Tunstall
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Place names
United Kingdom- Tunstall, East Riding of YorkshireTunstall, East Riding of YorkshireTunstall is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately north west of the town of Withernsea, near to the North Sea coast...
- Tunstall, KentTunstall, KentTunstall is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England. Situated to the south of Sittingbourne, Tunstall is a small linear village. Notable sights include St John the Baptist Church, Tunstall Church of England primary school and large village manor house, and a former police house which is...
- Tunstall, LancashireTunstall, LancashireTunstall is a village in north Lancashire, England . It is northeast of Lancaster on the A683 road between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale. In the 2001 census the civil parish of Tunstall had a population of 105....
- Tunstall, Norfolk, in the parish of HalvergateHalvergateHalvergate is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, north of Reedham., halfway between the Rivers Bure and Yare, within The Broads National Park.It covers an area of and had a population of 468 in 202 households as of the 2001 census....
- Tunstall, North YorkshireTunstall, North YorkshireTunstall is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshiredistrict of North Yorkshire, England about 2 miles west of Catterick Village and the A1 road. It has a population of 253. There is a local pub called the Bay Horse Inn, opposite the village hall. The Village Hall is the centre of Tunstall's...
- Tunstall, StaffordTunstall, StaffordTunstall is a small village near Eccleshall in the borough of Stafford in Staffordshire, England....
, near to Eccleshall - Tunstall, StaffordshireTunstall, StaffordshireTunstall is an area in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It was one of the original six towns that federated to form the city. Tunstall is the most northern town of the city of Stoke-on-Trent....
, one of the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent - Tunstall, SuffolkTunstall, SuffolkOn an Ordnance Survey map of Suffolk, England, there are two settlements named Tunstall next to each other, north east of Woodbridge. However, these are not two separate villages but one, despite the gap between the main village and the hamlet known as Tunstall Common...
- Tunstall, SunderlandTunstall, SunderlandTunstall is a suburb of Sunderland which is mostly a privately purchased estate. It is located to the west of Ryhope, and east of Silksworth. The area was built around a large hill, known as Tunstall Hill....
United States
- Tunstall, VirginiaTunstall, VirginiaTunstall is an unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.-References:*...
People
- Tunstal QuarlesTunstal QuarlesTunstall Quarles was a United States lawyer and politician, as well as one of the pioneer settlers of Somerset, Kentucky in Pulaski County....
, United States lawyer and politician (1781–1856) - Cuthbert TunstallCuthbert TunstallCuthbert Tunstall was an English Scholastic, church leader, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser...
, English bishop and scholar (1474–1559) - Fred TunstallFred TunstallFred Tunstall was a footballer who played for Sheffield United and England....
, English footballer (Sheffield United, English national team) (1897–1971) - John TunstallJohn TunstallJohn Henry Tunstall , born in England, became a rancher and merchant in New Mexico, where he became a prominent figure and was the first man killed in the Lincoln County War, an economic and political conflict perhaps compounded by ethnic rivalries.-Early life and education:John Henry Tunstall was...
, Mew Mexico (USA) rancher of Lincoln County WarLincoln County WarThe Lincoln County War was a 19th-century range war between two factions during the Old West period. Numerous notable figures of the American West were involved, including Billy the Kid, aka William Henry McCarty; sheriffs William Brady and Pat Garrett; cattle rancher John Chisum, lawyer and...
fame (1853–1878) - KT TunstallKT TunstallKate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
(Kate Victoria Tunstall), female Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1975) - Marmaduke TunstallMarmaduke TunstallMarmaduke Tunstall was an English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologica Britannica , probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature....
, English ornithologist (1743–1790) - Pete TunstallPete TunstallPeter Tunstall is a former flight Lieutenant for the Royal Air Force. During World War II he was a POW.As a POW, Tunstall escaped four times. His escape from Spangenberg Castle has been recognised as one of the best ever...
, English pilot and famous World War II German prisoner (born 1918) - Thomas TunstallThomas TunstallThomas Tunstall was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:He was descended from the Tunstalls of Thurland, a Lancashire family who afterwards settled in Yorkshire...
, English Roman Catholic priest (died 1616) - William TunstallWilliam Tunstall-Playing career:Tunstall played for Hanley Swifts before joining Burslem Port Vale in May 1901. He had a successful debut; scoring in a 1–1 draw at home to Burnley. However, after a further 12 league and 9 cup games he failed to score and was released at the end of the 1903–04 season.-References:...
, footballer - Whitmell P. TunstallWhitmell P. TunstallWhitmell Pugh Tunstall was a lawyer and state legislator in Chatham, Virginia. He was the long-time advocate most responsible for the creation of the Richmond and Danville Railroad which was completed in 1856....
, Virginia (USA) politician (1810–1854)
Other
- Tunstall coding, in computer scienceComputer scienceComputer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and information theoryInformation theoryInformation theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...
encoding method that maps variable-length sequences of input symbols to constant-length code wordsCode wordIn communication, a code word is an element of a standardized code or protocol. Each code word is assembled in accordance with the specific rules of the code and assigned a unique meaning...