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Billington may refer to:
- Billington (surname)
- Billington, Bedfordshire, a small parish in England
- Billington, Lancashire, a larger village in England
- Billington Heights, New York, a hamlet in New York
- The Billington Food Group (aka Billington's), a sugar company in both the US and UK
Billington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Billington family
- James Billington (1847 – 1901), English executioner
- Thomas Billington (1872 – 1902), English executioner
- William Billington (1875 – 1952), English executioner
- John Billington (1880 – 1905), English executioner
- Tom Billington (born 1958), retired English professional wrestler
- Craig Billington (born 1966), retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Elizabeth Billington (1765–1818), British opera singer
- Francelia Billington (1895–1934), American actress
- Fred Billington (1862–1917), English singer and actor
- Geoff Billington, British showjumper
- James H. Billington (born 1929), the current U.S. Librarian of Congress
- John Billington (1580s–1630), an immigrant on the Mayflower and first Englishman to be hanged in New England
- Joseph Billington, English footballer
- Kevin Billington (born 1934), British film director
- Michael Billington (actor) (1941–2005), the popular British film and television actor
- Michael Billington (critic) (born 1939), the drama critic of The Guardian
- Michael Billington (activist), activist in the LaRouche movement, author of Reflections of an American Political Prisoner
- Polly Billington, radio reporter
- Rachel Billington (born 1942), British author
- Ray Allen Billington (1903–1981), American historian
- Ray Billington (1930 -2012), British philosopher
- Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964), suffragette and one of 70 founders of the Women's Freedom League
- Teddy Billington (1882–1966), US Olympic cyclist
- Thomas Billington (disambiguation), multiple people
Usage examples of "billington".
Ellen (or "Elen") Billington, as Bradford spells the name, was evidently of comporting age to her husband's, perhaps a little younger.
I'm sure Lord Billington would deem it a rare and unexpected pleasure to meet you.
But why does Lord Billington choose to live so apart from a community?
With the aid of this silver-headed stick, Lord Billington moved forward a few steps, nodded in a greeting made cheerier by a warm smile and bright eyes.
Lord Billington observed while replenishing his snifter with a draft of reddish-brown brandy.
Exhausted, Lord Billington collapsed into his chair and breathed with relief.
You can have Billington raise the Master on the communications screen.
Is your devotion to Lord Billington so great that you'll serve Satan just as devotedly?
The great majority of the men and boys were doubtless provided with bunks only, "between decks," but it seems that John Billington had a cabin there.
Bradford narrates of the gunpowder escapade of young Francis Billington, that, "there being a fowling-piece, charged in his father's cabin [though why so inferior a person as Billington should have a cabin when there could not have been enough for better men, is a query], shot her off in the cabin, there being a little barrel of powder halffull scattered in and about the cabin, the fire being within four feet of the bed, between the decks, .
Browne, Billington, Cooke, Gardiner, and Warren lived beyond the spring of 1621.
That they had some "fowling-pieces" is shown by the fact that young Billington seems (according to Bradford) to have "shot one off in his father's cabin" aboard ship in Cape Cod harbor, and there are several other coeval mentions of them.
Bradford speaks only of Billington and his family as those "shuffled into their company," and while he was not improbably one of the agitators (with Hopkins) who were the proximate causes of the drawing up of the Compact, he was not, in this case, the responsible leader.
Francis Billington, a young son of one of the passengers, put the ship and all in great jeopardy, by shooting off a fowling-piece in his father's cabin between decks where there was a small barrel of powder open, and many people about the fire close by.
One of the Master-mates took a musket, and went with young Francis Billington to find the great inland sea the latter had seen from the top of a tree, and found a great water, in two great lakes [Billington Sea,] also Indian houses.