plymouth was established as Plympton in 1707, and part as Kingston in 1726.