His first marriage, to Ruth Hellmann (later Viscountess Runciman) ended in divorce.
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Gerald Legge, Viscountess Lewisham, Countess of Dartmouth, Countess Spencer and Comtesse de Chambrun.
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The ends of the tiara are said to have come from a sparkler once belonging to Frances Manby, the last known Viscountess of Montagu.
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On this day in 19943, first lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Iwa Chinda, the wife of the newly arrived Japanese ambassador, planted the first two cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River Tidal Basin.
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Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt were looking over Mr. Trump's shoulders on Tuesday, as were Hubert Humphrey, Andrew Carnegie, Theodor Herzl, Thomas Alva Edison, Chiang Kai-shek, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Viscountess Astor and the Shah of Iran.
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" A viscountess on "An American Princess" informs us that Ms. Markle may be unfamiliar with the ultra-fancy place settings at her wedding because "in America, we use one fork, and occasionally we use a knife, you know, when we gotta cut through a piece of meat.
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Easter eggs abound: Poor Catherine Howard's predatory music tutor becomes Katie Howard's sketchy guitar teacher; Jane Boleyn (née Jane Parker), the Viscountess of Rochford and lady-in-waiting to all of the queens but Parr, becomes Parker Rochford, the scary-brilliant head cheerleader and the chief ally to all of Henry's girlfriends as they struggle to weather their boyfriend's shifting temperaments.
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The Viscountess Vane Frances Anne Vane, Viscountess Vane (formerly Hamilton, née Hawes; c. January 1715 – 31 March 1788), was a British memoirist known for her highly public adulterous relationships.
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Frances Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, Baroness Northchurch, (née Dickinson; 29 May 1894 – 25 November 1985), styled Lady Davidson between 1935 and 1937 and as Viscountess Davidson between 1937 and 1985, was a British Conservative Party politician.
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They divorced in 1949 and the Prince later married Rita Hayworth. Joan Yarde-Buller married lastly Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, a newspaper magnate, and died as the Dowager Viscountess Camrose, also known as Joan Berry, Viscountess Camrose.
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Beatrice was also Dauphine of Viennois and Viscountess of Béarn by her two marriages.
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Viscountess Powerscourt Theodosia Wingfield (1800 – 31 December 1836) was an Irish evangelical religious writer.
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Her husband help to care for her son who died in 1951. She became Viscountess Waverley when her husband became a Viscount the following year. He died in 1958. Viscountess Waverley became a noted correspondent keeping up with events in France and Italy.
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Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1904) by John Singer Sargent. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (née Duncombe; 6 March 18661939 England and Wales Register – 16 May 1954) was a British noblewoman, socialite and diarist.
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Hester Grenville, 1st Countess Temple, 2nd Viscountess Cobham (née Temple; -1752) was an English noblewoman.
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She was never the Viscountess Melbourne because she died before Melbourne succeeded to the peerage.
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Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, wife of the first Viscount, represented St Ives in the House of Commons from 1928 to 1929. Also, the Hon. Sir Steven Runciman, younger son of the first Viscount and Hilda, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, was a noted historian.
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and the Hon. Edith Henrietta Fowler. Viscountess Wolverhampton's great nephew was Peter Thorneycroft.
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At this time he met Robert Boyle, a leading Helmontian chemist. Through his relationship as physician to Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, he began to attend Quaker meetings, in 1675.Anne Finche, Viscountess Conway (1631–1678 or 79) . oregonstate.edu In return he introduced her to kabbalist thought.
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Cecil Mary Nowell Dering Craig, Viscountess Craigavon DBE (22 January 1883 - 23 March 1960) was a British unionist.
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Alice Barnham, Viscountess St Albans (14 May 1592 – 1650) was the wife of English scientific philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon.
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Julie Montagu, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke (born 17 February 1972) is an American entrepreneur, yoga instructor, blogger, writer and reality television star.
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Neale married, on 12 December 1846, Frances Herbert, daughter of Captain Josiah Nisbet, R.N., and eldest grandchild of Viscountess Nelson.
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D. Ermelinda Monteiro de Almeida, Viscountess of Regaleira. Luxuriant vegetation next to the lower gate. The land that is now Quinta da Regaleira had many owners over the years. It belonged to the Viscountess of Regaleira, a family of wealthy merchants from Porto, when it was sold in 1892 to Carvalho Monteiro for 25,000 réis.
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The Viscountess Butler of Tulleophelim married as her second husband Richard Preston, 1st Earl of Desmond. She died in October 1628.
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While it was called the Commonwealth Trophy, Irish golfers were not eligible. The trophy was presented by Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor.
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Thomas's widow, Sybil, Viscountess Rhondda (1857–1941) was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1920.
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Anne, Viscountess Irvine ( – 2 December 1764), was a British court official. She was a poet and close friend of Horace Walpole.
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In 1665 Greatrakes was invited to England by his old commander, Lord Broghill (now Earl of Orrery), to cure Anne, Viscountess Conway of an inveterate headache. He arrived in England in early 1666 but failed to cure the Viscountess. Undaunted, he traveled through the country, treating the sick. King Charles II, being informed of it, summoned Greatrakes to Whitehall.
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Viscountess Hayashi, later Countess Hayashi, photographed in 1902. Baroness Hayashi, from a 1901 publication. Misao Gamo (1858–1942), known as Baroness Hayashi after 1895, then as Viscountess Hayashi after 1902, and as Countess Hayashi after 1907, was a public figure both in Japan and England as the wife of Hayashi Tadasu, the first Japanese ambassador in London.
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See the Earl of Jersey for further history of the viscountcy. In 1746 Elizabeth Mason, daughter of John Villiers, 1st Earl Grandison, was created Viscountess Grandison, and in 1767 she was made Viscountess Villiers and Countess Grandison. All three titles were in the Peerage of Ireland. However, they became extinct on the death of the second Earl in 1800.
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"Cary, Elizabeth, Viscountess Falkland (1585–1639)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
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The Rt Hon. Sheila Wingfield, Viscountess Powerscourt (née Sheila Claude Beddington; 23 May 1906 – 8 January 1992), was an Anglo-Irish poet.
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He was a man of letters. The titles became extinct on his death in 1869, although his widow, Viscountess Strangford, lived until 1887.
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At Amiens, where Billiart took refuge with Countess Baudoin during the French Revolution, she met Françoise, Viscountess of Gizaincourt, who became her co-laborer in the work as yet unknown to either of them. The Viscountess Blin de Bourdon was 38 years old when she met Billiart, and had spent her youth in piety and good works. She had been imprisoned with all of her family during the Reign of Terror, and had escaped death only by the fall of Robespierre. A small company of friends of the viscountess (young and high-born ladies) was formed around the couch of "the saint".
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This satirises Stuart's Antiquities of Athens. Above, a line of female profiles shows, from left to right, the face of Queen Charlotte and five others, each wearing a triple necklace and bearing a coronet: a duchess, a marchioness, a countess, a viscountess, and a baroness. They have been alternatively identified as the Ladies of the Bedchamber in 1761: the Duchess of Ancaster, Duchess of Hamilton, Countess of Effingham, Countess of Northumberland, Viscountess Weymouth, and Viscountess Bolingbroke. Hogarth created the engraving a few weeks after the coronation of George III and Queen Charlotte, inspired by the elaborate costume worn by those who attended.
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Isabella Molyneux, Countess of Sefton, formerly Viscountess Molyneux, (née Lady Isabella Stanhope; c. 1748 – 29 January 1819) was a British peeress and society figure.
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Sarah Mary Malet Bradford, Viscountess Bangor (née Hayes; born 3 September 1938) is an English author who is best known for her royal biographies.
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Diana Catherine Eccles, Viscountess Eccles (Baroness Eccles of Moulton in her own right) DL (born 4 October 1933) is a British Conservative peer and businesswoman.
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Moira Lister Gachassin-Lafite, Viscountess of Orthez (6 August 192327 October 2007) was a South African-born, British film, stage and television actress and writer.
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Viscountess Templewood, as she became known after the creation of her husband's peerage in 1944, was widowed in 1959 and died in 1962 aged 80.
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In December 1934 Wallach and Blenkiron departed on an expedition to Africa. They were seen off by Viscountess Astor, five other female MP's, and a host of well wishers. Viscountess Astor remarked that as an "unrepentant feminist" she would watch their progress with "pride and joy". Wallach noted that "we cannot afford to buy petrol and powder and cigarettes as well, so we just buy petrol".
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William was the eldest son of Waldorf Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (by marriage, Viscountess Astor). He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford.
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Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers and Viscountess Savage (1581 – 9 March 1651) was an English courtier and a Royalist victim of uprisings during the English Civil War.
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Portrait of Isabella, Viscountess Irwin, c. 1685-90, see at Art UK, Leeds Museums and Galleries/Bridgeman images. Isabella's dates are incorrectly given as 1688-1721.
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He is the son of vicomte Werner de Spoelberch (1902-1987) and Eléonore de Haas de Teichen (1916). He married to Diane, viscountess de Jonghe d'Ardoye.
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His widow spent her later years at Bowden Hall in Upton St Leonards, where she endowed the local primary school. The Viscountess Downe died in March 1867.
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In 1863, Viscountess Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe wrote that the Dulcignote pirates used to the "terror of Italy" and that the sailors were requested by the Porte.
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Lord Dunrossil married twice, firstly to Mavis Dawn Spencer-Payne on 3 July 1951. The couple had three sons and one daughter, including his heir, Andrew William Reginald Morrison, who was born in 1953. Mavis, Viscountess Dunrossil, is a governor of the Cotswold School. He divorced his first wife in 1969 and remarried the same year to Diana Mary Cunliffe Vise who became Viscountess Dunrossil upon their marriage.
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Henrietta Butler, Viscountess Galmoye, previously Henrietta Waldegrave, Baroness Waldegrave (née Lady Henrietta FitzJames; 1667 - 3 April 1730), was an illegitimate daughter of James Stuart, Duke of York, subsequently King of England, Scotland and Ireland, by his mistress, Arabella Churchill (a sister of the first Duke of Marlborough). Upon marrying she became Lady Waldegrave, and then with her second marriage Viscountess Galmoye, as well as Countess of Newcastle (in the Jacobite Peerage).
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As he had no male heirs, Jeanne, being his eldest daughter, succeeded to the title as suo jure Viscountess of Meaux. She was about eleven years of age.
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Caroline Beatrix Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman, DBE, JP (née Parker; 30 June 1873Profile, oxfordindex.oup.com; accessed 22 March 2016. – 26 December 1961) was an English aristocrat, political activist, and churchwoman.
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Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, Baroness Hogg (born 14 May 1946) is an English economist, journalist, and politician. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.
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Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (; 11 November 1792 – 15 December 1872) was a British peeress and society figure who was the wife of British statesman Benjamin Disraeli.
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Sarah Eileen, Viscountess Brookeborough, died in 1989. In his private life, Brookeborough enjoyed farming, and he won many awards for it. He also liked shooting, fishing, and golf.
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Anne Coventry, Countess of Coventry (née Lady Anne Somerset; 22 July 1673 – 14 February 1763), styled Viscountess Deerhurst from 1691–99, was a British religious writer and noble.
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Through her daughter Doddington, she was a grandmother of both the 2nd Duke of Manchester and the 3rd Duke of Manchester, and also of Charlotte Byng, Viscountess Torrington.
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Patricia Smith, Viscountess Hambleden GCVO (12 November 1904 – 19 March 1994) was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) from 1937 to 1994.
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In 1849, the Quinta das Louras (or Quinta das Loureiras) was acquired by D. Ermelinda Allen de Almeida (then Viscountess of Regaleira) from João Veríssimo de Barros Viana and his wife, D. Maria Inácia dos Santos. The name of the quinta (estate) was within a short time changed to Beau-Séjour; the house was constructed following purchase of the estate by the Viscountess, and featured a landscaped French formal garden. In 1859, the estate was sold by D. Isabel Allen Palmeiro, Baroness of Regaleira (niece and heiress to the Viscountess), to António José Leite Guimarães, Baron of Glória (1806-1876). The Baron ultimately proceeded to repair the azulejos tiles (using tile from the Roseira tile factory).
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In 1745, she was made the Viscountess of Guignen in her own right. In her dowry, she was given the Lordship of Annonay, which she passed onto the Bourbons.
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In 1943 his widow was created Viscountess Daventry in his honour. William FitzRoy (1830–1902), a great- grandson of the first Baron, was a major-general in the army.
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Joanne, Viscountess de Dourlens. Descendant became Lords of Bornhem in Flanders. ###don Diego Francisco Coloma ###doña Elvira Coloma, marr. don Juan de Bustamante ##don Marco Coloma: died without heirs.
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"Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, writer, Translator & Catholic Recusant." The Twickenham Museum, the history centre for Twickenham Whitton, Teddington, and the Hamptons. The Twickenham Museum , n.d. Web. 12 March 2014.
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He became the 4th Viscount Brentford in 1983, and as his wife, she uses the style of Viscountess Brentford. Together they have four children: one son and three daughters.
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Jeanne de Béthune, Viscountess of Meaux, Countess of Ligny (c.1397- late 1450), was a French noblewoman, the suo jure Viscountess of Meaux, having inherited the title upon her father's death in 1408. Her father was Robert VIII de Béthune, Viscount of Meaux. Jeanne married twice; firstly to Robert of Bar, and secondly John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny who held Joan of Arc prisoner following her capture by the Burgundians in May 1430.
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Edward Villiers († 1693), eldest son of the 4th Viscount. In 1721 the 5th Viscount Grandison was created Earl Grandison. Upon his death in 1766, the earldom became extinct while the viscountcy passed to his second cousin William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey, who became the 6th Viscount Grandison. In 1746 Elizabeth Mason, daughter of the 1st Earl Grandison, was created Viscountess Grandison, and in 1767 she was made Viscountess Villiers and Countess Grandison.
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Lady Susannah Selina Sophia Metcalfe (nee Debonnaire) (1756–1815) British Library.Lady Susannah Selina Sophia Metcalfe (1756–1815). Married. British Library. Their elder daughter was Emily Theophila, Viscountess Ashbrook (1791–1885).
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Photographed 9 May 1902. Mary Elizabeth Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe, (née Milner; 22 December 1867 – 29 July 1963), later Lady Hudson, was the daughter of Robert Milner, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England.
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In the case of Bishop v Viscountess Montague , the opinion was offered that the plaintiff could elect between action in trover and action in trespass as a remedy for wrongful taking.
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Victoria Harriet Lucy Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman (née Turton; born 1942) is the founder of the Bridgeman Art Library, a for-profit company that provides a large collection of fine art images.
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Pedro seems to have been second in line to the viscounty of Narbonne, since his aunt, the viscountess Ermengarde, was childless. Pedro's brother Aimerico Manrique de Lara was invited to co-rule with Ermengarde, but on his death in 1177 the viscountess again ruled alone, at least until 1184. In that year the abbot of Fontfroide, the abbey where Aimerico was buried, donated the hamlet of Terrail to the Archbishop of Narbonne, Bernard Gaucelin. The archbishop solicited a confirmation of this acquisition of territory within the viscounty from "Ermengarde, viscountess of Narbonne, and from you, Count Pedro, and from your successors," which suggests the presence of Pedro Manrique north of the Pyrenees and that his aunt had recognised him as her heir.
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He was also a Methodist minister. Ambassador Chinda Sutemi and his wife Japanese Viscountess Chinda Iwa were two of the diplomats involved with the Japanese gifting of the cherry blossom trees to Washington, D.C. in 1912. As official representatives of Japan, Ambassador Sutemi Chinda and his wife, Japanese Viscountess Iwa Chinda, joined with President Taft's wife, First Lady Helen Herron Taft on March 27th, 1912. Each woman planted one of the recently arrived Yoshino cherry trees in the nation's capital onto the northern bank of the then empty landscape around the Washington, D.C. Tidal Basin, about 125 feet south of what is now Independence Avenue, SW. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the first lady presented a bouquet of "American Beauty" roses to Viscountess Chinda.
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Lady Helen accompanied her husband (created 1st Baron D'Abernon in 1914) as he served on the Interallied Mission to Poland and as the British Ambassador to the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s. During this time the Baroness kept a diary of her experiences, parts of which were published in 1946 as Red Cross and Berlin Embassy, 1915-1926: Extracts from the Diaries of Viscountess D'Abernon.Vincent, Lady Helen, Viscountess d'Abernon (1946) Red Cross and Berlin Embassy, 1915-1926: Extracts from the Diaries of Viscountess D'Abernon. London: J. Murray At the end of his diplomatic mission, Sir Edgar was elevated to 1st Viscount D'Abernon on 1 January 1926, and then also succeeded his brother, Francis, as 16th Baronet of Stoke d'Abernon.
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William Paul's only surviving grandson, William Paul, esquire, of Bray (1673–1711), by John Closterman. Paul married, in 1632, Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Glemham, and sister of Anne Glemham who married Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester. The marriage led to a suit between Paul and Anne, Viscountess of Dorchester, about a marriage settlement for Mary. The difference was referred to the archbishop of Canterbury and the lord keeper, and they found the Viscountess was willing to pay £250.
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Catherine (, ; 1468 – 12 February 1517), Queen of Navarre, reigned from 1483 until 1517. She was also Duchess of Gandia, Montblanc, and Peñafiel, Countess of Foix, Bigorre, and Ribagorza, and Viscountess of Béarn.
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Veterans Aid History In 2007 the charity was renamed Veterans Aid, and its remit extended from homelessness to all issues affecting veterans in crisis. The charity's patron is the Dowager Viscountess Rothermere.
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On his mother's side he was a female-line great-great-grandson of Anne, Viscountess Bayning, daughter of Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning. Bayning was educated at Eton and Clare College, Cambridge.
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Viscountess Ferrard had three children. She was succeeded in her titles by her eldest surviving son by John Foster, Thomas, who also succeeded to his father's barony on his death in 1828.
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The Viscountess separated from Underhill in 1639. He died on 29 June 1650. Sir John Underhill was laid to rest on April 14, 1679, at St. Giles-in-the-Fields Church in London.
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Lord Frankfort de Montmorency died in September 1822, aged 75, and was succeeded in his titles by his son from his second marriage, Lodge. The Viscountess Frankfort de Montmorency died in November 1851.
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Dr. Trelawney takes the two bodies and sews the two sides together. Medardo finally is whole. He and his wife Pamela (now the Viscountess) live happily together until the end of their days.
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Dorothy became Countess of Shaftesbury; Grace became Viscountess Chaworth; Margaret became countess of Salisbury; Elizabeth became Countess of Anglesey; Anne became Viscountess Howe, and Frances became Countess of Exeter. He served, rather passively, as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1661 until 1679. Politically he was a Whig, but did not attend court after 1689, preferring the life of a country magnate. Lord Roos succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire in 1677, and proved an effective deputy of the crown.
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Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson (25 January 1779 – 23 May 1843), was an English painter, the daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham, and wife of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson.
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He was widowed a second time, and he wedded Viscountess Mary Louise de Valernes in 1870.Maxwell (1998), pp. 8–9. Margaret Bremond, daughter of Paul and Harriet, married William Marsh Rice in 1850.
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Patricia Evelyn Beverley Matthews Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere (5 May 1929 – 12 August 1992) was an English socialite and actress. As Beverly Brooks, she appeared in several films, such as Reach for the Sky (1956).
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Margaret Haig Mackworth (née Thomas), 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (12 June 1883 – 20 July 1958) was a Welsh peeress, businesswoman, and active suffragette. She was significant in the history of women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
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Through her 1968 marriage to Member of Parliament Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, she is Viscountess Hailsham. However, following the granting of a life peerage in 1995, she is Baroness Hogg in her own right.
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It was restored and enlarged with a new wing by George Bennett Mitchell for J. R. Heaven in 1905–1911. Another wing was added by Dr. William Kelly for Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray in 1930.
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Edward Hughes - Juliette Gordon Low - Google Art Project Vere Monckton- Arundell, Viscountess Galway by Edward Hughes (1832–1908) Edward Hughes (14 September 1832 – 14 May 1908) was a British artist who specialised in portrait painting.
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She met Browne, then Viscount Castlerosse, when he was working in London, and married him mainly for his social position. They were married on 16 May 1928, and she was thereafter styled Viscountess Castlerosse, becoming familiarly known in society as Doris Castlerosse. Soon afterwards she embarked on an affair with Randolph Churchill, son of the future prime minister. The viscount and viscountess were childless, and divorced in 1938, with Robert Heber-Percy, a well-known homosexual whom she was allegedly trying to "cure", named as co-respondent.
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The Federation was formed in 1972 from those Congregational churches which did not enter the union of the Presbyterian Church of England with the Congregational Church in England and Wales to form the United Reformed Church. The leaders at the time were Reginald Cleaves, Margaret, Viscountess Stansgate, John Wilcox and Elsie Chamberlain. Margaret, Viscountess Stansgate became the Federation's first President. The Federation was expanded in 2000 by member churches of the Congregational Union of Scotland that chose not to join their merger with the United Reformed Church.
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1824) had in 1790 been created an Irish peeress, as Baroness Oriel, and in 1797 Viscountess Ferrard. Their younger son, Thomas Henry (1772–1843), who married Harriet Skeffington, Viscountess Massereene in her own right, and took the name of Skeffington, inherited all these titles; the later Viscounts Massereene being their descendants. John and Margaretta also had a daughter, Anne, who married James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin, but had no children. One of his first cousins married Elizabeth Hervey, aka Lady Bess Foster, aka Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire.
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Muriel FitzRoy, 1st Viscountess Daventry (8 August 1869 - 8 July 1962) was a British aristocrat and the wife of Edward FitzRoy, who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943.
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Alumni in the world of sport include sailor Lisa Clayton, Dowager Viscountess Cobham; triathlete Chrissie Wellington; middle-distance athlete Hannah England; Manchester United Chief Executive David Gill; and Williams Formula One team co-founder Patrick Head.
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Eleanor Souray, from a 1904 publication. Eleanor "Nellie" Souray (1880 – 8 December 1931), later styled as Eleanor Byng, Viscountess Torrington, was an English actress known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies, pantomime and light opera.
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The passengers were the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Viscountess Ednam (formerly Lady Rosemary Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, sister of the 5th Duke of Sutherland), Sir Edward Ward Bt, and Mrs Sigrid Loeffler, none of whom survived.
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He was the son of Major-General George Forbes, Viscount Forbes, and his wife, the Viscountess Forbes (née Frances Mary Territt); he succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Granard in 1837. He was educated at Eton.
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Graves of Viscount and Viscountess Cowdray Lady Cowdray died on 15 April 1932 at the Hôtel Ritz Paris. On 2 June 1934, Queen Mary received £6,054 () for the establishment of a memorial fund for Lady Cowdray.
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This was donated by Viscountess Southwell in 1893 to mark the coming of age of her son, who had been educated here at the monks’ school. The altar is believed to be by Alois de Beule.
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General Stewart was married twice: His first wife, The Rt. Hon. and Lady Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison, was the widow of Brigadier- General Hon. Edward Villiers (d.1693), the eldest son of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison.
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Viscountess Margaret Montgomery Pirrie (31 May 1857 - 19 June 1935) was an Irish public figure and philanthropist, the first woman Justice of the Peace in Belfast, and the first woman to receive the freedom of the city.
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Brown plaque, Holland Park Avenue, London Caroline Middleton DeCamp Benn (13 October 1926 – 22 November 2000), formerly Viscountess Stansgate, was an educationalist and writer, and wife of the British Labour politician Tony Benn (formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate).
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Agnes, Viscountess Wenman (died 1617) was an English Roman Catholic woman, under suspicion of involvement at the time of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. She is correctly referred to either as Agnes Wenman or as Lady Wenman.
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Margaret Magennis, Viscountess Iveagh (1673–1744), née Burke and also known as Margaret Butler, was the mother of John Butler, the de jure 15th Earl of Ormond. She is remembered by the song A Lament for Kilcash.
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Since Charles left no legitimate issue, his apanage returned to the crown. His daughter by the viscountess, Anne bâtarde de Valois, died childless not long after her marriage in 1490 to François de Volvire, Baron of Russec.
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Goodricke married firstly Katharine Norcliffe, daughter of Stephen Norcliffe, of York, at Trinity, Micklegate, York, on 7 October 1641. He married secondly before 1665, Elizabeth Dow, Viscountess Fairfax of Elmley, daughter of Alexander Smith, of Stutton, Suffolk.
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In 1909, the society merged with the Aborigines' Protection Society to form the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, whose prominent member was Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon. In 1990 the name was changed to Anti-Slavery International.
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"Lady Strangfords Hospital" Cairo 1882 The Victoria Hospital in Cairo, Egypt was founded by Viscountess Strangford with Dr Herbert Sieveking in 1883. The same year Queen Victoria awarded Strangford the Royal Red Cross for her work.Elizabeth Baigent, ‘Smythe , Emily Anne, Viscountess Strangford (bap. 1826, d. 1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 May 2015 The hospital continued in operation thanks to a grant of £2,000 per year from the Egyptian government taking in local students for training and offering first class accommodation on a private basis.
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Vereker was born in London. His mother was Eleanor, Viscountess Gort née Surtees (1846–1933; later Eleanor Benson),Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
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Misao Gamo was born in Tokyo,Alexander Black, "Society in Japan" The Lady's Realm (January 1901): 299-308. the fourth daughter of Shigetami Gamo. She was adopted by Teiun Yamanouchi."Viscountess Misao Hayashi (née Gamo)", National Portrait Gallery.
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Her daughter, Ann (born 1709), went on to become a viscountess, Lady Primrose. She continued her parents' charitable work, bequeathing money to Armagh in 1775 which was used to install the first piped water supply to the city.
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He later stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist. After a long illness, he died unmarried, aged 83, in Brighton, Sussex. His sister Ioanna married Sir Richard Reynolds-Moreton and was the mother of the Viscountess Byng of Vimy.
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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. His mother was the second daughter of the Right Hon. Hercules Langford Rowley and Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford. His aunt, the Hon.
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Elizabeth Campbell Collingridge, Emily Edwards (sister of Mrs. Sparkes), Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Priscilla Anne, Countess of Westmorland, Marion Margaret, Viscountess Alford, Lady Anne Loftus, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Lady Duckett, Lady Dunbar, Mrs. Hugh Blackburn, Mrs. Higford Burr, Mrs.
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A biography describing her work appeared in 1939 by Marjory Pegram: The Wolseley Heritage: the Story of Frances Viscountess Wolseley and her Parents. As Lady Wolseley never married or had children, the Wolseley title became extinct upon her death.
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Mary Hyde married David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles in 1984, becoming The Right Honourable The Viscountess Eccles. They founded the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library in 1992 as Lord Eccles had previously been its Chairman.
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Joanne King (born 20 April 1983) is an Irish actress. She is best known for her roles as Cyd (Cynthia Pyke) on the BBC1s Casualty and as Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford in the Showtime 2007 - 2010 series The Tudors.
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Lady Dalrymple – A viscountess, cousin to Sir Walter. She occupies an exalted position in society by virtue of wealth and rank. Sir Walter and Elizabeth are eager to be seen at Bath in the company of this great relation.
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Janet Bronwen Astor, Viscountess Astor (née Alun Pugh; 6 June 1930 - 28 December 2017) was an English model. She was muse to the couturier Pierre Balmain, who called her one of the most beautiful women he had ever met.
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Ermengarde (Occitan: Ermengarda, Ainermada, or Ainemarda) (b. 1127 or 1129 – d. Perpignan, 14 October 1197), was a viscountess of Narbonne from 1134 to 1192. She was the daughter of Aimery II of Narbonne and his first wife, also named Ermengarde.
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Domitila (or Domitília) de Castro Canto e Melo (December 27, 1797 — November 3, 1867), 1st Viscountess with designation as a Grandee, then 1st Marchioness of Santos, was a Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Pedro I.
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He was the husband of Harriet Skeffington, 9th Viscountess Massereene. Both he and his wife were succeeded by their son, the tenth Viscount Massereene and third Viscount Ferrard. The titles remain united. For later history of the peerages, see above.
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On 22 November 1797, she was further honoured when she was made Viscountess Ferrard.The Present Peerage of the United Kingdom (John Stockdale, 1821), p.137. Retrieved 2 November 2016. Her husband was created Baron Oriel in his own right in 1821.
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Catherine Celinda Leopoldine FitzGerald, formerly Catherine Lambton, Viscountess Lambton, (born 18 May 1971) is an Irish landscape designer and gardener. She and her husband, Dominic West also operate her ancestral home, Glin Castle, as a small hotel and event venue.
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The Viscountess Vane He married the widowed Lady William Hamilton in Marylebone on 19 May 1735. The marriage immediately proved to be a failure and the new Viscountess Vane tried to procure a legal separation. She did not hide her contempt for him or her extramarital relationships, but he was obsessed and remained devoted to her despite the social embarrassment brought to him by her continuous sexual infidelity and financial difficulties caused by her excessive spending. During their visit to Paris in 1736, she eloped with Sewallis Shirley, the sixth son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers.
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Florence Wallace Pomeroy, Viscountess Harberton (née Wallace Legge; 14 June 1843 – 30 April 1911) was a British campaigner for dress reform. She was born at Malone House in Belfast, the daughter of wealthy landowner William Wallace Legge (died 1868), a and for County Antrim, and his wife, Eleanor Wilkie Forster. She married James Spencer Pomeroy (1836–1912) on 2 April 1861, and in 1862 she became Viscountess Harberton when he became the 6th Viscount Harberton. They had four children, Aline Florence, Hilda Evelyn, Ernest Arthur George (1867-1944, 7th Viscount), and Ralph Legge (1869-1956, 8th Viscount).
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Marie-Madeleine d'Houët (1781-1858) also known as Viscountess de Bonnault d'HouetLife of the Viscountess de Bonnault d'Houet: foundress of the Society of Faithful Companions of Jesus, Fr Stanislaus, F.M. Capuchin, Longmans, Green & Co., 2nd ed., p. 7, was a French widow and single mother who, later in her life, was inspired by zeal for God and guided by Ignatian spirituality to found a religious institute of Religious Sisters known as the Faithful Companions of Jesus. Their goal is to work to help the poor and needy of society, and their communities have expanded around world, running schools and social service operations.
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She was friends with Patrick Leigh Fermor, who visited often Birr Castle, her family castle. She died unmarried on 26 January 1972 and is buried at St. Martin's Churchyard, Womersley, with her mother, Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, Viscountess de Vesci of Abbey Leix.
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Essex Leila Hilary Eyres-Monsell, Viscountess Monsell (formerly Drury, née French) (26 September 1907 - March 1996) was an English socialite. She and her sister Valerie Violet French were known as the French Sisters and included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton.
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"How Lady Torrington's Craze for Horses Brought Her to a Tragic Finish", Ogden Standard-Examiner (January 17, 1932), p. 24. via Newspapers.com She wrote Over the Garden Wall: A Story of Racing and Romance, published in 1924.Byng, Eleanor Souray, Viscountess Torrington.
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Falkland Ridge is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County. The community is likely named for Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland, Governor of Nova Scotia from 1840 to 1846 or his wife Amelia Cary, Viscountess Falkland.
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Fairlie Harmar, Viscountess Harberton (1876–1945) was an English painter. She was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.Jon Whiteley, Colin Harrison, Catherine Whistler, Colin Harrison, Catherine Casley (Editors). The Ashmolean Museum Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.
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Penelope Ann Lyttelton, Viscountess Cobham, CBE (née Cooper; born 2 January 1954), is a British businesswoman known for her involvement in a number of quangos (an acronym for quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations). She presently serves as director general of the 5% Club.
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Their grandson Hercules Langford Rowley married Elizabeth Upton, who was created Viscountess Langford in 1766. Their daughter the Hon. Jane Rowley married Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective. Lord and Lady Bective's fourth son Clotworthy Rowley was created Baron Langford in 1800.
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In 1754 she also succeeded her father in the barony of Compton. In 1751 Charlotte married the Hon. George Townshend, later fourth Viscount Townshend and first Marquess Townshend. When he succeeded in the viscountcy in 1764 she became known as the Viscountess Townshend.
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John William Ward inherited estates in Jamaica from his grandmother Mary, Viscountess Dudley and Ward, which included enslaved people. After emancipation of the slaves in 1833, the Dudley estate received compensation for the freed slaves (the Earl having died by this time).
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Bridget Helen "Biddy" Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland, Dowager Viscountess of Monckton, CBE (27 July 1896 – 17 April 1982) was a British peeress and Conservative member of the House of Lords best remembered as the wartime commander of women's services in India.
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Pamela Margaret Cooper (née Fletcher; 24 October 1910 – 13 July 2006), known as the Hon. Mrs Patrick Hore-Ruthven between 1939 and 1945, and as Viscountess Ruthven of Canberra between 1945 and 1952, was a British courtier, campaigner for refugees, and humanitarian.
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Queeney returns into Aubrey's life when she marries Lord Keith. Lord Keith gave him his promotion to master and commander and his first command. Queeney is the historic Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, and in her mother the reader will recognize the historic Hester Thrale.
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His son from his second marriage, William (who succeeded in the viscountcy in 1788), was the father of John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, Foreign Secretary from 1827 to 1828. Mary, Viscountess Dudley and Ward, survived her husband by eight years and died in 1782.
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Lady Tennessee Celeste Claflin, Viscountess of Montserrat (October 26, 1844 - January 18, 1923), also known as Tennie C., was an American suffragist best known as the first woman, along with her sister Victoria Woodhull, to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, which occurred in 1870.
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On 13 December 1894, Smith married Bertrand Russell, son of the Viscount and Viscountess Amberley in the Quaker Meeting House in St. Martin's Lane, London, England. They separated in 1911 and divorced in 1921. Alys, who never remarried, died in London on 22 January 1951.
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In 1989, she joined Sotheby's as a trainee. She then worked as a publicist for Giorgio Armani until August 1993, two months before marrying Viscount Linley. The Countess, then Viscountess Linley, had her own shop called "Serena Linley Provence". The store closed in 2014.
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After his return to England, Orme resigned his commission in the armyFordham, p. 268. and eloped with Audrey Townshend (died 1781),"Townshend, Etheldreda, Viscountess Townshend (c.1708–1788)" by John Martin in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, Jan 2008.
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He met Pamela, Viscountess Ruthven of Canberra, widow of Major The Hon. Patrick Hore-Ruthven, in 1949. She retained the noted beauty of her youth, and he sported a cavalry officer's moustache. The couple fell in love, and he petitioned his first wife for divorce.
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Writers Jane Addams and Henry James both sailed on a crossing aboard Servia in August 1883, though it does not appear they met. Edward Pellew, 4th Viscount Exmouth, and Viscountess Exmouth sailed aboard the Servia leaving New York City for Liverpool on 1 October 1884.
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Viscountess Marie was also decapitated in April of the same year, and viscountess Elisabeth (friend of Marie-Antoinette) only just escaped such a fate. An arrest warrant was issued on Elisabeth after she helped the queen to evade arrest, shut in the Conciergerie, but Elisabeth escaped to England and Germany, where she was an active counter-revolutionary. General Victurnien, deputy of the nobility at the Estates General in 1789, also emigrated to England in the face of the revolutionary turmoil, where King George III put him in command of an émigré regiment on the British side, the "régiment Mortemart", which fought in Guernsey and Portugal. He returned to France in 1802.
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Though the piece was once said to date from the 18th century, the Spencer tiara is actually made up of other pieces of jewellery of varying ages and from different jewellers that has gone through several changes over time. The oldest parts of the tiara are the ends. They are said to have come from a tiara that once belonged to Frances Manby, the last Viscountess Montagu, and left to Lady Sarah Spencer in 1875. The centre element was a wedding present from Lady Sarah Isabella Spencer to Cynthia, Viscountess Althorp (Diana's grandmother), when she married Albert, Viscount Althorp, the future 7th Earl Spencer, in 1919.
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Kerr remarried during his term; De L'Isle remarried after his term had finished. The longest-serving spouse has been Zara Hore-Ruthven, Countess of Gowrie, wife of the longest-serving governor-general, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, who served nine years from 1936 to 1945. The shortest- serving spouse was Alison Morrison, Viscountess Dunrossil, wife of William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, who died in 1961, one year and one day after taking up the office, being the only governor-general to die in office; Viscountess Dunrossil died in 1983. Most of the spouses of governors-general have been content to be background figures providing the office-holder with support.
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On Lord Wolseley's death the barony became extinct and he was succeeded in the viscountcy, according to the special remainder, by his daughter, Frances, author of Gardens – Their Form and Design (1919). Viscountess Wolseley never married and upon her death in 1936 the viscountcy became extinct.
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Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston (1787–1869) (previously Emily Clavering- Cowper, Countess Cowper, née The Honourable Emily Lamb), was a leading figure of the Almack's social set, sister to Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, wife to the 5th Earl Cowper, and subsequently wife to another Prime Minister Lord Palmerston.
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Prior, p. 120. Newspapers came to see this umbrella as a symbol of hope.According to Viscountess Elibank, his wife had given it to him in 1899. This date seems somewhat unlikely as she would have only been 16 or 17 at that time. See Prior, p. 120.
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4 (Brussels, 1997), 103-104. He married Florence de Rechem, Viscountess of Audenaerde. He was succeeded by their eldest son Jacques I de Lalaing, 5th Viscount of Audenaerde. Their daughter became a lady-in-waiting in the household of Philip de Lalaing, 2nd Count of Hoogstraten.
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Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley (15 September 1872 – 24 December 1936) was an influential English gardening author and instructor, whose Glynde College for Lady Gardeners at Glynde, East Sussex, had the patronage of such famous gardening names as Gertrude Jekyll, Ellen Willmott, and William Robinson.
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The mansion was leased to The 1st Viscount Cowdray and his wife, Annie, Viscountess Cowdray, in 1907. Lord Cowdray bought the estate in 1912, going on to commission further significant extensions until 1920. These were undertaken by Sir Aston Webb. Internal changes were undertaken commencing from 1924.
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It was during this time that Compton determined to enter public service. In 1934, he married Betty Tresyllian Williams (d. 1987), of a Quaker carpet-making family from Kidderminster. They had one son and four daughters, of whom the youngest is Isobel Sidney, Viscountess De L'Isle.
