Bolingbroke
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Bolingbroke is the name of:
- Henry IV of England, also known as Henry of Bolingbroke
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), a Tory party Jacobite grandee and British statesman
- other Lords Bolingbroke bearing the title Earl of Bolingbroke or Viscount Bolingbroke
- Roger Bolingbroke (died 18 November 1441), a 15th-century English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer
Bolingbroke may be a place:
- Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, Old Bolingbroke, a village where Bolingbroke Castle is located
- New Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, a different village
- Bolingbroke, Georgia
- In fiction:
- Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia, fictional birthplace of Anne Shirley of the Anne of Green Gables series of books (based on New London, Prince Edward Island, the author's actual birthplace[5][6])
Bolingbroke may also mean:
- Bristol Bolingbroke, the initial name of the fighter project that became the Bristol Blenheim World War II fighter-bomber
- Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke, a later wartime Canadian variant of the Blenheim
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrea de Porti, Les grands explorateurs, p. 13
- ↑
- ↑ Fergus Fleming, Ninety Degrees North, p. 232—233
- ↑ Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, p. 518 (Vol. II)
- ↑ lmm-anne.net: The Geography of Anne of the Island
- ↑ lmm-anne.net: Birthplace of L. M. Montgomery, New London
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