Bickerton

Bickerton

Bickerton can refer to the following places:
*Bickerton, Cheshire
*Bickerton, North Yorkshire
*Bickerton, Devon
*Bickerton Island, a small island off Australia

It can also refer to the following people:
*Richard Bickerton (naval officer) (1727–1792), British naval officer
*Richard Hussey Bickerton (1759–1832), British naval officer
*Francis Howard Bickerton (1889–1954), British Antarctic explorer
*Derek Bickerton (born 1926), U.S. linguist
*Louie Bickerton, tennis player
*Thomas Bickerton, U.S. bishop in the United Methodist Church
*William Bickerton, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), a restorationist Christian church with roots in the Latter Day Saint movement, headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania.
*Harry Bickerton, inventor of the Bickerton folding bicycle

In other uses, it can refer to:
*HMS Bickerton, a British Captain-class frigate of the Second World War
*Bickerton (bicycle), a folding bicycle and manufactured in the UK between 1971 and 1991
*Bickerton organization or the Bickerton church, a nickname for Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), founded by William Bickerton


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