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Manchester was named in honour of William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester, the then Governor of Jamaica. He was governor for 19 years, setting the record as the longest-serving governor of the island. The capital town, Mandeville, established in 1816, was named after his eldest son, Lord Mandeville.
Mandeville (Jamaican Patois: Mandivl) is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica.In 2005, the town had an estimated population of 50,000, and including the immediate suburbs within a radius of 16 km (9.9 mi) the total population was about 72,000.
Mead, 85, of Dobbins Lane in Wendover, was attacked in her home by two men in late April 2003. She was found semi-conscious in her kitchen by a family friend on 28 April and died on 13 May in Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Mead gave a description of one of her attackers before she died: he was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall, slim, had a narrow face ...
Stoke Mandeville Games; Maura Strange This page was last edited on 4 August 2019, at 18:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
"The beloved singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett passed away at his home in Sag Harbor, Long Island on Friday September 1, 2023 surrounded by family and friends. Buffett, 76, had been fighting Merkel ...
On 23 October 2012, two registered charities, the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust and the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust, set up to "provide funds for the relief of poverty and sickness and other charitable purposes beneficial to the community", announced they would close and have their funds redistributed to other charities. [104]
Smith was born in Manchester, Jamaica.His musical career began at the age of twelve, when he performed under the name Little Bimbo. [1] During the 1980s he worked as a deejay on sound systems such as Conquering Lion, Soul Remembrance, Pepper's Disco, Stereophonic, and Destiny Outernational (where he first met Tony Rebel). [1]