What is "lonsdale"

Lonsdale may refer to:

Lonsdale was a marque of car sold in the United Kingdom by Mitsubishi Motors between 1982 and 1983. It took its name from the industrial suburb of Lonsdale in Adelaide, South Australia where Mitsubishi Australia had an engine production facility. The only car sold under this brand was the Lonsdale, a badge engineered Mitsubishi Sigma (GJ). It was sold as the Lonsdale YD41 and the Lonsdale YD45.

The car was powered by one of three four cylinder engines of 1.6, 2.0 and 2.6 litres, producing respectively 81, 95 and 103 bhp. The largest of these power units produced a maximum torque of 192 Nm., and was one of the largest post-war four cylinder engines produced.

Although the Sigma was merely an Australian version of the Mitsubishi Galant which was already available in the UK, the company's plan was to circumvent the "gentlemen's agreement", a voluntary import quota which limited Japanese-manufactured imports to 11 per cent of the market. However, the idea proved unsuccessful and most of the cars imported by Lonsdale remained unsold by the time the company ceased trading. Mitsubishi continued to sell the vehicle in the UK for 1984, although rebranded as the Mitsubishi Sigma as it was already known in its local market.

Lonsdale is a boxing, mixed martial arts and clothing brand that was founded in London, England in 1960. Ex-boxer Bernard Hart started the brand as a boxing equipment company, but it eventually branched out into clothing as well. The company is named after Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, who in 1891 set up the first organised boxing matches with gloves, following the deaths of three boxers in bare-knuckle fights. It is now owned by Sports Direct.

Lonsdale was a county constituency in north Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post system.

Lonsdale is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Angela Lonsdale (born 1970), English actress
• Anne Lonsdale (born 1941), British sinologist, third President of New Hall, University of Cambridge
• Bruce Lonsdale (1949–1982), Canadian politician
• Charles Lonsdale (born 1965), British diplomat
• Chris Lonsdale (born 1987), Bermudian former cricketer and footballer
• Christopher Lonsdale (1886–1952), Canadian founder and first headmaster of Shawnigan Lake School, British Columbia
• David Lonsdale (born 1963), English actor
• Derrick Lonsdale (born 1924), American pediatrician and researcher
• Edmund Lonsdale (1843–1913), Australian politician
• Frederick Lonsdale (1881–1954), English dramatist
• Gordon Lonsdale, alias of Konon Molody (1922–1970), Soviet spy
• Harry Lonsdale (1932–2014), American scientist, businessman, and politician
• Horatio Walter Lonsdale (1844–1919), English painter and designer
• James Lonsdale (painter) (1777–1839), English portraitist
• James Rolston Lonsdale (1865–1921), Northern Irish politician
• Joe Lonsdale (born 1982), American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist
• John Lonsdale (1788–1867), Principal of King's College, London, later Bishop of Lichfield
• John Lonsdale, 1st Baron Armaghdale (1850–1924), Northern Irish businessman and politician
• Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), Irish-born British crystallographer
• Michael Lonsdale (born 1931), French actor
• Richard Lonsdale (1913–1988), British Army officer in the Parachute Regiment in World War II
• Roger Lonsdale, British author and academic
• Rupert Lonsdale (1905–1999), British submarine commander, prisoner of war and Anglican clergyman
• Shawn Lonsdale (1969–2008), American videographer and critic of the Church of Scientology
• Tommy Lonsdale (1882–1973), English footballer
• William Lonsdale (1794–1871), English geologist and palaeontologist
• William Lonsdale (colonist) (1799–1864), supervised the founding of Port Phillip, later named Melbourne, Australia
• Willie Lonsdale (born 1986), New Zealand cricketer