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Chelsea also gives its name to nearby locations, such as Chelsea Harbour in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and Chelsea Barracks in the City of Westminster. Chelsea includes large parts of the SW3 and SW10 postal districts, and a small section of SW1. This former fashionable village was absorbed into London during the eighteenth ...
Phyllis Calvert (actress) was born in Chelsea; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (Wife of Prince William) (Old Church Street) Thomas Carlyle the "Sage of Chelsea" (24 Cheyne Row – now National Trust House) Christian the lion; Dame Agatha Christie; Eric Clapton (lived on King's Road during the late 1960s) Petula Clark (lived at 4 Royal Avenue in ...
The City of Chelsea was a local government area about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, on the eastern side of Port Phillip. The city covered an area of 12.23 square kilometres (4.72 sq mi), and existed from 1920 until 1994.
1955–1956 Arthur J Sims - later first mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; 1956–1957 Arthur J Sims (second term) 1957–1958 Basil Futvoye Marsden-Smedley; 1958–1959 Basil Marsden-Smedley (second term) 1959–1960 Katharine Acland [50] 1960–1961 Katharine Acland (second term) [50] 1961–1962 John Stewart Tatton-Brown
From 1964 to 1969 he was the mayor of Chelsea. He then represented the 16th Suffolk district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1969 to 1971. [4] During the administration of mayor Kevin White, Slater served as the assistant corporation counsel for the City of Boston. He then served as assistant counsel to the Massachusetts ...
During the 1990s, he was involved in a bitter dispute with Chelsea benefactor and vice-chairman, Matthew Harding, over the club's direction, which led to Harding's being banned from the Chelsea boardroom. The dispute was ultimately ended by Harding's death in a helicopter crash in October 1996. Bates sparked further controversy the following ...
The ancient parish was originally dedicated to All Saints, but by the late 17th century it had been rededicated to St Luke.It was in the Diocese of London.In 1824 a new parish church was built in the centre of the parish, it was also dedicated to St Luke and the original parish church became a chapel-at-ease known as All Saints, Chelsea or Chelsea Old Church. [1]
Chelsea Football Club was founded by Gus Mears in 1905. After his death in 1912, his descendants continued to own the club until 1982, when Ken Bates bought the club from Mears' great-nephew Brian Mears for £1. Bates bought a controlling stake in the club and floated Chelsea on the AIM stock exchange in March 1996. [26]