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John Aus'tin was an English writer on jurisprudence. He was born in 1790 and died in 1859. From 1826 to 1835 he filled the chair of jurisprudence at London University. He served on several royal commissions, one of which took him to Malta; lived for some years on the Continent, and finally settled at Weybridge in Surrey. His fame rests solely on his great works: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, published in 1832; and his Lectures on Jurisprudence, published by his widow between 1861 and 1863.
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Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She was born in 1944 at Weybridge, Surrey. After studying ballet she decided it was not for her and took up modelling before moving into films in 1965 with a part in 'The Knack'.
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Brooklands Race Track was a famous motor racing circuit built near Weybridge in Surrey in 1906.
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Addlestone is a former village and now town in Surrey between Ottershaw and Weybridge just inside the M25 motorway. It grew with the coming of the railway into a suburban commuter town for London.
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The river Wey rises in west Weald and flows north through Hampshire and Surrey into the river Thames near
Weybridge. It is 56 km long.
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Weybridge (recorded in the Domesday Book as Webruge) is an old town on the confluence of the River Wey and the River Thames in Surrey, England.
Weybridge is a town in Addison County, Vermont, USA.
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