Proper noun
A surname.
A village in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England, originally named Hipton from Old English hēope (“fruit”) + tun (Domesday Book, 1086) (OS grid ref SE5558).
Synonym: Shipton-by-Beningbrough
A small village and civil parish (served by Easthope, Shipton and Stanton Long Parish Council) in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5691).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgGillespie's biographer Alyn Shipton writes that Gillespie probably got the idea for a bent trumpet when he saw a similar instrument in 1937 in Manchester, England, while on tour with the Teddy Hill Orchestra. Source: Internet
Later years Gillespie performing in 1955 His biographer Alyn Shipton quotes Don Waterhouse approvingly that Gillespie in the fifties "had begun to mellow into an amalgam of his entire jazz experience to form the basis of new classicism". Source: Internet
John Shipton, the proud father of the multi-award winning journalist, and 2019 Nobel Peace nominee First Academic Honoris Causa at the Palais des Académies on behalf of his son, and acknowledged the support coming from all over the world. Source: Internet
Shipton said: “I have advised the treasurer this afternoon that, in the circumstances, it is appropriate to stand aside pending the outcome of the review.” Source: Internet
Notes and Queries, 26 April 1873 This invented prophecy has appeared over the years with different dates and in (or about) several countries (for example in the late 1970s many news articles about Mother Shipton appeared setting the date at 1981). Source: Internet
Alyn Shipton, A New History of Jazz, 2nd. Source: Internet