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BECKENHAM , an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Sevenoaks See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, to m. S.S.E. of See also:London by the See also:South Eastern & See also:Chatham railway. Pop. (1881) 13,045; (1901) 26,331. It is a See also:long straggling See also:parish extending from the western See also:tower of the Crystal See also:Palace almost to the south end of See also:Bromley, and contains the residential suburb of See also:Short-lands. Its rapid increase in See also:size in the last See also:decade of the 19th See also:century was owing to the popularity which it attained as a See also:place of See also:residence for London business men. It retains, however, some of its rural See also:character, and has wide thoroughfares and many handsome residences See also:standing in extensive grounds. See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV.'s See also:Naval See also:Asylum was endowed by See also:Queen See also:Adelaide for 12 widows of naval See also:officers. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:George was built in 1866 on the site of an See also:ancient Perpendicular church. Some 16th-century See also:brasses, an See also:altar See also:tomb and a See also:piscina were removed hither from the old church. The tower of the church was completed in 1903, and furnished with two bells in memory of See also:Cecil See also:Rhodes, in addition to the old bells, one of which See also:dates from 1624.
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