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Compute the Relative Value of a U.K. PoundMatthew 2004, pp37-40 His widow the Viscountess Brentford died in January 1952. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard. His youngest son, the Hon. Lancelot (who succeeded in the viscountcy in 1958), was also a Conservative politician.
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The viscountess was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales, from 1736 to 1739 and again from 1742 to 1759. She died in her fifties, in London, and was buried in the Byng family vault at All Saints Church, Southill, Bedfordshire.
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Isabel was born in about 1320. She had nine older siblings, including John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont. Isabel's paternal grandparents were Louis of Brienne, Viscount de Beaumont, and Agnes, Viscountess de Beaumont. Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen and Joan le Latimer.
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Bowyer was High Sheriff of Staffordshire between 1677 and 1678. He sat then as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick from 1678 until 1679 and for Staffordshire from 1679 until 1685. On 10 July 1672, he married Hon. Jane Murray, daughter of Henry Murray and the Viscountess Bayning.
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Through his uncle Quincy Adams Shaw and, his wife, Pauline Agassiz Shaw, he was also a first cousin of wealthy landowner Robert Gould Shaw II (who was the first husband of Nancy Langhorne, who later became Viscountess Astor). He graduated from a military academy in Ossining, New York.
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Lord Ferrard married Harriet Skeffington, suo jure 9th Viscountess Massereene, daughter of Chichester Skeffington, 4th Earl of Massereene and 8th Viscount Massereene. She died in 1831. Lord Ferrard died in January 1843 and was succeeded by his son, John, who had already succeeded his mother as tenth Viscount Massereene.
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He was succeeded by his son, the sixth Baron. the title is held by the latter's nephew, the seventh Baron, who succeeded in 2003. Muriel FitzRoy, 1st Viscountess Daventry, wife of the Hon. Edward FitzRoy, Speaker of the House of Commons, was the sister of the fifth Baron Penrhyn.
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The present owners, the Viscount and Viscountess Boyd of Merton, moved to Ince Castle in 1994. The house and gardens are only occasionally open to the public. In October 2018 the house was sold for £7 Million (Source land Registry £7,000,030 Oct 31 2018) to a South African.
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His younger brother, Clotworthy Taylour, inherited their maternal uncle's estates and was raised to the Irish peerage. His paternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Baronet and the former Sarah Graham. His maternal grandparents were the Rt. Hon. Hercules Langford Rowley and Elizabeth Ormsby Upton, suo jure Viscountess Langford.
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Londonderry was laid down at J. Samuel White's Cowes, Isle of Wight shipyard on 15 November 1956, and was launched by Cynthia Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough, wife of Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland on 20 May 1958. She was completed on 20 July 1960.
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Lady Byng, née Marie Evelyn Moreton (Philip Alexius de László, 1917) Lady Byng, photographed in 1921 (Marie) Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy (11 January 1870 – 20 June 1949), also known as Lady Byng, was the wife of Lord Byng, the 12th Governor General of Canada (1921-26).
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Ethel Dunlop Bruce, Viscountess Bruce of Melbourne (née Anderson; 25 May 1879 – 16 March 1967)Australia's Prime Ministers Fast Facts was the wife of Stanley Bruce, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1923 to 1929. She was the first prime minister's wife to live at The Lodge.
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John Rowley was knighted for his services at the time of the Restoration. He only left one son, Hercules, whose only son and heir, Hercules Langford Rowley, married in 1732, Elizabeth Ormsby (later created The 1st Viscountess Langford). Around this time he built a magnificent Georgian mansion at Summerhill.
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Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness, second wife of the first Viscount, was an American-born socialite. The Honourable Christopher Furness, only son of the first Viscount by his first wife, was a recipient of the Victoria Cross. Sir Stephen Furness, 1st Baronet, was the nephew of the first Baron.
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Charlotte Byng, Viscountess Torrington (1705 - 17 February 1759), formerly Lady Charlotte Montagu, was the wife of Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington. She was the daughter of Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, and his wife, the former Doddington Greville.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.
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Charles Webster, Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning (2010), p. 59; Google Books. The project had the support of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, who was Boyle's sister. A proposal for a Society of Chemical Physicians of the 1660s, again Helmontian in attitude, for a while gathered some momentum.
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Anne Maynard or Anne, Viscountess Maynard; Anne Parsons; Nancy Parsons; Nancy Maynard; Mrs. Horton (c. 1735 – 1814/5) was a Kingdom of Great Britain successful courtesan and political mistress. She was de facto first lady, entertaining guests for her lover the Duke of Grafton, the First Minister (Prime Minister).
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Fontfroide Abbey: cloister Fontfroide Abbey: chapter house Fontfroide Abbey (; ) is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south- west of Narbonne near to the Spanish border. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. In 1144 it affiliated itself to the Cistercian reform movement. Shortly afterwards the Count of Barcelona gave it the land in Spain that was to form the great Catalan monastery of Poblet, of which Fontfroide counts as the mother house, and in 1157 the Viscountess Ermengard of Narbonne granted it a great quantity of land locally, thus securing its wealth and status.
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30 and in Ellenblum, 2003, p. 41 In 1179 Viscountess Petronella of Acre sold the houses, vineyards and gardens of Mi'ilya to Count Jocelyn III, uncle of Baldwin IV,Strehlke, 1869, pp. 11-12, No. 11; cited in Röhricht, 1893, RRH, p. 156, No. 587; cited in Pringle, 1997, p.
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The Prince of Barbançon married Marie de Barbançon, Viscountess of Dave, daughter and heiress to Everard de Barbançon and Louise of East Frisia. Together they had two children, Octave-Ignace and Isabelle-Marie-Magdalene.Jean Charles Joseph de Vegiano, Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas, et du comté de Bourgogne (Leuven, 1775), 235-236.
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Anne married Thomas Burgh and was the mother of Margaretta Foster, 1st Viscountess Ferrard, and grandmother of Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes. He was a conscientious bishop, and in 1699–1700 he visited every parish in his diocese: his "Visitation of Cork" has survived.An Irishman's Diary "Irish Times" 31/07/2012.
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Daguerreotype, c. 1845 Born at Gloucester Lodge, Brompton, near London, Canning was the youngest child of George Canning and Joan, Viscountess Canning, daughter of Major-General John Scott. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1833, as first class in classics and second class in mathematics.
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He died on 31 May 1742. He was buried, without a monument, in Westminster Abbey. In politics Clarke was a Whig; his religious opinions were those of Queen Caroline of Ansbach and her spiritual adviser Samuel Clarke. Letters in Katherine Thomson's Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon show he was avid for preferment.
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Don Juan IX Coloma, Lord of Bobadilla: Knight of Santiago, Marr. Doña Maria Fernadez, Lady of Bodabilla. ##Don Pedro Coloma, Baron of Bornhem, died 1621; marr. Jeanne l'Escuyer, Viscountess of Dourlens'' ###Don Alejandro Coloma, Baron of Bornhem, died 1625: baptised in the cathedral of Antwerp: godson of Alexander, duke of Parma.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland (née Tanfield; 1585–1639), was an English poet, dramatist, translator, and historian. She is the first woman known to have written and published an original play in English (The Tragedy of Mariam). From an early age, she was recognized as an accomplished scholar by contemporary writers.
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Lord Scarsdale has given up his share of the family seat in Kedleston in a dispute over his inheritance and now lives in Eastbourne, England. His half-brother Richard Curzon now resides in the apartments reserved for the family at Kedleston Hall. His stepmother, the Dowager Viscountess, resides at the vicarage.
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By the time of her death in 1764Will of the Right Honourable Isabella Viscountess Irwin, Dowager of Windsor, Berkshire (P.C.C. 1764). her grandson Charles Ingram the 9th and last Viscount, son of the seventh son Charles Ingram, had inherited the title and was the last male heir.The Scots Peerage, V, pp. 14-20.
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He stepped from the government and the House of Commons after Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister in May 1937. The following June he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Davidson, of Little Gaddesden in the County of Hertford. He was succeeded as MP by his wife, Frances, Viscountess Davidson (see below).
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Wallis Simpson was initiated when both were invited by Thelma, Viscountess Furness to a house-party at Burrough Court. According to Wallis's memoirs, in November 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Simpson were supposedly invited as last minute chaperones to Thelma and the Prince of Wales to hunt at her house in Melton Mowbray.
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Aileen Mary Roberts, 2nd Countess Roberts, (20 September 1870 – 9 October 1944), was one of the six children of Field Marshal The 1st Earl Roberts, V.C., and Nora Henrietta (née Bews). She succeeded to the titles of Viscountess St. Pierre and Countess Roberts on 14 November 1914.Profile, Peerage.com; accessed 28 December 2013.
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Carol Jane Mavor is an American writer and professor. Her work includes the books Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, and Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour. She is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester.
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They had no children. He died in March 1838, in London's Mayfair, aged 57. His widow married Benjamin Disraeli in 1839 and was created Viscountess Beaconsfield in 1868. Mary Anne Lewis and Wyndham Lewis are mentioned in the book penned by the former politician, Douglas Hurd, about the needy "D'Israeli", on page 79.
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His title of Viscount, although initially a courtesy title, ceased to be a mere courtesy title sometime before 13 July 1530. On 17 May 1536, Lord Rochford was executed for treason, and all his titles were forfeited. His widow, Jane, Viscountess Rochford, however, continued to use the title after her husband's death.
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Katharine Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (née Stanley; 3 April 1842 – 28 June 1874),Cracroft's Peerage — Russell, Earl (UK, 1861) (Accessed 23 February 2016) often referred to as Kate, was a British suffragist and an early advocate of birth control in the United Kingdom. She was the mother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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Billiart taught them how to lead an interior life, while they devoted themselves generously to the causes of God and the poor. Though they attempted all the exercises of an active community life, some of the elements of stability were wanting, and these first disciples dropped off until only the Viscountess remained.
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Morrison married firstly, on 28 October 1954, Antoinette Sara Frances Sibell Long, the only child of the 2nd Viscount Long and his wife Viscountess (Frances) Laura Long (née Charteris). They had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1984 he married secondly Rosalind Elizabeth Ward (née Lygon). They also divorced.
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Bragg married his first wife, Marie-Elisabeth Roche, in 1961, and in 1965, they had a daughter Marie-Elsa Bragg. Roche was a French viscountess studying painting at Oxford. In 1971, Roche killed herself. "I could have done things which helped and I did things which harmed", he told The Guardian in 1998.
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Her photographic years were brief but prolific. Hawarden produced over eight hundred photographs between 1857 and her sudden death in 1864. Lady Hawarden's photographic focus remained on her children. There is only one photograph believed to feature the Viscountess herself, yet it could also be a portrait of her sister Anne Bontine.
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Slim's papers were collected by his biographer, Ronald Lewin, and given to the Churchill Archives Centre by Slim's wife, Aileen, Viscountess Slim, and son, John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim, and other donors, 1977–2001.Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge Lewin's biography, Slim: The Standardbearer, was awarded the 1977 WH Smith Literary Award.
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McQuiston and Ceawlin Thynn (then Viscount Weymouth) announced their engagement in November 2012. They were married at Longleat, the family seat in Wiltshire, on 8 June 2013. Upon her marriage McQuiston became Viscountess Weymouth. The wedding ceremony was not attended by the groom's parents, Anna and Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath.
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The Marquess of Lorne and Princess Louise The Earl of Aberdeen The Earl and Lady Minto The Earl and Lady Grey Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. Lord Byng of Vimy and Lady Byng The Viscount and Viscountess Willingdon The Earl of Bessborough and Lady Bessborough The Governor General and Lady Tweedsmuir Lady Tweedsmuir The Princess Alice The Governor General and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis Vincent Massey The Governor General and Lady Vanier Roland Michener Jules Léger Edward Schreyer Jeanne Sauvé Raymon Hnatyshyn Roméo LeBlanc Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul Michaëlle Jean David Johnston and Sharon Johnston Source: The Story of the Ottawa Horticultural Society by Frederick Pain and the yearbooks of the Ottawa Horticultural Society.
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Moss held a meeting specifically for women at Berkhamsted Town Hall on 15 February at which he insisted Labour was opposed to communism and was combatting it by improving living conditions in Britain and other countries."Labour Candidate at Berkhamsted", Hertfordshire Hemel Hempstead Gazette and West Herts Advertiser, 17 February 1950, p. 6. On the eve of poll, the Labour Party circulated a leaflet which drew attention to remarks by the sitting Conservative Member in Parliament, Viscountess Davidson, on 15 December 1949 when she had said that bread and dripping was "the best possible food a child could have";For Viscountess Davidson's full remarks in their original context, see Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 470, cols. 2928-33.
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He most recently stood as a crossbencher in the 2016 by-election following the removal of Lord Bridges for non-attendance without being on leave of absence and came third. Lord Hood married Flora Casement in 1991. The Viscountess is a maternal cousin of actor Hugh Grant. The couple have three sons and two daughters.
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29Dauphin, 1998, p. 636 The Crusaders referred to the village as Samueth or Samahete. In 1179, Baldwin IV confirmed the sale from Viscountess Petronella of Acre of houses, vineyards and gardens in Samueth, the village of Suphie, and some houses in Castellum Regis to Count Jocelyn III, uncle of Baldwin IV, for 4,500 bezants.
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In 1280, Constance Viscountess de Marsan signed an “acte de paréage” (a shared sovereignty agreement) with the Order of chivalry of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, with which they founded the new Bastide of Saint-Justin. This agreement was signed without the authorization of Edward I, King of England, then Duke of Aquitaine.
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He was the third son of Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective and his wife Jane Rowley, daughter of Hercules Langford Rowley and Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford. His older brother was Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort and his younger brother was Clotworthy Rowley, 1st Baron Langford. Taylour died at Davestown unmarried and childless.
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Catherine Willis Gray, who became Princess Murat Frances Work, the Hon. Mrs James Roche Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester, by John Singer Sargent, 1907 Mary Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, Vicereine of India. Consuelo Vanderbilt, a member of the Vanderbilt family who became Duchess of Marlborough Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard.
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Catherine d'Alençon (bef.1396 – 22 June 1462 Catherine de Valois in Paris) was a younger daughter of Peter II of Alençon and his wife Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine. Catherine was the second wife of Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria. Catherine was also maid of honour to Louis' sister, Isabeau of Bavaria.
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Guiscarda (or Guiscarde) (died 1154) was the eldest child of Gaston IV of Béarn and Talesa of Aragon. She later succeeded her younger brother Centule VI as viscountess in 1134. Guiscarda first married Peter II of Gabarret, who died before she succeeded to Béarn. Her son by him, Peter II, also succeeded in 1134.
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Charles Edward Maurice Spencer was born in London on 20 May 1964. Queen Elizabeth II is his godmother. His parents were titled Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, as his paternal grandfather, Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, was still alive at the time of his birth. Spencer grew up with three older sisters, Sarah, Jane, and Diana.
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Joan of Artois, Countess of Foix, Viscountess of Béarn (French: Jeanne d'Artois; 1289 - after 24 March 1350), was a French noblewoman, and the wife of Gaston I de Foix, Count of Foix, Viscount of Béarn. From 1331 to 1347 she was imprisoned by her eldest son on charges of scandalous conduct, dissolution, and profligacy.
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Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, Viscountess Rothermere (born 1949) is a Japanese-born Korean philanthropist and patron of the arts active in New York City, Paris and London. She is the widow of the 3rd Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of British newspaper the Daily Mail, whom she married in 1993, having been his mistress for many years.
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Bernard IV (died after 1162) was the lord of Anduze from 1128 and the husband of Ermengard, viscountess of Narbonne, from 1142 or 1143. He was possibly Ermengard's first cousin. He stood at the head of the family that ruled the north of the viscounty of Nîmes. They were vassals and allies of the Trencavels.
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She is a trustee of the Forward Trust. Lambert sold the family estate in Devon in the 1970s and moved to Switzerland where he died in 1989. Patsy, Viscountess Lambert, died in 1991. His brother Michael who lived near Siena inherited the title but he died without issue in 1999 and the title became extinct.
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Aldous, p. 223 At his first departure from 10 Downing Street in 1868, Disraeli had had Victoria create Mary Anne Viscountess of Beaconsfield in her own right in lieu of a peerage for himself.Hibbert, pp. 279–280 Through 1872 the eighty-year-old peeress was suffering from stomach cancer. She died on 15 December.
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Princess Anne of Denmark (formerly Anne Anson, Viscountess Anson, née Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon; 4 December 1917 - 26 September 1980) was a first cousin of Elizabeth II and the mother of royal photographer Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield and Lady Elizabeth Anson. She became a Princess of Denmark through her second marriage.
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Marie of Montpellier (adapted from Occitan: Maria de Montpelhièr) (1182 - 21 April 1213) was Lady of Montpellier and by her three marriages Viscountess of Marseille, Countess of Comminges and Queen of Aragon. She was the daughter of William VIII, Lord of Montpellier, by his wife Eudokia Komnene, a niece of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
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Dona Josefa de Godoy di Bassano y Crowe, de Tudó y O'Donovan (October 8, 1834 - August 12, 1882), dei principi Godoy di Bassano, was a Spanish-Italian aristocrat. She was the 2nd Vizcondesa (Viscountess) de Rocafuerte (by rehabilitation of April 24, 1871) and 2??th Noble Dame of the Royal Order of Queen María Luisa.
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Born about 1508, Edmund Knyvet was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Knyvet (c. 1485 – 1512) and Muriel Howard (died 1512), the daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Elizabeth Tilney. By her first marriage to John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle,. Muriel Howard had a daughter, Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle.
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Naylor-Leyland renovated and restored the historic mansion which she and her husband purchased shortly after their wedding. She is close friends with other high-profile socialites including Poppy Delevingne, Olivia Palermo, Lady Alice Manners, Lady Violet Manners, Lady Mary Charteris, Sabine Getty, Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth, and Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis.
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Lady Lumley's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in Thornton-le- Dale in 1670. "Thornton le Dale", Welcome to Scarborough, Visitoruk.com. Retrieved 17 December 2011 It was endowed by deed of Frances, Viscountess Lumley, an ancestor of the Earl of Scarborough, in 1657.
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Yves Frantz Loys Marie Le Pelley du Manoir, known as Yves du Manoir (August 11, 1904 - January 2, 1928) was a French rugby player. Du Manoir was born at Vaucresson, into an aristocratic family; his father and mother were Viscount and Viscountess Le Pelley. He excelled at tennis, rowing, swimming, gymnastics and running. He also liked motorcycles.
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The livery yard opened in February 2010 and is run by Gavin Crossley, formerly of the Household Cavalry. The Farley Hall Horse Trials became a new fixture in the British Eventing calendar in 2014. The estate is currently owned by the fifth Viscount Bearsted and his family. The Viscountess (Dr Caroline Sacks) runs a medical practice from the Hall.
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Mary was the daughter, sister, wife, and mother of various Viscounts of Béarn, Gabardan, and Brulhois. Briefly, from 1170 to 1171, she ruled Béarn as Viscountess in her own right. Mary was the only known daughter of Peter II and Matelle de Baux. When Mary's elder brother Gaston V died without descendants, she inherited his titles.
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He had a natural daughter Anna Maria Ward (1778–1837), by his Viscountess (when she was still Mrs. Mary Baker, whom he later married). Lord Dudley in his will made an ample provision for the girl and appointed his widow, who died in 1810, and Henry Jerome de Salis as her guardians.Ward v St Paul, February 1789.
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Now a courtesy viscountess, Lady Jocelyn was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to the queen later that year, holding that position until 1867. The Cowper family was secular, while Lord Jocelyn's family was considered sternly religious. Upon their marriage, they moved to Northern Ireland to live on his family's estate. They had five children together.
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In 1947, Lumley set himself up as a public relations consultant. Among his first clients were the designer Hardy Amies, Nicholas ("Miki") Sekers, and the shoe magnate Edward Rayne. In 1955, Lumley branched out as a model agent. Among the models on his books were Bronwen Pugh (later Viscountess Astor) and Sally Croker-Poole who married the Aga Khan.
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52–53 In 1542 John Dudley was created Viscount Lisle. He was on friendly terms with William Parr, whose sister Catherine became Henry VIII's last queen in July 1543.Loades 1996 p. 60–61 As one of her closest friends, the Viscountess Lisle was among the four ladies leading her to the altar on the marriage day.
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Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, born Hester Maria Thrale (17 September 1764 – 31 March 1857), was a British literary correspondent and intellectual. She was the eldest child of Hester Thrale, diarist, author and confidante of Samuel Johnson, and Henry Thrale, a wealthy brewer and patron of the arts. She became the second wife of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith.
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Despite her strong opposition the Congregational Church merged with the English Presbyterian Church. She became involved with 300 churches in the who decided to not join the merger that created the United Reformed Church. They started the Congregational Federation with an office in Nottingham in 1972. The leaders were Viscountess Stansgate, Reginald Cleaves, John Wilcox and Chamberlain.
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Viscountess Wolseley died on 24 December 1936 at Culpepers, Ardingly, Sussex, after a lengthy illness. She was buried at St Andrew's Church, Beddingham, East Sussex. She bequeathed her books and papers to Hove Corporation, along with funds to improve the library and set up a Wolseley Room. The material is retained among Hove Library's special collections.
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He then went to Narbonne and stayed for a long time at the court of "Ainermada de Narbona", the Viscountess Ermengard of Narbonne. Upon her death (1197), Salh entered the cloister at Bergerac and abandoned his "inventing [songs] and singing". Only on work by Salh, a canso (love song), has been preserved: "Gran esfortz fai qui chanta ni.s deporta".
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She reacted by refusing to have sex with him. She never used the title Viscountess Coke. Their families went to litigation, and eventually produced a settlement in 1750 whereby Lady Mary could live with her mother at Sudbrook but had to remain married to Edward until his death. He died in 1753, when Mary was 26, predeceasing his father.
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As his father is known as the Duke of Orléans, Charles Louis is known as the Duke of Chartres, the title traditionally given to the eldest son of the Duke of Orléans. He is the middle of three children, his elder sister being Princess Diane, Viscountess of Noailles, and his younger brother being Prince Foulques, Duke of Aumale.
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Between 1959-62 she was married to Denis Mack Smith, a noted historian of the Italian "Risorgimento". In 1963, she wed British sociologist Walter Garrison "Garry" Runciman, by which union she became the Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, a title she does not use. Their son, David, is a Professor of Politics and a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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The family seat is Glenarm Castle, near Glenarm, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland. The Dunluce Cup is awarded at the Larne Music Festival by the Viscount or Viscountess Dunluce, heir to the Earl of Antrim. The McQuillan family ruled Dunluce before the McDonnells, but they are not awarded peerage because they were overthrown during the 1500s.
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In 2001, Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, became the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company. Katharine Graham, previously the chairwoman of the board of The Post Co., was the first female Fortune 500 CEO in 1972. Ursula Burns, the Chairman and CEO of Xerox, was the first African American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
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The first laird of Bognie was Alexander, whose son married Christian Urquhart, Viscountess Frendraught. The current representative of the family is Alexander Gordon Morison of Bogie, 13th Baron of Bognie. Until the last century, this family was the principal armigerous 'Morrison' family. The family first gained the Bognie estate in the first part of the 17th century.
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His wife, Margery Spencer, daughter of The Rev. Walter Spencer of Fownhope Court, Herefordshire, and wife Anne "Annie" Elizabeth Hudson, became Viscountess Greenwood. She was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1922. She was the sister of Muriel Forbes-Sempill, second wife of Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple.
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Hanley is the son of actors Jimmy Hanley and Dinah Sheridan. His sister, Jenny Hanley, became an actress and TV presenter in the 1970s. In 1973 he married Verna, Viscountess Villiers, (née Stott, former wife of George Henry Child Villiers, Viscount Villiers, d.1998) and had one son, one son by a previous marriage and one step daughter.
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Their first son, Grey, was born on 26 November 1939. After Hore-Ruthven's death, his widow was styled Viscountess Ruthven of Canberra. She remarried in 1949, to Major Derek Cooper. Hore- Ruthven's father Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie died in May 1955, whereupon Patrick Hore-Ruthven's son Grey succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Gowrie.
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The 3rd Earl of Ancaster and his wife, Nancy Astor (1909–1975; she was the daughter of The 2nd Viscount Astor and The Viscountess Astor), replanted the gardens in the 1950s. The castle is now the seat of The Rt Hon. The 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, the daughter and heir of The 3rd Lord Ancaster.
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On 19 February 1766, his wife was created Viscountess Langford of Langford Lodge in the Peerage of Ireland. She was made Baroness Summerhill at the same time, also in the Peerage of Ireland. She was succeeded by her son, the second Viscount. Rowley inherited his father's estates, including Lynch's Castle, which had been occupied by the Langfords since 1661.
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Mellon's autobiography, Reflections in a Silver Spoon, was published in 1992. He died at his home, Oak Spring, in Upperville, Virginia, on February 1, 1999. He was survived by his wife, Rachel (a.k.a. Bunny), his children, Catherine Conover (first wife of John Warner) and Timothy Mellon, and two stepchildren, Stacy Lloyd III and Eliza, Viscountess Moore.
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Marie Canyon is a canyon on the Cowichan River, just below Skutz Falls, on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The canyon is named for Marie Adelaide, Viscountess Willingdon, C.I., G.B.E. (wife of the then- Governor-General of Canada), commemorating her canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down the Cowichan River to Duncan on April 7, 1930.
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Jestyn Reginald Austin Plantagenet Philipps, 2nd Viscount St Davids , (19 February 1917 - 10 June 1991) was a British peer, the only surviving son of John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids, and his second wife, Elizabeth Philipps, Viscountess St Davids (née Abney-Hastings). From his mother, he inherited the baronies of Hungerford, de Moleyns and Strange (de Knockyn).
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Antoon, Donna and James Wetenhall (1993) "Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon" in Masterpieces East & West. Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art. During World War I Lady Helen trained as a nurse anaesthetist and treated thousands of patients. Many letters describing her war work were sent to her friend Teresa Hulton, later the 8th Lady Berwick of Attingham Park.
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The only son of Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford and The Hon. Mary Morgan, youngest daughter of Charles, 1st Baron Tredegar (1843–1924), Lord Hereford attended New College, Oxford before marrying Ethel Mildred Shaw (d. 1945), daughter John Shaw, of Welburn Hall, Yorkshire. The Viscountess Hereford was appointed DJStJ ; they had three children including The Hon.
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They had issue one son and four daughters, of whom the two eldest daughters Christine Helene and Juliet Mary married the 7th Baron Bolton and the 8th Marquess of Downshire respectively. Lady Forester had a royal godparent in H.H. Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein.See Burke's Peerage, 1912 edition, for details # Helena Ruth Perrott, later Viscountess Maitland (1912Helena, Viscountess Maitland's date of birth is from the National Portrait Gallery site. She was daughter of Sir Herbert Charles Perrott, 5th and 1st Bt. (1849–1922) by his wife Ethel Lucy Hare, and sister of Marie Louise Priscilla, Baroness Forester (born 1909–), wife of the 7th Baron Forester since 1931. Sir Herbert Charles Perrott was created a baronet in his own right 1911 and inherited an older baronetcy of 1716 in 1886.
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Born as Janet Augusta Haig into an upper middle-class family in Marylebone in Middlesex in 1850,Mrs Janet Augusta Boyd - Women's Suffrage: History and Citizenship resources for schools she was the daughter of George Augustus Haig (1820-1906), a merchant and landowner from Pen Ithon, Radnorshire, Wales, and his wife, Anne Eliza née Fell (1822-1894). Her father was of Scottish descent and was a cousin of Douglas Haig. Her sisters and fellow suffragettes were Charlotte 'Lottie' Haig and Sybil Thomas, later Viscountess Rhondda, while her niece was the feminist and suffragette Margaret Thomas, who herself became the second Viscountess Rhondda. In 1874 Janet Haig married solicitor George Fenwick Boyd (1849-1909) whose industrialist father Edward Fenwick Boyd built Moor House, a large family home in the village of Leamside just outside Durham.
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The first auction was a success, encouraging her to continue raising funds. An interesting fact is: a young woman from Piauí state enlisted in the Fatherland Volunteers Battalion, following the example of Maria Quitéria, who previously also wished to fight for her country. The viscountess Jovita Feitosa passed away in Rio de Janeiro. Tamandaré, the origin of Lisboa's title,AMORA, Paulo (1968).
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Lady William was soon pressured by her family, in-laws, and friends to accept the marriage proposal from William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane. The couple married on 19 May 1735 in Marylebone, and Lady William thus became Viscountess Vane. The union became notoriously unhappy. Lady Vane openly despised the man who adored her, frequently ran away and tried to procure a legal separation.
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The Southdown breed of sheep were first bred here by John Ellman. Frances founded the influential Glynde College for Lady Gardeners at Trevor House, Glynde in 1899. It continued to offer two-year courses at Ragged Lands from 1902 until about 1933.Jane Brown, "Wolseley, Frances Garnet, Viscountess Wolseley (1872–1936)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004).
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His father and other brothers did not make the move. Estranged from her husband, Betsy Alexander claimed to be a widow. Alexander's brother A.R. joined the growing practice, which included pupils such as the politician Reginald McKenna, the businessman Waldorf Astor, and Edith, Viscountess Castlereagh. Alexander also engaged Ethel Webb, a former pupil, as a teacher, the first from outside his family.
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Her friend, Margaret Haig, was the daughter of Viscount Rhondda. He was a supporter of women's rights and in his will made arrangements for Margaret to inherit his title. This was considered radical, as women did not normally inherit peerage titles. When Rhondda died in 1918 the House of Lords refused to allow Margaret, now the Viscountess Rhondda, to take her seat.
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Lord Harrowby married Mabel Danvers Smith, daughter of William Henry Smith and Emily Danvers, Viscountess Hambleden, in 1887. As a result of her marriage, Mabel Ryder was styled as Countess of Harrowby effective 11 December 1900. Mabel, Countess of Harrowby, was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1919. She died on 27 March 1956.
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Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (born 14 August 1948), is an English businesswoman and socialite who is the CEO of OKA, a home furnishings design company.Retail Week Prior to co-founding OKA, she was the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in London. Her daughter Samantha is married to former British prime minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
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The family was further honoured when Charlotte was created Viscountess Newcomen on 25 January 1803. The remainder of both titles was to the male heirs of her husband, and upon Charlotte's death she was succeeded by their eldest son, Thomas Gleadowe- Newcomen, who had already inherited his father's baronetcy.John Debrett, Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1820), p.1163.
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The ceremony of inauguration was presided by King Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie. Romanones, Blanca de Igual y Martínez Dabán (viscountess of Llanteno and Madrid municipal councillor) and Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta (Minister of Public Instruction), intervened as speakers. In March 2019, the district junta of Centro voted to name the surrounding gardens as Jardines de las Feministas ("Gardens of the Feminists").
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This was due to the intercession of Margaret Wedgwood Benn (Viscountess Stansgate) and the appointment of a woman annoyed the Archbishop of Canterbury. Chamberlain had to leave the position when she started to suffer from arthritis. The following year there was great media interest when she married. Her husband had been given a parish and Chamberlain became a "vicar's wife".
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He was the younger son of Alfred Dyke Acland and his wife Beatrice, who was the daughter of William Henry Smith and his wife Emily Danvers Smith, 1st Viscountess Hambleden. Acland was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1932, he was invested an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.
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The poem actually refers to Edessa as representing the far reaches of the earth. The same song celebrates Guiborc de Montausier, the "viscountess" of Chalais (Chales or Chaletz): :A Chales vai, chansos, a midons dire, :A Na Guiborc cui beutatz saup eslire :E pretz e jois e largues' e valors, :Qe a leis mi clam de sos mals noiridors.Kastner, 410.
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His eldest son Chiswell Langhorne became a wealthy industrialist, and daughter Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis was a prominent suffragette. John S. Langhorne's granddaughters included Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson (the original Gibson Girl), and Nancy Langhorne, Viscountess Lady Astor (the first woman elected to the British Parliament). By 1878 it was owned by L.E. Lichford, a grocery wholesaler who also had a warehouse nearby.
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In 1901 Lord Gladstone married Dorothy Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Paget, 1st Baronet, who was over twenty years his junior. He died in March 1930, aged 76, at his Ware home, and was buried in the town's Little Munden Church. There were no children from the marriage, and therefore his title became extinct at his death. Viscountess Gladstone died in June 1953.
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Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley (formerly Wigram, née Bodley; 12 December 1895 – 22 December 1974), styled as Lady Anderson from 1941 until 1952, was an English political and social hostess at the centre of government during the Second World War. Winston Churchill noted "her contact with gt. affairs". It was said that she had "more indirect influence than any woman of her generation".
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Frances was the younger daughter of the judge and privy councillor Sir Edward Coke and his second wife Lady Elizabeth Hatton. She was born at Hatton House in London, and baptised on 2 September 1602 in the parish church of St Andrew Holborn.Johanna Luthman, Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017), p. 8.
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The Runciman ReportPolice Foundation. 2000. Drugs and the law: Report of the inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, (London: The Police Foundation). was published by in 2000 by the UK policing think tank the Police Foundation which hosted an inquiry into the United Kingdom's Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (MDA). The report was authored by Viscountess Ruth Runciman.
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She lived at Bookham lodge for almost 50 years before dying there in April 1902. Viscountess Chewton's name is perpetuated in the Lady Chewton Wood to the south of Bookham Lodge. In 1931 the freehold was sold to Sir Edmund and Lady Wyldbore-Smith. Sir Edmund Wyldbore-Smith was the British chargé d'affaires in Tangier at the time of the Perdicaris incident. .
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Portrait of Madame de Senonnes, 106 x 84 cm. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of Madame de Senonnes (once known as La Trastéverine) is an 1814 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It shows Madame de Senonnes, née Marie-Genevieve-Marguerite Marcoz, viscountess of Senonnes (29 June 1783, Lyon - 25 April 1828 (Paris)). Marcoz was 31 when the portrait was completed.
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Plymouth was one of 12 ships built in the new ; were built after the (Type 12s) in the mid 1950s. Plymouth was built at the Devonport Dockyard, in her namesake city and was laid down on 1 July 1958. She was launched by Viscountess Astor on 20 July 1959 and commissioned on 11 May 1961 with the pennant number F126.
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Major Cyril Raikes MC lived here. Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway was born here in 1859. In the 20th century, George Mallory, who later made a fatal attempt to scale Mount Everest, taught at Charterhouse School, and then lived in the town after marrying Ruth Turner. He died during the 1924 attempt, but Ruth and their three children remained in the area.
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Péronnelle (c. 1330 – 30 October 1397) was Countess of Dreux from 1365 to 1377 and Viscountess of Thouars from 1370 to 1397. She was the daughter of Joan II, Countess of Dreux and Louis I, Viscount of Thouars. With her death, the elder branch of the House of Thouars, which had controlled the viscounty for more than five centuries, ended.
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In 1542, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, George's widow, was also executed after she was implicated in the fall of Queen Catherine Howard. The title was recreated in 1619 for Thomas Boleyn's great-great-grandson Henry Carey, 4th Baron Hunsdon, who was created Earl of Dover in 1628. Both titles became extinct on the death of the second Earl in 1677.
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She came to live at Harefield Place in considerable splendour. The house stood to the south of the present church and parts of its moat and brickwork can still be seen. Alice, Dowager Countess of Derby was also Dowager Viscountess Brackley. Her second husband Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, an eminent lawyer and Lord Chancellor of England, had died in 1617.
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Lady Butler was widowed in 1910, but continued to live at Bansha until 1922, when she took up residence with the youngest of her six children, Eileen, Viscountess Gormanston, at Gormanston Castle, County Meath. She died there shortly before her 87th birthday and was interred at nearby Stamullen graveyard. Butler was included in the 2018 exhibit Women in Paris 1850-1900.
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Titles such as Lord/Lady, Duke/Duchess, Marquis/Marquise, and Viscount/Viscountess are titles bestowed on members in recognition for work in the game or holding offices. The most sought after title in Amtgard is that of Knight. Knighthood in Amtgard is broken into four orders: Sword, Serpent, Crown, and Flame. Each has different criteria, with some minor variations from Kingdom to Kingdom.
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Melbury House in 2014 Melbury House and the parish church of Melbury Sampford Melbury House is an English country house in the parish of Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset,Melbury House (map). This grade I listed mansion is the home of the Honorable Mrs Charlotte Townshend, a major landowner in east Dorset, through her mother, Theresa Fox-Strangways (Viscountess Galway).
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Lady Oxford was born Mary Clare Pollen, the eldest of the five children of the architect Francis Pollen (1926-1987) and Marie Therese Sheridan (later Viscountess Sidmouth, wife of the 7th peer).Profile at thePeerage.com She lives in Somerset with her husband, former diplomat Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (whom she married in 1978) and their five children.
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The couple had no children and separated after seven years. In 1775, Anne was included in a painting titled The Three Witches form Macbeth by Daniel Gardner (c.1750–1805), which can be found in The National Portrait Gallery, London. The work shows her next to other ladies of high society: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
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One of their daughters, Margaretta Burgh, married John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel and was created Viscountess Ferrard in 1797. One of his sons, also called Thomas, was the father of Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes, who inherited the title by special remainder from his cousin William Downes, 1st Baron Downes, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, a nephew of Anne Downes.
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John Coblegh is recorded in the Lisle Letters as one of the Devonshire notables who were given a deer by Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (died 1566) from the park of her nearby manor of Umberleigh. He also features further in the Letters.Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, pp.
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Harvey IV had been married by his father to Catherine of Laval, who received financial compensations from Dukes John I and John II in 1281 and 1306. After the sale of the Viscounty, she was called « jadis vicomtesse de Léon » (formerly Viscountess of Léon). They had a daughter, Anné of Léon who married Prigent de Coëtmen, Viscount of Tonquédec before 1298.
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Monthly Army List. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace for Devon, and a Doctor of Law. The Viscount and Viscountess spent their honeymoon in the United States, arriving in New York City on 23 June 1884 on board the SS Gallia. At the time the Viscount's cousin, Henry Pellew, later the 6th Viscount Exmouth, and his wife resided there.
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1689), but after his death at the Siege of Londonderry she and her brothers and sisters were brought up by their father's younger brother, General Steuart and his first wife Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison. Theaker Wilder's uncles included Admiral James Steuart M.P., Admiral of the Fleet; Charles Steaurt (d.1740) of Bailieborough Castle, County Cavan; and Brigadier-General The Hon. William Steuart (d.
