Hesketh
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname from Old Norse.
A hamlet in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
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Examples
Around this time the area around Goosnargh was home to several Catholic families – Beesley, Hesketh, Keighley, Marsden, and Threlfall.
Major Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard was given formal permission to begin sniper training in 1915, and founded the First Army School of Sniping, Observation, and Scouting at Linghem in France in 1916.
Hesketh, p. 167 Fortitude South Fortitude South employed similar deception in the south of England, threatening an invasion at Pas de Calais by the fictional 1st U.S. Army Group ( FUSAG ).
Like a well-tailored spy operating with stylish discretion, Matthew Vaughn’s sequel has revealed little beyond the casting of return of Edward Holcroft as privileged snot Charlie Hesketh.
In 1925 the BBC broadcast an adaptation with Hesketh Pearson as Jack Worthing.
The alchemist's (and Coelho's) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson 's The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946) in which this story is recorded (Penguin edition, p. 217) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.