title: Lanchester
text: # Lanchester
  
  Lanchester may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Lanchester, County Durham, a village in England
  * Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of Coventry University
  
  ## People
  
  * Ann Margaret Lanchester (fl. 1803), British fashion designer
  * Edith Lanchester (1871-1966), English socialist and suffragette
  * Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), Oscar-nominated English character actress
  * Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
     * Lanchester's laws, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces
  * Henry Jones Lanchester (1834-1914), English architect
  * Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953), architect and brother of Frederick W
  * John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist
  * Waldo Lanchester (1897–1978), British puppeteer
  * William Forster Lanchester (1875–1953), British zoologist
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Lanchester Motor Company, a now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer
     * Lanchester armoured car, of World War I
     * Lanchester 6×4 armoured car, post World War I
  * Lanchester submachine gun, used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War
  