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Stonehaven married Lady Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer, daughter of the 9th Earl of Kintore, in 1905. They had two sons and three daughters. Lord Stonehaven died of hypertensive cardiac disease at Ury House, Stonehaven, Scotland, in August 1941, aged 67, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Ian. The Viscountess Stonehaven succeeded her elder brother as eleventh Countess of Kintore in 1966.
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Margaret of Béarn (sometimes Margaret (or Marguerite) of Montcada) (born c. 1245–1250 and died c. 1319) was a noblewoman who ruled (with her husband or for her son) lands near the Pyrenees mountains and in the southwestern part of present-day France. She inherited the lands, assets and title, Viscountess of Béarn, on the death of her father in 1290.
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Griffiths was a member of the Women's International Art Club and during 1906 and 1907 served as the club's honorary secretary. She had a solo exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea in 1922. Griffiths painted a number of notable portraits. Her subjects included Dame Margaret Lloyd George, Lord Justice Banks, the Viscountess Hawarden and the trustees of Swansea Hospital.
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To their daughter, Viscountess Primrose, the citizens of Armagh are chiefly indebted for a plentiful supply of water. Drelincourt's only publication is A Speech made to … the Duke of Ormonde, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and to the … Privy Council. To return the humble thanks of the French Protestants lately arriv'd in this kingdom; and graciously reliev'd by them, 4to, Dublin, 1682.
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He married Janet Munro Kerr, granddaughter of John Martin Munro Kerr. He sold the family business in 1962 and moved his family to Australia, where he became a sheep farmer. After selling the farm and returning to England, and still married, he began an affair with Diana's mother Viscountess Althorp. She was married to John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later 8th Earl Spencer.
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He married secondly at Eltham on 24 June 1663, Bridget, Dowager Viscountess Kilmorey, daughter of Sir William Drury, of Besthorpe, Norfolk, and his wife Mary Cokayne, daughter of William Cockayne, merchant, of London. His widow married as her third husband Sir John Baber, physician, on 15 February 1681, at St Bride's Church. She was buried at Eltham on 11 July 1699.
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The Viscountess refused to be a partner nor to allow exploration on her property. In 1901, the Novo Hotel Quinta do Peso was constructed; on inauguration. Its first guest was councilman Manuel Francisco Vargas (from the Ministro das Obras Públicas) and his wife. On 5 March 1904, the Viscount of Peso solicited permission to explore the mineral water springs on her property.
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In a ceremony on March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two of these trees on the north bank of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park. At the end of the ceremony, the First Lady presented Viscountess Chinda with a bouquet of 'American Beauty' roses. These two trees still stand at the terminus of 17th Street Southwest, marked by a large plaque. By 1915, the United States government had responded with a gift of flowering dogwood trees to the people of Japan. To further build on the growing goodwill between Japan and the U.S. based on the gifting of the Cherry Blossom Trees in 1912, one of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa’s close friends and political allies Baron Eiichi Shibusawa visited the U.S. in 1915.
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"2nd Viscountess Rhondda, Politician and businesswoman" at bbc.co.uk Another notable trial was that of the Spanish sailor Josef Garcia, convicted of murdering William and Elizabeth Watkins and their three youngest children (Charlotte, 8 years, Alice, 5 years and Frederick, 4 years) in 1878 at Llangibby.Roger Williams (2004), Their Deadly Trade: Murders in Monmouthshire, Gomer Press. Court one was gutted by fire in 1944 and was never rebuilt.
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Isabella of Foix also known as Isabella of Foix-Castelbon (before 2 November 1361 – 1428) was sovereign Countess of Foix and Viscountess of Béarn from 1399 until 1428. She was Countess of Foix in her own right, but shared power with her husband and later with her son. She succeeded as countess along with her husband upon the death of her childless brother Matthew.
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The activities resulted in a trial at the Sessions House, Usk, and after refusing to pay a £10 fine, she was sentenced to serve a one month period in jail there. She was released after only five days after going on a hunger strike."2nd Viscountess Rhondda, Politician and businesswoman" at bbc.co.uk Thomas had been given a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by WSPU.
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He was once again Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1931 and 1937, firstly under Ramsay MacDonald and from 1935 onwards under Baldwin. On Baldwin's retirement in 1937, Davidson left the House of Commons and was ennobled as Viscount Davidson. Despite being only 48, he never took any further active part in politics. His wife Frances, Viscountess Davidson, succeeded him as MP for Hemel Hempstead.
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Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, daughter of the first Baron, was a Conservative Member of Parliament and was given a life peerage as Baroness Northchurch in 1964. The second Baron lived in Painswick and was the director of the Painswick Garden Estate and a trustee of the Painswick Rococo Garden Trust. He was the eldest son of Hon. Richard Sebastian Willoughby Dickinson, only son of the first Baron.
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Lady Mary Bridget Parsons was born on 27 October 1907, the daughter of William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse and Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, Viscountess de Vesci of Abbey Leix.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 In the 1920s she was part of the wild crowd known as the Bright Young Things.
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However, in this particular case she seems to have been a willing contributor to the affair. The Duke of Aquitaine, the earliest known troubadour whose work survives, was quite popular with the women of his time and was known to have had many affairs. However, the Viscountess would become his mistress for the rest of his life. There is no record of complaint by Aimery.
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In 1918, her translation of Émile Vandervelde's Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution was published. From 1916 to 1923, she was director of the Scottish War Savings Committee. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1920, for her contributions to the war effort. In 1926, she became the first Viscountess Dunedin, when her husband became a Viscount.
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Donald Cameron of Lochiel with Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, 1861. Donald Cameron of Lochiel DL (5 April 1835 – 30 November 1905) was a Scottish Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885. He was chieftain, the 24th chief ("Lochiel") of Clan Cameron. Cameron was the eldest son of Donald Cameron, 23rd Lochiel, and succeeded his father as chief in 1858.
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Robinson Valentine designed clothes for celebrities, socialites and notably the British Royal Family and the aristocracy. The label's biggest client is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Robinson Valentine designed her wedding dress which she wore on her wedding to the Prince of Wales in 2005. Other clients include Serena Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley, Patti Palmer Tomkinson, Lady Sarah Chatto, Laura Lopes, Jemima Khan, Saffron Aldridge and Sheherazade Goldsmith.
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The castle is best known for the song "Kilcash" (), which mourns the ruin of the castle and the death of Margaret Magennis, Viscountess Iveagh. The song has been ascribed to Fr John Lane (d. 1776), but the woods lamented in its first stanza were not sold until 1797 and 1801, long after Lane's death. The earliest manuscripts of the poem date from the mid- nineteenth century.
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He built the town of Moira in County Down, which was created a manor and filled with stalwart Protestants. About this time Rawdon was active in obtaining the help of Valentine Greatrakes for his invalid sister-in-law Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway. In 1666 Rawdon was employed in organising the Ulster militia. He was on good terms with Jeremy Taylor, and was hostile to the Presbyterians.
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A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial position, and did not develop into an hereditary title until much later. In the case of French viscounts, it is customary to leave the title untranslated as vicomte .
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On 14 May 1602, Elizabeth married Thomas Savage and they had eleven sons and eight daughters. He was the eldest son of Sir John Savage, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary née Allington, from whom he inherited Melford Hall in Suffolk. In 1615, he inherited his father's baronetcy and was created Viscount Savage in 1626. On his death in 1635, Elizabeth (by now Viscountess Savage) inherited Melford.
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Anne Conway (also known as Viscountess Conway; née Finch; 14 December 1631 – 23 February 1679) was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Gottfried Leibniz. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of rationalist philosophy, with hallmarks of gynocentric concerns and patterns that lead some to think of it as unique among seventeenth-century systems.
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Mary Morley Crapo Hyde Eccles, Viscountess Eccles (8 July 1912 - 26 August 2003) was a book collector and author. She was renowned for establishing one of the biggest private collections of 18th century literature with her first husband, Donald Hyde (1909-1966). This includes works from Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. She also created an Oscar Wilde Collection which was bequeathed to the British Library in 2003.
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Eventually, under family pressure, he agreed to allow the marriage. Charlotte married Charles Canning on 5 September 1835 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. He was elected to the British Parliament the following year, and in 1837 succeeded to his mother's title as Viscount Canning, whereupon Charlotte became Viscountess Canning. In 1859 Charles was raised in the peerage as Earl Canning and Charlotte became Countess Canning.
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Penelope Ann Cooper was educated at St James's School, West Malvern. In 1974, she married John Lyttelton, son of Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, and heir apparent to the Viscountcy of Cobham. Three years later, upon the death of her father-in-law, the couple became Viscount and Viscountess Cobham. Along with the title came the two-century-old Hagley Hall, a mansion in Worcestershire.
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Cobham became a special adviser to the heritage minister David Mellor in the newly created Department of National Heritage in 1992. In 1994, both Cobham and Mellor made public announcements describing that they had developed a close relationship with one another and intended to divorce their existing spouses. The Cobhams divorced in 1995. Viscountess Cobham and Mellor live in a Georgian house in London.
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Amelia Cary, Viscountess Falkland (21 March 1807 – 2 July 1858), was a British noblewoman. Born the fifth illegitimate daughter of William IV of the United Kingdom (then Duke of Clarence) by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan. Amelia had four sisters and five brothers, all surnamed FitzClarence. Soon after their father became monarch, the FitzClarence children were raised to the ranks of younger children of a marquess.
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The Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles (Kate Phillips) is the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary of Teck. She appeared in the film. She is unhappy in her marriage, and seeks to end it. However, when Tom Branson speaks to her about his own experiences in learning to live with the Crawley family despite their differences, she is inspired to make her marriage work.
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The substantial family estates were inherited by Charlotte Newcomen, only child and heiress of Edward Newcomen, grandson of the sixth Baronet. She was married to William Gleadowe, who assumed the additional surname of Newcomen at the time of their marriage and was created a baronet in 1781. Charlotte was later elevated to the peerage as Baroness and Viscountess Newcomen. See the latter title for more information.
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Lady Helen MacCarty ( – 1722), also styled Helen FitzGerald or Helen Burke, Countess of Clanricarde, was brought to France when her family fled the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. She was educated at Port-Royal-des-Champs together with her cousin Elizabeth Hamilton. She married three times. All her children, among which Margaret, Viscountess Iveagh, and Honora Sarsfield, are by her second husband, William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde.
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Emily Theophila, Viscountess Ashbrook (1791–1885) British Library. His Metcalfe descent can be traced back to the 14th century in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, where the Metcalfe family originated. Having been educated at Eton, in 1800 Metcalfe sailed for India as a writer in the service of the Company. He then studied Oriental languages as the first student at Lord Wellesley's College of Fort William.
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In 1912, the people of Japan sent 3,020 cherry trees to the United States as a gift of friendship. First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Helen Herron Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, planted the first two cherry trees on the northern bank of the Tidal Basin. These two original trees are still standing today at the south end of 17th Street.
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Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (née Jane Parker; c. 1505 – 13 February 1542), was the wife of the Viscount Rochford, brother of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. Jane had been a member of the household of Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon. It is possible that she played a role in the judgments against, and subsequent executions of, her husband and Anne Boleyn.
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They had one son, George Agar-Ellis (1797-1833), who later became Baron Dover. Their only daughter, Caroline Anne (1794-1814), died unmarried. A portrait of the future Viscountess with her sister Elizabeth, painted in 1791 by George Romney, was commissioned by their father. It purports to show the sisters in the guise of the muses of Music and Painting (with Caroline representing the visual arts).
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The painting became known as "the Clifden Romney"; when sold in 1896, it raised the third highest price ever paid for a painting in the UK. It later came into the possession of the American businessman and collector Henry E. Huntington. Viscountess Clifden died at Blenheim Palace, aged 50, and was buried in the family vault of the Dukes of Marlborough, next to her mother.
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Late Period sculpture of an ibis from Ancient Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty, 664–332 BC. John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon from 1904 AD. Carving of Parshvanatha, India, 950 C.E. hu) from 350 BC. Mino da Fiesole's Profile of a Young Woman, from 1455–60 AD. A ceremonial knife (tumi) from the Sican culture of Peru, dating between 900–1100 AD.
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History of the Church in England, vol. II, 1857, p. 309 He served as chaplain to Viscountess Montague, wife of Anthony- Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, at Battle Abbey in Sussex, England. Smith left Sussex in 1613 he became superior of the small body of English secular priests who had rented the Benedictine house in Paris called Arras College, where they devoted themselves to writing controversy.
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Gascony was united to the Duchy of Aquitaine in 1053. Béarn, as a part of Gascony, became subject to the dukes of Aquitaine and, in 1152, passed to the Kings of England through the Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. Béarn passed to the House of Foix in 1290 with the inheritance of Margaret, Viscountess of Béarn of the lands from her father Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn.
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324, citing Arthur Baker, "The House is Sitting", 1958. Ethel became Viscountess Snowden on 24 November 1931. The Snowdens found their financial position gradually eroding after 1931. Ethel's five-year appointment at the BBC expired at the end of 1931 and was renewed for only one year, but after Philip Snowden resigned from office over the principle of free trade that was their only regular income.
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Lord Irvine was succeeded by his younger brother, Arthur, to whom the Horsham estate also passed by entail in default of male issue from Rich. The Viscountess of Irvine was a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales (mother of George III) in 1736 and married, as her second husband, Brig-Gen. William Douglas (MP for Kinross- shire) in 1737. She died in December 1764.
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Bayning's granddaughter Barbara Villiers After Bayning's death, his eldest daughter, Anne Bayning, married Henry Murray, a Groom of the Bedchamber to King Charles I, and later Sir John Baber; his daughter Cecilia married Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester; his daughter Elizabeth married Francis Lennard, 14th Baron Dacre; and his daughter Mary married William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison, and was the mother of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, a mistress of King Charles II. On the death of the second Viscount Bayning in 1638, the Bayning titles became extinct, while the estates were inherited by Anne Baber. In 1674 she was created Viscountess Bayning for life, and on her death in 1678 that title also became extinct. Her younger sister Elizabeth Dacre was created Countess of Sheppey for life in 1680. In 1797 the great- great-grandson of Viscountess Bayning, Charles Townshend, was created Baron Bayning.
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Alice Seymour-Conway, Viscountess Beauchamp (10 May 1749 - 11 February 1772), formerly the Hon. Alice Elizabeth Windsor, was the first wife of Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Viscount Beauchamp, later Marquess of Hertford. She was the second daughter and co-heiress of Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, by his wife, the former Alice Clavering. She married Viscount Beauchamp, then MP for Lostwithiel, on 4 February 1768 in London Mosley, Charles, editor.
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Born in Northumberland, he was the second son of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, and Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford. Both of his parents were or became members of parliament for the Liberal Party, and were the first married couple to sit simultaneously in Parliament. His father was created Viscount Runciman of Doxford in 1937. His paternal grandfather, Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman, was a shipping magnate.
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Sir Thomas Coningsby, ancestor of the Coningsby family. Earl Coningsby was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1719 for Thomas Coningsby, 1st Baron Coningsby, with remainder to his eldest daughter (by his second wife Lady Frances Jones), Margaret Newton, 1st Viscountess Coningsby, and the heirs male of her body. He was the great-grandson of the soldier and politician Sir Thomas Coningsby.
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She had already in 1716 been made Baroness Coningsby, of Hampton Court in the County of Hereford, and Viscountess Coningsby in her own right. Both titles were in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lady Coningsby was the wife of Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet, of Barrs Court and Culverthorpe Hall, Lincolnshire (see Newton Baronets). She had no surviving male issue and the titles became extinct on her death in 1759.
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He was buried in the family vault at St. James's Parish Church (Saint James Churchyard) in Christow, Devon, England. His wife, Mabel, Viscountess Exmouth, died on 28 March 1949, at the age of 77, also at Hindhead. Upon his death, the title of Viscount Exmouth went to Edward Irving Pownoll Pellew, his 77-year- old cousin, who was living in Pau, France. He became the eighth Viscount Exmouth.
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Lady Evelyn Lake is a lake on the Lady Evelyn River in Timiskaming District, Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is named after Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, a former Viceregal Consort of Canada. The highly irregularly shaped lake consists of two parts, about equal in size, separated by the Obisaga Narrows. The southern part is within the Obabika River Provincial Park, directly east of the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park.
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Rodney was laid down on 28 December 1922, the same date as her sister ship . Construction of the ship was carried out at Birkenhead by Cammell-Laird shipyard, Launched on 17 December 1925 by Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, after three attempts at cracking the bottle of Imperial Burgundy. Ship trials began in August 1927 and she was commissioned in November 1927, three months behind Nelson. The construction cost £7,617,799.
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He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge, graduating B.A. at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1623/4. For a time he appears to have been employed by Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, probably as chaplain. By 1629 he was chaplain to Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden. Gaule's one preferment was as vicar of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, through Viscountess Campden by 1632, though there is some confusion on the point.
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They probably reflect Byrd's relationship with the Norfolk landowner and music-lover Sir Edward Paston (1550–1630) who may have written some of the poems. The songs include elegies for public figures such as the Earl of Essex (1601), the Catholic matriarch and viscountess Montague Magdalen Dacre (With Lilies White, 1608) and Henry Prince of Wales (1612). Others refer to local notabilities or incidents from the Norfolk area.
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Lord Brookeborough (known to his family and friends as Alan Brooke or Alan Brookeborough) married Janet Elizabeth Cooke (daughter of J.P. Cooke, of Doagh), now Viscountess Brookeborough, in 1980. They farm the Colebrooke Estate, just outside Brookeborough in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.Brookeborough Bomb Search Continues (4ni.co.uk) The centre of the estate is Colebrooke Park, an early 19th-century neo-Classical country house that is the ancestral seat of the Brooke family.
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Among his clients were world-famous female personalities like Coco Chanel, Queen Marie of Romania, Sarah Bernhardt, Greta Garbo, U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Brigitte Bardot. English society beauty Lady Diana Cooper, who had bobbed hair as a child,see Portrait of Lady Diana Manners c. 1900 kept the style through her teenage yearsSee portrait, 1906 Manners - Diana Cooper, Viscountess Norwich and continued in 1914 as an adult.
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April 2002 saw the 'official opening' of the new headquarters at Drayton St. Leonard in Oxfordshire. Prince Michael of Kent had graciously agreed to perform the opening but, sadly, the death of the Queen Mother intervened, preventing His Royal Highness from attending. However, our new President, Diana, the Viscountess Downe, performed the opening ceremony on behalf of His Royal Highness. The Club maintains strong links to Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.
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Notable Scientists have included Directors of Central Intelligence William H. Webster and Admiral Stansfield M. Turner; Richard Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman; and Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman.; Fraser (Atlantic) 1995. The viscountess Nancy Astor was a Christian Scientist, as was naval officer Charles Lightoller, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.; Charles Lightoller, "It is difficult to tell of the experience ...", Christian Science Journal, October 1912.
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John Foster-Skeffington, 10th Viscount Massereene KP (30 November 1812 – 28 April 1863) was an Irish peer and poet. He was the son of Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard and his wife, Harriet Skeffington, 9th Viscountess Massereene. He inherited his mother's title upon her death in 1831, and his father's title upon his death in 1843. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 3 July 1851.
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Lucile's relationship with Bruno draws the hostility of many of the townfolk. The Viscountess de Monfort (Harriet Walter) later catches Benoit stealing a chicken from her coop. When Benoit points a gun at her, she tells her husband, the collaborationist Viscount de Monfort (Lambert Wilson), who sends the German soldiers after Benoit. While hiding in a barn, Benoit kills Kurt with his gun and flees into the forest.
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Winchcombe Howard Packer (20 November 1702 – 1746), of Donnington and Shellingford, Berkshire, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1731 to 1746. Packer was the eldest son of Robert Packer of Shellingford and Donnington. He was educated at Westminster School between 1715 and 1717. In 1718 he succeeded to the Bucklebury estate of his aunt Frances, Viscountess Bolingbroke daughter of Sir Henry Winchcombe.
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Gaston was the son of ruling Viscountess Mary and William I of Béarn. He was the elder of twins, his younger brother being the later viscount William Raymond. After their birth, in light of the conflict in Béarn over the succession, Mary fled with them to the monastery of Santa Cruz de Volvestre. A Bearnese delegation reached the monastery in 1173 seeking one of the boys to be their viscount.
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Weymouth Street lies in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster and connects Marylebone High Street with Great Portland Street. The area was developed in the late 18th century by Henrietta Cavendish Holles and her husband Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford.Weymouth Street was named after Lady Elizabeth Bentinck, Viscountess Weymouth, daughter of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, who owned this estate. Sources: Bebbington, Gillian (1972).
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After two years of college, she obtained a position in the workroom of a large Fifth Avenue store in New York. Within three years, she was made head of the studio, staying for eight years. Around 1940, Chapman was involved in a short- lived business called Her Ladyship Gowns, formed with Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and her sister, Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness. Chapman patented numerous designs between 1954 and 1960.
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He married Muriel Emily ("Molly") Spencer in 1903 (daughter of The Rev. Walter Spencer and sister of Margery Greenwood, Viscountess Greenwood), and was divorced in July 1914, on the grounds of adultery; the case was not defended. His ex-wife remarried Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple. He remarried in 1919, to Helen Mabel Allen, daughter of Major John Allen, of Brackley House; she died shortly thereafter, in 1921.
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Vernon Henry was born in Bath in 1896.Sheffield Evening Telegraph, 8 December 1899 (p.5) After the 5th Viscount's death and the revelation of the marriage and children, Mary Howard, now the dowager Viscountess Bolingbroke, moved to live permanently at Lydiard Park, the Bolingbroke family seat outside the Wiltshire village of Lydiard Tregoze. with her sons and her cousin Edward Hiscock, who she installed as her confidante and estate manager.
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Philip Ziegler Diana Cooper: The Biography of Lady Diana Cooper (Hamish Hamilton, 1981, ), pp 271-2 Following her husband's death, she made an announcement in The Times to this effect, stating that she had "reverted to the name and title of Lady Diana Cooper".: 'A statement issued on behalf of the Dowager Viscountess Norwich announces that she has reverted to the name and title of Lady Diana Cooper'.
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Fox has been married twice, to actresses Tracy Reed (1958–1961) and Joanna David (from July 2004, after a long-standing relationship). He has a daughter, Lucy, Viscountess Gormanston, by Reed, and two children, Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox, with David. He is the elder brother and uncle, respectively, of actors James Fox and Laurence Fox. He is also the former father-in-law of actor Jared Harris.
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The small Queen Elisabeth Memorial Museum (Erzsébet Királyné Emlékmúzeum) on the second floor of the Krisztinaváros Wing was established in remembrance of Queen Elisabeth after her murder in 1898. Memorabilia were collected by Ida Ferenczy, Elisabeth's former lady-in-waiting, Viscountess Pallavicini and Countess Ilona Batthyány. The museum opened on 15 January 1908 as an affiliate of the Hungarian National Museum. The collection contained personal items, letters and clothes.
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In 1958, the Ockenden Venture took over Donington Hall near Derby as a school for boys. In 1958, The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay was bought by David Astor (son of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor), and publisher of The Observer between 1948 and 1975. From November 1960 until 1970, the Astor family leased The Abbey at a peppercorn rent to the Ockenden Venture. The Abbey was used as a refugee children's home.
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There is a portrait of Henry Ingram, 1st Viscount Irwin, from the school of Peter Lely, in the collections at Temple Newsam,Portrait of Henry, 1st Viscount Irwin, School of Peter Lely, see at Art UK, Leeds Museums and Galleries. and a portrait of Essex Montagu, Viscountess Irwin, of the same.Portrait of Essex Montagu (1643-1677), School of Peter Lely see at Art UK, Leeds Museums and Galleries.
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The leaders of the Free church, such as William Howels, were her personal friends, and often visited her house and held religious meetings under her roof. She came to occupy among evangelical Christians in Scotland the position that in former years had been held by the Countess of Leven and Viscountess Glenorchy. Her death took place somewhat suddenly at Huntly Lodge on 31 January 1864, in her seventieth year.
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The event was established in 1859 and named after the Viscountess Vigier. It was originally the second leg of a pair of races called the Prix Biennal. The first leg, for three-year-olds, was created a year earlier. The version for older horses was initially contested over 3,200 metres. It was cancelled because of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and it was cut to 3,000 metres in 1897.
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In the years just before the Second World War, Lady Simon criticised the Nazi regime and was sympathetic to Zionism. In April 1940, despite being crippled by severe osteoarthritis, she hosted a conference at 11 Downing Street, where she emphasised the importance of preparing the people of the Empire for home rule and opposing racial discrimination. The same year, her husband was created Viscount Simon and she became Viscountess Simon.
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Russell as a four-year-old Pembroke Lodge Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born on 18 May 1872 at Ravenscroft, Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales, into an influential and liberal family of the British aristocracy.Sidney Hook, "Lord Russell and the War Crimes Trial", Bertrand Russell: critical assessments, Vol. 1, edited by A. D. Irvine, New York 1999, p. 178 His parents, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, were radical for their times.
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Katherine FitzGerald, suo jure Viscountess Grandison (August 1660 - 26 December 1725), was a wealthy Irish heiress, being the only child of Sir John FitzGerald of Dromana, County Waterford. She inherited the Dromana estate in 1664 upon the death of her father. She was married three times; firstly to John Le Poer, 2nd Earl of Tyrone; secondly to Brigadier-General, Hon. Edward FitzGerald-Villiers; and thirdly and lastly to General William Steuart.
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Viscount Newcomen, of Mosstown in the County of Longford, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1803 (as Viscountess Newcomen) for Charlotte Gleadowe-Newcomen, Baroness Newcomen. She had already been made Baroness Newcomen, of Mosstown in the County of Longford, in 1800, also in the Peerage of Ireland. She was the wife of William Gleadowe-Newcomen, who represented County Longford in both the Irish and British House of Commons.
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Coat of arms of the de Saint-Exupéry family since the 18th century.Birthplace of Saint-Exupéry in the Presqu'île section of Lyon, on the street now named after him, in blue at lower left. Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon to an aristocratic Catholic family that could trace its lineage back several centuries. He was the third of five children of the Viscountess Marie de Fonscolombe and Viscount Jean de Saint- Exupéry (1863–1904).
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The school originally belonged to the Woodard Corporation, founded by Nathaniel Woodard. The sister senior school was Queen Margaret's School at Escrick and the Junior School was Queen Mary's at Baldersby Park near Thirsk. The School foundation stone was laid on 21 October 1910 by Viscountess Mountgarret, its inscription was 'Pro deo et ecclesia' – For God and the Church. It was laid on the right hand side of the school door facing the building.
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They had a daughter Anne who was a writer.Marie-Louise Coolahan, ‘Twysden , Anne, Lady Twysden (1574–1638)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 Jan 2017 He died in December 1614 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Theophilus. Lady Finch was elevated to the peerage in her own right as Viscountess Winchilsea in 1623 and was further honoured when she was made Countess of Winchilsea in 1628.
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The estates passed to Jeffreys' widow, Lady Charlotte Herbert, who later remarried as Viscountess Windsor. The next creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1952 when General George Jeffreys was made Baron Jeffreys, of Burkham in the County of Southampton. He had also served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield. Jeffreys' father Arthur Frederick Jeffreys had previously represented Basingstoke in Parliament, and had been admitted to the Privy Council in 1902.
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From 1870 to 1876 he represented the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the General Council of Education and Registration, and at the time of his death was one of Queen Victoria's surgeons-extraordinary. He died on 15 September 1887, and is buried at Finchley. He married, in 1859, Ellen, viscountess Midleton, widow of the fifth viscount, but had no children by her. He left the bulk of his fortune, amounting to about 75,000l.
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He was the only son of Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Nichola Sophia Hamilton, youngest daughter of Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount of Glenawly and his second wife Susanna Balfour. In 1701 his father died and Beresford, aged only five, succeeded to the baronetcy. His guardian was The 3rd Viscount Dungannon (1669-1706). After Lord Dungannon's death in 1706, his widow (Beresford's maternal aunt), Arabella, Viscountess Dungannon, served as Beresford's guardian.
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Lord Chewton married, on 2 July 1850, Frances Bastard, daughter of Captain John Bastard, RN, of Sharpham, Devon, and they had a son, William, in 1851 and later a daughter who died in infancy. Frances, Viscountess Chewton was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, and received the Order of Victoria and Albert, 3rd class. She died 11 April 1902, at Bookham lodge, Cobham, Surrey, in her 80th year, of pneumonia.
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Anne Montagu, Viscountess Mandeville (1604 - 14 February 1642), was born Lady Anne Rich, the daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, an English colonial administrator who opposed the policies of Charles I prior to the English Civil War. In 1625 she married, becoming the second wife of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, a senior commander of Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.
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The life peerage became extinct on her death in 1678. The Bayning title was revived once again in 1797 in favour of the Viscountess Bayning's great-great-grandson Charles Townshend, who was made Baron Bayning in the Peerage of Great Britain. See this title for more information. The Honourable Elizabeth Bayning, daughter of the first Viscount, married Francis Lennard, 14th Baron Dacre, and was created Countess of Sheppey for life in 1680.
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The earldom passed to Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Berkshire, a great grandson of the 1st Earl. Sarah remarried, her second husband being Viscount Falkland, whom she married on 10 October 1752 as his second wife; he had previously been married to Jane Butler. Thereafter, Sarah's surname became Cary, and she was known as Viscountess Falkland. Viscount Falkland had four surviving children from his first marriage and none from his second marriage.
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Portrait of Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury and Theodosia, Viscountess Cornbury, UK Royal Collection Van Leemput was born in Antwerp. He is believed to have moved to London around 1632.Remee van Leemput at the Netherlands Institute for Art History He was a close associate of Anthony van Dyck and may have assisted this Flemish master in his studio. He produced copies of van Dyck’s work and later also of other painters such as Peter Lely.
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The House, however, recommitted the question to the full Privileges Committee. The opposition to the Viscountess Rhondda was led by the Lord Chancellor, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. The Lord Chancellor argued that, to change the composition of the House of Lords, Parliament would have to use clear words; vague words like "public function" would not suffice. The Committee for Privileges agreed by a vote of twenty-two to four.
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The viscountess promptly sued them for libel and received a settlement.The Times, 1 June 1927 In an attempt to minimize the situation, a statement was released to the press by Alice's family, assuring the public that there was nothing in the double shooting that "casts discredit upon the names of Armour and Silverthorne, which have been honored in America many generations, nor anything which could induce a French jury to render a verdict of conviction".
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A portrait reputed to be of Arthur the 3rd Viscount is at Temple Newsam,Portrait of Arthur Ingram (1666-1702), British School, see Art UK, image credit:Leeds Museum and Galleries. and he also features in a landscape hunting scene by Leonard Knyff.Hunting portrait of Arthur, 3rd Viscount Irwin, by Leonard Knyff, see Art UK, Leeds Museums and Galleries/Bridgeman Images. A portrait of Isabella (Machell), Viscountess Irwin, by John Closterman, is also at Temple Newsam.
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In 1960 the house was bought by Patricia, Viscountess Boyd, (daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh), wife of the former Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton. About this time, the lower floor French windows were installed to bring more light into the house and the service wing was extended. A disastrous fire in 1988 was followed by rebuilding of the roof and a second kitchen was added.
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Viscountess Fane, detail of a portrait signed and dated Schalken, 1702. The prime version of this painting is at Chevening, her brother, James Stanhope's house in Kent. The atmospheric work of Schalcken provided the inspiration for Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic horror story "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter", which was adapted as Schalcken the Painter, and broadcast by the BBC on 23 December 1979 as part of its Omnibus series.
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Thus, by 1114, Philippa was spending most of her time ruling there. Accordingly, she was less than pleased when, upon her return from Toulouse to Poitiers in 1114, she discovered her husband to have moved his mistress, Viscountess Dangereuse of Châtellerault, into her palace. Philippa appealed to friends and the church for assistance in ousting her husband's mistress, but to no avail – none could persuade the Duke to give up his mistress.
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Her youngest sisters, Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley, and Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, both campaigned for women's suffrage. It was decided that Stanley should remain unmarried, and Lady Amberley assured her sister that their parents and siblings needed her at home. Described by Lady Amberley's son Bertrand Russell as "stern and gloomy Aunt Maude", Stanley doted on her siblings' numerous children. Russell himself thought of her as the perfect aunt and an embodiment of kindness.
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He brought her and her servants to a chamber in the first court. Lady Blanche Arundell, Mistress Barbara Sidney (daughter of the Viscountess Lisle), Mistress Southwell of the queen's privy chamber (later Lady Dudley), and Gargrave joined her. A gentleman usher then took Brûlart to the queen in the Privy Chamber.John Finet, Finetti Philoxenis (London, 1656), p. 40. Richard Gargrave, a graduate of Peterhouse, Cambridge, sold Nostell Priory in 1613 and was in financial difficulties.
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The lordship remained a subsidiary title of the marquessate until the death in 1944 of his grandson, Charles, 7th Marquess. Charles was succeeded in the marquessate by his cousin while the Scottish lordship passed to his sister Katherine Evelyn Constance Bigham, who became the 12th Lady Nairne. She was the wife of Edward Clive Bigham, 3rd Viscount Mersey. The Viscount and Viscountess were both succeeded by their eldest son, Richard, 4th Viscount and 13th Lord.
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The Château was built for the Count Arthur de Marsay in 1859. it originally featured 9 bedrooms. It was constructed on the site of an ancient Capuchin monastery, which was transformed following the French Revolution to become an 80 room, private hunting lodge and home in the middle of the Royal Forest. Named after his daughter, Viscountess Armaillé, it remained in the family until 1947, when it was purchased by the State.
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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Maria Mercedes Morgan; 23 August 1904 13 February 1965) was a Swiss-born American socialite best known as the mother of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt and maternal grandmother of television journalist Anderson Cooper. She was a central figure in Vanderbilt vs. Whitney, one of the most sensational American custody trials in the 20th century. Her identical twin sister, Thelma, Viscountess Furness, was the mistress of the future Edward VIII.
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Additional changes to the building and its environs include the erection of a statue to Edward, Lord Carson, in dramatic pose (on the drive leading up to the building) in 1932, a rare example of a statue to a person being erected before death, and the erection of a statue to Lord Craigavon in the Great Hall, half way up the Imperial Staircase. Craigavon and his wife Viscountess Craigavon are buried in the estate grounds.
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Sir Robert Howard KB (159822 April 1653) was an English landowner, member of parliament, and Royalist soldier. He was involved in a scandal when his mistress Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, was found guilty of adultery and was twice summoned to explain her pregnancy with his son to the Court of High Commission. During the English Civil War, Howard was in command of the defence of Bridgnorth Castle when it surrendered to the Parliamentarians in 1646.
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Upon the death of Constance's mother, she succeeded her as Viscountess of Marsan. Through her mother, Constance had a claim on the County of Bigorre,Monlezun Histoire de Gascogne, Tome VI, p. 366. her mother had been actively pursuing her claim against her niece, Laura, who was sister to the previous Count, Eskivat de Chabanais. Fighting over Bigorre had begun in 1251 due to the problems left by Constance's maternal grandmother Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre.
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Martha of Marsan (also known as Mathe or Amata) was a daughter of Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre by her fifth husband Boson of Marsan. Her dates of birth and death are disputed, though it is believedGASCONY, Medieval Lands that she was born soon after the marriage of her parents in 1228 and died after she claimed Bigorre in 1283. She was suo jure Viscountess of Marsan, which she inherited from her father.
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C.F. Burgess and the Rev. Gordon Soames conducted the service, and in addition to members of her family, those present included:- Captain Tregona representing the Italian Government; the Italian Air Minister, General Italo Balbo, Commander H.E. Perrin, Secretary of the Royal Aero Club and her former employer, Lindsay Everard. A memorial service was held for Winifred four days later at St. Peter's in Eaton Square, London. Many attended, including Viscountess Elibank; Lt.-Col.
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As built, she measured 1,117 GRT and 328 NRT. She was powered by two four-cylinder triple expansion steam engines made by Denny & Co, totalling 308 nhp or 4772 ihp, to give the required service speed of . Sussex was launched on 30 April 1896 by Viscountess Duncannon, whose husband was a director, and later chairman, of LBSCR. The ferry undertook builders' trials on 10 and 14 July, achieving , and was delivered on 18 July.
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Two wooden galleries were added, possibly in the 18th century. In the 18th or early in the 19th century most of the windows lost their tracery. The church includes memorials to Elizabeth Norborne, Dowager Viscountess Hereford (d.1742). In 1856 the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street had the galleries removed and the church refitted with new pews, and in 1874 the chancel was rebuilt to the designs of another Gothic Revival architect, Charles Buckeridge.
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The title of Viscount of Guignen had been the property of the House of Rohan since the 15th century. It was passed through to the Princes of Condé, members of the House of Bourbon by a marriage between Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé to Charlotte de Rohan who was created Viscountess in 1745. At her death in 1760, it became one of the subsidiary titles of the Condé's being confiscated during the revolution.
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His wife Samantha Cameron is married to Samantha Gwendoline Cameron (née Sheffield), the daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet, and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones (now Viscountess Astor). A Marlborough College school friend of Cameron's sister Clare, Samantha accepted Clare's invitation to accompany the Cameron family on holiday in Tuscany, Italy, after graduating from Bristol School of Creative Arts. It was then David and Samantha's romance started. They were married in 1996.
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She was born Marie- Madeleine-Victoire de Bengy in Châteauroux, then in the ancient Province of Berry in the Kingdom of France (now in the Department of Indre), the second of five children of Chevalier Sylvain Charles Pierre de Bengy, commander of a corps of French Marines,Life of the Viscountess de Bonnault d'Houet: foundress of the Society of Faithful Companions of Jesus, Fr Stanislaus, F.M. Capuchin, Longmans, Green & Co., 2nd ed.
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Alexander Edgar Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (born 13 May 1980) is an English chef, and the third child and second son of David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood, and his first wife Margaret, Viscountess Lascelles. He is a great- great-grandson of King George V and is 61st in line to the British throne. He is heir apparent to the earldom of Harewood, due to his elder brother having been born before their parents' marriage.
