Akashi Shiganosuke (明石 志賀之助) (c. 1600 – c. 1649) is purported to be a sumo wrestler in antiquity who is formally recognized as the first yokozuna.
 A legendary figure, his historical existence is disputed.
 He is said to have been active in the Kan'ei era (1624–1643).
 He was described as being of gigantic size, at 2.58 m tall and weighing 184 kg .
The Republic of Pontus (Greek: Δημοκρατία του Πόντου , "Dimokratía tou Póntou") was a proposed Pontic Greek state on the southern coast of the Black Sea.
 Its territory would have encompassed much of historical Pontus and today forms part of Turkey's Black Sea Region.
 The proposed state was discussed at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, but the Greek government of Eleftherios Venizelos feared the precarious position of such a state and so it was included instead in the larger proposed state of Wilsonian Armenia.
 Neither state came into existence and the Pontic Greek population was expelled from Turkey after 1922 and resettled in the Soviet Union or in Greek Macedonia.
 This state of affairs was later formally recognized as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923.
The United States Coast Guard Pipe Band is a pipe band and private military unit composed of current and former United States Coast Guard personnel.
 Though a privately maintained entity, it is formally recognized by the U.S. Coast Guard and provides support to official Coast Guard ceremonies including changes-of-command, funerals, and ship commissioning.
 The unit was established in 2001 and formally recognized by the U.S. Coast Guard as a Coast Guard-affiliated organization the following year.
John Bailey Langhorne (12 November 1816 – 17 May 1877) was proprietor of the "Newcastle Chronicle".
 He was the son of Mary Sussana Bailey and John Langhorne, a banker, of Berwick on Tweed.
John Langhorne (1836 – December 1911) was headmaster of The King's School, Rochester and an educational innovator there.
 He has been called "Lamberhurst's first local historian"
Westmorland ( ; formerly also spelt "Westmoreland"; even older spellings are "Westmerland" and "Westmereland") is an area of North West England and one of the 39 historic counties of England.
 It formed an administrative county from 1889 to 1974, when it was dissolved, after which the whole county was administered by the new administrative county of Cumbria.
 In 2013, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, formally recognised and acknowledged the continued existence of England's 39 historic counties, including Westmorland.
The stone carvings of Val Camonica (Camonica Valley) are located in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and constitute the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world.
 The collection was recognized by Unesco in 1979 and was Italy's first recognized World Heritage Site.
 Unesco has formally recognized more than 140,000 figures and symbols, but new discoveries have increased the number of catalogued incisions to between 200,000 and 300,000.
 The petroglyphs are spread on all surfaces of the valley, but concentrated in the areas of Darfo Boario Terme, Capo di Ponte, Nadro, Cimbergo and Paspardo.
Henry Scarsbrook "Harry" (Scarsbrook) Langhorne born Nov 3, 1790 at "Gambell", the family ancestral home built in 1675 by the original immigrant John Langhorne in Warwick County, Virginia.
  This John Langhorne emigrated from Bristol, England and not from Laugharne, Wales.
 The colonial homestead strategically situated between Lake Maury and the James River was destroyed by fire in 1818, and the land is now home to the Mariners' Museum in Newport News.
 Henry was the youngest of five children of John Scarsbrook Langhorne and Elizabeth Langhorne, first cousins who had married in 1782 which was customary at the time to retain family wealth.
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John Langhorne was an English clergyman poet, translator, editor and author.
 He was born in March 1735 in Winton, a village in the former Westmorland, now the Eden District of Cumbria:
Illinois County, Virginia, was a political and geographic region, part of the British Province of Quebec, claimed during the American Revolutionary War on July 4, 1778 by George Rogers Clark of the Virginia Militia, during the Illinois Campaign.
 It was formally recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia later that year.
 The County was accorded official governmental existence, including legally defined boundaries and a formal governmental structure under the laws of the Commonwealth.
 The county seat was the old French village of Kaskaskia.
 John Todd was appointed by Governor Patrick Henry to head the county's government.
 The county's existence also has a defined end-point in 1784, when the Commonwealth of Virginia ceded the land to the new United States federal government.
 The area later became part of the Northwest Territory by an Act of Congress in 1787.
 The county was bordered to the southeast by the Ohio River at the time of its existence.
 It is not within the boundaries of the modern-day state of Virginia.

Question: In 2013 who formally recognized the continued existence of the county John Langhorne was born in?
Answer: In 2013, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, formally recognised and acknowledged the continued existence of England's 39 historic counties, including Westmorland.