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Tanton

Tanton is a surname. It may refer to the following people:

  • Janice Tanton (born 1961), Canadian artist
  • John Tanton (born 1934), U.S. immigration reduction activist

Usage examples of "tanton".

The taxi-cab turned swiftly into the shady avenue of Tanton Gardens, where Sir Horace Fewbanks lived, and in a few moments pulled up outside of Riversbrook.

Sir Horace Fewbanks, the distinguished High Court judge, was found by the police at his home, Riversbrook in Tanton Gardens, Hampstead, today.

The house in Tanton Gardens had been locked up and most of the valuables had been sent to the bank for safe-keeping, but there were enough portable articles of value in the house to make a good haul for any burglar.

But after nightfall Tanton Gardens was a lonely and gloomy place, lighted only by one lamp, which stood in the high road more to mark the entrance to the street than as a guide to traffic along it, for its rays barely penetrated beyond the first pair of chestnut trees.

The houses in Tanton Gardens were in keeping with the street: they indicated wealth and comfort.

He was on duty in the neighborhood of Tanton Gardens on the night of the murder, but saw no suspicious characters and heard no sounds.

At twenty minutes past eleven a young man named Ryder, who had wandered into Tanton Gardens while endeavoring to take a short cut home, heard the sound of a report, which at the time he took to be the noise of a door violently slammed, coming from the direction of Riversbrook.

August had walked down Tanton Gardens in the belief that he was taking a short cut.

She may have passed Holymead in Tanton Gardens, or Holymead, when he saw her approaching, may have hidden inside the gateway of a neighboring house.

August and he took a walk along Tanton Gardens to have another look at the place which Birchill was to break into.

Ser Mark Mullendore brought a black-and-white monkey and fed him morsels from his own plate, while Ser Tanton of the red-apple Fossoways climbed on the table and swore to slay Sandor Clegane in single combat.

The vow might have been taken more solemnly if Ser Tanton had not had one foot in a gravy boat when he made it.