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Margaretta Amelia Foster, 1st Viscountess Ferrard (née Burgh; c. 1737 – 20 January 1824), was an Anglo-Irish peeress. She was the daughter of Thomas Burgh and Anne Downes, daughter of Dive Downes, Bishop of Cork and Ross, and his fourth wife Lady Catherine Fitzgerald. On 14 December 1764, she married the politician John Foster. On 5 June 1790, she was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baroness Oriel in her own right.
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Her younger brothers were William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple, and The Honorable Charles Cowper. Emily's younger sister, Francess, became a viscountess. She married Shaftesbury, then known as Lord Ashley and the heir of Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury, on 10 June 1830. They had ten children: #Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury (1831–1886), who married Lady Harriet Chichester, daughter of George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall, and had children.
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Soon after his accession, the new king, James I, ennobled Theobald as Viscount of Tulleophelim. Elizabeth and Theobald married in 1603 and she became Viscountess Tulleophelim. Despite his title, Lord Tulleophelim was neither wealthy nor influential and he expected his uncle and father-in-law, Black Tom, to support the newlyweds financially. Black Tom proved not a generous and Tulleophelim blamed his wife for his lack of resources and allegedly abused her.
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They remained childless. In 1613 Lord Tulleophelim died unexpectedly in his forties. In the confident expectation that eventually he would inherit the vast Ormond estate, he had run up debts; the payment of these now passed to her, the dowager viscountess, but without the Ormond revenues.(Kirwan, 2018) With Theobald's death no eligible descendants of Edmund remained and Walter, the eldest son of her father's next younger brother, John Butler of Kilcash, became heir presumptive.
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Delafield became great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide. When the editor 'wanted some light "middles", preferably in serial form, she promised to think of something to submit'. It was thus, in 1930, that her most popular and enduring work Diary of a Provincial Lady was written. This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children, Lionel and Rosamund.
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Danvers was the son of Frederick Dawes Danvers (1795–1867), a former Secretary and Registrar of the Duchy of Lancaster, by his wife Charlotte Maria Rawlinson (1806–1891). His younger sister Emily Danvers (1828–1913) was the wife of businessman and Conservative politician William Henry Smith (1825–1891), and was raised to the peerage as Viscountess Hambleden shortly after her husband's death. He was educated at private schools, and at King's College London.
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Elizabeth Baigent, 'Strangford , Emily Anne, Viscountess Strangford (bap. 1826, d. 1887)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 May 2015 The book that she wrote, Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines was dedicated to her sister, and describes the places she visited in Syria, Lebanon, Asia Minor and Egypt with beautiful illustrations based on her sketches from her journey. The volume was so popular that it was re-issued several times.
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The Cowdray Club (originally known as The Nation's Nurses and Professional Women's Club) was founded in 1922 by Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray and founding members of the Royal College of Nursing. The membership was to be made up of 55% nurses, 35% professional women, and 10% "suitable women". The Club was based at 20 Cavendish Square, London, and remained in existence until 1974, when it merged with the Naval and Military Club in Piccadilly.
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In December 2007, Cash married Octavius Black, the founder and managing director of The Mind Gym. Friends who attended their exchange of vows "included Ed Vaizey and Michael Gove, Viscount and Viscountess Rothermere, Stuart Rose and Kirstie Allsopp". Black was educated at Eton College at the same time as David Cameron; the two men have stayed close, and they and their wives socialise together. The couple are reported to live in Notting Hill.
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Petronilla of Bigorre or Petronilla of Comminges ( 1184 – 1251) was ruling Countess of Bigorre between 1194 and 1251. She was the only child of Bernard IV, Count of Comminges, and his wife Stephanie-Beatrice IV, Countess of Bigorre. Petronilla succeeded her mother in 1194 as Countess of Bigorre; she was also Viscountess of Marsan and Nébouzan through further successions. She reigned as countess for fifty-seven years, in which time she was married five times.
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He was also a learned ecclesiastical lawyer, and was eventually chancellor of six dioceses. He was counsel to the University of Oxford from 1915 to 1923. During the latter part of his career he increasingly appeared before the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Among his prominent appearances were Bowman v Secular Society and Viscountess Rhondda's Claim in the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords.
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Widowed a second time in 1441 when aged about 44, it was proposed that Jeanne should marry Jean d'Orléans, Count of Angoulême and of Périgord, a prisoner in England since 1412. When he did get back to France after 33 years' captivity, he married a younger woman who gave him three children. Jeanne de Béthune died in late 1450, almost ten years after her husband, John. Her daughter Jeanne succeeded her as suo jure Viscountess of Meaux.
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Viscountess Rhondda's Claim [1922] 2 AC 339. She was supported for many years by Lord Astor, whose wife Nancy had been the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. Less than a month after Lady Rhondda's death in 1958, women entered the Lords for the first time thanks to the Life Peerages Act 1958; five years later, with the passage of the Peerage Act 1963, hereditary peeresses were also allowed to enter the Lords.
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Note (1) piscinas of different dates in chancel; (2) change of design in arcading of nave, showing subsequent lengthening of church — the earlier columns stand on Norm. bases; (3) rood-loft doorway and ancient pulpit stairs near modern pulpit; (4) Jacobean lectern and Bible of 1611. The "Bonville" chantry, S. of chancel, contains a 15th-cent. altar-tomb with recumbent effigies of Sir H. Fitzroger and wife, and a modern mural tablet with medallion to Viscountess Waldegrave.
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He was ultimately Solicitor- General, Attorney-General and Lord Chief Justice. Her title successively changed from Mrs Isaacs to Lady Isaacs on her husband's knighthood in 1910, Baroness Reading on his ennoblement in 1914, Viscountess Reading in 1916, the Countess of Reading in 1917, and finally the Marchioness of Reading in 1926. In 1921, Lord Reading was appointed Viceroy of India. He was reluctant to accept, as his wife's health was delicate, but she persuaded him.
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As the second son, he was himself poor enough for Queen Caroline to refer to him and his wife as "handsome beggars". The couple had a stillborn child. Lord William returned to Lanarkshire to represent his eldest brother's interests and became member of Parliament on 16 May 1734, succeeding his uncle Archibald, but fell ill in June and died at his house in Pall Mall, London, on 11 July. His widow was soon pressured to remarry, becoming Viscountess Vane.
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The rift between them was only healed by the intervention of Maria de Ventadorn and the viscountess of Aubusson.Lucas (1958), 124. After Azalais's death in 1237, Pons wrote a planh (lament) for her, "De totz caitius sui eu aicel que plus". Some scholars argue that this planh was in fact written for Alazais de Boissazo, who died before 1220, and others have erroneously equated Azalais with the lady known only as Sail-de-Claustra in the poems of Peirol.
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Less than two weeks after Bacon's death from pneumonia on 9 April 1626, Alice Barnham Bacon married courtier John Underhill, at the Church of St Martin in the Fields, London, 20 April 1626. Soon after, on 12 July 1626, Charles I of England knighted him at Oatlands. They lived together at Old Gorhambury House, St Albans, Hertfordshire. The Viscountess St Albans, as she still preferred to be called, spent much of her marriage in Chancery proceedings, lawsuits over property.
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But by the middle of 1871, Vanderbilt's family had pushed her out of his life. On October 15, 1885, at St Mary Abbots, Kensington, Claflin married Francis Cook, chairman of Cook, Son & Co., drapers, and also Viscount of Monserrate in Sintra on the Portuguese Riviera. Within months of their marriage, Queen Victoria created a Cook Baronetcy. As the wife of an English Baronet, Claflin was thereafter correctly styled "Lady Cook", and in Portugal was also Viscountess of Monserrate.
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In 1153, well before Louis married Adele of Champagne, he betrothed Marie and Alix to Adele's brothers. These alliances were arranged based on the intervention of Bernard of Clairvaux, as reported in the contemporary chronicle of Radulfus Niger. After her betrothal, Marie was sent to live with the Viscountess Elizabeth of Mareuil-sy-Aÿ and then to the abbey of Avenay in Champagne for her Latin-based education. In 1159, Marie married Henry I, Count of Champagne.:p. 522.
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She was born in 1973, the daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet, and Annabel Jones. Her parents divorced in 1974, and in 1976, her mother married William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, and became Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor, with whom she had three more children. She was expelled from Marlborough College after police raided the school and found cannabis in her dormitory. Her elder sister is Samantha Cameron, the wife of former prime minister David Cameron.
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' This is most noticeable in the structure's severe palladian facade bookended by two circular domed towers. The hall at Powerscourt House, circa 1890 King George IV was the guest of The 5th Viscount Powerscourt in August 1821. In the 1830s, the house was the venue for a number of conferences on unfulfilled Bible prophecies, which were attended by men such as John Nelson Darby and Edward Irving. These conferences were held under the auspices of Theodosia, Dowager Viscountess Powerscourt.
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On his early death in 1638 the titles became extinct. The substantial Bayning estates in Essex and Sussex devolved on the Honourable Anne Bayning, daughter of the first Viscount. In 1674 the viscountcy was revived in favour when she was made Viscountess Bayning, of Foxley in the County of Berkshire, for life, in the Peerage of England. She was the wife of firstly Henry Murray, Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I, and secondly of Sir John Baber.
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Pierre Coloma (1587–1656), Baron of Bornhem, Viscount of Dourlens and Lord of Brestel, Terna, Allennes, Moriensart and Seroulx, was a Flemish noble lord and member of the famous House of Coloma. He was born to Pedro Coloma, Baron of Bornhem (died 1621), and Jeanne l'Escuyer, Viscountess of Dourlens (died 1645).Jean Charles Joseph de Vegiano, Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du comté de Bourgogne, edited by J.S.F.J.L. de Herckenrode, vol. 1, part 1 (Ghent, 1865), p. 502.
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Arnulf (died 1010) was the bishop of Vic from 993. He was a member of the family of the hereditary viscounts of Ausona, whose chief castle was at Cardona, although they also controlled the upper town of Vic itself. His mother was the viscountess Ermetruit, who made a donation to the diocese while her son was bishop. In 985, before he became bishop, Arnulf was captured during a raid by Almanzor and held for ransom in Córdoba.
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John Savile, the future 4th Earl of Mexborough, with his mother Lady Anne Yorke (d.1870), (then Viscountess Pollington, later Countess of Mexborough). Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, Moretti Fine Art collection, London He was the son and heir of John Savile, 3rd Earl of Mexborough by his wife Lady Anne Yorke (d.1870), a daughter of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke by his wife Elizabeth Lindsay, a daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres.
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Jenkins 2002 p. 124 Pregnant with her first son, she flirted with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen's favourite. The Queen found out at once and succumbed to a fit of jealousy.Jenkins 2002 p. 125 The Viscountess went back to Staffordshire where, in November 1565, she gave birth to Robert, later 2nd Earl of Essex. Two more sons followed: Walter, who was born in 1569, and Francis, who died soon after birth at an unknown date.Varlow 2007 p.
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Bridget Norris (née de Vere), Countess of Berkshire (6 April 1584 – December 1630/March 1631) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Bridget was brought up by her maternal grandfather, the powerful statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. She was also styled Lady Norris of Rycote and Viscountess Thame. She married Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire; however, the marriage was not a success, and they separated in 1606.
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In 1874, Viscountess Amberley died of diphtheria caught from her daughter, who died five days later. Her death greatly affected her husband, whose decision to have her body cremated shocked the society. Lady Amberley's remains were originally deposited in the grounds of their Wye Valley home along with those of her daughter and no religious ceremony was held. Shortly after her husband's death two years later, all three bodies were moved to the Russell family vault at Chenies.
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The Earl of Liverpool was Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, and Fife House was a centre of political life. After his death in 1828, the house became the home of his half-brother Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool, until his death in 1851. For a few years from 1855 his daughter Viscountess Milton and her husband G. S. Foljambe lived in the house. It was the temporary home of the India Museum from 1861 until 1869.
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This is a list of awards named after Governors General of Canada. It has become a tradition for governors general to establish a trophy, grant, scholarship, or other award in sport, the arts, academia, or professional fields, either during their tenure or just prior to their departure from the office. Viceregal consorts may also create awards, such as the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, named for Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy; these, however, are not included in this list.
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Anne Sarsfield, Viscountess Sarsfield was an Irish aristocrat of the 16th and 17th centuries. She was born Anne Bagenal, and should not be confused with her niece Anne Bagenal the daughter of her brother Henry. She was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Bagenal, an English-born adventurer who had fled to Ireland following accusations of murder in his native Staffordshire. He received the patronage of the Gaelic lord Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone and established himself in Newry.
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In 1208, Roger-Bernard married Ermesinde, daughter and heir of Arnau de Castellbò, viscountess of Castellbò and a Cathar. When his relations with his French sovereign allowed it, he concentrated on expansion and fortification southwards. He fortified the towns guarding the way to Andorra and Urgel, and fell into conflict with the bishop of Urgel over the valley of Caboet in May 1233. He opposed the Inquisition and got into even more conflict with the bishop in April 1239.
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The society was established by Louisa Hubbard and Caroline Blanchard in 1880 and was active until 1884. Another person credited with founding the organisation was Emily Anne Smythe.Elizabeth Baigent, ‘Smythe , Emily Anne, Viscountess Strangford (bap. 1826, d. 1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 May 2015 The goal of the society was to allow women with few opportunities in England to move to places such as North America or New Zealand.
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Viscountess Astor was not the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament. That was achieved by Constance Markievicz, who was the first woman MP elected to Westminster in 1918, but as she was an Irish Republican, she did not take her seat. As a result, Lady Astor is sometimes erroneously referred to as the first woman MP, or the first woman elected to the U.K. Parliament, rather than the first woman MP to take her seat in Parliament.
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The Viscount of Passos () is a title created by King Pedro V of Portugal by decree dated 24 April 1860 in favour of D. Beatriz de Passos Manoel, daughter of the Portuguese statesman Manuel da Silva Passos and D. Guiomar de Souza Girão, from the Girão family of Santarém, Portugal. She also became Viscountess Ferreri by marriage. The title is now represented by the Barons of Arcossó, as the first Viscountess's heir (her sister) married the Baron of Arcossó.
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Lady Ruthven of Freeland's marital title was now: the Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley. Although entitled to a Scottish peerage, Bridget was not initially entitled to membership of the legislature. However, from 1963 she did take her seat in the House of Lords, after the new Peerage Act 1963 gave all Scottish peers and all female holders of hereditary peerages the right to sit in the upper chamber of parliament.Bridget Helen Hore-Ruthven, Lady Ruthven of Freeland profile, thepeerage.
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From the institute's first foundation in Amiens, France, it spread quickly across the globe. Twenty seven convents of the institute were established in Mother d'Houët's lifetime with several more thereafter. Genazzano FCJ College in Kew, Notre Dame de France in Paris, Vaucluse College FCJ in Richmond, Gumley House at Isleworth,Life of the Viscountess de Bonnault d'Houet: foundress of the Society of Faithful Companions of Jesus, 1781-1858, Fr Stanislaus, F.M. Capuchin, Longmans, Green & Co., 2nd ed., p.
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Baron Bayning, of Foxley in the County of Berkshire, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1797 for the politician Charles Townshend. He was the son of William Townshend, third son of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (from whom the Marquesses Townshend descend) and the cousin of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Townshend descended through his mother from Anne Murray, Viscountess Bayning, and Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning, hence his choice of title.
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In October of that same year, the Foundling Hospital received its royal charter, a charity for which Berkeley was a founding governor. Elizabeth Drax (Joshua Reynolds) From 1738 until 1741, he was having a well-known relationship with the already married Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane. He married Elizabeth Drax, daughter of Henry Drax and Elizabeth Ernle, on 7 May 1744. They had at least one son, Frederick Augustus, 5th Earl of Berkeley, and a daughter, Elizabeth Craven.
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Michael Walker, George and Nan Green , Compendium of Communist Biography Following his experiences, he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), a choice which led him to be disinherited by his father. Philipps' second marriage was to Cristina Casati, Viscountess Hastings in 1944. She was previously married to Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon and was the only child of the eccentric Italian arts patron Luisa Casati. The couple ran a progressive farm in Gloucestershire.
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On polling day, Viscountess Davidson won by nearly 7,000 votes with Moss taking a clear second place;"The Times House of Commons 1950", p. 186. it was said by the local newspaper that Moss had done better than generally expected. Moss took comfort from the fact that the Labour vote had increased from the previous election."Lady Davidson tops poll with record vote", Hertfordshire Hemel Hempstead Gazette and West Herts Advertiser, 3 March 1950, p. 3.
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Her requiem mass was conducted by Father Martin D'Arcy at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street on 31 October 1945. Her mass was attended by several other members of literary and high society, including Sir Osbert Sitwell Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, Cathleen, Marchioness of Queensberry; Margaret, Countess of Kimberley; Ann, Viscountess Rothermere; Bridget Parsons, and Lord Pakenham. In 1953, after her death, her brother, wrote a memoir about Smith, with whom he was very close.
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Gillian Evelyn Joynson-Hicks, Viscountess Brentford, (née Schluter; born 22 November 1942) is a British evangelical Anglican and activist. She served as the Third Church Estates Commissioner, one of the most senior lay people in the Church of England, from 1999 to 2005. She was also President of the Church Mission Society (CMS) between 1998 and 2007: the CMS is an evangelical Anglican and ecumenical Protestant missionary organisation. On 21 March 1964, she married Crispin Joynson-Hicks.
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Halsey died in August 1729. Two sons predeceased him and he left an only daughter, Anne, Viscountess Cobham, who inherited the Stoke Poges property. His widow died in 1741. The brewing business was sold for a reported £30,000 to Ralph Thrale of Streatham, his brewery clerk and son of his sister Anne who had married Ralph Thrale of Offley, Hertfordshire. The Anchor brewery served as a platform for Thrale to launch his own and his son Henry’s.
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Mackworth was born in Monmouthshire in 1911, to an illustrious and well-connected Welsh coal-owner family. Her great-grandfather Sir Digby Mackworth, an officer in Wellington's army, married Julie de Richepense, the daughter of one of Napoleon's generals. Her aunt Margaret, Viscountess de Rhondda, was an editor of the newspaper Time and Tide. Her father, Francis Julian Audley Mackworth (1876–1914), a captain in the British Army, was killed early in World War I. Her mother was the former Dorothy Conran Lascelles.
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In 1807, under Godoy's influence, Carlos IV presented Pepita with the title of Countess of Castillo Fiel and Viscountess of Rocafuerte. When María Teresa died in November 1828, Godoy and Pepita could finally marry, even though they had secretly performed a marriage ceremony years earlier. The following year or still in December of 1828, Godoy and Pepita married. The Pope made him 1st Principe di Paserano; however, they moved to Paris in 1832 where they lived in somewhat straitened circumstances.
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Roux, the son of a charcutier, was born at 67 Grande Rue, Semur-en-Brionnais, Saône-et-Loire. Upon leaving school, he initially intended to train as a priest at the age of 14. However, he decided that the role was not suited for him, sought other employment, and instead trained as a chef. His godfather worked as a chef for Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, and arranged for Roux, at the age of 18, to be employed working for Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor.
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She sang and played her own compositions with the organ. She also issued her first two volumes of music. She was the first female composer in Britain to publish a collection of keyboard music, The Six Sets of Lessons for the Harpsichord, published in her teens, dedicated to Viscountess Howe of the Kingdom of Ireland. Her music had many subscribers, among them were famous musicians, Handel and Francesco Geminiani as well as dukes, lawyers, barons, sirs, lords as well as captains.
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The estate was bought in 1958 by David Astor (son of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor), owner of the local Manor House since 1945 and publisher of The Observer (1948–1975). From late 1960 until 1970, the Astor family leased The Abbey for a peppercorn rent to the Ockenden Venture. The Ockenden Venture, now Ockenden International, is an English development non-governmental organisation established in 1951 that helps displaced persons become self-sufficient. The Abbey was used as a refugee children's home.
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The building was originally a four-bay hall-house. The Old Punch Bowl is considered a "good example" of a Wealden hall house; and Viscountess Wolseley's 1930s review of the historic houses of Sussex identified it as one of the county's two publicly accessible (rather than privately owned) mediaeval hall-houses, along with Alfriston Clergy House. It has therefore been the subject of several architectural studies. As originally built, the structure was a partly open-plan hall-house with four bays.
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A number of Speakers of the House of Commons have been elevated to the peerage as viscounts. Of the nineteen Speakers between 1801 and 1983, eleven were made viscounts, five were made barons, one refused a peerage and two died in office (and their widows were created a viscountess and a baroness). The last such was George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy upon his retirement in 1983. Since then it has had become more common to grant life peerages to retiring Speakers.
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In 1900 Archdeacon Neve established the Church of the Holy Cross near Batesville as a mission of Emmanuel. The original church was built in 1863, Thomas Conrad Bowen (Grandfather of James Armistead Shirley Sr. of Greenwood) gave the original building materials for the Church, with additions and modifications made in 1905 and 1911. The 1911 modifications were largely financed by children of Chiswell Langhorne, including Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. These modifications were designed by architect Waddy Butler Wood (1869-1944).
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Among the 22 sent as Government delegates were Viscountess Astor, Marie Stritt, and Addie Worth Bagley Daniels. Invited members were present from nine countries, including ten from India, one from Japan and the wife of the Tartar president of the Parliament of Crimea. There were fraternal delegates from six international associations; from associations in nearly every country in Europe (fourteen in Great Britain) and from South Africa, Australia, Argentina and Uruguay. Greetings were sent from associations in many countries including China.
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The barony of Loughneugh and viscountcy of Massereene were inherited according to the special remainder (which allowed them to be passed on through the female line) by his daughter Harriet, the ninth Viscountess. She was the wife of Thomas Henry Foster, 2nd Viscount Ferrard (see below). Lord Ferrard and Lady Massereene were both succeeded by their son, the tenth Viscount Massereene and third Viscount Ferrard. In 1817 he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Skeffington in lieu of Foster.
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3009, 3012. His mother Ann (a noted society hostess and the grand-daughter of the 11th Earl of Wemyss) remarried, firstly in 1945 to the press magnate Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, and secondly (after Rothermere divorced her in 1951) to the writer Ian Fleming (died 1964) in 1952."Fleming [née Charteris], Ann Geraldine Mary [other married names Ann Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Lady O'Neill; Ann Geraldine Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere]", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, May 2014).
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Wiliam's brother, Thomas (1741–1810) was also a Member of Parliament and went on to become Accountant General for Ireland. Thomas' son was General Ulysses de Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes, GCB (1788–1863), a well-known officer in the Peninsular War and aide- de-camp to the Duke of Wellington. William's two sisters both married prominent politicians. Margaret Amelia (died 1824) married John Foster, Lord Oriel, speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and was created Viscountess Ferrard in 1797.
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The viscountess, a devout Catholic, had Jugan accompany her when she visited the sick and the poor."Jeanne Jugan", Saints Resource, RCL Benziger At age 18, and again six years later, she declined marriage proposals from the same man. She told her mother that God had other plans, and was calling her to “a work which is not yet founded”. At age 25, the young woman became an Associate of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary founded by St. John Eudes (Eudists).
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One of the children was General William Stirling Oliphant of the Bengal Army and another was Arthur Craigie Oliphant, guardian of the children of the Maharajah Duleep Singh. One of Arthur Craigie's children was Sir Lancelot Oliphant, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Director General of the Foreign Office. Lancelot was married to Christine McRae Sinclair, Viscountess Churchill. Another of James's grandsons (and brother to Sir Lancelot Oliphant) was Rear Admiral Laurence Richard Oliphant, who was married to the Hon.
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The ship was laid down by HM Dockyard Devonport in England as HMS Terrible on 19 April 1943, with the Viscountess Astor presiding over the ceremony.Cassells, The Capital Ships, p. 165 She was the only aircraft carrier of the Colossus or Majestic classes to be constructed in a 'royal dockyard': a dockyard owned and operated by the Royal Navy.Hobbs, in The Navy and the Nation, p. 210 She was launched on 30 September 1944 by the wife of British politician Duncan Sandys.
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Jeanne was born in 1415, the only child of Robert of Bar, Count of Marle and Soissons, Sire d'Oisy (1390- 25 October 1415), whose own mother was Marie de Coucy, Countess of Soissons, granddaughter of English King Edward III of England. Her mother was Jeanne de Béthune, Viscountess of Meaux (c.1397- late 1450). On 25 October 1415, her father was killed in the Battle of Agincourt, leaving Jeanne, who was a baby, as sole heiress to her father's titles and estates.
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He fought zealously against the Huguenots, fighting at Saint-Denis and Moncontour. In 1540 he married Jeanne Françoise de Foix, viscountess of Castillon (†1542), with whom he only had one child, Henriette de Savoie-Villars († 1611), who married Charles, Duke of Mayenne. In 1565, his fiefdom of Villars was promoted to a marquisate dependent on the House of Savoy.Source : article Villars-les-Dombes In 1570, he succeeded Blaise de Monluc as lieutenant of Guyenne, where he repressed the Huguenots in 1573.
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Monumental brass of Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (died 1566) one of a group of nine purchased by George Rolle, of which eight survive on the chest-tomb of Sir John Basset (1462–1529) in Atherington Church.This brass and its eight companion pieces were ordered by Honor Grenville herself, made in 1533, purchased by George Rolle before July 1534 (Byrne, vol.2, letter 239, p.224) and set onto the tomb in 1534, as correspondence to Honor surviving in the Lisle Letters reveals.
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Michael is subsequently killed in action. By this point, both Richard and Hazel have become extremely fond of Virginia and her two other children, Alice and William. She becomes a Viscountess when she and Richard marry in 1919 and honeymoon in France following the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty. In 1936 Rose claims that "The Bellamys", meaning Richard and Virginia, gave Rose a teapot for all of her hard work when she left their service sometime between 1930 and 1936.
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In 1873 Carpenter was employed by the owner Viscountess Clifden to recreate the Elizabethan house incorporating the little that remained of it. Although Carpenter's house was only an eighth the size of the former palace, the completed Elizabethan-style mansion was an architectural success. The many gabled stone new house, with tall ornamental chimneys and mullioned windows was approached through the original tripartite arches of the former palace. In 1887 Carpenter returned to Holdenby to design the great panelled entrance hall.
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John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, known as Frank Russell (12 August 1865 – 3 March 1931), was the elder surviving son of Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, and was raised by his paternal grandparents after his unconventional parents both died young. He was the grandson of the former prime minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell and elder brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. He was married three times, lastly to Elizabeth von Arnim, who caricatured him in her novel Vera.Erica Brown.
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The castle stayed with the House of Savoy for a century and a half. Poncin was forsaken by the Dukes of Savoy, who seldom went there. It was, among others, included in the dowery of Anne de Chypre, widow of Louis, Duke of Savoy, and in that of Claudine de Bretagne, Viscountess de Bridiers (La Souterraine), widow of the Philip II, Duke of Savoy, dowager of Annecy, Châteauneuf in Valromey (Songieu), Poncin and Cerdon, who made a residence of it for a time.
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SS Gallia List of Passengers (Manifest), 24 June 1884, Page 2 The Viscountess was a cousin of the Drayton family of New York and the Coleman family of Pennsylvania. In July 1884 they visited Long Branch, New Jersey as well as Newport, Rhode Island. August saw them back in Long Branch for an extended tour by Mr. George W. Childs, the publisher of the Evening Public Ledger. They returned to England on 1 October 1884 on board the SS Servia.
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The Thrales' eldest daughter, Hester, became a viscountess. After her marriage, Thrale was liberated and free to associate with whom she pleased. Due to her husband's financial status, she was able to enter London society, as a result of which she met Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Bishop Thomas Percy, Oliver Goldsmith, and other literary figures, including the young Frances Burney, whom she took with her to Gay Street, Bath.Frances Burney, The Diary of Fanny Burney, Dent (Everyman edition), London, 1971, pp. 45–56.
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Viscountess Emily Anne Beaufort Smyth Strangford Journal, 1859-1860, Duke University, retrieved 2 May 2015 When Strangford published her second book Eastern Shores of the Adriatic in 1864 it had a final anonymous chapter title "Chaos," which is attributed to her husband, Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford. This work is considered important in his writing career. Her husband was twice president of the Royal Asiatic Society in the 1860s. He died in 1869 and as they had no children his titles became extinct.
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Through his daughter Bonnie, he was the grandfather of sculptor Lilla Youngblood Matheson (namesake of Buchanan's mother), who married Christopher Finley Ohrstrom, a real-estate investor and the son of Mary, Viscountess Rothermere (widow of Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere) and Ricard Riggs Ohrstrom, in 1987. In 1993, they lived in Strasbourg, France. Through his daughter Diana, he was the grandfather of Todd, a film producer, and Trevor Traina, who, as of 2018, serves as Donald Trump's Ambassador to Austria.
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This is an example of a downland linear parish encompassing a wide variety of land types – chalk downland, greensand on the spring line and clay to the north. The Great Western Main Line crosses the northern part of the parish. The Icknield Way and The Ridgeway cross the parish in the south. The parish includes the hamlet of East Ginge, which is immediately below the Downs which includes Ginge Manor, home of the Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor, mother of Samantha Cameron.
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In 1916 he married Blanche Shove Palmer and they had two children, including basketball player and broadcaster Bud Palmer. Between 1919 and 1927, Flynn appeared in 40 feature films, often as the lead actor, and sometimes as a sports hero or daring adventurer. He moved to Tryon, North Carolina and was married for the third time to Nora Langhorne Phipps. She was the youngest sister of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor and of Irene Langhorne, who was married to the artist Charles Dana Gibson.
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Its zip code is 22580. Like many small towns in the Pre-Pyrenees, Entença has lost much population in the past 50 years. According to the 2007 census it has only 14 inhabitants. The most important buildings are the recently restored St. James' Church with only one bell in its two-eyed bell-gable, as well as the now ruined residence of Queen Teresa d'Entença, Countess of Urgell and Viscountess of Àger (1314–1327), wife of King Alfons IV of Aragon.
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In 1929, a Comissão de Iniciativa (Initiative Commission) introduced improvements at the thermal station. Sections of the women's bathrooms were remodelled, in addition to the installation of a laboratory on site to analyze the waters, as well as an extension that acted as pharmacy. The administrative council also deliberated on expropriation of lands that pertained to the Viscountess of Peso. On 23 March 1930, a notice was issued to attribute a Sevilha Exposition gold medal to the waters of Melgaço.
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Combe Bank - now a school Lord Frederick was married, 28 March 1769, to Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. Amos Meredith of Henbury, Cheshire, sister of Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, and widow of the infamous Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers. She was burnt to death in a fire at their house, Combe Bank, Kent, in 1807. They had two daughters, one of whom, Mary, married Captain Donald Campbell of Barbreck. In 1752 Horace Walpole reported that Campbell was the love interest of society hostess Viscountess Etheldreda Townshend.
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The Rex Cinema was designed in a striking Art Deco style architect David Evelyn Nye and opened in 1938 by Viscountess Davidson. In 1953, Peter Llewelyn Davies wrote of a visit to Berkhamsted in a letter, lamenting the loss of his childhood home: The Rex Cinema still stands on the site today and has been listed Grade II by English Heritage. A plaque inside the cinema, unveiled on 14 February 1979 by actress Jane Asher, commemorates the site's association with J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan.
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In 1563, he bought the land and the title of Baron de Sauve, from the bishop of Montpellier. From 2 October 1567 to November 1579, he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Denmark, Sweden and Poland, where he succeeded Florimond II Robertet, seigneur de Fresnes. In 1569, he married Charlotte de Sauve, Viscountess of Tours (c. 1551 – 1617), daughter of Jacques de Beaune, Chevalier of the order of the king, gentleman of the bedchamber and chamberlain to the Duke of Anjou.
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Born to Hon. Cecil Thomas Parker, son of the 6th Earl of Macclesfield, and Rosamond Esther Harriet Longley, daughter of Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Thomas Longley, she married the 1st Viscount Bridgeman (1864-1935) on 30 April 1895 in Eccleston, Chester, England. As a result of her marriage, she was styled as Viscountess Bridgeman on 18 June 1929. She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1924, after which she was also known as Dame Caroline Bridgeman.
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John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny (1392 - 5 January 1441) was a French nobleman and soldier, a younger son of John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir, and Marguerite of Enghien. His older brother Peter received his mother's fiefs, including the County of Brienne, while John received Beaurevoir. He married Jeanne de Béthune, Viscountess of Meaux, widow of Robert of Bar, on 23 November 1418, and became step-father to Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons. He and Jeanne de Béthune had no children.
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Lord Carteret married Lady Grace Granville, daughter of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. In 1715 Lady Grace was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain in her own right as Viscountess Carteret and Countess Granville (see Earl Granville for a more details on these two peerages). Lord Carteret and Lady Granville were both succeeded by their son John Carteret, the second Baron and second Earl. The titles became extinct on the death of the latter's son Robert Carteret, the third Earl, in 1776.
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The wooden turret, at the west end, has two bells, and is crowned by a small spire. There is a chapel belonging to the lord of the manor, and near it is a monument in memory of Viscountess Falkland. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £8, and in 1831, at £225, is in the patronage of J Attwood and incumbency of the Rev William Buswell BA, who has a good residence, which he has lately much improved. The tithes were commuted in 1838, for £257 per annum.
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Hood was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on 12 August 1889 and was launched on 30 July 1891, the Viscountess Hood christening her. She finished her sea trials in May 1893 and was commissioned on 1 June 1893 at the cost of £926,396.Parkes, p. 364 Her assignment to the Mediterranean Fleet was delayed when she sprang a leak in her forward compartments on 7 June 1893 as a result of faulty riveting and excessive strain on the hull when she had been docked.
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John Singer Sargent's The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant, 1899 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Pamela Adelaide Genevieve Wyndham Glenconner Grey (14 January 1871 – 18 November 1928), later Lady Glenconner, Viscountess Grey of Fallodon was an English writer. The wife of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, and later of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, she is one of the Wyndham Sisters by John Singer Sargent which were at the centre of the cultural and political life of their time.
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Elizabeth Grey, 5th Baroness Lisle, 3rd Viscountess Lisle (25 March 1505 - 1519) was an English noblewoman. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle and Lady Muriel Howard. After the death of her stepfather, Sir Thomas Knyvet, in August 1512, Elizabeth was left an orphan and became the ward of Sir Charles Brandon, a favourite of King Henry VIII. Brandon had already been married twice before, in scandalous circumstances, and would marry twice more, also in scandalous circumstances, but at this point was a widower.
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Astharoshe "Astha" Asran, Viscountess of Odessa and Duchess of Kiev, is an undercover agent for the New Human Empire. She is a direct, no-nonsense individual who has a very low opinion of Terrans, referring to them as barbaric and stupid, among other things. Her opinion of humans, however, seems to have primarily been formed through Empire propaganda combined with having little exposure to or understanding of humans. takes being called a "vampire" as an insulting slur, and only refers to herself as a Methuselah.
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A rather severe review in the first of these organs of the Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines of Emily Anne Beaufort (1826–1887) led to a result not very usual, the marriage of the reviewer and the author.Elizabeth Baigent, ‘Smythe , Emily Anne, Viscountess Strangford (bap. 1826, d. 1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 May 2015 One of the most interesting papers Lord Strangford ever wrote was the last chapter in his wife's book on the Eastern Shores of the Adriatic.
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The Hays of Yester were possibly related to the Hay earls of Erroll, who held prominent ceremonial office under the Scottish Crown. The 13th Marquess is a descendant of King Charles II of England and Scotland, via his maternal grandmother Lady Joan Capel, later Viscountess Ingleby. The 13th Marquess was the eldest of five sons of David Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale (1921–1979), and his first son (and elder twin son) by his first wife Hon. Sonia Peake, daughter of Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby.
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Another issue of the 1920s was the admission of women to the House of Lords. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 provided that "A person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of any public function." In 1922, the Viscountess Rhondda, a suo jure peeress, attempted to take a seat in the House of Lords. Though the Law Lords declared that she was, under the act, eligible, Lady Rhondda was not admitted by a decision of the committee for privileges.
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Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard in 1869, albumen print, by himself The Hypaethral Temple, Philae, by Francis Frith, 1857; medium: albumen print, original size 38.2×49.0 cm; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland John Moran's albumen print of Limon Bay, High Tide., 1871, albumen silver print, original size 7 15/16 × 10 5/8 in. (20.2 × 27 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California Camille Silvy's albumen print of Viscountess Amberley, original size 3 3/8 in. × 2 1/8 in.
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The 3rd Viscount Irvine was the younger of two sons of the 1st Viscount, Henry Ingram, of Temple Newsam, and younger brother of the 2nd Viscount, Edward Ingram (c. 1662–1688). Edward inherited the title at the age of 4, on his father's death, and therefore their mother the Viscountess Essex Ingram, née Montagu (daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester), was the more important parental example. Arthur lived a little longer than his father and brother, both of whom died at the age of 26.
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Daniel Gardner became very popular as a portraitist. He portrayed some of the most famous personalities of his days like Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Angelica Kauffman and Lord George Gordon. Therefore, it does not come as a surprise, that Gardner appears to have made money very rapidly. His pictures were very popular, he was able to paint quickly, and he got good prices for them.
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The 1918 general election, the first general election to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, was the first in which some women (property owners older than 30) could vote. At that election, the first woman to be elected an MP was Constance Markievicz but, in line with Sinn Féin abstentionist policy, she declined to take her seat in the British House of Commons. The first woman to do so was Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, following a by-election in November 1919.
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In 1640 on the death of the 1st Earl, John succeeded to the 1613 reversion of the Darcy of Chiche barony, the Colchester viscountcy and the Rivers earldom; the 1551 creation of the Darcy of Chiche barony became extinct. The earldom and the subsidiary titles became extinct when John Savage, 5th Earl Rivers, died in 1737. Elizabeth, Viscountess Savage, wife of Thomas, 1st Viscount Savage, daughter of the 1st Earl Rivers and mother of the 2nd Earl, was created Countess Rivers in her own right in 1641.
