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• Rowton Houses — were a chain of hostels built in London, England by the Victorian philanthropist Lord Rowton to provide decent accommodation for working men in place of the squalid lodging houses of the time.George Orwell, in Down Out In Paris and London , wrote …   Wikipedia

• Rowton Moor — (spr. raut n mūr), s. Chester 1) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• Rowton Houses — Les Rowton Houses étaient une chaîne de pensions pour travailleurs célibataires, construites à Londres par le philanthrope victorien Lord Rowton. Elles visaient à fournir un logement décent aux travailleurs célibataires, pour qui aucune forme de… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Rowton house — n. Brit. hist. a type of lodging house for poor men, providing better conditions than a common lodging house. Etymology: Lord Rowton, English social reformer d. 1903 …   Useful english dictionary

• ROWTON HEATH —    in the vicinity of Chester, scene of a great Parliamentary victory over the forces of Charles I. in September 1645 …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton — The Right Honourable The Lord Rowton KCVO, CB, PC, DL Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Rowton Heath — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Rowton Heath caption=Rowton Moor Battle Site partof=English Civil War date=September 24, 1645 place=near Chester, Cheshire result=Parliamentarian victory combatant1=Parliamentarians… …   Wikipedia

• Gill, Eric Arthur Rowton Peter Joseph — (2/22/1882 Brighton 11/17/1940 London) (England); aka Gill, Arthur Eric Rowton Peter Joseph    Sculptor, woodcut printmaker, engraver, typeface designer, and printer. Major British artist of the first half of the 20th century. Trained at the… …   Dictionary of erotic artists: painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers and illustrators

• Gill, (Arthur) Eric (Rowton) — ▪ British artist and printer born Feb. 22, 1882, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. died Nov. 17, 1940, Uxbridge, Middlesex       British sculptor, engraver, typographic designer, and writer, especially known for his elegantly styled lettering and typefaces… …   Universalium

• Раутон-Хит — (Rowton Heath) Гражданская война в Англии Место сражения 24 сент. 1645, когда отряд роялистской конницы под командованием сэра Мармадьюка Лангдейла, который пытался помешать осаде Чичестера, был атакован парламентской конницей ген. Пойнца. Атака… …   Энциклопедия битв мировой истории