Spalding

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Spalding may refer to:

Contents 1 Place names 1.1 In Australia 1.2 In England 1.3 In the United States 2 Persons 3 Other 4 See also

[edit] Place names

[edit] In Australia

• Spalding, South Australia, a town north of the Clare Valley
• Spalding, Western Australia, a suburb of Geraldton.

[edit] In England

• Spalding, Lincolnshire
• Spalding Rural District, a rural district in Holland in Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1974
• Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire

[edit] In the United States

• Spalding, Idaho
• Spalding, Nebraska
• Spalding County, Georgia
• Spalding Township, Michigan
• Spalding Township, Minnesota

[edit] Persons

• Albert Spalding (1850–1915), American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
• Albert Spalding (violinist) (1888–1953), American composer and leading concert violinist
• Baird Thomas Spalding (1857–1953), English-American author
• Burleigh Folsom Spalding (1853–1934), Chief Justice of North Dakota
• Mother Catherine Spalding (1793-1858) was an influential American Roman Catholic nun
• Charles H. "Dick" Spalding, American soccer player
• Douglas Spalding (1840–1877), English biologist
• Esta Spalding (1966-present), a Canadian author and poet
• George Spalding (1836–1915), U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Henry H. Spalding (1803–1843), U.S. Presbyterian missionary, established the Lapwai Mission in 1836 in what is now Idaho
• John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916), first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria (1877–1908)
• John M. Spalding (20th century), American soldier, decorated for actions during D-Day
• Linda Spalding (born 25 June 1943), a Canadian writer and editor
• Peter Spalding (14th century), helped followers of Robert the Bruce enter and seize the town of Berwick from the English.
• Phil Spalding (born 19 November 1957 in London) is an English bass player
• Phinizy Spalding (1930-1994), American Historian
• Solomon Spalding (1761–1816), American clergyman, businessman, and author
• Thomas Spalding (U.S. Rep) (1774-1851), a United States Representative from Georgia
• William Spalding (1809–1859), Scottish author
• Spalding Gray (1941–2004), American actor, screenwriter, and playwright
• Martin John Spalding, bishop of Baltimore

[edit] Other

• Clan Spalding, Scottish Sept of Clan Murray
• Spalding (sports equipment), American manufacturer of sports equipment
• Spalding railway station serves the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
• Spalding College, a private, non-profit career university in Louisville, Kentucky
• Spalding Elementary School in Collegedale, Tennessee, USA
• Spalding Grammar School, a selective school on Priory Road in Spalding, Linconshire, England
• Spalding Harriers Football Club, a football club based in Monkshouse Lane in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
• Spalding High School, the name of several high schools
• Spalding Method, a program for teaching students to read by first teaching them to write
• Spalding Rockwell is a punk/electro/pop band
• Spalding Priory, a small Benedictine house founded as a cell of Croyland Abbey in 1052
• Spalding United F.C., a football club based in Spalding, Linconshire, England
• Spalding v Gamage is a leading decision of the House of Lords on the tort of passing off
• King & Spalding, American law firm in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Spalding rubber ball A pink rubber ball, a tennis ball without the fuzz, that was ubiquitously available to children in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and has recently been re-introduced. (a/k/a 'Spaldeen')

[edit] See also

• Spaulding (disambiguation)