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In 1771, Sir Joseph Banks acquired a house in the street after his return from Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), during which he visited Brazil, Tahiti, and Australia. Banks was President of the Royal Society for over 40 years. Number 5 was first occupied by the Dowager Viscountess Irwin, a member of the Howard family and daughter of the third Earl of Carlisle, in 1735 or 1736. Between 1848 and 1869 the house was the headquarters of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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As a title of nobility, the uses of "lady" in Britain are parallel to those of "lord". It is thus a less formal alternative to the full title giving the specific rank, of marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness, whether as the title of the husband's rank by right or courtesy, or as the lady's title in her own right. A peeress's title is used with the definite article: Lord Morris's wife is "the Lady Morris". A widow's title derived from her husband becomes the dowager, e.g.
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Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2004. Of her younger admirers, her favourite was The Honourable William Lamb (who succeeded as The 2nd Viscount Melbourne in 1828), although he then fell in love with her daughter Caroline. Although Harriet was anxious for Caroline to marry early, she had misgivings (which would come to be entirely justified) as to whether William and Caroline were well suited; in addition she and William's mother Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, detested each other (Henrietta referred to Lady Melbourne as "the Thorn").
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Work began on what was originally named Davyhulme Park Hospital, established by the Barton-upon-Irwell Union, in 1926. The Barton-upon-Irwell Union had been established in keeping with the requirement of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 for parishes to create unions offering provision to the poor. The hospital opened to patients on 17 December 1928, officially opened by Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles on 1 June 1929. When the Local Government Act 1929 abolished the poor law unions, the hospital passed to Lancashire County Council.
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In 2015, the IoD launched the annual Rhondda Lecture, in honour of Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, the first female President of the IoD. The lecture celebrates radical thought, leadership, bold ideas and activism. Julia Gillard, former Australian prime minister, delivered the inaugural lecture in June 2015 at 116 Pall Mall to an audience of politicians, academics, and business leaders. Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative party, gave the 2016 lecture and was interviewed by BBC journalist Laura Kuenssberg at 116 Pall Mall in December.
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Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (née Lady Diana Manners; 29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was a famously glamorous social figure in London and Paris. As a young woman, she moved in a celebrated group of intellectuals known as the Coterie, most of whom were killed in the First World War. She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British Ambassador to France. After his death, she wrote three volumes of memoirs which reveal much about early 20th-century upper-class life.
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Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (August 1602 – 4 June 1645)Love, Madness, and ScandalOUPBlog was the sister-in-law of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the central figure in a notable sex scandal within the English aristocracy of the early 17th century that was known at the time as "the Lady Purbeck’s business".John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, 23 March 1625, in Thomas Birch (ed.), The Court and Times of James the First (2 vols, London, 1848), vol. II, p. 508. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
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They were said to be not compatible but at least well-matched. By 1604, Elizabeth's marriage to Sir Edward Coke deteriorated and she was said to have become a formidable character and thorn at her husband's side. They quarreled over their respective rights to the Hatton estate which Elizabeth had inherited from her first husband: the dispute became so bitter that the King intervened personally to mediate. Elizabeth had two daughters by her second husband, Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, and Elizabeth Coke (who died unmarried).
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The first creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1715 when Grace Carteret, Lady Carteret, was made Countess Granville and Viscountess Carteret. She was the daughter of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, and the widow of George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret. The Carteret family descended from the celebrated royalist statesman George Carteret, who had been created a baronet, of Melesches, Jersey, in 1645. It was later intended that he should be elevated to the peerage but he died before the title could be granted.
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On 26 December 1639, Elizabeth was married at Chapel Royal, Whitehall to an Anglo-Irish peer, Lewis "the Valiant" Boyle, 1st Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky, the second son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. As a result of her marriage, she was styled as "Viscountess Boyle of Kinalmeaky". Francis, Lord Willoughby, reported a story about her wedding day to the Earl of Rutland. Boyle, according to Willoughby, had certain diseases and also a war injury that would have prevented him consummating the marriage.
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Alfred was the last grandson of Ferdinand de Baillet-Latour, Governor of Antwerp and a nephew of Henri II, Count de Baillet-Latour (1876–1942): 3rd president of the International Olympic Committee. His mother was viscountess Antoinette de Spoelberch, and belonged to the owners of Artois holding. He started his professional career at the Artois brewery in 1936 and became its president in 1947. He died without heirs, and the family fortune was, according to his will, used to found the Artois-Baillet Latour Foundation.
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Her father, Francis II, Duke of Brittany, was the last male of the House of Montfort. Upon his death in 1488, Anne became duchess regnant of Brittany, countess of Nantes, Montfort, and Richmond, and viscountess of Limoges. She was only 11 at that time, but she was already a coveted heiress because of Brittany's strategic position. The next year, she married Maximilian I of Austria by proxy, but Charles VIII of France saw this as a threat since his realm was located between Brittany and Austria.
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He fought the English at the Battle of Agincourt and Battle of la Brossinière. He was appointed lieutenant and captain general of Normandy, and captain of the town of castle of Rouen, in 1417. He was killed at the Battle of Verneuil, and buried at la Saussaie in 1424. He had one, illegitimate son (by Marguerite de Preullay, viscountess of Dreux), Louis II of Harcourt (1424–1479), bishop of Béziers (1451), archbishop of Narbonne (1451), bishop of Bayeux (1460) and Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (1460–79).
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When they returned from South Africa, the Buxtons settled in Newtimber Place, a Grade I listed country house in Sussex, where Lady Buxton became a Justice of the Peace. Lord Buxton died in 1934, at which point his titles became extinct. In 1935, she donated nearly 150 acres of downland at Newtimber Hill to the National Trust. As a result of her marriage, she was styled as Viscountess of Buxton, effective 11 May 1914, and later as the Countess of Buxton, effective 8 November 1920.
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The son of Henry Coblegh (died 1470) by his wife Alice was John Coblegh whose monumental brass lies adjacent to the north. John married twice, firstly to Isabella Cornu, secondly to Joan Pyne (possibly of the Pyne family of East DownVivian, p.632, pedigree of Pyne), as his brass records. John Coblegh is recorded in the Lisle Letters as one of the Devonshire notables who were given a deer by Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (died 1566) from the park of her nearby manor of Umberleigh.
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Lord Irvine's wife, Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irvine. Under the terms of his grandfather Machell's will, Rich inherited the property of Hills, with 190 acres, at Horsham, together with a burgage at Horsham, several properties in London and in other parts of England, at his age of 21 years: the will having been proved in 1704 by the executors, Rich was sworn to probate, aged 22, as Rich Ingram alias Machell on 10 March 1711/12.Will of John Machell of Horsham, Sussex (P.C.C. 1704).
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National Portrait Gallery, Works by John Cochran Cochrane painted portraits of many famous people such as Queen Victoria at the age of 18, King William IV, the Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, the Duke of York and Albany, Viscountess Beresford, the Viscount Nelson and the Earl of St Vincent. At the National Portrait Gallery they list 61 portraits by Cochran. Cochran also painted watercolours of Scottish landscapes and coastal scenes. It is unknown yet if he was related to the Scottish painter William Cochran (artist) (1738–1785).
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The hotel was opened in 1958 by Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Harry’s Bar in Venice and inventor of the Bellini cocktail. As well as Giuseppe Cipriani, the partners in the joint company were the three daughters of the 2nd Earl of Iveagh, who provided the financing. The three sisters—Viscountess Boyd of Merton, Lady Honor Svedar and Lady Brigid Guinness—each had a suite designed for themselves and their families. Rooms were decorated with Venetian furnishings, including Murano glass chandeliers, Fortuny fabrics and Venetian artworks.
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Their courtship had been strained, and in retaliation Edward left her alone on their wedding night and from then on virtually imprisoned her at his family estate at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. She reacted by refusing to have sex with him. She never used the title Viscountess Coke. Their families went to litigation, and eventually produced a settlement in 1750 whereby Lady Mary could live with her mother at Sudbrook but had to remain married to Coke until his death, which came in 1753, when Mary was 26.
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At his death, the church and eastern range were largely complete. However, his sons completed the North and West cloisters along with their chapels. The Digby Chantry Chapel (the Chapel of St John the Evangelist) was built in 1859, and St Joseph's Chapel was built in 1893 by Viscountess Southwell to mark the coming of age of her son, who had been educated at the monks’ school in Ramsgate (St Augustine's College). The central tower of the church, with its spire, was never completed.
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Lord Lee died at Old Quarries, a grade II listed building in Avening, Gloucestershire, in 1947. Lee had no children and his viscountcy became extinct upon his death. His widow, Viscountess Lee, presented to the Royal Military College of Canada Museum a silver-headed walking stick of her late husband, which he had used daily at RMC fifty-four years earlier. The stick has two silver bands listing the places where Lee served, or visited, between 1888 and 1904, which include the Royal Military College of Canada.
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On 17 May 1920, she inherited the earldom of Loudoun from her childless uncle, Charles Clifton, 11th Earl of Loudoun. On 19 October that year, she and her sister, Viscountess St Davids, petitioned the Committee for Privileges for the baronies of Botreaux, Hungerford, de Moleyns, Hastings (de Hastings) and Hastings (de Hungerford), which were abeyant between them and their other sister, Lady Flora, since the death of the 11th Earl.Lords Hansard (19 October 1920) - Baronies of Botreaux, Hungerford, de Moleyns and Hastings They also petitioned for the baronies of Strange (de Knockyn) and Stanley as descendants of the last holder, Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby.Lords Hansard (19 October 1920) - Baronies of Strange of Knockin and Stanley The sisters were confirmed as co-heirs to the baronies on 17 December.Lords Hansard (17 December 1920) - Baronies of Botreaux, Hungerford, de Moleyns and HastingsLords Hansard (17 December 1920) - Baronies of Strange of Knockin and Stanley On 23 February 1921, the viscountess was granted the baronies of Hungerford, de Moleyns and Strange (de Knockyn), whilst those of Botreaux, Stanley and Hastings (de Hastings) were granted to the countess on 7 March.
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In April 2011, following a 12-year restoration costing £200,000, the court room at the Sessions House was re-opened with Usk Town Council now using it as its base. As well as the court room, the council has also reopened the library, which contains thousands of books, some dating back to the 1600s. The building containing two separate courts, was designed by T. H. Wyatt and built in 1877. High-profile cases heard there included the prosecution of Viscountess Rhondda, a prominent suffragette who subsequently was released after a hunger strike.
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Juan de Castro was born in Valencia on March 22, 1431, the son of nobles Pedro Galcerán de Castre-Pinòs y Tramaced and Blanca de Só, viscountess of Évol.Biography from the Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church He began his ecclesiastical career as a cleric in the see of Elne. He was later the Abbot of Fossanova Abbey. He was a familiar of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja, who later became Pope Alexander VI. On February 19, 1479, he was elected Bishop of Agrigento.
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The Cotswold School opened in 1988 following the amalgamation of Bourton Vale Secondary Modern (in Bourton on the Water) and Westwood's Grammar School (Northleach). The first head teacher was Mr Sanders and first chair of governors was Mavis, Viscountess Dunrossil. The roll was just over 400 students and 35 staff. The school emblem, comprising tree, dry stone wall and river was devised in 1988 by Gareth Harris (then 10 years old) and fellow pupils at Chedworth Primary School who entered the competition to design a new school crest for the new "The Cotswold School".
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Missing her friends and family in France, Moderno spent hours in her room writing poetry, an activity her father scorned. Her first published work, Morreu! (Died!), written as a memorial to the Viscountess da Praia da Vitória, was published in the newspaper Açoriano Oriental in that same year. Two years later, in 1885, she produced A ti (To You) in the Almanaque Luso-Brasileiro de Lembranças (Portuguese-Brazilian Almanac of Souvenirs), a major literary vehicle for Brazilian and Portuguese writers until 1932, in which Moderno published frequently until 1889.
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In one notable incident whilst employed by the Viscountess, Roux managed to jam oeufs en cocotte in a dumbwaiter which were due to go to Harold Macmillan, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Otherwise, his apprenticeship at Cliveden went without problems. He moved on to work at the French embassy in London and became a private chef for Sir Charles Clore. He was then called up by the French Armed Forces to serve his military service in Algeria, where he cooked on occasion for the officer's mess.
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Over a five-month period between December 2005 and April 2006, Gove claimed more than £7,000 on a house bought with his wife Sarah Vine, in 2002. Around a third of the money was spent at OKA, an upmarket interior design company established by Viscountess Astor, PM David Cameron's mother-in-law. Shortly afterwards he reportedly 'flipped' his designated second home, a property for which he claimed around £13,000 to cover stamp duty. Gove also claimed for a cot mattress, despite children's items being banned under updated Commons rules.
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The will was proved in 1704 by the Executors, but in March 1711/12 the 5th Viscount Rich Ingram was sworn into probate. An acknowledgement of this wish was made by the eldest grandson Edward Machell Ingram (who, as master of Temple Newsam, never inherited Hills), but not by Rich or his successors, more than one of whom served as MPs for Horsham. Their mother Isabella the Dowager Viscountess Irvine outlived all her sons and lived to be 94.Challen, 'John Machell, M.P., Horsham', Sussex Notes and Queries (1964).
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Lord Davidson died in London in December 1970, aged 81, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Andrew, who also became a Conservative government minister, died in 2012 and the title passed to the younger son Malcolm, 3rd Viscount Davidson. The Viscountess Davidson died in November 1985, aged 91. Their second daughter Jean Elizabeth married the Hon. Charles Strutt, son of Lord Rayleigh, and have three children, the youngest of whom is John Gerald Strutt, 6th Baron Rayleigh and the eldest sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Jenkin of Kennington.
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In 1880 he married Florence Caroline Simons (1858–1934).Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 2), ebook He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Captain Edward Simons Ward (1882–1930). Together with Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and Viscountess Ednam, he died when their aeroplane returning to London from Le Touquet exploded in midair over Meopham, Kent. Captain Ward was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, Melvill Willis Ward (1885–1973), as the 3rd Baronet.
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He was eventually given a two-year suspended prison sentence by a German court for mismanagement of funds related to his construction company Hans Brochier, from which he transferred a seven-figure sum to a newly registered company in the UK in 2005. In 2009 he appealed against the sentence. In September 2010, Philipps' West Sussex property, Strange Place, in Northchapel, was repossessed by Barclays Bank. In March 2011, he was declared bankrupt for a second time, and in November 2011 his wife, Viscountess St Davids, was sued for unpaid debts.
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However, her successor, Lady Dorothy Macmillan, so keen a horticulturalist that she sometimes gardened at night, removed yellow and white flowers planted by Lady Avon and replaced them with roses of "normal colour".Alistair Horne (1989) Macmillan: Volume II 1957–1986. Even so, Lady Dorothy, who, like Lady Avon, did not like Chequers much, complained to her daughter-in-law that "they would never let me plant anything ... they want me to plant pansies" ("and she didn't like pansies": Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, quoted in Booth & Haste, op.cit.) One episode at Chequers attracted considerable publicity.
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Frances Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Charteris; 10 August 1915 – 19 February 1990), was a British noblewoman and socialite. She was variously Viscountess Long, Countess of Dudley and became Duchess of Marlborough upon her fourth marriage, to John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough. She was the sister of novelist Hugo Charteris and Ann Charteris (who married Ian Fleming), as well as the granddaughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. Her third husband, Michael Temple Canfield, was the former husband of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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John Underhill was the son of Thomas Underhill (1516–1571) and Ann Wood, and the grandson of Thomas Underhill (1485–1520) and Anne Wynter. John Underhill would go on to marry the Alice Barnham, Viscountess of St. Alban, the recent widow of Sir Francis Bacon, on April 10, 1626 at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, the same place Francis Bacon had been baptized sixty-five years previously. The two are reputed to have maintained a relationship for some time. This was a scarce eleven days after Sir Francis’ death.
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The heirs of Sir John Maynard were John Kerr, Earl of Ancram (later 7th Marquess of Lothian), Lady Suffield, Ernest Edgcumbe, Viscount Valletort (later 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe) and Viscountess Castlereagh.Hele's charity at the National Archives Sir John Maynard's descendants received the remaining income from the bequest and distributed it to charities as they decided for the next two centuries. Legal proceedings resulted in depriving the descendant of Sir J. Maynard, who was the surviving trustee, of all control over the funds, which were thereupon vested in the Crown.
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Writers of memoirs produce accounts from the memories of their own lives, which are considered unusual, important, or scandalous enough to be of interest to general readers. Although meant to be factual, readers are alerted to the likelihood of some inaccuracies or bias towards an idiosyncratic perception by the choice of genre. A memoir, for example, is allowed to have a much more selective set of experiences than an autobiography which is expected to be more complete and make a greater attempt at balance. Well-known memoirists include Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane, and Giacomo Casanova.
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Thatcher was unable to get a US visa due to his South African conviction and remains barred from entering the United States. His Monaco residency was not renewed as he was said to be on a list of "undesirables" who would not be allowed further residency and he was required to leave by mid-2006. He was refused residency in Switzerland and settled in Gibraltar, where he married his second wife, Sarah Jane Russell, in March 2008. Russell is the daughter of Terence J. Clemence, a property developer, and sister to Claudia Viscountess Rothermere.
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Her photographic collages – collections of cut- up images inserted onto painted backdrops – and use of watercolours "subverted the realistic nature of photography," according to the Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-century Photography. This publication also describes the work of her and Lady Mary Georgina Filmer as "demonstrat[ing] the creative energy and inventiveness that could be invested in the production of photographic collages". Viscountess Jocelyn's interest in photography declined in the 1870s. She spent much of her time travelling with her children, visiting seaside resorts in England and France for her health.
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Balsan was born on September 16, 1868 in Châteauroux, France. He was the son of Auguste Balsan and Marie (née Dupuytren). Among his siblings was brother Étienne Balsan, the first patron of Coco Chanel, and sister, Viscountess de Villeneuve-Bargemon of Davenescourt, France. Through his mother, he was descended from Guillaume Dupuytren, the anatomist and surgeon who treated Napoleon Bonaparte and, today, is best known today for his description of Dupuytren's contracture, which is named after him and which he first operated on in 1831 and published in The Lancet in 1834.
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Willielma Campbell, Viscountess Glenorchy (1741-1786) was a patroness of evangelical missionary work in Scotland and beyond. Willielma Maxwell was born, in Galloway, as the daughter of the wealthy William Maxwell of Preston and Elizabeth Hairstanes. On 26 September 1761, she married John Campbell, Viscount Glenorchy, eldest son of John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, one of Scotland's wealthiest landowners. In 1765, while recovering from illness, she came under the influence of the sister of Rowland Hill (the evangelical Anglican preacher), and experienced a religious conversion.
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The wife of a substantive peer is legally entitled to the privileges of peerage: she is said to have a "life estate" in her husband's dignity. Thus a duke's wife is titled a "duchess", a marquess's wife a "marchioness", an earl's wife a "countess", a viscount's wife a "viscountess" and a baron's wife a "baroness". Despite being referred to as a "peeress", she is not a peer in her own right: this is a 'style' and not a substantive title. However, this is considered a legal title, unlike the social titles of a peer's children.
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Marie was born on 29 March 1373, at the Chateau d'Essay, Orne, France, the daughter of Pierre II, Count of Alençon (1340 - 20 September 1404), nephew of King Philip VI of France, and Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine. Marie's father was knighted in 1350. At the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, he was taken hostage in exchange for King John II of France, and he did not return home until 1370. On 20 October 1371, he married Marie Chamaillart (died 18 November 1425 at Chateau d'Argentan), by whom he had eight children.
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During the World War I, Catherine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Viscountess de Pomereu d'Aligre, set up a military hospital on the estate. During World War II, Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus made his headquarters in Baronville, and several other German units (including the Luftwaffe) occupied the Château. After decades of restorations of the park and the palace, it could be rented for exclusive events since 1980. The Estate is now home of the Count and Countess de Rougé (see House of Rougé), since the last Pomereu d'Aligre of this line married Count Claude de Rougé.
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Sánchez de Mora, 344: Hermengarde vicecometesse de Narbona, et a toy, comte Pierre, et a vos successeurs. The confirmation was duly received from Ermengarde, "by the grace of God, viscountess of Narbonne, and my relative Pedro, by the same grace count."Sánchez de Mora, 344: par la grace de Dieu, vicecomtesse de Narbóne, et moy pareillement Pierre, pa mesme grace comte. This demonstrates that on the other side of the Pyrenees Pedro continued to style himself and be styled as a count, as in "Count Pedro, Viscount of Narbonne".
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Finch-Hatton was born on 21 June 1998 in Yeovil, Somerset, to Daniel Finch-Hatton, and his wife Shelley Amanda (née Gillard), the then-Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone. He has one younger brother, Sebastian, born in 2002. On 26 June 1999, at just over one year old, Finch-Hatton took the title of Viscount Maidstone upon the death of his paternal grandfather Christopher Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea, and his father's accession to the earldom. He attended The Park School, Yeovil, where he achieved three A grades in his GCE Advanced Level examinations.
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Copy of painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, UK Royal Collection Remigius van Leemput is known for his original works as well as for his small-scale copies after van Dyck, Lely and others. He made a series of portraits of Ladies after van Dyck, Lely and Samuel Cooper. The series are bust portraits based on (often full-length) portraits by these other painters. They are part of the Royal Collection . He also made a copy of Lely’s double portrait of Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury and Theodosia, Viscountess Cornbury.
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After that, she appeared in London under the auspices and at the residence of Viscountess Palmerston, her crowning triumph being in a concert given by Queen Victoria in the Golden Room of Buckingham Palace to the King of Belgium. Her teachers in dramatic action were her brother, Frederic, and his wife, and Lucile Grahn. After appearing in the Royal Theater, Hanover, she was called to Frankfurt am Main, and then to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Cassel. At the request of the Intendant, she made her debut there as Lucrezia.
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The Forum Club was a London Club for women. Located at 6 Grosvenor Place, it was founded in 1919 as The London Centre for Women's Institute Members, and lasted into the early 1950s. A number of suffragettes and early feminists were members, including Elizabeth Robins, Mary Sophia Allen and Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda. The Forum Club first opened its doors at 6, Grosvenor Place, Hyde Park, London, on 1 November 1919. It became one of the most successful ‘ladies only’ clubs of its era with over 1,600 members.
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After a number of false starts, a 600-year-old grange barn in Oxfordshire was discovered and purchased in January 1998. The first stage of the work to refurbish the barn started during 1999 and was completed in 2001 with the Club moving in the same year. The year 2000 saw the Club put on every sort of entertainment for its members including the postponed 1999 50th St. John Horsfall race meeting at Silverstone. In March 2002, Viscount Downe, president since 1980, died and Diana, the Viscountess Downe, became the new president.
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She later said to her mother that though she would not venture to introduce herself to Lord Byron, she would certainly accept his introduction if it were offered. Byron's popularity was soaring following the success of his work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Annabella met him on many social occasions as he began a relationship with Caroline Lamb, the wife of her cousin, William Lamb. However, Byron was attracted to her modesty and intellect and in October 1812 he proposed marriage through her aunt, the well- connected political hostess Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne.
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Thorpe Hall was the home of Viscount Byng of Vimy (Governor General of Canada 1921–6), and his wife Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, who relandscaped the gardens. Between 1690 and 1720 Thorpe housed a community of several dozen Huguenot refugees fleeing persecution in France, who are thought to have stayed at the large house still called Comarques. (Source—Huguenot Society records) This was also the home of the famous Midlands author Arnold Bennett just before and during the 1st World War. (Source—contemporary issues of Essex County Standard, Arnold Bennett's Correspondence).
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John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel John Foster served as Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer and as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and also represented County Louth in the British House of Commons. In 1821 he was created Baron Oriel, of Ferrard in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His wife Margaretta Amelia Foster was created Baroness Oriel, of Collon, in 1790, and Viscountess Ferrard, of Oriel in 1797, both in the Peerage of Ireland. Both Lord Oriel and Lady Ferrard were succeeded by their son, the second Viscount.
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In 1920, as an economy measure, 20 Cavendish Square was sold to Viscountess Cowdray and Asquith and Margot moved to 44, Bedford Square. Criticism of Asquith's weak leadership continued. Lloyd George's mistress Frances Stevenson wrote (18 March) that he was "finished … no fight left in him"; the press baron Lord Rothermere, who had supported him at Paisley, wrote on 1 April of his "obvious incapacity for the position he is expected to fill". In fact Asquith spoke in the House of Commons far more frequently than he had ever previously done when not a minister.
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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the financier and statesman William Waldorf Astor, 1st Baron Astor. He had already been created Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, in 1916, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His eldest son Waldorf, the second Viscount, was the husband of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, the first woman to sit in the House of Commons.
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Richard Buckner) Viscount Hambleden, of Hambleden in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1891 (as Viscountess Hambleden) for Emily Danvers Smith, in honour of her deceased husband, the businessman and Conservative politician William Henry Smith. Both their son, the second Viscount, and grandson, the third Viscount, were involved in the management of the family business, the stationer and retailer W H Smith. The title was created for Emily Smith and to the heirs male of her body.
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Viscount Daventry, of Daventry in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 May 1943 for Muriel FitzRoy (née Douglas-Pennant), in honour of her late husband, the Hon. Edward FitzRoy, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943. The first Viscountess was the sister of Frank Douglas-Pennant, 5th Baron Penrhyn, whilst Edward FitzRoy was the second son of Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton, and a male-line descendant of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton.
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Anne Woodville, Viscountess Bourchier, died on 30 July 1489, at the age of about fifty-one years. Her death occurred almost four years after the Battle of Bosworth when King Richard was slain by Henry Tudor who married Anne's niece Elizabeth of York. Anne was buried in Warden, Bedfordshire.Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, England, Earls, creations 1207–1466, Earls Rivers (1466) A year after Anne's death, her husband George married secondly Catherine Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux, by whom he had four more children.
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George Charles Williamson: Daniel Gardner, painter in pastel and gouache: A brief account of his life and works. John Lane, the bodley head, Vigo St., W, London 1921, p. 30. Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne with Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and Anne Seymour Damer in Witches Round the Cauldron, portrayed by Daniel Gardner in gouache (1775). Gardner hardly ever signed his works. As a result, his works were later, mainly in the 19th century, often attributed to his colleagues Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough since they were better known within the general public.
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On 14 June 2013, Dominic Patten from Deadline Hollywood reported that actor Sam Riley had joined the cast as a French soldier called Benoit. Riley's wife Alexandra Maria Lara also joined the cast, along with fellow actresses Margot Robbie as Celine and Ruth Wilson as Madeleine. Actors Tom Schilling and Lambert Wilson will also appear in the film as Kurt Bonnet and Viscount de Montmort respectively. Harriet Walter has been cast as Viscountess de Montmort, while Eileen Atkins will appear as Denise Epstein and Cédric Maerckx as Gaston Angellier.
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Edward Ward, 4th Viscount Bangor DL (23 February 1827 – 14 September 1881), styled The Honourable from September 1827 until 1837, was an Irish peer and Conservative politician. Born in London, he was the son of Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor and his wife Harriet Margaret Maxwell,The Honourable Harriet Margaret Maxwell (1805–1880), Viscountess Bangor by Edwin Long second daughter of Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham. In 1837, aged only ten, Ward succeeded his father as viscount. He was educated at Eton College and went then to Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Grace's brother, Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, committed suicide a fortnight after the death of their father, and the earldom was inherited by his son, William, a minor. Following William's death in 1711, all Grace's elder siblings having predeceased her, she was created Viscountess Carteret and Countess Granville in her own right in 1714. She was able to pass on both titles to her elder son, John. Grace Carteret died at the family seat of Hawnes in Bedfordshire, aged 77, a few months after attending her son's second marriage, to Sophia Fermor.
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In the Interregnum he was supported by patrons such as John Sadler, William Steele and Lady Katherine Ranelagh,Sarah Hutton Anne Conway: a woman philosopher 2004 p138 "KATHERINE RANELAGH Before leaving the Boyle connection, some mention should be made of the outstanding woman in Boyle's circle, his sister Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-91)." and was able to publish freely. In theology he followed David Dickson and Robert Douglas. After 1660 he had little support, and lost much of his version of the Hebrew New Testament of Elias Hutter in the Great Fire of London.
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In 1513, when François de Pontville had set out to take part in a hunt, a friend of his, Bermondet de Cromières, came to visit him at the château de Rochechouart. Well known for his beautiful hands, Bermondet was received by the countess but, after waiting for François for a long time, he returned home. On François's return, the viscountess informed him of Bermondet's visit, all the while praising his elegant manners and beautiful hands. François was jealous and impulsive in character, and so set out immediately with some men in pursuit of his friend.
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Kennedy, pp. 49 and 74 His later affair with Alice, Viscountess Wimborne (born 1880), which lasted from 1934 until her death in April 1948, caused a wider breach between Walton and the Sitwells, as she disliked them as much as they disliked her.Kennedy, p. 78 By the 1930s, Walton was earning enough from composing to allow him financial independence for the first time. A legacy from a musical benefactress in 1931 further enhanced his finances, and in 1934 he left the Sitwells' house and bought a house in Belgravia.
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Charlotte Townshend, Viscountess Townshend (died 3 September 1770), suo jure 16th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley and 7th Baroness Compton, known as Lady Charlotte Compton until 1749 and as Lady Ferrers of Chartley from 1749 to 1764, was a British peeress. Charlotte was the only surviving child of James Compton, 5th Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth, 15th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley. The barony of Ferrers of Chartley had fallen into abeyance on her mother's death in 1741. However, in 1749 the abeyance was terminated in Charlotte's favour and she became the 16th Baroness.
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Title page of The Tragedy of Mariam. The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean-era drama written by Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and first published in 1613. There is some speculation that Cary may have written a play before The Tragedy of Mariam that was lost, but most scholars agree that The Tragedy of Mariam is the first extant original play written by a woman in English. It is also the first known English play to closely explore the history of King Herod's marriage to Mariam.
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Ivor Maxse was the eldest of four children born to Admiral Frederick Maxse and Cecilia Steel. His siblings were Olive Hermione Maxse, and editors Violet Milner, Viscountess Milner, and Leopold Maxse. His maternal grandmother was Lady Caroline FitzHardinge, daughter of Frederick Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley. He was a nephew of Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse He was educated at Mr. Lake's Preparatory School in Caterham, Surrey from 1875 to 1877; Rugby School from 1877 to 1880 and Sandhurst from 1881 to 1882.Correlli Barnett, ‘Maxse, Sir (Frederick) Ivor (1862–1958)’, rev.
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The well-known British author Antonia Fraser devotes part of a chapter of her The Weaker Vessel (1984) to a modern summary of Frances' life. A new biography by American historian Johanna Luthman, Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. The only known portrait of Lady Purbeck, painted by the Dutch artist Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt of Delft and dated 1623, is on view to the public as part of the guided stairway tour at Ashdown House, Oxfordshire, a National Trust property.
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It may have been largely to teach manners, something the French courts would be known for in later generations. Yet the existence and reasons for this court are debated. In The Art of Courtly Love, Andreas Capellanus, Andrew the chaplain, refers to the court of Poitiers. He claims that Eleanor, her daughter Marie, Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne, and Isabelle of Flanders would sit and listen to the quarrels of lovers and act as a jury to the questions of the court that revolved around acts of romantic love.
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In late 1524 or early 1525, she was married to George Boleyn (later Viscount Rochford), brother of Anne Boleyn, who later became the second queen of Henry VIII. At this stage, however, Anne was not completely attached to the King, although she was already one of the leaders of fashionable society. As a wedding present, King Henry gave Jane and George a mansion, Grimston Manor in Norfolk. Since she gained the courtesy title of Viscountess Rochford by marriage in 1529, she was usually known at Court (and by subsequent historians) as "Lady Rochford".
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Major Hercules Langford Taylour (9 September 1759 - 20 May 1790) styled The Honourable from 1760, was an Irish soldier and politician. He was the second son of Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective and his wife Jane Rowley, daughter of Hercules Langford Rowley and Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford. His older brother was Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort and his younger brothers were Robert Taylour and Clotworthy Rowley, 1st Baron Langford. Taylour served in British Army and was major of the 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
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The younger W. H. Smith also used the success of the firm as a springboard into politics, becoming an MP in 1868 and serving as a minister in several Conservative governments. After the death of W. H. Smith the younger in 1891, his widow was created Viscountess Hambleden in her own right; their son inherited the business from his father and the Viscountcy from his mother. After the death of the second Viscount in 1928, the business was reconstituted as a limited company, in which his son, the third Viscount, owned all the ordinary shares.
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Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (née Lady Elizabeth Howard; c. 1480 – 3 April 1538) was an English noblewoman, noted for being the mother of Anne Boleyn and as such the maternal grandmother of Elizabeth I of England. The eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney, she married Thomas Boleyn sometime in the later 15th century. Elizabeth became Viscountess Rochford in 1525 when her husband was elevated to the peerage, subsequently becoming Countess of Ormond in 1527 and Countess of Wiltshire in 1529.
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Caroline Agar-Ellis, Viscountess Clifden (27 October 1763 - 23 November 1813), formerly Lady Caroline Spencer, was an English noblewoman. She was the eldest daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, and his wife, the former Lady Caroline Russell. In August 1782 she was due to marry George Leveson- Gower, Viscount Trentham, but the wedding was called off and instead she became engaged to George Gordon, Lord Strathavon; this engagement was also broken off. She married Henry Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden (a former suitor of her sister Elizabeth), on 10 March 1792.
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Marshal François Certain de Canrobert (1809–1895) by Nadar His father, General Jean- Antoine Marbot, had four sons, only two whom reached adulthood: Antoine Adolphe Marcelin, the elder, and Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin, the younger, lieutenant-général (divisional general) during the July Monarchy, famous for his Memoirs depicting the Napoleonic age of warfare. Through his mother, he was the cousin of François Certain de Canrobert, marshal of France during the Second French Empire. His marriage with Ernestine-Félicité de Moÿ de Sons, viscountess of Rives, produced no descendance.
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Bengy's father soon chose a husband for his daughter, ViscountLife of the Viscountess de Bonnault d'Houet: foundress of the Society of Faithful Companions of Jesus, Fr Stanislaus, F.M. Capuchin, Longmans, Green & Co., 2nd ed., p. 7 Joseph de Bonnault d'Houët, a match which Madeleine found to be a happy one, as she found a kindred spirit in him, and the young couple quickly developed strong feelings for one another. They were wed on 21 August 1804 at the imposing Cathedral of Bourges, where they settled into their new home.
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This was Edmund Dudley, a councillor to Henry VII, who was executed after his royal master's death. Through his father's mother, Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle, Guildford descended from the Hundred Years War heroes, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. When Henry was born, his father was a knight, in 1537 he became vice-admiral and later Lord Admiral. Under the young King Edward VI, Henry's father became Lord President of the Privy Council and de facto ruled England from 1550 to 1553.
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Bishop Peter, surprised, pretended to comply, but when the duke, satisfied, released him, the bishop completed reading the anathema, before calmly presenting his neck and inviting the duke to strike. According to contemporaries, William hesitated a moment before sheathing his sword and replying, "I don't love you enough to send you to paradise." William was excommunicated a second time for "abducting" the Viscountess Dangerose (Dangerosa), the wife of his vassal Aimery I de Rochefoucauld, Viscount of Châtellerault. The lady, however, appears to have been a willing party in the matter.
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Langhorne amassed an enormous fortune through private illegal trade carried out during his tenure as the Agent of Madras and through trade with the Levant. Having arrived back in England he purchased the manor of Charlton, Kent in 1680. This estate had previously been owned by William Ducie. In 1707 he also purchased Hampstead, Middlesex. His marriage to Grace Chaworth, the Dowager Viscountess Chaworth, a sister of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland made him one of the richest men in England, despite lasting less than year before she died on 15 February 1700.
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His widowed daughter-in-law was styled the Viscountess Ruthven of Canberra from 1945 to 1952. She lived with her father-in-law at Windsor Castle, where he was Deputy Governor, and was an Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth from 1948-51. She met Major Derek Cooper in 1949. He had served with the Second Household Combined Regiment in Europe during the Second World War, and then with the Life Guards in Palestine, where he won the Military Cross and developed strong feelings for the plight of the Palestinian Arabs.
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Fighting as a Royalist during the English Civil War, Henry Salusbury, the second son of Sir John Salusbury, received a baronetcy on 10 November 1619 during the reign of James I for his father's contributions to the Crown. After the Restoration, the family fortunes began to decline. John Salusbury went on a long and ultimately failed expedition of Nova Scotia. He had one daughter, Hester Piozzi, who had twelve children by her first husband Henry Thrale, of whom four daughters survived, the eldest being Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith.
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Robert Payne was a central figure in the so-called Welbeck Academy, around the Cavendishes, with which Hobbes was more closely associated than with Great Tew. Letice Cary, Viscountess Falkland, as a widow The widowed Lady Falkland (Letice or Lettice) took in John Duncon, brother of Eleazar Duncon and Edmund Duncon, who had lost his Essex rectory during the Civil war. He later wrote her biography (1648, in the form of an exchange of letters). It has been suggested that the household was run on lines similar to that at Little Gidding.
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Mary Elizabeth Milner married, firstly, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (born 16 July 1865, Chapelizod, County Dublin, Ireland – died 14 August 1922) on 11 April 1888, at which time her married name became Harmsworth, and she was styled as Baroness Northcliffe, effective 27 December 1905. The westernmost tip of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic was named in her honour by an expedition financed by her husband. She was later elevated to Viscountess Northcliffe on 14 January 1918. This union was childless, which weigh heavily on her and her husband.
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They became, respectively, count and countess of Foix, viscount and viscountess of Castellbò and Cerdanya, and also co-sovereigns of Andorra (together with the bishop of Urgell). In the 11th century, a dispute arose between the bishop of Urgell and the count of Foix. The conflict was mediated by Aragon in 1278, and led to the signing of the first paréage, which provided that Andorra's sovereignty be shared between the count and the bishop. This gave the principality its territory and political form, and marked the formal commencement of Andorra's unique monarchical arrangement.
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John Evelyn, who visited Somerhill on 29 May 1652, described Somerhill as "situated on an eminent hill, with a park, but has nothing else extraordinary". Following the Restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660, Somerhill was given to Margaret, Viscountess Muskerry, the daughter of The 1st Marquess of Clanricarde. Lady Muskerry had extravagant tastes, and gradually sold off much of the lands of South Frith to various people. She died in 1698, and Somerhill passed to her son, John Villiers, who styled himself the Earl of Buckingham.
