Crossword clues for appleby
appleby
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 196
Land area (2000): 2.143907 sq. miles (5.552693 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.143907 sq. miles (5.552693 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03564
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.717968 N, 94.607731 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75961
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Appleby
Wikipedia
Appleby may refer to:
Appleby was a parliamentary constituency in the former county of Westmorland in England. It existed for two separate periods: from 1295 to 1832, and from 1885 to 1918.
Appleby was enfranchised as parliamentary borough in 1295, and abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) using the bloc vote system. It was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. Its best-known MP was William Pitt the Younger who became Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24.
For the 1885 general election the Redistribution of Seats Act created a county constituency of the same name, which returned a single MP elected by the first-past-the-post system. The county constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election.
Appleby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anne Appleby (born 1954), American painter
- Austin Appleby (born 1993), American football quarterback
- Ben Appleby (1876–1961), English footballer
- Fred Appleby (1879–1956), English long-distance runner
- Jim Appleby (1934–2014), English footballer
- Kim Appleby (born 1961), British singer
- Louis Appleby, British psychiatrist
- Melanie Appleby (1966–1990), British singer; sister of Kim
- Shiri Appleby (born 1978), American actress
- Stephen Appleby (1912–1984), British pilot
- Stuart Appleby (born 1971), Australian golfer
Fictional characters:
- Appleby (Catch-22), a character in the novel Catch-22
- Humphrey Appleby, a fictional character in the television series Yes, Minister
- Sir John Appleby, a fictional detective created by Michael Innes
Usage examples of "appleby".
PROFILE: Sir John Appleby is undoubtedly the most erudite detective in mystery fiction.
Even when hard pressed, Appleby still comes up with an apt literary quotation to fit the moment-and there is no one better at spotting obscure literary allusions in which may lie the solution to a crime.
A lover of detective fiction from his childhood, he produced his first Appleby story, `Death at the President's Lodging', in 1936 by spending two hours each morning before his day's lectures writing the tale of a murder mystery among the senior dons at a fictional English college.
Even in retirement, Appleby and crime proved inseparable, as `The Memorial Service', written in 1975, demonstrates.
Sir John Appleby (our acute observer) was representing his successor as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.
Brockbank had been unmarried, and now the front pew reserved for relations was occupied only by two elderly women, habited in old-fashioned and no doubt frequently exhibited mourning, whom somebody had identified for Appleby in a whisper as cousins of the dead man.
In some corner of the globe, Appleby vaguely understood, there was a brother, Adrian Brockbank, who had also distinguished himself-it seemed as a lone yachtsman.
He paused only once, and that was beside the uniformed Appleby, upon whom he directed a keen but momentary glance, before politely handing him his service sheet.
He was gesturing at Appleby in a positively threatening way which Appleby perfectly understood.
If Appleby bolted from this untoward and unseemly incident instead of reacting to it in some policeman-like fashion he would pretty well be treated as in contempt of court.
It was on the strength of no more than this amount of common knowledge, together with only a modicum of private inquiry, that Appleby eventually called upon a bank manager in the City.
He had very clear views, Appleby conjectured, on what information was confidential and what was not.
Retired Police Commissioners don't go fossicking in France, and through the courtesy of his successor Appleby received reports in due season.
All this, Appleby told himself, didn't remain exactly obscure once you took a straight look at it.
The deception you carried out upon the occasion of that disaster-` `My dear Appleby, what can you be thinking of?