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n. 1 A place name. 2 (surname habitational from=Old English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 55
Land area (2000): 0.235021 sq. miles (0.608702 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.235021 sq. miles (0.608702 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00450
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.243206 N, 97.966591 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Addington
Wikipedia
Addington may refer to:
Addington was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904.
It was created in the British North America Act of 1867.
The County of Addington consisted of the Townships of Camden, Portland, Sheffield, Hinchinbrooke, Kaladar, Kennebec, Olden, Oso, Angelsea, Barrie, Clarendon, Palmerston, Effingham, Abinger, Miller, Canonto, Denbigh, Loughborough, and Bedford.
In 1882, the township of Ashby was added to the riding.
The electoral district was abolished in 1903 when it was merged into Lennox and Addington riding.
Addington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anthony Addington (1713–1790), English physician and writer
- Crandell Addington (born 1938), American poker player, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker
- David Addington (born 1957), American lawyer, formerly chief of staff to Dick Cheney
- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804
- Henry Unwin Addington (1790–1870), British diplomat and civil servant
- Isaac Addington (1645–1719), functionary of various colonial governments of Massachusetts
- John Hiley Addington (1759–1818), British politician
- Stephen Addington (1729–1796), English dissenting clergyman and teacher
- Steve Addington (born 1964), American NASCAR crew chief
- Tom Addington (1919–2011), British Army soldier
- William Addington, 3rd Viscount Sidmouth (1824–1913), British politician
Addington was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1867 at the time of confederation and was abolished in 1954 before the 1955 election.
Usage examples of "addington".
Linois vanished behind the foresail of the Addington as the Surprise glided into her place in the centre of the line.
Poised at the break of the quarterdeck he checked the position once more: the Surprise prise had already passed three ships, the Addington, Bombay castle and Camden, moving up in the opposite direction towards their turning-point.
English critics, like John Addington Symonds, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edward Dowden, have testified to the power of the democratic element in our literature and have given the dictum that it cannot be neglected.
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), a graduate of Oxford and an authority on Greek poetry and the Renaissance, wrote, “Leaves of Grass, which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more, perhaps, than any other book has done except the Bible.
I want you to pretend that you are the Superintendent of Addington Hospital, and here is what you will tell them Dirk Courtney sat in the darkened cab of the truck, and listened to the rain as he reviewed his plans and preparations carefully.
Lee began: "Down in our village old Cy Addington had a calf he'd entered in the County Fair.
Then Cy Addington found his precious calf and the neighbors had an indignation meeting right then and there and the ones who had the most clothes on started out to find the offenders and some of the others went in to quiet Miss Cymantha, and a few others put the sexton to bed and locked him in so that he couldn't give any more alarms!
How they must look down on Marshy Hope and Addington Forks and Tracadie!
Addington, a flash, nasty ship: Bombay Castle, somewhat to leeward her bosun and Old Reliable were still at work on the breechings of her guns.