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Married to Doña Segunda Tejada Eulate. # Don José Mariano Quindos y Tejada1822-1900, 6th Marquis of San Saturnino, son of the 5th Marquis. Married to Doña Fernanda Villaroel Goicolea, Viscountess of la Frontera. # Doña María de la Natividad Quindos y Villaroel 1900-1953, 7th Marchioness of San Saturnino, also 2nd Duchess of la Conquista, Grandee of Spain, Camarera mayor to the Queen, daughter of the 6th Marquis. Married to Don Asis Arias Davila Matheu, Count of Cumbres Altas, Ambassador of Spain, “ Gentilhombre Grande de España” (Gentleman Grandee of Spain) to the King Alfonso XIII.
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Elizabeth Frances Philipps, Viscountess St Davids (née Abney-Hastings) (10 June 1884 - 12 December 1974) was a British peeress. She was the second daughter and coheir of Hon. Paulyn Abney-Hastings (the second son of Charles Abney-Hastings, 1st Baron Donington and Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun) and his wife, Lady Maud née Grimston (the third daughter of James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam). On 27 April 1916, she married John Philipps, 1st Baron St Davids (created Viscount St Davids in 1918); they had two children.thePeerage.
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During the middle of the 19th century the British Slavery Abolition Act and the Slave Trade Act were enacted. The Hong Kong government did not impose any restriction on the transfer of girls as Mui Tsais before 1923, because this was treated as a family matter or traditional custom. Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon, fought for several decades to free the remaining Mui Tsai. In 1922 after press campaigns in Britain, Winston Churchill, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, pledged that the Mui Tsai system in Hong Kong would be abolished within one year.
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Foljambe was born at Osberton Hall, near Worksop, Nottinghamshire on 9 April 1830. He was the eldest son and heir of George Savile Foljambe and Harriet Emily Mary Milner (a daughter of Sir William Milner, 4th Baronet). After his mother's death, his father remarried to Selina, Viscountess Milton, widow of William Charles FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton (son of the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam) and daughter of Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool. From this marriage, he had a younger half- brother, fellow Liberal politician Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool, and a step-sister, Hon.
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Henry Noel Waldegrave, 11th Earl Waldegrave (14 October 1854 - 30 December 1936) was a British peer and minister of religion. Waldegrave was born in 1854, the posthumous son of William Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton (the eldest son of William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave) and his wife Frances Waldegrave, Viscountess Chewton. He was educated at Eton and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1878. He then entered the ministry and was rector of Stoke d'Abernon from 1890-98, Marston Bigot from 1905-12 and some time for Orchardleigh and Lullington.
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He trained as a lawyer. But when he contracted tuberculosis, he travelled in Europe in hopes of finding a cure, and in Avignon met John Stuart Mill and through him Viscount Amberley (son of the former British prime minister Lord John Russell, by then 1st Earl Russell). He became tutor to Viscount Amberley's children, including perhaps the young Bertrand Russell, and also carried on an intermittent affair with Viscountess Amberley. After the Lord Amberley's death in 1876, Spalding returned to the continent and remained there until his death the following year.
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Virginia Episcopal School's early benefactor, Viscountess Astor, the first female member of British Parliament, donated much of the school's initial endowment while visiting her family home, Mirador, in Albemarle County. Lady Astor maintained a keen interest in the school for the rest of her life and was instrumental in having her father Chiswell Langhorne donate the school chapel in memory of his wife Nancy Witcher Keene (parents of Lady Astor). and Accompanying photo Virginia Episcopal School opened its doors to students in September 1916. Jett Hall was completed the same year under the direction of Frederick H. Brooke, a prominent Washington architect.
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On the abdication of Viscountess Ermengard in 1192, her nephew and heir, Pedro Manrique de Lara, a nobleman from Castile, travelled to Narbonne to receive the viscounty and then bestow it on his second son, Aimery, along with the suzerainty over the Viscount of Béziers (1194). Only the castle of Montpesat and its vicinity was reserved for Pedro as a foothold north of the Pyrenees. Aimery immediately recognised the suzerainty of Count Raymond V of Toulouse and received the homage of his own vassals.Antonio Sánchez de Mora, La nobleza castellana en la plena Edad Media: el linaje de Lara (SS.
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Charlotte de Beaune Semblançay, Viscountess of Tours, Baroness de Sauve, Marquise de Noirmoutier (26 October 1551 – 30 September 1617)1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was a French noblewoman and a mistress of King Henry of Navarre, who later ruled as King Henry IV of France. She was a member of Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici's notorious "Flying Squadron" (L'escadron volant in French), a group of beautiful female spies and informants recruited to seduce important men at Court, and thereby extract information to pass on to the Queen Mother.Strage, Mark (1976). Women of Power: The Life and Times of Catherine de Medici.
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Thus it was ideologically allied with the Open Door Council, rather than National Council. It also lobbied at an international level, such as the League of Nations, and continued its work till 1983. In retrospect both ideological groups were influential in advancing women's rights in their own way. Despite women being admitted to the House of Commons from 1918, Mackworth, a Viscountess in her own right, spent a lifetime fighting to take her seat in the House of Lords against bitter opposition, a battle which only achieved its goal in the year of her death (1958).
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Dating from the late Iron Age, there is on the "Roc de Carla" a modest oppidum. Extraction of Iron Ore was being done in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The Romans named the place ALBARES probably because of the silver poplar leaves they found in the vicinity of the present village. In a deed from the year 963 concerning donations from the nearby village of Fontjoncouse at Aymeric, the Archbishop of Narbonne, wrote the words VILLA ALBARES (ALBAS). In 1196, the Viscountess Ermengarde of Narbonne donated in her will the castrum or "fortified place" of ALBAS to a military order.
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Richard Smith had served as chaplain to Viscountess Montague, wife of Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, at Battle Abbey in Sussex, from 1603 to 1609, when he left to go to Paris to study and write at Arras College. Smith was appointed Apostolic Vicar for the whole of England, Wales and Scotland in 1625, the same year that George Leyburn went to Arras. When Smith returned to England, he stayed in Turvey, Bedfordshire, at the house of Lord Montagu. In 1628 a warrant was issued for his arrest. He resigned his post in 1631, when he fled to Paris.
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On the death of her niece Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle (1505–1519), the daughter of her brother John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle (1481–1504) by his wife Muriel Howard, the barony of Lisle passed to Elizabeth, who thereby became suo jure Baroness Lisle. Her husband Arthur Plantagenet was created Viscount Lisle on 25 April 1523. He continued to hold the title after her death in 1525 or 1526. After Arthur Plantagenet's death in 1542, Henry VIII granted the viscountcy to Elizabeth Grey's eldest son by her first marriage, John Dudley, 1st Viscount Lisle, "by the right of his mother".
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Thus, the future Viscountess Vane grew up in a family plagued by financial problems and could expect little or no dowry. Described as the best minuet dancer in England, she was good-looking and vivacious enough to attract the attention of the 4th Duke of Hamilton's second son, Lord William Hamilton. Her father tried to prevent their relationship, but the couple eloped in May 1733, and Frances Hawes became known as Lady William Hamilton. The couple hurried to consummate the marriage to make it legally binding, fearing that her father might try to have it annulled.
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Charlotte Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Viscountess Newcomen (died 16 May 1817), née Newcomen, was an Anglo-Irish peeress. She was the only child and heiress of Edward Newcomen, a landowner and relation of the Newcomen baronets. On 17 October 1772 she married William Gleadowe, who was later a Member of Parliament and was made a baronet in 1781. On 29 July 1800 Charlotte was created Baroness Newcomen in the Peerage of Ireland in her own right; the title was created in honour of her husband, but in such a way that would enable him to sit in the House of Commons.
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Guillaume IV de Melun was the son of Jean II (Viscount) de Melun and Jeanne Crespin, married by contract signed on 4 September 1389 and celebrated on 21 January 1390 to Jeanne de Parthenay Larchevêque, who gave him a child named Marguerite de Melun, Viscountess of Tancarville. In 1393 he was sent to England to establish a peace treaty until the recovery of King Charles VI's health. In 1396 he went to Italy to take possession of the Republic of Genoa, which had been given to the king. He went to Florence and Cyprus to enter into treaties of alliance.
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Frances "Fanny" Nelson, Viscountess Nelson, née Frances Herbert Woolward (17584 May 1831), is best known as the wife of Horatio Nelson, the British naval officer who won several victories over the French during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Born of wealthy parents on Nevis, she was orphaned at a fairly young age, and married a doctor, Josiah Nisbet. The couple returned to England, but her new husband died there, and Frances returned to Nevis to live with her uncle, a prominent politician of the island. There she met Horatio Nelson, and married him in 1787.
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See Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 1912 (online version, with some OCR errors) and Leo Van Der Pas: Descendants of King Henry VIII of England: XI-212 (X-103-1) for full details.-1 September 1999, aged 87Michael Rhodes " Births,Marriages,Deaths, Earls Families, 1999" alt.talk.royalty, 14 November 2001.), died as Helena, Viscountess Maitland; she married 1936 Ivor Colin, Viscount Maitland, (29 August 1915 – 18 January 1943), killed in action in North Africa, aged 27, only son and heir of Ian Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale and had issue three daughters, of whom the eldest Mary Helena married the 4th Baron Biddulph.
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Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn, VA (née Cowper; 1820 – 26 March 1880) was a British courtier and amateur photographer. She was born as the youngest daughter of Peter Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper and his wife Emily Lamb. However, some have speculated that she and her brother William were fathered by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, whom Lady Cowper married in 1839, after Cowper's death. Before her marriage, Lady Frances served as one of the trainbearers at the coronation of Queen Victoria, and she also served as a bridesmaid at the wedding of the queen to Prince Albert in 1840.
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Bathe's father died in March 1870, and this removed the final objection to his marrying Charlotte Clare, with whom he had been living for about thirteen years out of wedlock. They had seven children before the wedding, and in February 1928 four of these children submitted a petition to the High Court of Justice for declarations of legitimacy under the Legitimacy Act, 1926. They were Viscountess Burnham, Lady Somerleyton, Mrs Winifred McCalmont and Maximilian John de Bathe. The 90-year-old Dowager, Lady de Bathe, confirmed the facts in an affidavit, and the petition was granted.
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It contains a collection of memorabilia including family portraits, Disraeli's own furnishings, a library including a collection of Disraeli's novels and one written and signed by Queen Victoria along with many of the books he inherited from his father, Isaac D'Israeli. The park and woodlands total almost . The formal garden which was designed by Lady Beaconsfield (Queen Victoria created Mary Anne a Viscountess in her own right in 1868), has been restored to a similar condition to when occupied by the Disraelis. The long terrace at the rear of the house is decorated with Florentine vases.
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The position was due to Viscountess Stansgate who had managed to overcome objections from the Bishop of London that a vicar's wife could not of split loyalties. By the November she had her own church loyalties as part-time minister in Richmond. In 1950 she became a producer for the BBC of a short radio programme called "Lift Up Your Hearts" which gave a religious view to each day and it still continues as BBC Radio 4's "Thought for the Day". In 1956 she became the first woman to chair the Congregational Union of England and Wales.
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William VI, lord of Montpellier, who also took part in the siege of Almería; Bernard of Anduze, husband of Ermengarde, viscountess of Narbonne; Roger Trencavel, count of Carcassonne and viscount of Béziers; and Peter of Gabarret, viscount of Béarn, all participated in the siege of Tortosa. William VI was accompanied by his son, the future William VII, to whom he had already promised his share of the city after its conquest. On 5 October 1146, Pope Eugenius III issued the bull Divina dispensatione I encouraging Italian participation in the Second Crusade. A second bull, Divina dispensatione II, was issued on 13 April 1147.
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Women were formerly excluded from the House of Lords, as well as from other public positions. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 provided that "A person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of any public function." In 1922, the Viscountess Rhondda, a peeress suo jure, claimed a seat in the House on the grounds that sitting in Parliament constituted the exercise of a public function. At first, the matter was referred to the Law Lords, who were unanimously of the opinion that women were qualified to sit in the House by virtue of the act.
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Nagle v. Feilden [1966] 2 QB 633, [1966] 1 All E.R. 689, 700. See Bennion (1979) for discussion. The one significant ruling as to the extent of the Act was not in a court of law, but rather in the House of Lords, where the Committee for Privileges was asked by Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda to rule if the Act's provisions for exercising "any public function" extended to permitting a woman to sit in the House as a peeress in her own right.Viscountess Rhondda's Claim [1922] 2 AC 339. After some debate, it was held 22-4 that it did not.
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It took until 1929 for Wales to return its first female MP, Megan Lloyd George, the youngest daughter of the former Prime Minister. In 1921 Margaret Mackworth, now the second Viscountess Rhondda, launched the Six Point Group, an action group that focused heavily on the equality between men and women and the rights of the child. Mackworth continued to strive towards equality for women and emerged as one of the leading feminist campaigners in Britain during the inter-war period. She established a number of women's organisations, pressure groups and launched the influential feminist journal Time and Tide.
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Alice Abadam, Welsh suffragette and activist Due to her family connections and high-profile militant action, Margaret Mackworth, the 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, is probably the most well- known Welsh suffragette. Her mother Sybil Thomas and Merthyr Ironmaster's wife, Rose Mary Crawshay, were both well connected suffragists whose work is well documented. Millicent Mackenzie and to a lesser extent Amy Dillwyn are remembered more for connections outside the sphere of women's suffrage, but were both important Welsh activists for the cause. The majority of suffragists either working in Wales or Welsh suffragists who were active outside the country are many but poorly documented.
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In the 1670s, Tunbridge Wells had few permanent structures when it started to receive visits from members of the English Royal Family. The church was built on land belonging to Viscountess Purbeck as a chapel of ease for those visiting The Pantiles and was opened in 1676 after being constructed by Thomas Neale. It was dedicated to King Charles the Martyr: the cult of Charles I, who was executed in 1649 and whose son Charles II had been restored in 1660. While it was a chapel of ease, it served the parishes of Frant, Speldhurst and Tonbridge.
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His grandfather John Basset (1518–1541) had married Frances Plantagenet, the daughter and co-heiress of his step-father Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (died 1542), bastard son of King Edward IV. Sir Robert Basset was thus a great-grandson of Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle on his paternal grandmother's side. On his paternal grandfather's side Robert Basset was a great-grandson of Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (c.1493/5–1566), née Honor Grenville (the second wife of Sir John Basset (1462–1528) of Umberleigh) who married secondly (as his second wife) the aforementioned Arthur Plantagenet.
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Hugues I (died 10 June 1026), Viscount of Châteaudun and Archbishop of Tours, son of Hugues, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Hildegarde, Viscountess of Châteaudun. As deacon of the Cathedral of Tours, Hugues approved the construction of the Abbey of Bourgeuil near the castle of Château de Chinon. The abbey was founded by Emma, wife of William IV of Aquitaine, on land donated by her father Theobald I, Count of Blois. In 1008, after the death of Archambaud de Sully, he was elected Archbishop of Tours with the support of his allies Odo II, Count of Blois, and Robert II the Pious.
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TSS St David was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead as one of a pair of new passenger vessels, the other being TSS St Andrew, and launched on 10 December 1931 by Viscountess Churchill, wife of the chairman of the Great Western Railway. She was set to work on the Fishguard to Rosslare service in replacement of her namesake St David of 1906. She was requisitioned during the Second World War, and served as a hospital ship. She took part in the Dunkirk Evacuation, but was sunk on 24 January 1944 in the Mediterranean Sea off Anzio, Lazio, Italy.
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After the Great War, when some women were granted the vote, and women could stand for parliament, she stood as an Independent parliamentary candidate at Brentford and Chiswick on the General Elections in 1918, 1922 and 1923, without success. She rejected the attempt by Eleanor Rathbone to establish a broad-based feminist programme in the 1920s. In 1931 she became parliamentary secretary to Britain's first woman MP to take her seat, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, and in 1935 Strachey became the head of the Women's Employment Federation. She also made regular radio broadcasts for the BBC.
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Two minutes later, the visiting clergy participating in the service, such as the then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, processed along the centre aisle of the Abbey. The Queen left Buckingham Palace in the royal Rolls Royce at 11:12 am, arriving with her entourage at the Great West Door four minutes later. She and others, including Lady Sarah and Daniel Chatto, Zara Phillips, Timothy Laurence, Viscountess Linley, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie then walked down the Centre Aisle to their seats in the Lantern. The funeral service began at 11:30 am, lasting about 50 minutes.
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Lisa Lyttelton, Dowager Viscountess Cobham (born 30 December 1958 as Lisa Clayton) is the first British woman to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world. She was educated in Birmingham at the Church of England School for Girls, Edgbaston, and the University of Birmingham. On 17 September 1994 Clayton set out to attempt two world records, namely "Fastest Sail Around the World by a Woman, Single-Handed Without Assistance" and "First British Woman to Sail Single-Handed and Non-Stop Around the World." She returned on 29 June 1995, after 285 days at sea.
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Vernon entered public life in 1831, as Member of Parliament for Derbyshire. As a result of the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832 (which Vernon supported) the parliamentary seat for Derbyshire was divided in two, and he became MP for the southern part. He continued in the House of Commons until 1835, when he succeeded his father as Baron Vernon and entered the House of Lords. In 1837, he exchanged his patronymic surname Venables-Vernon for that of Warren, in compliance with the will of Viscountess Bulkeley, but his children born before 1839 retained their original surname.
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Hubert, was the son of Raoul V de Beaumont and Emma de Montreveau.Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1989), Tafel 687 He held several Viscounties, including that of Sainte-Suzanne, of Lude, of Maine, of Manceaux, and of Mans. During the lifetime of his father's second wife, Cana, he claimed to be her son, and always referred to her as "Viscountess". Moved by the cause of the Count of Anjou and Maine, he played a significant role in the battle between his liege lords and William the Conqueror.
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Several elements of Viscountess Astor's life influenced her first campaign, but she became a candidate after her husband succeeded to the peerage and House of Lords. He had enjoyed a promising political career for several years before World War I in the House of Commons; after his father's death, he succeeded to his father's peerage as the 2nd Viscount Astor. He automatically became a member of the House of Lords and consequently had to forfeit his seat of Plymouth Sutton in the House of Commons. With this change, Lady Astor decided to contest the by-election for the vacant Parliamentary seat.
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Byron's confidante and close friend was William Lamb's own mother, the colourful Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne. Lady Melbourne had been instrumental in bringing about the politically advantageous marriage of her son to Lady Caroline, despite disliking both her and her mother. However, once Lady Caroline began her affair with Byron, her mother-in-law began a long and blatant campaign to rid her son of his wife; as Lord David Cecil remarks, she had long since concluded that Caroline deserved all her misfortunes. William Lamb refused to submit and regretted that his mother had conspired against his wife with Byron.
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According to some accounts, Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, was so mortified by Cleghorn's style that she donated the Lady Byng Trophy to the NHL in 1924 in a bid to encourage more sportsmanlike play. Cleghorn's physicality made him a feared defender away from the puck and he was regarded as one of his era's top defencemen. His ability to rush the puck forward also made him a scoring threat; Cleghorn was one of hockey's first offensive defencemen. He once scored five goals in an NHA game in 1913, and had a career best 21 goals in 19 games in 1914–15.
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His sister Anne was a noted writer who married Sir William Twysden and his sister Catherine married Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet of Gosfield. He was the second to be named after his maternal grandfather, and godparent, Sir Thomas Heneage, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. His paternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Finch, the prominent military commander. After his father's death in 1614, his mother, Lady Finch, was elevated to the peerage in her own right as Viscountess Winchilsea in 1623 and was further honoured when she was made Countess of Winchilsea in 1628.
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Her twin sister Frances (1672–1715) married Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby. Her brothers, Edward (1675–1678) and Arthur, died young. Her own grandmother, Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, was a female scientist, a political and religious philosopher, and a member of many intellectual circles including the Hartlib Circle, the Great Tew Circle, and the Invisible College. In 1695 John Norris, philosopher, dedicated Letters Concerning the Love of God to Lady Catherine; the letters were exchanged between Norris and Mary Astell. At the death of her father in 1711, Lady Catherine inherited Ranelagh House, built by her father adjoining the Royal Hospital at Chelsea.
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Around this time Fowler wed John Callin Pemberton, the son of the actress Amy Sedgwick. She had never divorced her husband, however, and the marriage ended in 1879 on the grounds of illegality. At the Queen's Theatre in 1876, she was Princess Katherine in Henry V. This was followed by a season at the St James's Theatre. In 1878, she played the title role in W. G. Wills's Nell Gwynne under her own management at the Royalty, and the Viscountess Lidesdale in Scandal at the same theatre, followed by Perdita in A Winter's Tale at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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After all six of her arms are destroyed by the teamwork of Slaine and Inaho, she turns Hellas into a flying platform, only to be crushed by the giant battleship Deucalion powered by Asseylum. She is then finished off by Rayet. ; : :A Martian Knight with the rank of Viscountess and Saazbaum's late betrothed, who piloted the gigantic Kataphrakt Deucalion, that possessed anti-gravity powers. She died during Heaven's Fall when she and Saazbaum were sent to Tanegashima as an advance party and her anti-gravity device got damaged with the destruction of the Hyper Gate, urging Saazbaum to leave her behind.
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Edward's mother, Jane, the dowager Viscountess Galway, was buried in Brewood church in 1788, and so were Edward himself and Sophia in due course, and in 1840 Edward's younger sister Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery. Monckton took a leading part in county life from the outset, becoming a Justice of the Peace and an officer in the Staffordshire Yeomanry. The Somerford estate had been bought in 1734 for £5,400 by Robert Barbor, of the Inner Temple, and he had erected a substantial Georgian house. Barbor had also bought the manor of Coven in 1744 and joined it with Somerford.
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It is unknown when she returned to court, but she was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Jane Seymour, so she probably returned within a year of her husband's death. (Jane Seymour died soon after childbirth, within eighteen months of becoming Henry's wife.) As a viscountess, she was allowed to bring a number of her own servants with her, lodge in the palace, and be addressed as "Lady Rochford". Fine meals were provided for her every day from the budget of the queen's household. Following Jane Seymour's death, the King subsequently married Anne of Cleves, a German princess recommended by Cromwell.
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Coloma was the son of Juan Coloma, a knight in the Order of Santiago, and Doña Maria Fernadez, Lady of Bobadilla.Jean Charles Joseph de Vegiano, Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du comté de Bourgogne, edited by J.S.F.J.L. de Herckenrode, vol. 1, part 1 (Ghent, 1865), pp. 501-502. In 1585 he married Jeanne l'Escuyer, Viscountess of Dourlens, with whom he had three sons: Alexander, a captain of light cavalry, who succeeded him but died childless in 1625; Diego, who served as a gentleman in the household of Philip III of Spain; and Pierre, who continued the line.
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A few decades later, the married lady of the manor, Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, the daughter of Sir Edward Coke, had a love affair with Robert Howard, a member of parliament. The affair's discovery was received as a scandal upon the three people involved, and in 1635 Lady Frances was imprisoned for adultery. She later escaped from prison to France, and eventually returned and lived at Stoke Poges Manor for a time. She died at Oxford in 1645 at the court of King Charles I. Charles I himself was imprisoned at Stoke Poges Manor in 1647 before his execution.
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The Women's Billiards Association (WBA) was founded on 13 May 1931 at the Women's Automobile and Sports Association, Buckingham Palace Gardens, London, with the objective of controlling the amateur and professional championships for women, and promoting other tournaments and competitions. Viscountess Elibank was appointed president, Mrs Longworth was Chairman, and Teresa Billington-Greig, who had chaired this initial meeting, became acting honorary secretary. Miss Marx of Women's Sports and Automobile Association became honorary treasurer. Other council members appointed included Mrs Eddowes, runner-up in the previous year's amateur championship, Thelma Carpenter, and Lady Constance Childe-Pemberton.
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Their great- grandson, the fourteenth Baron, married Elizabeth Bayning, daughter of Paul Bayning, first Viscount Bayning of Sudbury, who in 1674 (after the title had become extinct) was created Viscountess Bayning for life. Their son, Thomas Lennard, 15th Baron Dacre, was created Earl of Sussex in 1674. However, his earldom became extinct on his death in 1715, while the barony of Dacre fell into abeyance between his two daughters the Hon. Barbara and the Hon. Anne. Barbara died childless in 1741 and the abeyance was terminated the same year in favour of Anne, the 16th Baroness.
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Portrayed by Hannah Gordon, Virginia, Viscountess Bellamy of Haversham (formerly Virginia Hamilton) is the widow of Naval Officer Charles Hamilton (killed during World War I when sank in 1914). She meets Richard when she asks for help to establish a fund for the children of naval officers killed in battle, and they initially dislike each other. Virginia returns about a year later, when her seventeen-year-old son Michael (who is at that time serving as a midshipman aboard a British Navy Coastal Patrol Boat) is court-martialled for cowardice. At Hazel's urging, Richard asks family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon to help.
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The main staircase of to the college The former-college is located in an urban context, addorssing the Avenida da Boavista (to the south) and the Rua de Pedro Hispanoto the north). to the east of the avenue are other palacettes, among them the former-residence of the Viscountess of Lobõo (already classified). To the west are larger buildings, most modern, including the Hotel Meridien. The building is sited on an elevated plateau relative the Avenida da Boavista taking the form of a trapezoid, with the rear of the building limited by high, granite wall supporting the terrain.
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The D-Day Dodgers were Allied servicemen who fought in Italy during the Second World War. The D-Day Dodgers also inspired a popular wartime soldier's song (Roud Folk Song Index no. 10499). A rumour spread during the war that the term was publicized by Viscountess Astor, a Member of the British Parliament, who supposedly used the expression in public after a disillusioned serviceman in Italy signed a letter to her as being from a "D-Day Dodger". However, there is no record that she actually said this, in or out of Parliament, and she herself denied ever saying it.
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Jeanne was born in about 1195, the eldest daughter of Guillaume des Roches, Seneschal of Anjou and one of the greatest barons in Anjou and Maine. Her mother was Marguerite de Sablé, Dame de Sablé who had brought the rich Sablé barony to her husband. Jeanne had a brother Robert, who died in 1204, and a younger sister Clémence, Viscountess de Chateaudun (died after September 1259). Her paternal grandparents were Baudoin des Roches and Alix de Châtellerault, and her maternal grandparents were Robert de Sablé and Clémence de Mayenne, daughter of Geoffroy, Sire de Mayenne and Isabelle de Meulan.
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Lees-Milne was friends with many of the prominent British intellectual and social figures of his day, including Nancy Mitford, Harold Nicolson, Diana Mitford (a former lover about whom he wrote a two-volume biography), Clementine Hudson (the Banbury aristocrat), Levi Schmeevi and Cyril Connolly. In 1951, he married Alvilde, Viscountess Chaplin, née Bridges, a prominent gardening and landscape expert. Both Lees-Milne and Alvilde were bisexual, and Alvilde is reputed to have had lesbian affairs with Vita Sackville-West, Winnaretta Singer and others.Review of Diaries, 1971–1983 by James Lees-Milne, Sunday Express Retrieved 18 November 2007.
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In 1299 the Morwic lands were co- held by de Bulmer, de Lumley, and de Waterville heirs. Later names of heirs were de Kelleby, Bek. and le Brabazon, and by 1346 William Curzon whose family thereafter appears as the only considerable landowners at Pickwell itself and the family continued to hold the manor which appears to be the main estate, until 1532, when Thomas Curzon sold his lands in the parish, then described as the manors of Pickwell and Leesthorpe, to Richard Cave. The manor was held by the Caves until sold in 1638 by William Cave to Elizabeth Hicks, Viscountess Camden.
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In 1290 when her father died, Margaret inherited substantial assets and was named the ruler and Viscountess of Béarn (a responsibility she shared with her husband), and she held that post until 1310 when she succeeded her sister Constance (who had, in turn, succeeded their mother) as Countess of Bigorre. She held that title until her death. Béarn was not a straightforward succession. In his will, Margaret's father Gaston VII, first declared that Margaret was to be his heir, which was generally accepted, though not by her sister Mathe and her husband Gerard VI of Armagnac.
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Lady Simon on 17 February 1920 Kathleen Rochard Simon, Viscountess Simon, DBE (formerly Manning, née Harvey; 23 September 1869 – 27 March 1955) was a British slavery abolitionist. She was inspired to research slavery after living in Tennessee with her first husband, and she joined the abolitionist movement when she returned to London after his death. With her second husband, Sir John Simon, she campaigned against all forms of servitude. Travelling and speaking throughout her life, she was renowned for her commitment to ending slavery and racial discrimination, and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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He was educated at Eton College in 1779 and Oriel College, Oxford, in 1784. Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson, Thomas William Anson, Anne Margaret Anson, and George Anson, as Children, Shugborough Hall, National Trust On his father's death in 1789, Thomas Anson succeeded him as member of parliament for Lichfield, which he represented until 17 February 1806, when he was succeeded by his brother, George. On leaving the House ofCommons on 17 February 1806, Anson was created Viscount Anson, of Shugborough and Orgrave, Co. Stafford, and Baron Soberton, of Soberton, Co. Southampton, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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Saunders was still at the mill in 1855 when it was sold by Lady Selina Charlotte, Viscountess Milton to George Gatty. At that time the mill had an diameter overshot waterwheel driving two pairs of millstones. John Tully Coomber had joined Saunders by 1858, working the mill until at least 1861. George Gatty died in 1864 and the mill passed to his son Charles Henry Gatty. Robert Bartley was the miller in 1869, working the mill until at least 1871 and then Sydney Killick was the miller in 1881, followed by Thomas Colvin who was there in 1891.
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The Lisle Papers are the correspondence received in Calais between 1533 and 1540 by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (c.1480-1542), Lord Deputy of Calais, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV and an uncle of King Henry VIII, and by his wife, Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (born Honor Grenville and formerly the wife of Sir John Bassett (d.1529) of Umberleigh in Devon), from several servants, courtiers, royal officials, friends, children and other relatives. They are an important source of information on domestic life in the Tudor age and of life at the court of Henry VIII.
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Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray GBE (née Cass; 4 June 1860 – 15 April 1932) was an English society hostess, suffragist and philanthropist. She was nicknamed the Fairy Godmother of Nursing due to her financial patronage of the Royal College of Nursing and her work to promote district nursing throughout England and Scotland. She served as the President of the Women's Liberal Federation from 1921 until 1923 and was also the Honorary Treasurer of the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union. She was the only woman to hold the office of High Steward of Colchester, serving from 1927 until her death in 1932.
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Parsons was openly living on the duke's estates and meanwhile, the Duke became Secretary of State in 1765. Parsons was entertaining his guests and they reported on her informed conversation. In 1767 the Duke became first minister and she had the influence, if not the position, of a First Lady in her country. Richard Rigby used her influence to turn opinions against the Duke's wife. There was further gossip when the Duchess of Grafton become pregnant by her lover, the Earl of Upper Ossory, she and the Duke were divorced by Act of Parliament on the 23 March 1769.Peter Durrant, ‘FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, third duke of Grafton (1735–1811)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2008 accessed 14 February 2017 Parsons may have become the First Minister's wife had he not discovered that Parsons was having an affair with John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset.A. A. Hanham, ‘Parsons, Anne [Nancy] married name Anne Maynard, Viscountess Maynard] (c.1735–1814/15)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2005 accessed 14 February 2017 Mrs. Horton, Later Viscountess Maynard by Joshua Reynolds Three months later, on 24 June 1769, the Duke married Elizabeth Wrottesley (1 November 174525 May 1822), daughter of the Reverend Sir Richard Wrottesley, Dean of Worcester.
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Their meetings were allegedly arranged by one of Catherine's older ladies-in-waiting, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (Lady Rochford), the widow of Catherine's executed cousin, George Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's brother. During the autumn Northern Progress, a crisis over Catherine's conduct began to loom. People who claimed to have witnessed her earlier sexual behaviour while she was still a ward at Lambeth reportedly contacted her for favours in return for their silence, and some of these blackmailers may have been appointed to her royal household. John Lascelles, the brother of Mary Lascelles, claimed that he had tried to persuade his sister to find a place within the Queen's royal chamber.
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The extension to the sixth form and science blocks was officially opened by Nigel Twiston-Davies in April 2009. The new £1.5 million sports hall, with changing rooms and a community room alongside, first opened in November 2009; it was officially opened by the former England cricket captain Mike Gatting in July 2010. The mathematics block was officially opened by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP and Mavis, Viscountess Dunrossil as part of the school's 25th anniversary celebrations during the academic year 2013/2014. During the building of the extensions, it was discovered that the school is situated on a Roman cemetery which was found to also contain Iron Age graves.
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Villiers was knighted on 30 June 1616, and in the same year became Groom of the Bedchamber and Master of the Robes to James I. At the same time negotiations were begun by his mother for his marriage with a rich heiress. The lady selected was Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (1599–1645), the daughter of Sir Edward Coke by his second wife, Lady Hatton,She retained the name Hatton after her marriage to Sir Edward Coke. daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and widow of Sir William Hatton. Coke was required to give his consent, and to pay a marriage portion of £10,000.
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Letter written by George Rolle to Lady Lisle dated 28 February 1539, Lisle Letters, National Archives At some time shortly before 1500 the overlordship had been inherited, with Umberleigh, Heanton Punchardon and many other estates, by the Basset family of Whitechapel, Devon, and Tehidy, Cornwall, co-heirs of the Beaumonts. The Bassets made great efforts to recover the lease from the Coffin family, which struggle is mentioned in the Lisle Papers. The legal dispute forms the subject of a surviving holograph letter dated 28 February 1539 written by the North Devon lawyer George Rolle (died 1552) to Viscountess Lisle (formerly Lady Basset):Byrne, vol.5, letter 1359, pp.
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Portrait of Isabella, Viscountess Irwin, c. 1685–90, by John Closterman, see at Art UK, Leeds Museums and Galleries/Bridgeman images. Isabella's dates are incorrectly given as 1688–1721. (This reinforced older Machell connections with the Rich family.) Her nine sons, heirs to the viscountcy, were born between 1686 and 1701.H.W. Forsyth Harwood, 'Ingram, Viscount Irvine', in J. Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908), V (1908), pp. 9-20. In 1691 Machell's second daughter Caecilia Maria married John Parsons at All Hallows- on-the-Wall, and they had a daughter Helena.
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The first woman elected to the House of Commons was Constance Markievicz who was elected on 14 December 1918 to the constituency of Dublin St Patrick's, but she refused to take her seat as she was a member of Sinn Féin. The first woman to take her seat as an MP was Conservative Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, elected 28 November 1919. The first female MP to become a cabinet minister was Margaret Bondfield who was appointed Minister of Labour in 1929. The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was Margaret Thatcher who served as PM from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
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Upon their marriage she became Mabel, Viscountess Exmouth. The couple sailed to England on 22 August 1923 so that Pellew could claim his seat in the House of Lords. Upon arriving in England, he notified the English authorities that he intended to become a British subject again and take his seat in the Lords. News accounts in 1923 stated it was necessary for him to reside in England for five years to become a British subject before he could take his seat with the rest of the Lords; however, it was not until 1931 that he was finally able to sit in that chamber.
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Their petition to court stated that Bacon had tricked Underhill "who was an almost totally deaf man, and by reason of the weakness of his eyes and the infirmity in his head, could not read writings of that nature without much pain," to sign a paper not knowing what it contained. In 1639, Viscountess St Albans and Sir John Underhill became estranged, and began to live separately. In a later lawsuit, after her death, Underhill blamed Robert Tyrrell, or Turrell, their manservant, for this alienation of affections. In her will of 1642, she left half her property to Turrell, and other property to her nephew, Stephen Soames.
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Rose Rosenberg, CBE (1 September 1892 – 13 April 1966) was a Jewish English woman who served as the private secretary for statesman Ramsay MacDonald from 1923 to 1935. Prior to her employment with MacDonald, she worked in the National Council for Civil Liberties with those opposed to conscription and was the personal assistant of suffragette, Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda. She was known for her ability to keep secrets, monitoring those who wished to engage with MacDonald, and earned the nickname "Miss Rose of No. 10" from the international press. She was honored as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1930.
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The grave of William Whitelaw During his retirement and until his death, Lord Whitelaw was the chairman of the board of Governors at St Bees School, Cumbria. He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1990. He formally resigned as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party in 1991; a farewell dinner was held in his honour on 7 August 1991. He died of natural causes, aged 81, in July 1999, survived by his wife of 56 years, Celia, Viscountess Whitelaw (1 January 1917 – 5 December 2011), a philanthropist/charity worker and horticulturist who had been an ATS volunteer during the Second World War.
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Robert Hunter Hercules Rowley, 2nd Viscount Langford (29 October 1737 – 24 March 1796), styled The Honourable Hercules Rowley between 1766 and 1791, was an Irish politician. Rowley was the son of Hercules Rowley and Elizabeth Upton, 1st Viscountess Langford.thepeerage.com Hercules Rowley Rowley He was returned to the Irish House of Commons for both County Antrim and Downpatrick in 1783, but chose to sit for Antrim, a seat he held until 1791 when he succeeded his mother in the viscountcy and entered the Irish House of Lords. He was also elected for Longford Borough in 1783 and 1790, but again chose to sit for Antrim.
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Arnaud de Lévézou (died 30 September 1149), son of Aicfred of Lévézou (Rouergue) and of Arsinde de Millau, was the scion of a powerful family who had fortified Lévézou in the preceding century. Arnaud was prior of the abbey of Cassan, bishop of Béziers (1095/6) and Archbishop of Narbonne (16 April 1121) and a papal legate. His cousin Richard de Millau (died 15 February 1121) preceded him as Archbishop of Narbonne. During the minority of the viscountess Ermengarde of Narbonne from 1134, Arnaud encouraged the regency of Alphonse I of Toulouse, who invaded Narbonne in 1139 with the support of the Archbishop, whom he made governor of Narbonne.
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The now orphaned Charles (age 6) and his sister Marie (age 3) were put in the care of their paternal grandmother, viscountess Clothilde de Foucauld, who died of a heart attack shortly afterwards. The children were then taken in by their maternal grandparents, colonel Beaudet de Morlet and his wife, who lived in Strasbourg. The colonel Beaudet de Morlet, alumnus of the École Polytechnique and engineering officer, provided his grandchildren with a very affectionate upbringing. Charles shall write of him : "My grandfather whose beautiful intelligence I admired, whose infinite tenderness surrounded my childhood and youth with an atmosphere of love, the warmth of which I still feel emotionally".
