Southwell

Southwell may mean the following towns in England:

  • Southwell, Dorset
  • Southwell, Nottinghamshire
    • Southwell Minster, historic cathedral
    • Southwell Racecourse, horse racing venue located near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
    • Southwell Rural District, a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974
  • Southwell School, a co-educational independent preparatory school in Hamilton, New Zealand

Southwell can also be a surname:

  • Alfredo Salazar Southwell (1913–1937), aviator
  • Charles Southwell (1814–1860), journalist
  • David Southwell (born 1971), author
  • Hugo Southwell (born 1980), rugby player
  • Paul Southwell (1913–1979), Premier of Dominica and Saint Kitts-Nevis
  • Richard V. Southwell (1888–1970), mathematician specializing in applied mechanics
  • Richard Southwell (disambiguation)
  • Robert Southwell (disambiguation)
  • Viscount Southwell, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
  • Southwell, assumed name of Nathaniel Bacon (Jesuit)

Famous quotes containing the word southwell:

    ‘Remember, man, that thou art dust!’
    But yet, alas, but seldom I
    Do think indeed that I must die . . .
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    grant me grace, O god, that I
    My life may mend, sith I must die.
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    Though all the East did quake to hear
    Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
    And all the West likewise did fear
    To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)