Bonington
Americannoun
noun
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Sir Chris ( tian John Storey ). born 1934, British mountaineer and writer; led 1970 Annapurna I and 1975 Everest expeditions; reached Everest summit in 1985
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Richard Parkes . 1801–28, British painter of landscapes and historical scenes
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Rebecca Combellack, from Sutton Bonington in Nottinghamshire, was diagnosed with stage two cancer in May 2025 after finding a lump in her breast earlier that month.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
Their ways caught on quickly, though, so that, by the 1820s, landscape artists whose names we do know — Camille Corot, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Constable — were working the same way.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2020
Chris Bonington: For me, it happened with the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.
From Forbes • Apr. 9, 2015
Unlike Bloomfield Bonington, Ridgeon cannot make an objective medical decision because he is not at all well.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012
Even the unsinkable sank, and what are foolish mortals like Weathers, Pittman, Fischer, Lopsang, Tenzing, Messner, Bonington in the face of the "Mother Goddess. "
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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