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Mavor's first book, Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, was published by Duke University Press in 1995. Pleasures Taken critically analyzes three Victorian era photograph collections, including photographs of young girls collected by Lewis Carroll, and argues that similarities in fantasies between Victorians and people of the present day make it difficult for current observers to see Victorian desires. While The Times Literary Supplement described her application of literary theory as "strained", it also noted that Mavor "intends to provoke, and she succeeds". Four years later Mavor's second book, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, was published by Duke University Press.
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They stayed in the United States for several months and met Lucretia Mott, after whom she named her daughter. She became president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society in 1870 and campaigned for equal pay for women and their education and acceptance into all professions. Following a suffrage meeting held in Hanover Square Rooms in 1870, the Countess Russell told her son that she appreciated the fact that his wife had not taken part in it. The relief was unwarranted; Viscountess Amberley spoke out at the Mechanics Institute at Stroud on 25 May, prompting Queen Victoria to exclaim that "Lady Amberley ought to get a good whipping".
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The Lady Evelyn River is a river in Nipissing, Sudbury and Timiskaming Districts, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, a former Viceregal Consort of Canada. The river begins at the confluence of the North and South Lady Evelyn Rivers and flows to its mouth at the Montreal River. It lies mostly in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, and mostly within Timiskaming District, with the exception of a short portion of the South Branch at its most southern stretch, which lies in northeastern Sudbury District, and of the southernmost tip of Lady Evelyn Lake, which lies in northwestern Nipissing District.
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She was christened twenty-five days later at Norfolk House, by The Bishop of Oxford, Thomas Secker — her godparents were The Margrave of Brandenburg- Ansbach (her first cousin once-removed by marriage; for whom The Lord Baltimore (Gentleman of the Bedchamber to her father) stood proxy), The Queen of Denmark (for whom Anne, Viscountess Irwin stood proxy) and the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha (her maternal aunt by marriage, for whom Lady Jane Hamilton stood proxy). Little is known of her short life other than a fragment preserved in the Letters of Walpole. She died on 4 September 1759 at Kew Palace, London and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
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George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, portrait in oil by Joshua Reynolds, 1774 - 1776 Lord Spencer was born at Wimbledon Park, London, the son of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, and his wife Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, daughter of Stephen Poyntz, and was baptised there on 16 October 1758. His godparents were King George II, the Earl Cowper (his grandmother's second husband) and his great-aunt the Dowager Viscountess Bateman. His sister Lady Georgiana Spencer married the Duke of Devonshire and became a famed Whig hostess. He was educated at Harrow School from 1770 to 1775 and he won the school's Silver Arrow (an archery prize) in 1771.
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In the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII, Culpeper was played by Robert Donat. In the 1970 BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, he was played by Ralph Bates, though Robin Sachs assumed the role in the subsequent 1972 film, Henry VIII and His Six Wives. In the Showtime television series The Tudors, Thomas Culpeper is portrayed by Torrance Coombs; in this series, he is characterized as a cruel, arrogant man whose interest in Catherine is purely sexual, his relationship with her is an outgrowth of a preexisting affair with Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (a detail that has no basis in history).
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The daughter, Jane, married George Wyatt of Allington Castle, Boxley, Kent, son of Sir Thomas Wyatt, whose rebellion Finch had been sent to quell in 1554. Finch's heir, Moyle, created a baronet 27 May 1611, married in 1574 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Heneage of Copt Hall, Essex ; inherited Eastwell on his mother's death in 1587 ; obtained a license to enclose one thousand acres of land there, and to embattle his house, 18 Jan. 1589, and died 14 December 1614. His widow was created, in consideration of her father's services, Viscountess Maidstone, 8 July 1623, and Countess of Winchilsea, 12 July 1628, both titles being granted with limitation to heirs male.
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Killigrew was born in Hanworth on 11 February 1613, the fifth and youngest son of Robert Killigrew and his wife Mary Woodhouse. He was the brother of the dramatist Thomas Killigrew and of Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon, mistress of the future Charles II. He was educated at Cripplegate, London and at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1632, M.A. 1638, D.D. 1642. He served as a chaplain in the army, and subsequently as chaplain to the Duke of York (the future James II), a canon of Westminster Abbey, and rector of Wheathampstead. At the Restoration, he was appointed almoner to the Duke of York, and Master of the Savoy in 1663.
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The couple's decision to remain in France was controversial because it was contrary to diplomatic protocol; their continuing popularity as social figures and hosts in Paris effectively made their home a rival British Embassy. She was a prominent guest at "Le Bal Oriental" hosted by Carlos de Beistegui at the Palazzo Labia in Venice in 1951. Known as the "Ball of the Century", Lady Diana dressed as Cleopatra and greeted her fellow guests, some 1,000 people, in a vestibule pageant. Duff Cooper was created Viscount Norwich in 1952, for services to the nation, but Lady Diana refused to be called Viscountess Norwich, claiming that it sounded like "porridge".
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He had long been known as a descriptive writer, since his publication of The Great Lone Land (1872) and other works and he was the biographer (1899) of Sir George Colley. He had started work on his autobiography a few years before his death but died before it was completed. His youngest daughter, Eileen, Viscountess Gormanston, completed the work and had it published in 1911. Eileen found among his papers a poem he had written, which began: Give me but six-foot-three (one inch to spare) Of Irish earth, and dig it anywhere; And for my poor soul say an Irish prayer Above the spot.
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Basset was the second daughter of Sir John Basset (1462–1528), KB, of Tehidy in Cornwall and Umberleigh in Devon (Sheriff of Cornwall in 1497, 1517 and 1522 and Sheriff of Devon in 1524) by his second wife, Honor Grenville (died 1566; later Viscountess Lisle), a daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, and lord of the manor of Bideford in North Devon, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and in 1486.Richard Polwhele, The Civil and Military History of Cornwall, volume 1, London, 1806, pp 106–9; Byrne, vol.1, p.302 states "1485", quoting Public Record Office, Lists & Indexes, vol.
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Both the governor-general and their spouse are entitled to the style "His/Her Excellency" during the governor-general's term of office, but not thereafter. The governor-general is entitled to the style "The Honourable" for life; this does not extend to the spouse. Except for Dame Quentin Bryce, all Australian governors-general have been male, and all spouses but her husband Michael Bryce have been female. No governor-general has been single throughout their term, but two spouses died during the governor-general's term: Jacqueline Sidney, Viscountess De L'Isle, wife of William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (1962); and Alison Kerr, Lady Kerr, wife of Sir John Kerr (1974).
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George Lascelles was born at his parents' London home of Chesterfield House on 7 February 1923, the first child of Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, and Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, and first grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, who stood as sponsors at his christening. The christening took place on 25 March 1923 at St Mary's Church in the village of Goldsborough, near Knaresborough adjoining the family home Goldsborough Hall. After his grandfather's death in 1929, he was styled as Viscount Lascelles as his father succeeded to the earldom. He served as a Page of Honour at the coronation of his uncle King George VI in May 1937.
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Morgan was born April 25, 1898, in Horgen, Switzerland, to Henry Hays Morgan Sr. (1860–1933), an American diplomat, who served as U.S. consul general at Buenos Aires, Argentina; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Havana, Cuba; and Brussels, Belgium. and his Peruvian born wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick (1877–1956). Morgan's father was the son of Louisiana planters, his mother was the daughter of U.S. Civil War General and diplomat Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. Morgan was raised primarily in Europe, one of four children including sisters Consuelo Morgan Thaw, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness and two half-sisters from his father's first marriage who remained in the United States.
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In the 1945 landslide general election, Middleton was elected Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, gaining the seat from the Conservatives, after the retirement of her predecessor Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. Middleton held Plymouth Sutton until 1951, when it was gained by another member of the Astor family, Jakie Astor. Lucy Middleton was an active member of Wimbledon Labour Party when the idea of publishing a book on the contribution of women to the labour movement was put forward as a way to celebrate International Women's Year. The Labour Party agreed to publish the book, and Lucy Middleton edited the essays of the 9 younger women she had invited to contribute.
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Born in Llerena on 22 April 1808, the only son of Luis Figueroa y Casaus (an afrancesado who moved to Marseille after May 1808 and made a considerable fortune investing in mining companies dedicated to lead extraction in Andalusia) and Luisa Mendieta. Ignacio would inherit his father's companies. He received an education in Paris, and, after working for a time as the representative of the interests of his father in Spain, he settled in Madrid in 1845. In 1852, he married Ana de Torres, viscountess of Irueste, forming a union between an affluent bourgeois—him—and an aristocrat in economic hardship, so he got to enter aristocratic circles.
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Gossner described her as "a terrific spirit on the set", and noted that Cardinale told the production team "legendary stories" about Marcello Mastroianni. In 2014, Cardinale portrayed a "sympathetic Italian chaperone" viscountess in the British period drama film Effie Gray, which was written by Emma Thompson and featured Dakota Fanning in the lead role. While promoting Effie Gray, in an interview Cardinale said: "I still continue to work, it's 142 movies now. Usually when you are old you don't work any more, but I still work, which is good.... I've been very lucky because I've had many fantastic directors with me, Fellini, Visconti, Blake Edwards, lots and lots...".
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In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after reading through the piece found it appropriate for a funeral/message of condolence." David Harkins Poetry. Retrieved 8 June 2015 The verse was used by the family of Margaret, the Dowager Viscountess De L'Isle - the grandmother of royal confidante Tiggy Legge-Bourke - for her funeral in February 2002.
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Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine Nicholas of Anjou (July 1448 - 27 July 1473) was the son of John II, Duke of Lorraine and Marie de Bourbon. Nicholas was born and died in Nancy. He succeeded his father in 1470 as Duke of Lorraine, and assumed the titles of Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson, Duke of Calabria, and Prince of Girona, as heir apparent of Bar, Naples, and Aragon respectively. He was engaged to Anne of France, Viscountess of Thouars, and used her title, but he did not marry her and had only one illegitimate daughter, Marguerite, wife of John IV of Chabannes, Count of Dammartin (d. 1503).
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During the Coronation, peers and peeresses put on coronets. Like their robes, their coronets are differentiated according to rank: the coronet of a duke or duchess is ornamented with eight strawberry leaves, that of a marquess or marchioness has four strawberry leaves alternating with four raised silver balls, that of an earl or countess eight strawberry leaves alternating with eight raised silver balls, that of a viscount or viscountess has sixteen smaller silver balls and that of a baron or baroness six silver balls. Peeresses' coronets are identical to those of peers, but smaller. In addition, peeresses were told in 1953 that "a tiara should be worn, if possible".
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Aerial photo of East Ginge Ginge Manor or Ginge Manor House is a manor house that became a Grade II listed building on 25 October 1951. It is the family seat of the Viscount Astor and is currently occupied by William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor and his wife Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor, who is the mother of Samantha Cameron, the wife of former British Prime Minister David Cameron. The estate includes a "magnificent manor" house and servant quarters, which is a "humble" three bedroom cottage, amongst several other features including several barns and old farm cottages. Several of the barns in the area have been converted into residences.
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Celia, Viscountess Whitelaw (1 January 1917 – 5 December 2011) was the wife of William “Willie” Whitelaw, MP, former Home Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and aide to Margaret Thatcher. Born as Cecilia Doriel Sprot (she later changed her name to Celia) at her family home, Riddell Estate near Melrose, to Major Mark Sprot of the Scots Guards and his wife, Meliora (née Hay),Profile at ThePeerage.com she attended school at the now defunct Oxenfoord Castle boarding school in Midlothian. During World War II, she volunteered to serve with the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and was posted to Edinburgh Castle as a clerk with the Scottish Command.
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Between 1897 and 1898 there were 731 registered guests to the thermal spa. On 3 July 1898, the Ministry of Public Works ratified the concession attributed to Santos, Sobral & Co., providing the company with all the rights to explore the spring in perpetuity. On 24 September, the prices were set at the spa, and the following year (14 September 1899), the company began to explore new springs, owing to the movement of visitors to the site, and consumption of the mineral waters. This influx caused a conflict between the company and the Viscountess of Peso, the adjacent property owner, and with whom the Santos, Sobral & Co. wished to expand their explorations.
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In the years since, a sizeable number of historic and special items that used to be kept in the Library have been transferred to the Archives, where the storage conditions are more suitable for them; the death warrant of Charles I is the most notable example. The Library's own archives are now also stored in the Victoria Tower. During the final years of Clay's tenure, the Library acquired a valuable gift in the shape of the Viscountess D'Abernon's bequest of 140 historic volumes from her own private library, including works dating back to the early 16th century. The D'Abernon gift arrived in 1954; two years later, Clay retired and was replaced by Christopher Dobson.
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Gaesbeecq was one of the most important dominiums, including the famous Gaasbeek Castle, that the family possessed for several generations. Philippe de Hornes, Baron of Bassignies, sold Gaesbeecq in 1565 to Lamoral d'Egmont, Prince of Gavre. In 1615, Sabina d'Egmont sold Gaesbeecq to René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée. Arnold II of Hornes, Lord of Gaesbeecq (1460-1505): married to Marguerite de Montmorency ##Maximilian de Hornes, Baron of Gaesbeecq; Hereditary Marshal of Hainaut: married to Barbe de Montfort ##Maximilian de Hornes, Baron of Gaesbeecq; Hereditary Marshal of Hainaut: married to Barbe de Montfort ###Martin de Hornes, Baron of Gaesbeecq ###Martin de Hornes, Baron of Gaesbeecq: married to Anne de Croÿ, Viscountess of Furnes.
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Earl of Wicklow was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1793 for Alice Howard, Dowager Viscountess Wicklow. Born Alice Forward, she was the daughter of William Forward, Member of the Irish House of Commons for the County Donegal constituency, and the widow of Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow. The latter was the son of the Right Reverend Robert Howard, Lord Bishop of Elphin, and represented the County Wicklow constituency in the Irish Parliament. In 1776 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Clonmore, of Clonmore in the County of Carlow, and in 1785 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Wicklow, also in the Peerage of Ireland.
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Portrait of the Viscountess of Meneses (1862) In 1853, following the death of his father, he became the 2nd Viscount of Meneses (the title was renewed by royal decree on 14 December 1853). On 8 May 1858, he married Carlota Emília de Mac-Mahon Pereira Guimarães, the daughter of Francisco Pereira Guimarães, a judge in the Supreme Council of Military Justice (Supremo Conselho de Justiça Militar). In 1860, he was a founding member and vice-president of the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (Sociedade Promotora de Belas Artes). In 1862, he painted a remarkable portrait of his wife, currently in the National Museum of Contemporary Art and, later, in c.
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Lord Wemyss was succeeded in his titles by his grandson David; two of his sons, Captain Hugo Francis Charteris (1884–1916) and Lt Yvo Alan Charteris (1896–1915), had been killed in action during the First World War. Hugo's second son was Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield. His granddaughter was the socialite Ann Fleming,Andrew Lycett, "Fleming , Ann Geraldine Mary [other married names Ann Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Lady O'Neill; Ann Geraldine Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere] (1913–1981)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2014 accessed 9 Feb 2017 and his grandson, Hugo Charteris, was a renowned post-war author and screenwriter. He is the great-grandfather of the Scottish cartoonist Jamie Charteris.
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He married his niece and childhood friend, who had almost his age, Maria Eufrásia. The marriage took place on February 19th, 1839, at Our Lady of Glory Church (Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Glória) in Rio de Janeiro. After the Battle of Riachuelo, the number of arrived disenabled combatants at the capital was taking alarming proportions, thus arising the need to create an asylum, where they could be well treated. It was his wife, Viscountess of Tamandaré (Jovita Alves Feitosa) who, in spite of the situation perched by the country, took the initiative to organize auctions, as well as commerce auctions and many other social actions which helped her in this patriotic end.
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Coningsby had already been created Baron Coningsby, of Clanbrassil, in the Peerage of Ireland in 1693, with normal remainder to heirs male, and Baron Coningsby in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1716, with similar remainder as for the earldom. On Lord Coningsby's death in 1729 he was succeeded in the Irish barony of 1692 by his grandson Richard Coningsby, the second Baron, the son of one of Coningsby's sons from his first marriage to Barbara Georges. However, Richard died already the same year, when the barony became extinct. Lord Coningsby was succeeded in the English barony and the earldom according to the special remainder by his daughter Margaret Newton, 1st Viscountess Coningsby.
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Of the other lifeboats and crews summoned to Dover by the Admiralty, the first arrivals questioned – reasonably in their view – the details of the service, in particular the impracticality of running heavy lifeboats on to the beach, loading them with soldiers, then floating them off. The dispute resulted in the first three crews being sent home. Subsequent lifeboats arriving were commandeered without discussion, much to the disappointment of many lifeboatmen. A later RNLI investigation resulted in the dismissal of two Hythe crew members, who were nevertheless vindicated in one aspect of their criticism, as Hythe's Viscountess Wakefield was run on to the beach and unable to be refloated; she was the only lifeboat to be lost in the operation.
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Andreas had been an official of the Counts of Celje; after their extinction in 1456, his son Ernst had received the Sommeregg estates in Upper Carinthia as a fief from the hands of the Habsburg king Maximilian I. Ernst's brother Virgil von Graben, Rosina's uncle, was a very powerful Austrian noble, Habsburg stattholder in the County of Gorizia and Maximilan's councillor. Sammeregg, engraving by Johann Weikhard Valvasor, 1680 Rosina was born at her father's residence Sommeregg Castle (near present-day Seeboden) in Carinthia. Upon Ernst's death in 1513, she followed him up as burgravine (a sort of Viscountess) of the Sommeregg estates. She became also Lady of Doberdò within the comital lands of Gorizia.
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He and his brother Robert campaigned against the English in Aquitaine, taking Limoges, but failed to capture Usson (1371). On 10 October 1371, he married Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine (d. Argentan 18 November 1425). They had eight children: # Marie of Alençon (29 March 1373-1417), married 1390 in Paris John VII of Harcourt, Count of Harcourt and Aumale (died 1452). # Peter (1374-1375) # John (1375-1376) # Marie (1377) # Jeanne (1378-1403, Argentan) # Catherine (1380, Verneuil - 25 June 1462, Paris), married 1411 in Alençon Peter d'Évreux, Infante of Navarre and Count of Mortain (1366-1412), married 1 October 1413 in Paris Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1365-1447) # Marguerite (1383 - aft.
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Born on 19 April 1840 in the Royal Palace of Madrid, she was the uterine sister of Queen Isabella II, one the children conceived in the marriage between Queen Regent Maria Christina and her morganatic husband Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez, 1st Duke of Riánsares. She was granted the titles of Viscountess of La Dehesilla and the title of Marchioness of La Isabela in 1847. She married in the Malmaison on 20 October 1860 José María Bernaldo de Quirós y González de Cienfuegos, 8th Marquis of Campo Sagrado, whom with she had 3 surviving children: Jesús María, Ana Germana and María de los Desamparados. She died in 22, Madrid on 20 December 1921.
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Pakenham was the eldest son of Emily (née Stapleton) Pakenham and Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham (1781–1850), a lieutenant-general of the British Army who served as aide-de-camp to King William IV. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share- Alike License From his father, he inherited Langford Lodge in County Antrim, which later became RAF Langford Lodge. His mother was the fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Stapleton, 6th Baronet, 12th Baron le Despencer. His paternal grandfather was Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford and, the former, Hon. Catherine Rowley (a daughter of Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford and Hercules Langford Rowley, MP. His aunt, Catherine was the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
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Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (née Milbanke; 1751 – 1818) was one of the most influential of the political hostesses of the extended Regency period, and the wife of Whig politician Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. She was the mother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and several other influential children. Lady Melbourne was known for her political influence and her friendships and romantic relationships with other members of the English aristocracy, including Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, and George, Prince of Wales. Because of her numerous love affairs, the paternity of several of her children is a matter of dispute.
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Nelson pronounced himself entirely satisfied with his decision, drawing up a new will that made his new wife the sole beneficiary, and writing to his friend William Locker that he was 'morally certain she will continue to make me a happy man for the rest of my days'. Frances Nelson, 1st Viscountess Nelson, a portrait of the British school, c. 1800 The day after Nelson's marriage to Frances, Nelson's friend and colleague Thomas Pringle wryly remarked that the navy had lost its 'greatest ornament', so expressing his concern that a wife got in the way of a successful naval career. Prince William Henry wrote to Samuel Hood saying 'He is in for it now.
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Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet of Eastwell married Elizabeth Heneage, only daughter of Sir Thomas Heneage (1532–1595), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Elizabeth I. After Sir Moyle's death in 1614 Elizabeth and her sons made considerable efforts to have the family's status elevated. On 8 July 1623 Elizabeth was raised to the Peerage of England as Viscountess Maidstone, and on 12 July 1628 she was further honoured when she was made Countess of Winchilsea. Lady Winchilsea and Sir Moyle Finch's youngest son the Hon. Sir Heneage Finch served as Speaker of the House of Commons and was the father of Heneage Finch, who was created Earl of Nottingham in 1681.
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Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning Earl Canning was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1859 for the Conservative politician and then Viceroy of India, Charles Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning. He was the third and youngest son of the noted politician George Canning, Foreign Secretary from 1807 to 1809 and from 1822 to 1827, and Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1827. In 1828 George Canning's widow Joan was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in honour of her husband as Viscountess Canning, of Kilbraham in the County of Kilkenny, with remainder to the heirs male of her body by her late husband.
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Dictionary of National Biography, Vol 5, p 1008 In recognition of Disraeli's services to the nation, Queen Victoria desired to ennoble him at the end of his first ministry. However, as he wished to remain in the House of Commons, his wife accepted the title in his place and was created Viscountess Beaconsfield, of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, on 30 November 1868. (After Mary's death, Disraeli accepted the title of Earl of Beaconsfield.) Staid Victorians were often scandalised by Mary's uninhibited conversation but soon learned not to insult her within Disraeli's hearing.Hesketh Pearson Dizzy- the life and personality of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Harper Collins New York 1951 p.
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The House of Lords (old chamber, burned down in 1834) as drawn by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808–1811). The ranks of the Peerage in most of the United Kingdom are, in descending order of rank, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron; the female equivalents are duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively. Women typically do not hold hereditary titles in their own right, one significant change to this however was in 1532 when Henry VIII created the Marquess of Pembroke title for his soon to be wife, Anne Boleyn. Anne held this title in her own right and was therefore ennobled with the same rank as a male Viscount.
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Becoming examines the photographs taken by Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden of her daughters, and reads them for sensual and erotic content. Susan Freeman, writing for the Journal of Women's History, summarized the book as "a theoretical and provocative examination of female photographers and their subjects, mother-daughter relationships, pleasure, and same-sex sexuality". The Village Voice praised Mavor's "real flair for evoking and elucidating individual images" but criticized her "tendency to fall into erotic flights of fancy", ultimately concluding that "Mavor's analytic foibles far outweigh her strengths". The Times Literary Supplement also found fault with Mavor's "single-minded" interpretations, and noted that the book "shows no interest in how Hawarden herself might have viewed her photography".
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HMS Royal Anne which Steuart commanded when escorting King George I on his return from Hanover in 1717 Born of the seven children of Captain James Steuart who was killed fighting for King William's Army at the Siege of Derry in Spring 1689, Steuart and his siblings were adopted by their uncle, General Sir William Steuart and his first wife Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison, grandmother of Prime Minister Pitt the Elder. His twice married but childless uncle subsequently chose Steuart to be the executor of his will.Chester, p. 318 Steuart joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer in 1697 at the age of nineteen, and his exams passed for lieutenant in December 1701, at the age of twenty three.
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The emperor proved himself very generous when it came to honour his favourite and her family as well. Bestowing on her the title of Viscountess of Santos was a slap in the face of the family of José Bonifácio, the patriarch of the independence and the most eminent people of the city of Santos, São Paulo. He also did not hesitate in bestowing titles on their three daughters (the Duchesses of Goiás and Ceará and the Countess of Iguaçu) and insisting on their being educated with the royal princesses. The Marchioness' sister was made Baroness of Sorocaba and eventually she joined the extensive roll of royal mistresses, and bore a child with him.
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Albumen print of Lord and Lady Amberley made by William Notman in Montreal in 1867 and currently owned by McCord Museum Viscountess Amberley was the penultimate child of the politician Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, and the women's education campaigner Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley. Her nine siblings included Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, another suffragist, and Maude Stanley, a youth work pioneer. On 8 November 1864, she married John Russell, Viscount Amberley, the son of the former prime minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, and his wife Frances. Their first child, John Francis Stanley, was born the next year and followed by twins, Rachel Lucretia and her stillborn sister, in 1868.
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Another prototype, L4032, was produced to serve as the production-standard prototype; on 24 June 1938, the third prototype conducted its maiden flight. L4032 differed from the previous two prototypes in that it was powered by a pair of Pegasus XVIII engines, the nose incorporated an optically-flat bomb-aiming panel, as well as the ventral and dorsal gun positions being revised. Handley Page elected to name their new aircraft after John Hampden, a 17th-century British politician and defender of civil liberties. On 24 June 1938, L4032 was officially christened by Lady Katharine Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Viscountess Hampden, at a ceremony held in Radlett Aerodrome, the same day on which its first flight took place.
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On his death in 1139, Adémar III had a daughter, Brunissende, but no more male heirs. Therefore, the viscountcy of Limoges passed to Guy de Comborn, Adémar's son- in-law, though Foucher's line continued via the viscounts of Rochechouart. Until 1290, the viscountcy of Limoges was held by the house of Comborn, then passed to the House of Dreux-Bretagne (1290–1384), to the House of Blois- Châtillon (1384–1481), and finally to the House of Albret (1484–1572). On the death of Jeanne d'Albret, viscountess of Limoges, in 1572, the title descended upon Henry, king of Navarre, the future Henry IV. In 1607, the viscountcy was once and for all reassigned to the house of Couronne.
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Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the second female Member of Parliament (MP) but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945. Sinn Féin's Constance Markievicz had become the first elected female MP in 1918, but refused to take her seat in line with party policy. Astor was an American citizen who moved to England at age 26 and married Waldorf Astor. He succeeded to the peerage and entered the House of Lords; she then entered politics and won his former seat in Plymouth in 1919, becoming the first woman to sit as an MP in the House of Commons.
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Tiggy's mother, the Hon. Shân Legge-Bourke LVO (born 1943), was the only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk (1891–1948), a soldier who became a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire.GLANUSK, Wilfred Russell Bailey, 3rd Baron in Who Was Who 1929–1940 (London, A. & C. Black, 1967 reprint: ). When Shân Bailey's father died in 1948, she and her mother inherited his estate at Glanusk Park, near Crickhowell in Powys, while his peerage went to a cousin.Tiggy's grandmother leaves £3m to family in will; LEGACY: Dowager Viscountess bequeaths estate to relatives in the Western Mail of Cardiff, dated 24 August 2002, online at encyclopedia.com.
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The titles remained united until the death of his great-grandson, the fifth Earl and 13th Baron, in 1594. The earldom was inherited by his younger brother, the sixth Earl, while the barony of Strange (as well as the baronies of Mohun of Dunster and Stanley, also held by the Earl) fell into abeyance between the late Earl's three daughters Lady Anne, Lady Frances and Lady Elizabeth (however, the sixth Earl of Derby erroneously assumed the barony of Strange - see below). The barony of Strange remained in abeyance for the next 327 years. However, the abeyance was terminated in 1921 in favour of Elizabeth Frances Philipps, Viscountess St Davids, who became the fourteenth Baroness.
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But the Derby title was the one she preferred to be known by, and it is the one by which she is described on her funeral monument, which is surely one of the finest of its time anywhere in England. The mourning daughters beside the tomb are not meant to be lifelike representations of her actual daughters, Anne, Frances and Elizabeth; they conform to a stereotype often observed on grand monuments of this kind. But the figure of Alice Countess of Derby is probably closer to historical reality. She wears the coronet of a Countess, not a Viscountess, and at the foot of her tomb is a coroneted eagle, a reminder of the Stanleys' armorial crest.
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According to some sources, when Maria and her sister Elizabeth came of age, their mother urged them to take up acting in order to earn a living, due to the family's relative poverty. The sources further state that the Gunning sisters worked for some time in the Dublin theatres, befriending actors like Margaret Woffington, even though acting was not considered a respectable profession as many actresses of that time doubled as courtesans to wealthy benefactors. However, other sources differ and point out that Margaret Woffington did not arrive in Dublin until May 1751, by which time Maria and her sister Elizabeth were in England. In October 1748, a ball was held at Dublin Castle by the Viscountess Petersham.
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Chaired by Lady Astor, the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons, its speakers and attendee list represented key figures in the suffrage and women's rights movements in Britain and abroad, including Millicent Fawcett, Viscountess Rhondda, Kerstin Hesselgren the first woman elected to Upper House of the Swedish parliament and American engineer Ethel H. Bailey. In 1924, members of WES, including Caroline Haslett, Margaret Moir and Margaret Partridge founded the Electrical Association for Women. This association aimed to educate women about electricity, providing courses in Electrical Housecraft and demonstrations at electrical showrooms. It published The Electrical Handbook for Women, a guide to electricity, which was re-issued (though with different names) until 1983.
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Despite the loss of her family estates, Anne was considered an heiress; the Commission of Forfeited Estates found selling Jacobite property so complex and time- consuming it was easier to come to an arrangement with the original owners. Many of these properties were purchased through an 18th-century vulture fund called the York Buildings Company, which did a deal with Anne, who became financially secure as a result. She married Kilmarnock against her family's wishes; money and his lifestyle were constant issues and they lived together "civilly, if not happily." During the last year of his life he became the love interest of Viscountess Etheldreda Townshend who briefly took an interest in being a Jacobite.
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Fairweather was born in 1901 in the West Denton part of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her mother, Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford and her father Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford were both members of parliament. She was educated at Notting Hill High School for GirlsOxford Dictionary of National Biography The founding ATA pilots and their Tiger Moths: left to right Pauline Gower, Winifred Crossley Fair, Margaret Cunnison, Margaret Fairweather, Mona Friedlander, Joan Hughes, Gabrielle Patterson, Rosemary Rees and Marion Wilberforce She was an instructor for the Civil Air Guard at Renfrew. After war was declared in 1939, she was one of the first eight women members of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).
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Ethel Snowden As sketched by Marguerite Martyn for the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, 1910 Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden (born Ethel Annakin; 8 September 1881 – 22 February 1951), was a British socialist, human rights activist, and feminist politician. From a middle-class background, she became a Christian Socialist through a radical preacher and initially promoted temperance and teetotalism in the slums of Liverpool. She aligned to the Fabian Society and later the Independent Labour Party, earning an income by lecturing in Britain and abroad. Snowden was one of the leading campaigners for women's suffrage before the First World War, then founding The Women's Peace Crusade to oppose the war and call for a negotiated peace.
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The Honourable Edward Hyde, was born the only child of Henry, Viscount Cornbury & 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638–1709) and Theodosia Capell (1640–1661), daughter of Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham, and sister of Arthur Capell. Henry and Theodosia gave birth to Edward eleven months into their marriage. Only three months after Edward's birth, in March 1662, his mother Theodosia died of smallpox.Bonomi 1998, p. 31 Hyde's parents: Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, later 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1688–1709) and his wife, Theodosia Capel, Viscountess Cornbury, by Peter Lely The Hyde family had close ties to the monarchy: Edward's grandfather, also named Edward, was the 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674).
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Ernest de Ganay tells the Neuville castle in Gambais in 1939 a "curious royal portrait gallery", some attributed to students Clouet; consists of 192 leading figures in the history of France from François I to the 1789 Revolution, it would have been created in the eighteenth century by Francis Nyert. In the nineteenth century, in his castle of Azay-le-Rideau the Marquis of Biencourt contitua from 1830 a collection of 300 ancient effigies, which was promptly shown to the public; a notable part, acquired in public auction of the furniture of the house (1898) by one of their descendants, Montaigne Viscountess de Poncins, was bequeathed by her in 1939 at Musée Condé Chantilly, where it is stored.
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Martha was a proposed wife for Peter II of Alençon in 1370 but he instead married Marie, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine. During these years, Peter IV of Aragon had sought an alliance with Philip VI of France to prevent a new war with Castile. In 1370 he negotiated a marriage for his heir; John, Duke of Girona with Jeanne of France, daughter of Philip VI but the project failed when the princess died on her journey to Barcelona in 1371. Moreover, Henry II of Castile became an ally necessary to Charles V of France (who had helped get the Castilian throne), as demonstrated with the triumph of his army against the English at the Battle of La Rochelle (June 1372).
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Title page of the first edition of The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle In 1751, Tobias Smollett included the Memoirs of a Lady of Quality in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Though the memoirs, written in amatory fiction, were published anonymously and revised for publication by John Shebbeare, it was clear from the beginning that the "lady of quality" was Lady Vane. Horace Walpole wrote in a letter the same year: In her memoirs, the Viscountess Vane mocks contemporary social and moral conventions, and describes her emotional devastation following the death of her first husband. Walpole gossiped in the same letter: Lady Vane shocked society not only by refusing to portray herself as chaste, but also by unrepentantly advertising her adulterous relationships.
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He visited the court of King Alfonso VIII of Castile at Toledo in 1195 and intermittently thereafter until 1201. He also stayed for a time at the court of King Alfonso IX of León, where the Galician–Portuguese lyric was favoured over the Occitan. Among Peire's many lesser patrons were Lord William VIII of Montpellier and his wife, the Byzantine princess Eudokia Komnene. (William was both a vassal of Peter II and his father-in-law.) Peire attended the Aragonese court during some of its visits to Narbonne, but although the ruling viscountess of that city, Ermengarde, was a notable patron of troubadours (like Azalais de Porcairagues) there is no indication that she patronised Peire or that he wrote songs for her.
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Viscount Dunrossil, 14th Governor-General of Australia (1960–61), in his court uniform, with his vice-regal consort, Viscountess Dunrossil. In addition to the formal constitutional role, the Governor- General has a representative and ceremonial role, though the extent and nature of that role has depended on the expectations of the time, the individual in office at the time, the wishes of the incumbent government, and the individual's reputation in the wider community. Governors-General generally become patrons of various charitable institutions, present honours and awards, host functions for various groups of people including ambassadors to and from other countries, and travel widely throughout Australia. Sir William Deane (Governor-General 1996–2001) described one of his functions as being "Chief Mourner" at prominent funerals.
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In a break with royal tradition, the groom had a best man—his brother, Prince Harry—rather than a supporter, while the bride chose her sister, Pippa, as maid of honour. There were four bridesmaids and two page boys: Lady Louise Windsor, the seven-year-old daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wessex; Margarita Armstrong-Jones, the eight-year-old daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Linley; Grace van Cutsem, the three-year-old daughter of the couple's friend, Hugh van Cutsem; Eliza Lopes, the three-year- old granddaughter of the Duchess of Cornwall; William Lowther-Pinkerton, the ten-year-old son of William's private secretary, Major Jamie Lowther- Pinkerton; and Tom Pettifer, the eight-year-old son of Princes William and Harry's former nanny, "Tiggy" Pettifer.
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Charteris was born in London, the fourth child of Captain Hon. Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967), the son of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss and Mary Constance Wyndham, and his first wife, Francis Lucy Tennant (1887–1925), a granddaughter of Sir Charles Tennant. His sister was the socialite Ann Fleming.Andrew Lycett, 'Fleming , Ann Geraldine Mary [other married names Ann Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Lady O'Neill; Ann Geraldine Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere] (1913–1981)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2014 accessed 9 Feb 2017 He and his sisters grew up at Stanway House surrounded by the creative influence of close family friends such as James Barrie who would write plays for them to perform during the summer months.
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The latter's nephew, Agne IV of Oliergues, married in 1444 his cousin, viscountess Anne of Beaufort, succeeding to the viscounty of Turenne upon her death. Among his children, the younger, Antony Raymond, lord of Murat, became the ancestor of the obscure line of la Tour-Apchier, which rose to prominence shortly before its extinction in the 19th century. Henri de la Tour (1555-1623), Marshal of FranceAgne IV's fifth and eldest surviving son, Anthony de la Tour, succeeded him as viscount of Turenne and had two children. The youngest, Gilles de la Tour, lord of Limeuil, had issue, including Isabeau of Limeuil, known as the mistress of Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and mother of his natural children.
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The hospital was established as the Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children in Horatio Street, Scotland Road, Liverpool, in November 1841. It moved to Pembroke Place in 1845 and to Myrtle Street in 1862 and, having become the Ladies Charity and Lying-In Hospital in 1869, it moved to new purpose-built facilities in Brownlow Street in 1885. A foundation stone for a new facility in Oxford Street was laid by the Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles in March 1924 and it was officially opened by Christiana Hartley, the social and welfare rights activist, as the Liverpool Maternity Hospital in September 1926. Famous people born in the hospital included John Lennon who was born there in October 1940.
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Stevens spent three months in Europe meeting with women leaders and compiling information. She met with Dr. Luisa Baralt of Havana, Dr. Ellen Gleditsch of Oslo, Chrystal Macmillan and Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda of the UK, the Marquesa del Ter of Spain, Maria Vérone of France and Hélène Vacaresco of Romania, as well as various officers of the International Federation of University Women and others. She held public meetings to discuss the question of nationality in Geneva, London and Paris and attended a meeting at the Assembly of the League of Nations to obtain approval of a resolution for governments to attend a meeting discussing codification of laws and encouraged them to include women in their delegate selections. The resolution was submitted and passed unanimously.
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Following the death of the marquessa in 1891, the palace began to be partially rented. Between 1894 and 1904, the Viscountess of Almeida and her four daughters resided at the palace, using an access along the Rua das Pedras Negras, 16. Two years later (and until 1910), from the a doorway along Rua de São Mamede, 63, Engineer Manuel Afonso Espregueira, the de facto Finance Minister () under King D. Portugal and D. Manuel II. But, by the end of 1904, a great part of the palace was occupied by the residence of the Ambassador of Spain. The palace required significant repairs in 1914, and was in the course of being purchased by the Caminhos de Ferro do Estado (State Railway), and eventually concluded in 1919.
