Edward Teather

Researcher of odd things, heraldist, tie enthusiast, and Wessex propagandist | Fellow of the @BurgonSoc | Views own.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@ZimOfBritannia Yes it's two Whig MPs as far as I could see: Sir John Moore (1761-1809), and Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818)

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

There are 22 Wetherspoons pubs named after MPs or Lords, and if you're interested here's the breakdown by political party.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@NathanTrout @LukeThomsonLAB The most recent person to have a Wetherspoons named after him is cricketer Rohan Kanhai, who was born in December 1935 and is still alive today!

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@LukeThomsonLAB Definitely would be interesting to see how many Prime Ministers have a pub named after them somewhere. Only 5 of them are represented by Spoons but I'm sure several others would be elsewhere as you say

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@LukeThomsonLAB One of a very small number of Spoons named after 20th century MPs and one of only two, along with Harold Wilson, to have sat in Parliament after 1945

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

Highlights from looking through Spoons pub names include: 6 men named Henry, 5 Prime Ministers, 4 Titanic passengers, 3 Kings of England, 2 US Presidents, and a postage stamp designer. https://t.co/8yHiyywzgE

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

Currently looking at my train plans for Henley this weekend and I think the answer to the queue to change trains at Twyford is running a direct Henley service on the Elizabeth Line during regatta week

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@BijanOmrani The positive reactions to this post are certainly encouraging me that there would be a market for it!

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

This is a lovely article. There is a fantastic book from 1968 that contains hundreds of club, university, school, and regimental tie designs - I have been half planning trying to make an updated edition of it for years, and most of my laptop's storage is just tie photos.

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs, writes @BijanOmrani — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
https://t.co/2Paq68lRF8

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@CityandLivery I don't think any livery companies make it into the 1968 book of ties, from memory anyway. They would definitely need to be included in an updated version.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@the_olliedean @LSEnews @ConHome

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

Without context the London County Council "Sludge Vessels" sailing 110 miles to "discharge their cargo the Black Deep depositing area" has a sort of municipal horror aesthetic that I rather like

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@BIOTGov Why does the crown need no adornment of velvet? This seems quite irregular compared to other uses of the new Tudor Crown in flags.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@HuwSherrard Great thread. Several universities have rebranded in recent years and brought back their coats of arms as logos, but with charges facing the wrong way. Hull and Birmingham Newman spring to mind, both with animal charges facing to sinister. It's an odd trend.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

To add to the discourse on parliamentary ceremony, here's the state opening of the Parliament of Scotland, 1685 (left); vs the ceremonial opening of the Scottish Parliament, 2021 (right).

Each parliament in the country should compete for the most grand and traditional ceremony.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

I've just discovered this apparently entirely serious proposal from 1895 that suggests the best way to organise local government in London is to make 19 hexagonal boroughs and I am obsessed

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@Sam_Dumitriu @chalmermagne I think of this section of the Sizewell Wikipedia page often

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@Shiv_who_burns @andrewpconnell @yuanyi_z @CsoFringe The Temples Order 1971 confirms that the Inner Temple and Middle Temple can act with the powers of London Boroughs.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

PC Plum used to wear a tie and a jumper and now he wears some sort of badly fitting tactical gear. Declining standards of public servants in general, et cetera

[i need to find my zo 😕😕 @pheeyonce]

PLUM STILL GOT ITTTTT

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@NicholasOShaug1 Fraserburgh however was the passion project of local noble Sir Alexander Fraser. There are no records of it having any students, however staff were appointed and premises built. It does mean however that for thirty years Aberdeenshire had more universities than England.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

@NicholasOShaug1 The reasons they closed are both quite interesting. Northampton was due to pressure from Oxford and picking the wrong side of the Barons War. An Order in Council had to be rescinded in 2005 to allow the creation of the modern University of Northampton.