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Glanvill or Glanville may refer to:
Places:
- Glanville, Calvados, commune in the Basse-Normandie region of France
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Glanville, South Australia, suburb of Adelaide, Australia
- Glanville railway station
- Wootton Glanville, village in Dorset, England
People:
- Ann Glanville (1796–1880), Cornish rower
- Brandi Glanville (born 1972), American television personality and former fashion model
- Brian Glanville (born 1931), English football writer and novelist
- Christine Glanville (1924–1999), English puppeteer
- Doug Glanville (born 1970), American baseball player
- Eleanor Glanville (c.1654–1709), English entomologist
- Ernest Glanville (1855–1925), South African author
- Francis Glanville (1827–1910), British Army general
- Glanville Williams (1911–1997), Welsh legal scholar
- Harold Glanville (1854–1930), English businessman and politician
- Harold Glanville (junior) (1884–1966), English Liberal Party politician.
- James Glanville (1891–1958), British politician
- Jason Glanville, leader in Australian Indigenous community
- Jerry Glanville (born 1941), American football coach
- Sir John Glanville (judge) (1542–1600), English Member of Parliament and judge
- Sir John Glanville (1586–1661), English politician
- Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), English writer
- Lucy Glanville (born 1994), Australian biathlete
- Marc Glanville (born 1966), Australian rugby league footballer
- Mark Glanville, English classical singer and writer
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990), Australian composer
- Phil de Glanville (born 1968), English rugby union player
- Rainald Ralph de Glanville (born 1030), Norman baron
- Ranulf de Glanvill (died 1190), English justiciar
- Ranulph Glanville (born 1946), English researcher
- Stephen Glanville (1900–1956), English Egyptologist
- Sir William Glanville (1900–1976), British civil engineer
Other:
- Tractatus of Glanvill, English law treatise (1187–9) attributed to Ranulf de Glanvill
- Glanville Fritillary, butterfly
Usage examples of "glanville".
The great justiciars at the head of the legal administration, De Lucy and Glanville, steadily carried out the new code, and a body of lawyers was trained under them which formed a class wholly unknown elsewhere in Europe.
John was formally appointed king over Ireland, and accompanied by Glanville, landed in Waterford on the 25th of April.
But if Glanville tried any legal experiments in Ireland, his work was soon interrupted.
In the next year he set Glanville finally at the head of the legal administration.
A council was called to consider the matter, and Glanville urged that if papal messengers were allowed to come through England collecting money, it might afterwards become a custom to the injury of the kingdom.
Gerald of Wales and Glanville, as they rode together, would discuss why the Normans had so fallen away in valour that now even when helped by the English they were less able to resist the French than formerly when they stood alone.
There were a lot of species I wanted -- the Swallowtail for instance, the Black Hairstreak and the Large Blue, rare Fritil-laries like the Heath and the Glanville.