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Shrew of Kentish Town

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Shuttle Eye Colliery

Colliery on the South Yorkshire Coalfield at Grange Moor in West Yorkshire, between Wakefield and Huddersfield on the A642 road.

Shuttleworth Hall

17th-century manor house in the civil parish of Hapton, in Lancashire

Sicilian Baroque

Distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries that has given the island a unique architectural identity.

Silver-fork Novel

Genre of 19th-century English literature depicting the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.

Sir Alexander MacRobert

Self-made millionaire from Aberdeen

Sir Andrew Agnew, 9th Baronet of Lochnaw

Descendent of an old Scottish family whose main seat was Lochnaw Castle in Wigtownshire, Scotland.

Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet

British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who, with Ludwig Mond, created the chemical company Brunner Mond.

Sitlington

Ancient township of four villages, renamed from Shitlington to Sitlington in 1929.

Six Acts

Six Acts of Parliament introduced in the aftermath of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, intended to quash any further protests in support of parliamentary reform.