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The town of Wingham, New South Wales settled in 1841, was named after Wingham in Kent and was originally laid out in a similar way. [ 12 ] Wingham Wildlife Park is a zoo northeast from the village which houses animals such as tigers , snakes , penguins , lemurs , crocodiles , meerkats , tapirs , monkeys , flamingos , reindeer , and wolves .
The Palmer Baronetcy, of Wingham in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1621 for Thomas Palmer. [1] The third Baronet was High Sheriff of Kent in 1691. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Kent and Rochester. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1838.
Thomas Palmer was the third son of Sir Henry Palmer of Wingham, Kent, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Windebank of Guisnes, and was nephew of Sir Thomas Palmer (died 1553) and Abbess Katherine Palmer of Syon Abbey. [2] He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1595, and in the following year went on the expedition to Cadiz, when he was knighted.
Arms of Palmer of Wingham: Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable [1] Sir Thomas Palmer (died 22 August 1553) was an English soldier and courtier. His testimony was crucial in the final downfall of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset in 1551–1552.
Arms of Palmer of Wingham: Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable [1] Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Wingham (5 July 1682 – 8 November 1723) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1723.
The Old Canonry, Wingham. Possibly one of the residences for the Canons of the College. In 1282 a College of Canons was founded by John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury. The college originally consisted of a Provost and six canons, and they used St Mary's as their church.
In the 1870s, Preston-next-Wingham was described as: "A village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent. The village stands on a rising-ground, above the marshes of the Little Stour river, 1½mile S E of Grove-Ferry r. station, and 6¾ E N E of Canterbury; bears the name of Preston-street, and has a postal pillar-box under Wingham".
Baron Cowper of Wingham in the County of Kent, 1706 Earl Cowper and Viscount Fordwich, in the County of Kent, 1718: Elizabeth Culling (1676–1703) William Cowper (1665–1723) 1st Earl Cowper, 1st Viscount Fordwich, 3rd Baronet of Ratling Court: 1) Judith Booth (d. 1705) 2) Mary Clavering (1685–1724) Samuel Cowper (1666) John Cowper (1667 ...