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Coordinates: 51°42′00″N 1°26′53″W / 51.7001°N 1.4480°W / 51.7001; -1.4480
Longworth is a village and civil parish about 7 miles (11 km) west of Abingdon-on-Thames and a similar distance east of Faringdon and south of Witney. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Forthcoming boundary changes will add the hamlet of Newbridge to the parish of Longworth.[citation needed]
Longworth parish stretches between the River Thames in the north and the River Ock in the south. Harrowdown Hill, in the north of the parish near the Thames, is where biological warfare expert David Kelly died (or committed suicide) during the Second Gulf War WMD scandal. Sir Henry Marten, a 17th century Judge of the Admiralty Court, and his son, Henry Marten, the regicide, lived at Longworth House.
Longworth is 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Oxford and 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the old market town of Bampton. Longworth is just south of the River Thames crossing at Newbridge.
John Longworth (September 19, 1814 – April 11, 1885) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented 2nd Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1846 to 1850 and from 1858 to 1867 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Charlottetown, the son of Francis Longworth, and educated there. Longworth studied law with Robert Hodgson, was admitted as an attorney to the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island and set up practice as a lawyer and notary public in Charlottetown. In 1847, he married Elizabeth White Tremaine. Longworth served as a deputy judge in the province's vice admiralty court. He was a founding director of the Bank of Prince Edward Island, later serving as its president, and was also agent for a number of insurance firms. Longworth served as a member of the province's Executive Council from 1859 to 1867. He opposed Confederation and supported free trade with the United States. In 1863, he was named Queen's Counsel. Longworth was named to the Charlottetown Board of School Trustees in 1878. He died in Charlottetown in 1885.
Actors: Donald Keith (actor), Forrest Stanley (actor), Johnnie Walker (actor), Virginia Lee Corbin (actress), W. Donn Hayes (editor), Samuel Sax (miscellaneous crew), Ellinor Vanderveer (actress), Adele Buffington (writer), Casey Robinson (writer), Harold Shumate (writer), Erle C. Kenton (director), Jane Winton (actress), Maude Fulton (actress),
Plot: A young married woman in a small town is visited by her sister, a single "flapper" who causes a scandal in town with her bobbed hair and short skirts. She attracts the attentions of some of the local men, which causes an even greater scandal--which is made worse when her sister abruptly leaves her boorish husband for another man.
Genres: Comedy,