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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EALING , a municipal See also:

borough in the Ealing See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Middlesex, See also:England, suburban to See also:London, 9 M. W. of St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral. Pop. (1891) 23,979; (1901) 33,031. The See also:nucleus of the See also:town, the See also:ancient See also:village, lies See also:south of the highroad to See also:Uxbridge, See also:west of the open Ealing See also:Common. The See also:place is wholly residential. At St See also:Mary's See also:church, almost wholly rebuilt c. 1870, are buried See also:John Oldmixon, the historian (d. 1742), and See also:Horne See also:Tooke (d.1812). The church of All See also:Saints (1905) commemorates See also:Spencer See also:Perceval, See also:prime See also:minister, who was assassinated in the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1812. It was erected under the will of his daughter Frederica, a See also:resident of Ealing. Gunners-See also:bury See also:Park, south of Ealing Common, is a handsome See also:Italian See also:mansion.

Among former owners of the See also:

property was Princess Amelia, daughter of See also:George II., who lived here from 1761 till her See also:death in 1786. The name of Gunnersbury is said to be traceable to the See also:residence here of Gunilda, niece of See also:King Canute. The See also:manor of Ealing See also:early belonged to the see of London; but it is not mentioned in Domesday and its See also:history is obscure.

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