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Diana Frances Spencer was born on 1 July 1961 at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk. She was the fourth of five children of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (1924–1992), and Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp (née Roche; 1936–2004). The Spencer family had been closely allied with the British royal family for several generations; Diana's grandmothers, Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer and Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, had served as ladies-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The Spencers were hoping for a boy to carry on the family line, and no name was chosen for a week, until they settled on Diana Frances, after her mother and after Lady Diana Spencer, a many-times-great-aunt who was also a prospective Princess of Wales.
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1–4 from whom Guildford descended through his paternal grandfather. This was Edmund Dudley, a councillor of Henry VII, who in 1510, after the accession of Henry VIII, was executed. Through his father's mother, Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle, Guildford descended from the Hundred Years War heroes, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.Wilson 1981 pp. 1, 3; Adams 2002 pp. 312–313 The thirteen Dudley children grew up in a Protestant household and received a humanist education.Adams 2008; Chapman 1962 p. 65 Under the young King Edward VI, Guildford's father became Lord President of the Council and de facto ruled England from 1550–1553.Loades 1996 pp. 147, 285 The chronicler Richard Grafton, who knew him,Ives 2009 p.
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His views on colonialism were often controversial as he was sympathetic to the natives in many of the outposts of Empire in which he served. His wife, the famous battle artist, Elizabeth Thompson (1846–1933), known as Lady Butler, continued to live at the Castle until 1922 when she went to live at Gormanston Castle, County Meath with their youngest daughter, Eileen, who became Viscountess Gormanston (1883–1964) in 1911 on her marriage to Jenico Preston, 15th Viscount Gormanston (1878–1925), the Premier Viscount of Ireland. Lady Butler died in 1933 in her 87th year and is buried at Stamullen graveyard in County Meath, just up the road from Gormanston. Among her many famous paintings is The Roll Call depicting a scene in the Crimean War.
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L F Salzman (editor). A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred. (London, 1947). Parishes: Castle Bromwich, in pp. 43-47 (accessed 3 July 2015). He inherited little property on the death of his father, but purchased in 1572 from his half-nephew, Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, the reversion of the Warwickshire manor of Castle Bromwich, which formed part of the jointure of his mother Margaret, the Dowager Viscountess of Hereford. Sir Edward then built Castle Bromwich Hall in 1599, a mansion built in the Jacobean style.Lords of the Manor of Castle Bromwich (accessed 4 July 2015) He was the Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1588 to 1589. He served as Sheriff of Warwickshire from 1593 to 1594.
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In 1898 CTC became embroiled in a court case to defend a member denied what she thought adequate service at a hotel carrying the club's badge. Florence Wallace Pomeroy, Viscountess Harberton (1843–1911), of Cromwell Road, Kensington -- wife of James, 6th Viscount Harberton, an Anglo-Irish peer, and president of the Western Rational Dress Society -- cycled on the morning of 27 October 1898 to have lunch at the Hautboy Hotel in Ockham, Surrey. Lady Harberton's campaigning for society to accept that women could wear "rational" dress on a bicycle and not ankle- length dresses led her to wear a jacket and a pair of long and baggy trousers which came together just above the ankle. She walked into the coffee room and asked to be served.
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The collection contains more than 500,000 images dating from the advent of photography, the oldest image dating from 1839. The gallery displays a series of changing exhibits and closes between exhibitions to allow full re-display to take place. Already in 1858, when the museum was called the South Kensington Museum, it had the world's first international photographic exhibition. The collection includes the work of many photographers from Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Viscountess Clementina Hawarden, Gustave Le Gray, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Frederick Hollyer, Samuel Bourne, Roger Fenton, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Cecil Beaton (there are more than 8000 of his negatives), Don McCullin, David Bailey, Jim Lee and Helen Chadwick to the present day.
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Marie married Viscount Raymond Geoffrey II of Marseille, also named Barral, in 1192 or shortly before, but was widowed at the end of that year. Her second marriage, in December 1197, was to Count Bernard IV of Comminges, and at the insistence of her father, Marie renounced her rights over Montpellier in favor of her eldest half-brother William (IX), son of Agnes. From her marriage with Bernard IV, Marie had two daughters, Mathilde (by marriage Viscountess de la Barthe) and Petronille (by marriage Countess of Astarac). The marriage was, however, notoriously polygamous (Bernard IV had two other living wives) and was finally annulled (some say on Marie's insistence, some say on that of King Peter II of Aragon) in 1201.
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"I was destined to beguile, to attract, to seduce, and in the final reckoning to cause suffering in all those who sought their happiness in me", Louise wrote; "I wanted to marry young and have a brilliant position in society. And that, basically, was the only reason I wanted to marry him", she said. Upon her marriage, she became Louise de Cléron, Viscountess d'Haussonville. (She would later become Louise de Cléron, Countess d'Haussonville upon the death of her father-in-law in 1846.) Whatever her initial sentiments, the marriage seems to have evolved into a happy one; the couple lived in the Hôtel de Broglie, 35 rue Saint-Dominique, a residence renovated for them by the fashionable architect and interior designer Hippolyte Destailleur.
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He installed her in the Maubergeonne tower of his castle in Poitiers (leading to her nickname La Maubergeonne), and, as related by William of Malmesbury, even painted a picture of her on his shield. Upon returning to Poitiers from Toulouse, Philippa was enraged to discover a rival woman living in her palace. She appealed to her friends at court and to the Church; however, no noble could assist her since William was their feudal overlord, and whilst the Papal legate Giraud (who was bald) complained to William and told him to return Dangerose to her husband, William's only response was, "Curls will grow on your pate before I part with the Viscountess." Humiliated, Philippa chose in 1116 to retire to the Abbey of Fontevrault.
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On his death the titles passed to his younger brother, the third Baronet, He represented Bewdley in Parliament. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baronet. He was Member of Parliament for Worcester and Camelford. Lyttelton married Christian, daughter of Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet, and sister of Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, and Hester Grenville, 1st Countess Temple. The viscountcy of Cobham and its junior title the barony of Cobham were created with remainder, failing male issue, to (1) Lord Cobham's eldest sister Hester Grenville (who succeeded as second Viscountess in 1749 and was created Earl Temple in 1750) and the heirs male of her body and (2) to his third sister Christian, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.
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Magdalen Dacre, Viscountess Montagu (January 1538 – 8 April 1608) was an English noblewoman. She was the daughter of William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre of Gilsland, and the second wife of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu. Magdalen, a fervent Roman Catholic, was a Maid of Honour at the wedding of Mary I of England to Philip II of Spain in Winchester Cathedral. Dacre, despite being a Catholic, managed to remain in high regard with the Protestant Tudor Queen who succeeded Mary, Elizabeth I. Dacre was, according to biographer Lady Antonia Fraser in her historical biography, The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605, a fine example of "how the most pious Catholic could survive if he (or she) did not challenge the accepted order".
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Douce II (, ; 1162-1172) was Countess of Provence and Viscountess of Gévaudan and Carlat for a few months in 1166, as well as Countess of Melgueil for some time in 1172. She was a member of the House of Barcelona, a dynasty of Catalan origin that acquired the County of Provence through the marriage of Douce I to Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona. Coat-of-arms of Provence Douce was the sole child of the Provençal count Ramon Berenguer II and the Castilian queen dowager Richeza of Poland, who married in 1162. In 1165, with the treaty signed in Beaucaire, Ramon Berenguer betrothed his infant daughter to Raymond, eldest son and heir apparent of Raymond V, ruler of the neighbouring County of Toulouse.
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In 1885, a redistribution of seats led to Smith now standing for the Strand division in Westminster, and he served as Chief Secretary for Ireland for a short period in the following year. He was twice Secretary of State for War, the first time during Lord Salisbury's brief ministry between 1885 and 1886, and the second when the Conservatives won the 1886 General Election. He succeeded this appointment in 1887 as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons, and became Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1891. He died shortly afterwards at Walmer Castle, and his widow was created Viscountess Hambleden in his honour, taking the title from the village close to the Smiths' country house of Greenlands, near Henley-on-Thames.
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The Thorpe Manor estate belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1723 it was bought by Stephen Martin who assumed the name and arms of Leake upon inheriting an estate from Admiral Sir John Leake; it remained in the Leake family – the most recent manor house was built between 1822 and 1825 for John Martin Leake – until 1913 when it was bought by Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy whose wife, Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, laid out the gardens. Viscount Byng died at Thorpe Hall in 1935. It was acquired by the Ministry of Defence at the start of World War II and then became the Lady Nelson Convalescent Home for employees of English Electric in 1951.
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Margaret Rolle, Baroness Clinton, by John Theodore Heins, matching pair with portrait of her first husband, Lord Orford Margaret Rolle, Countess of Orford & suo jure Baroness Clinton (1709–1781) by a follower of Herman van der Mijn. The pose is very similar to the portrait of Lady Frances Finch,Frances, Viscountess Courtenay by Thomas Hudson wife of Viscount Courtenay by Thomas Hudson Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton suo jure (17 January 1709 – 13 January 1781), was a wealthy aristocratic Devonshire heiress, known both for eccentricity and her extramarital affairs. By her first husband Robert, 1st Baron Walpole, later 2nd Earl of Orford (1701–1751) and eldest son of Sir Robert Walpole, she gave birth to a legitimate heir, George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, who succeeded her in the title of Baron Clinton.
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Arms of Conwy: Sable, on a bend argent cotised ermine a rose gules barbed and seeded proper between two annulets of the firstArms of Rowley-Conwy, Baron Langford (Peerage of Ireland), per Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.P720 Summerhill House, Main Front Baron Langford, of Summerhill in the County of Meath, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 1 July 1800 for Clotworthy Rowley, who had earlier represented Trim and County Meath in the Irish House of Commons. Born Clotworthy Taylor, he was the fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective (whose eldest son was created Marquess of Headfort in 1800) and Jane Rowley, daughter of Hercules Langford Rowley and his wife Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford (created 1766).
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There was a sense that there was a disjoint between the central 'English feminist agenda' pushed by the militant headquarters and the needs of Welsh social, cultural and political views. The strains existed between the two organisation until the EFF was abandoned in 1914. Margaret Haig Mackworth, later Viscountess Rhondda, Welsh militant suffragette. In 1913 a Suffrage Pilgrimage was organised, to end with a rally in Hyde Park, London on 26 July. It was an attempt to remind the public of the larger constitutional and non-militant wing of the movement, and routes were planned from 17 British towns and cities, including Wales. Twenty-eight members from Welsh NUWSS branches left from Bangor on 2 July travelling through Wales where they were met with both support and hostility.
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Diana McConnel became Marchioness of Douro upon marriage and took the female equivalents of all her husband's inherited titles after his father's death. In Britain she was Duchess of Wellington, Marchioness of Douro, Marchioness of Wellington, Countess of Mornington, Countess of Wellesley, Viscountess Wellesley, and Baroness Douro, variously in the Peerages of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Due to her husband's ancestor, the first Duke of Wellington, was such a celebrated general rewarded by many of Europe's crowned heads, the Duchess of Wellington was also Princess of Waterloo in the Netherlands and Duchess of Vitória in Portugal. She was Duchess of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain from 1968 when her father-in-law ceded the title to his son (something common enough with Spanish titles, although unheard of in Britain).
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Francisco Antonio Zea was born in Medellín on 2 November 1766, the son of Pedro Rodríguez de Zea Casafus, a Spaniard from Marchena, Seville, and María Rosalia Ignacia Díaz Peláez whose paternal family hailed from Asturias while her maternal side was a well established Criollo Paisa family. He was baptised on 23 November 1766 with the name Juan Francisco Antonio Hilarión Zea Díaz. Zea married in Madrid in 1805 to Felipa Meilhon y Montemayor, a gaditana born in 1788, daughter of Juan Antonio Meilhon, a native of Béarn, France, and Antonia Montemayor, native of Ronda, Málaga. Out of this marriage only one daughter was born, Felipa Antonia Zea Meilhon, who would later become Viscountess of Rigny after marrying Alexander Gaulthier, Viscount of Rigny, son of Henri, Count of Rigny.
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Furness was born in Melton Mowbray, England, the only child of Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness, and his second wife, Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (formerly Converse, née Morgan), an American socialite and mistress of King Edward VIII while he was still the Prince of Wales. He was the grandson of Christopher Furness, 1st Baron Furness, of Furness Withy Shipping, and a first cousin of the American fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. Tony Furness, as he was known, was educated in England at Downside School and in America. He succeeded to the title in 1940 on the death of his father, his half brother Christopher Furness having been killed in action earlier that year at Arras whilst serving with the Welsh Guards for which Christopher Furness was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.
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He was the eldest son of John Bassett (died 1541) (son of Sir John Bassett (died 1529)) of Heanton Punchardon and Umberleigh in Devon and Tehidy in Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1518 and 1523,Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Proceedings, Volume 44, p.12 by his wife Frances Plantagenet, the daughter and co-heiress of his step-father Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, bastard son of King Edward IV. Arthur Bassett was thus a grandson of Arthur Plantagenet on his mother's side, and on his father's side a grandson of Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle, née Honor Grenville, the second wife of Sir John Bassett (died 1529) who married secondly as his second wife the aforementioned Arthur Plantagenet. Making Bassett the cousin of Sir Richard Grenville the Younger, via Grenville's Aunt, Honor Grenville.
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Portrait of a pensive woman on a sofa, a 1749 painting of Mary Gunning in Turkish costume by Jean-Étienne Liotard In October 1748, a ball was held at Dublin Castle by the Viscountess Petersham. The two sisters did not have any dresses for the gathering until Thomas Sheridan (actor), the manager of one of the local theatres, supplied them with two costumes from the green room, those of Lady Macbeth and Juliet. Wearing the costumes, they were presented to the Earl of Harrington, the then- Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Harrington must have been pleased by the meeting as, by 1750, Bridget Gunning had persuaded him to grant her a pension, which she then used to transport herself, Maria and Elizabeth back to their original home in Huntingdon, England.
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He pointed out that a young working-class woman was likely to spend a large part of her earnings on fine hats and shawls, while "her feet are improperly protected, and she wears no flannel petticoat or woollen stockings". Florence Pomeroy, Lady Haberton, was president of the Rational Dress movement in Britain. At a National Health Society exhibition held in 1882, Viscountess Haliburton presented her invention of a "divided skirt", which was a long skirt that cleared the ground, with separate halves at the bottom made with material attached to the bottom of the skirt. She hoped that her invention would become popular by supporting women's freedom of physical movement, but the British public was not impressed by the invention, perhaps because of the negative "unwomanly" association of the style with the American Bloomers movement.
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Robert Danvers also Wright, Howard and Villiers (19 October 1624 - 1674) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. The illegitimate child of a notorious liaison, Danvers had four different names, changed religion four times and sided according to circumstances with Royalists, Parliamentarians, the restored monarchy and its opponents. Danvers was the illegitimate son of Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, the estranged wife of John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, probably by Sir Robert Howard of Clun Castle, Shropshire and was baptised as Robert Wright. His mother was the daughter of Sir Edward Coke of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. After they were convicted of adultery, his parents went to France where he was educated between 1633 and 1641 under the name Howard and brought up as a Catholic.
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Viscountess Strangford, University of Wales, retrieved 3 May 2015 Of the ancient oasis city, Palmyra she writes: "I was once asked whether Palmyra was "not a broken-down old thing in a style of slovenly decadence?" It is true its style is neither pure nor severe: nothing over which the lavish hand of hasty and Imperial Rome has passed is ever so: but, Tadmor [Palmyra] is free from all the vulgarity of real decadence; it is so entirely irregular as to be sometimes fantastic; the designs are overflowing with richness and fancy, but it is never heavy: it is free, independent, bizarre, but never ungraceful; grand indeed, though hardly sublime, it is almost always bewitchingly beautiful." (pp. 239–40)Color lithograph panorama of Palmyra, Syria by Nicholas Hanhart after Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe, 1862.
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An Angel Playing a Flageolet by Edward Burne- Jones, in the collection of Sudley House George Holt was an art collector whose collection derived mainly from purchases from dealers and at exhibitions rather than from commissions. Among his most significant purchases, which remain in the house today, were J. M. W. Turner's Rosenau, depicting Prince Albert's home in Germany, and Gainborough's Viscountess Folkestone. Also among the collection are paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington, Edwin Landseer, John Everett Millais, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and the Pre-Raphaelites. George Melly, the jazz singer, critic and art historian, who was related to the Holt family, has described aspects of life at Sudley House during his various childhood visits in the 1930s, when it was owned by George Holt's only child, Emma Georgina Holt.
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At the International Council of Women (ICW) conference held in Washington in 1925, the sentiment was expressed by Lady Aberdeen, welcoming all women to the "sisterhood, of whatever creed, party, section or class they may belong". In 1927, Stevens and Alice Paul undertook a massive study of how laws affected women's nationality; studying for example, if they lost their nationality by marrying or even became stateless. Stevens met with feminists throughout Europe and held public meetings to gather data, including Dr. Luisa Baralt of Havana, Dr. Ellen Gleditsch of Oslo, Chrystal Macmillan and Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda of the UK, the Marquesa del Ter of Spain, Maria Vérone of France and Hélène Vacaresco of Romania, as well as various officers of the International Federation of University Women and others. Paul reviewed the laws of each country.
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Hudson was born on 19 November 1990 in a small village in West Midlands, England. She is the daughter of journalist and author Cressida Connolly and Charles Hudson, of Wyke Manor. Cressida, who has written for Vogue, The Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and The Guardian, is the daughter of author Cyril Connolly, and great-granddaughter of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon; she was previously married to Sunday Times and Tatler writer and critic AA Gill. James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon was married to Cecil Craig, Viscountess Craigavon, a great-great-granddaughter of John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who were also the great-great-great grandparents of Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, mother of Elizabeth II. As such, Nell Hudson and Elizabeth II are fourth cousins, twice-removed.
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Frederick's mother, Lucy, undertook to discharge her late husband's debts in return for title to the plantations which Frederick conveyed to her in 1872. Having in some measure restored the Jamaican estates, now used for pasture and livestock instead of sugar, she gave them to her youngest son and Frederick's brother, Evelyn Henry in 1891. Thus they passed out of the main Howard de Walden line and were sold by Evelyn in 1912.Barry Higman, Montpelier (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1998), p67-8,71 Frederick and his younger brother William realized the worth of the Marylebone estate of the Duke of Portland and lands in Ayrshire owned by the Duchess of Portland and that, on the death of the current Duke (who was childless) they would pass first to their mother, Lucy, and her childless sister, Viscountess Ossington.
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Dorset was a notorious womaniser. He had an affair with Anne Parsons, the influential mistress of the Prime Minister, who had divorced his own wife for adultery and planned to marry Parsons until he discovered her infidelity with Dorset.Peter Durrant, ‘FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, third duke of Grafton (1735–1811)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 accessed 14 Feb 2017A. A. Hanham, ‘Parsons, Anne [Nancy] married name Anne Maynard, Viscountess Maynard] (c.1735–1814/15)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2005 accessed 14 Feb 2017 Anne Parsons was about to be the First Minister's wife until she met Dorset Dorset's best-known and most enduring mistress was the Venetian ballerina Giovanna Zanerini, who was the principal ballerina at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, and used the stage name Giovanna Baccelli.
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His ascendancy was, according to one commentator, an unmixed good to the country, for during a period of fourteen years art and industry flourished. In March 1126, Alfonso was at the court of Alfonso VII of León when he acceded to the throne. According to the Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, Alfonso and Suero Vermúdez took the city of León from opposition magnates and handed it over to Alfonso VII. Among those who may have accompanied Alfonso on one of his many extended stays in Spain was the troubadour Marcabru. denier minted at Narbonne during the minority of Ermengard (1134–43) bearing the obverse inscription DUX ANFOS and on the reverse CIVI NARBON About 1134 Alfonso seized the viscounty of Narbonne and ruled it during the minority of the Viscountess Ermengarde, only restoring it to her in 1143.
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Jeanne de Bar, suo jure Countess of Marle and Soissons, Dame d'Oisy, Viscountess of Meaux, and Countess of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano (1415 – 14 May 1462) was a noble French heiress and Sovereign Countess. She was the only child of Robert of Bar, Count of Marle and Soissons, Sire d'Oisy, who was killed at the Battle of Agincourt when she was a baby, leaving her the sole heiress to his titles and estates. In 1430, at the age of fifteen, Jeanne was one of the three women placed in charge of Joan of Arc when the latter was a prisoner in the castle of John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, Jeanne's stepfather. She was the first wife of Louis of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano, Constable of France.
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He also had contact with Dalfi d'Alvernha, to whom he addressed one poem. According to his vida, he went into Gascony, where he wandered around on foot--occasionally on horse--penniless. Eventually he gained settled down with Guillerma de Benauges, a countess and viscountess, who introduced him to Savaric de Mauleon, who in turn clothed and outfitted him. According to his vida, he spent a considerable amount of time with Savaric in Poitou and the surrounding regions before heading into Catalonia and Aragon, where he was at the court of Peter II; Castile, where he attended that of Alfonso VIII; and finally León, where he was at that of Alfonso IX. Around 1220 he moved east into Provence, where his vida says he was "with all the barons", and into Lombardy and the March of Treviso (marca Trevisana).
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During all this period his elder brothers Edward (died 1714), Rich (died 1721) and Arthur (died 1736) were successively 4th, 5th and 6th Viscounts Irwin. On the death of Arthur, the fourth son, Henry, became seventh Viscount, and lived until 1761, making his tenure of the title the longest of any of the family. The fifth son, John Ingram, was either dead or presumed to be dead in January 1724/5,John is not named as acting jointly with his brothers in 1715, see T.N.A. Discovery Catalogue, ref. C 11/1970/32, but included in an action of 1720, C 11/2209/41 (Chancery); his funeral receipts appear to be dated 1715-16, West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, ref. WYL100/F/16/33A. when probate of a will in John's name dated 20 February 1714/5 was granted to his mother Viscountess Isabella.
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L-R Viscount George J Goschen, Maharajah Ram Chandra Deo, Viscountess Goschen Maharajah Sir Sri Sri Vikram Dev III Jeypore was the largest of the "little kingdoms" in southern Orissa, covering an area of around and assessed to pay a tribute of 16,000 rupees in the 1803 permanent settlement. In regional political terms it was rivalled only by Parlakimedi and the comparatively low assessment reflected the importance that the British attached to the kingdom at this time. Vikram Dev II (r 1758-1781) had joined other little kings of the region in military opposition to the British colonial influence, leading to an attack by the British in 1775 which destroyed the fort at Jeypore. His son, Rama Chandra Dev II (r 1781-1825) reversed the strategy, preferring co-operation to resistance and being favoured by the British for that stance.
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Other paintings of note from this period is a portrait of Viscountess Elizabeth Bulkeley of Beaumaris as the mythological character Hebe, by the 'sublime and terrible' George Romney, and Johann Zoffany's group portrait of Henry Knight, a Glamorgan landowner, with his children. La Parisienne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1874, of the model Henriette Henriot is one of the National Museum's most popular works The collection of French art assembled by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, granddaughters of the wealthy industrialist David Davies bequeathed to the National Museum in the 1950s and 1960s, make Wales's National Gallery one of international standing. It includes the largest group of paintings by Honoré Daumier in the world and the most important by Jean-François Millet in Britain. Works by Claude Monet include Venetian scenes such as San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk and examples from his Rouen Cathedral and Water Lilies series.
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The Marchioness of Londonderry's ancestral home was Dunrobin Castle in Scotland and it was that house's gardens which inspired the Mount Stewart's. She also redesigned and redecorated much of the interior, for example, the huge drawing room, smoking room, the Castlereagh Room and many of the guest bedrooms. She named the latter after European cities including Rome and Moscow. The last chatelaine of the house (and the last surviving child of the 7th Marquess), Lady Mairi Bury (née Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscountess Bury), gave the house, and most of its contents to the National Trust in 1977, together with a capital endowment partly funded by the sale in 1977, by Lady Mairi, of Giovanni Bellini's painting "The Madonna and Child with a male Donor, a landscape beyond" which had hung over the altar in the chapel at Mount Stewart (having formerly been at Londonderry House, London) .
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London Metropolitan Archives, ref: A/COW/93 - Collected AGM Minutes for the Cowdray Club The Westminster Gazette of 20 June 1922 reported that in the club were several themed rooms, including a 'French Room', a 'Writing Room', 'Silence Room' and 'Recreation Room'.London Metropolitan Archives, ref: A/COW/089 - Scrapbook of press cuttings relating to the Professional Women's Club and College of Nursing The popular name for the Club, "Cowdray", originates from the First Viscountess Cowdray, Annie Pearson, who was regarded as the "fairy Godmother of the nursing profession".London Metropolitan Archives, ref: A/COW/87 - a memorial booklet written by Agnes L. Douglas, who was private secretary to Lady Cowdray 1920-1932. Lady Cowdray wished for the club to provide "a centre for intercourse and recreation and which should also furnish some of those creature comforts which we associate with the word 'home'".
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The Baronetcy of Temple, of Stowe, in the Baronetage of England, was created on 24 September 1611 for Thomas Temple, eldest son of John Temple of Stowe, Buckinghamshire. His great-grandson Sir Richard, 4th Baronet, was created Baron Cobham on 19 October 1714, and Viscount Cobham and Baron Cobham on 23 May 1718, the latter with a special remainder, failing his male issue (of which he had none) to his sisters and their heirs male. Upon his death on 13 September 1749, the barony of 1714 became extinct, the viscountcy and barony of 1718 passed to his elder sister, and the baronetcy passed to his second cousin once removed William Temple, of Nash House, who became 5th Baronet. On the death of Sir William's nephew Sir Richard Temple, 7th Baronet, on 15 November 1786, the baronetcy became dormant. The Earldom of Temple was created in the Peerage of Great Britain on 18 October 1749 for Hester, 2nd Viscountess Cobham, a sister of Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham.
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He belonged to a clerical family living in the neighbourhood of Kettering and Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated first at Strixton in Northamptonshire, and was admitted a sizar of Clare Hall, Cambridge, on 16 May 1661, graduated B.A. in 1664, and M.A. in 1668. After acting as curate at Isham in Northamptonshire, he was presented on 21 October 1668 to become vicar of the village of Stantonbury in Buckinghamshire (then virtually deserted, having no vicarage, and he may really have been chaplain to Sir John Wittewronge); he left for the rectory of Water Stratford in the same county on 28 January 1674, presented by Viscountess Baltinglass, the daughter by his first marriage of Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet. Under the influence of James Wrexham, a puritan preacher at Haversham, formerly vicar of Kimble Magna and of Woburn, Mason's thoughts turned to the prospect of the millennium, and he constantly suffered from pains in the head.
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The church is entered through the door at the west side of the tower, with modern double doors between the tower and the nave set into a plain square doorway dating from the 17th or 18th century. The nave is 27 feet 9 inches by 13 feet 8 inches (8.5 by 4.2 m). Between the nave and the chancel there is a plain round arch, from the 11th or 12th century, a step up, and a rail. At the east end of the chancel, there is a further step up from the chapel into the sanctuary, which has some 18th-century gravestones set into it. The late 15th-century chancel, which measures 32 feet 6 inches by 14 feet (9.9 by 4.3 m), has some memorials from the 18th and early 19th centuries. One is to a bonesetter called Evan Thomas (died 1814), erected by Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley; another, to Emma Viscountess Bulkeley Williams, is made from ornately decorated marble.
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Barry Higman, Montpelier (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1998), p. 61 The young Lord Howard de Walden (1799–1868), aged four when he inherited the title from his great-grandfather, eventually married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, youngest daughter of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, and sister and co-heiress of the reclusive William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland. With her childless sister, Viscountess Ossington, she inherited the Duke of Portland’s London estate in Marylebone in 1879. Building leases granted from the mid 18th century began to make huge financial returns from the 1870’s and quickly made the Howard de Walden family one of the wealthiest in the country."Survey of London" vol 51, eds C Thom & P Temple (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London, 2017)pp17-19 Charles Augustus died in 1868 and his heir had to wait until the death of his mother in 1899 before receiving his London inheritance.
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Once married, she was shown deeply frustrated if romantic love had disappeared from her life, but satisfied if socializing with girlfriends or happy when doting on her infant child. In drawings such as these there was no hint at pushing the boundaries of women's roles; instead they often cemented the long-standing beliefs held by many from the old social orders, rarely depicting the Gibson Girl as taking part in any activity that could be seen as out of the ordinary for a woman. Drawing for The Weaker Sex. Gibson Girls examining a man under a magnifying glass "The Crush" "Love in a Garden" The artist believed that the Gibson Girl represented the beauty of American women: Gibson believed that America's Gibson Girls would become more beautiful: Many women posed for Gibson Girl- style illustrations, including Gibson's wife, Irene Langhorne, who may have been the original model, and was a sister of Viscountess Nancy (Langhorne) Astor.
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The ranks of Peers are as follows: Duke (and Duchess), Marquess (and Marchioness), Earl (and Countess), Viscount (and Viscountess), and Baron (and Baroness) together with Scottish Lord (and Lady) of Parliament. Within their own respective ranks, the rank of Peers correspond to the venerability (age) of the creation of their peerages, but the Peerage of England (pre-1707) takes precedence over the Peerage of Scotland (pre-1707), together taking precedence over the Peerage of Great Britain (1707–1801), together over the Pre-Union Peerage of Ireland (pre-1801), and together they all take precedence over either the senior Peerage of the United Kingdom (post-1801), or the junior Post-Union Peerage of Ireland (1801–1922). Subject to the same governing rules as detailed in the paragraphs above , the rank of the wives of Peers is also governed by the venerability (age) of the peerage. A dowager Peeress (widow of a deceased Peer) would however always precede the wife of the present Peer.
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St Andrew's Church, Wimpole Its parish church of St Andrew (still in use within the Orwell Group of Parishes, holding services on the first and third Sundays of each month) is next-door to the Hall and was once part of the Hall's estate (whose east service wing nearly abutted it at one point). It contains the family tombs of some of its residents, such as the Earls of Hardwicke, and a stained glass window commemorating Thomas Agar-Robartes, eldest son of Thomas Charles, 6th Viscount Clifton and Mary, Viscountess Clifton of Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Cornwall. A medieval church on the site was demolished (except for most of the Chicheley Chantry or Chapel dating to 1390, which survived despite thus being open to the north side of the body of the nave during the 1749 construction work) in 1749 to build the present nave and chancel. The chantry's name dates to when the estate was owned by Henry Chichele and his relations' descendants.
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The titles Earl of Mansfield in the County of Nottingham and Earl of Mansfield in the County of Middlesex were created in 1776 and 1792, respectively, for the Scottish lawyer and judge William Murray, 1st Baron Mansfield, fourth son of David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont (see Viscount of Stormont for the earlier history of the family). He was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1756 to 1788. Murray had already been created Baron Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1756, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body. The two earldoms were created with different remainders. The 1776 earldom was created with remainder to Louisa Murray (née Cathcart), Viscountess Stormont (daughter of Charles Schaw Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart), second wife of his nephew David Murray, 7th Viscount of Stormont, while the 1792 earldom, referring to a fictitious Mansfield in Middlesex to differentiate it from the first earldom,The Complete Peerage, vol.
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Lane covered an array of social interest stories including a Radio Ham Operator's Field Day; Sisters of the Mother of Charity with relics of Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton; A farmer and his wife sightseeing at the Jefferson Memorial; African American girls working with white girls in a Government office which warranted a story in the mid-century magazine; Clerks working in the American Trucking Associations Building office; a salesman putting a sold sign in an open field near Des Plaines and a billboard advertising a new subdivision of homes to be built on the side of a highway northwest of Chicago. A well-known image by Lane is Mahlon Haines' Shoe House, shot at night. At the American Penwomen's Luncheon he photographed author Taylor Caldwell and Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. Behind the scenes at the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate he showed columnist Joseph W. Alsop Jr. sitting at desk with brother Stewart Alsop as they worked.
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The world of Baillie was captured by Thomas Gainsborough in a large (100 x 90 inches) portrait that had been intended for the RA show of 1784. It was bequeathed to the National Gallery by his son, a school-friend of Lord Byron, "Long Baillie", Alexander Baillie (1777–1855) in 1855, with provision for it to first be lent to his nephew Matthew James Higgins (1810–1868), aka Jacob Omnium; thus it passed to the national collection (now Tate Britain) in 1868. Alexander Baillie, drawn by Ingres in 1816, was a close friend of Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon (1784–1854), the Norwegian. Bust portraits of both von Cappelen and Baillie were carved by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Alexander Baillie was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Naples in the same grave as writer and kinswoman Harriet Charlotte Beaujolais Campbell (died Naples 2.1848, aged 46), aka Viscountess Tullamore and Countess of Charleville, who had married (Florence, 1821) Charles Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville, and Francois "Dominique" Joseph Loridan, Valet de Chambre to M. Alexander Baillie of Naples, Tuscany (23 April 1780 – 16 April 1853).
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1807) Jean-François Houbigant would thus become a master perfumer under the tutelage of his future father-in-law, allowing him to open a shop and sell his own products. He chose a trendy area and a street where new mansions were under construction, such as the Hotel d’Évreux (which later became the Elysée Palace), the Hotel Beauvau, and the Hotel Edmond de Rothschild. Age 23 at the time, he rented a boutique on this street and took as his trademark the phrase: “Houbigant is a perfume merchant, glove manufacturer, and creator of powders, ointments, and the highest-quality blush; he also makes and sells assorted wedding and christening baskets”. His ledger from 1777 to 1782 shows that much nobility came to his shop, such as the Duchess of Charost (of course), the knight Jean de Manville, the Viscountess of St. Hermine, the Marquis of La Rochelambert, the Viscount of Choiseul, the Marquise of Erneville, Father of Osmond, and the Countess of Matignon. Having established his business, in June 1781 he married Nicole Adéläide Deschamps.
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By August, the management presented to the Repartição de Minas a plan to improve the thermal spa, under the authorship of engineer Couto dos Santos, that included the expansion of the Quinta do Peso lodgings, in accommodate 350 visitors, the construction of a casino, a gymnasium and hydrostatic lake served by swimming huts. On 8 September, though, the Ministério do Interior (Ministry of the Interior), following a complaint from the Viana do Castelo health delegation, affirmed that the bottling of the waters was made without pre-sterilization and washing of bottles. In 1918, the dispute resurfaces over the exploration of the water resources in Melgaço, resulting in new competitors for the concession that included Empresa Santos, Sobral & Co. (which had adopted its former statutes from 1894), the Empreza das Águas Minerais ou Minero-Medicinais de Melgaço, and the Empreza das Águas Minerais de Melgaço (whose partners included Luís Manuel Solheiro, Lício de Miranda Solheiro and Bento Fernandes Pinto). Santos, Sobral & Co. eliminated (due to its changes) and the other companies issued an embargo over the lands of the Viscountess of Peso.
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Brownlow North by Tilly Kettle Brownlow was born on 17 July 1741 in Chelsea, Middlesex, Great Britain, the only son of Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford and his second wife Elizabeth (then styled as the dowager Viscountess Lewisham as the widow of her first husband George Legge, Viscount Lewisham), only child and sole heir of Arthur Kaye, 3rd Baronet. His half-siblings through their mother included Anne Brudenell (who married James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan) and William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth;Cracroft's Peerage — Earls of Dartmouth (Accessed 27 July 2015) his half-siblings through their father included Frederick North, Lord North and his only full siblings was Louisa Peyto-Verney (who married John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke).Cracroft's Peerage — Earls of Guilford (Accessed 27 July 2015) He was educated at Eton College (1752–1759) and Trinity College, Oxford (where he matriculated on 10 January 1760 as a fellow-commoner), graduating as a Bachelor of Arts in 1762. He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1763, gaining his Master of Arts (Oxon) on 4 July 1766 and Doctor of Civil Law in 1770.
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Hans Wild (1912–1969) was a British photographer who worked for Life magazine from 1938 to 1946. Some of his best known work appeared on the cover of Life including a photo of historian Charles Seltman in 1943 and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill while painting with an easel in 1946. Wild became a professional photographer at 24 years old in 1936, and worked for Life in various capacities in the United States, England, France and Italy. He took numerous photos documenting World War II, as well as portraits of famous people including John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Vivien Leigh, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Bing Crosby, actress Pat Kirkwood, the painter Thomas Hart Benton, E. V. Knox editor of Punch, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Rupert Neve, fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Laurence Olivier, Daphne du Maurier, C. S. Lewis, Alexander Fleming, Chinese Ambassador Quo Tai-chi, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Benjamin Britten, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and American diplomats Jefferson Caffery and Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., Louis II, Prince of Monaco with Ghislaine Dommanget and Rainier III, Robert Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George, Thomas Beecham.
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In 1968, now with little hope of ascending the throne, Ingolf chose to forfeit his right of succession to the throne by marrying without having received the royal assent of the monarch in the Council of State. The king's permission to marry was not sought because it was expected to be denied, since Ingolf's fiancée was an untitled commoner.Billed-Bladet, (Interview with Count Christian of Rosenborg), 1985, Danish Though Frederick IX had liberalized traditional practice by allowing royal spouses who were not themselves royal, but who claimed noble blood and were known by courtesy titles (Anne Bowes-Lyon was the granddaughter of an Earl and through her first marriage to the son of an earl bore the title of viscountess; Henri de Laborde de Monpezat used the title of count, though his family's claim to nobility was later acknowledged to be flawed), it would not be until 1995 that Margrethe II would allow her children to marry commoners with neither title nor claim to noble blood. Ingolf was given the title count of Rosenborg and the style of Excellency, as was customary in the twentieth century for Danish princes who forfeited their dynastic rights.
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Marquisate Crown The Marquis of San Saturnino is a title of Spanish nobility granted on 21 December 1688 by the King Charles II of Spain to D. Pedro Álvarez de Reynoso y Andrade, Galloso y Feijoo, Perpetual “Regidor” (Mayor) of Ourense. His name refers to the Galician municipality of San Saturnino situated in the province of Corunna. Famous members include the 6th Marquis Don Jose Mariano Quindos y Tejada, Mayor of Madrid, Gentlemen of the Royal Maestranza de caballería of Ronda, Gentleman Great Cross of the Order of Charles III, Senator, “ Gentilhombre de camara” (Gentleman of the Bedchamber) to the King Alfonso XII and the 7th Marchioness Doña Maria de la Natividad Quindos y Villaroel, his daughter, also Duchess of la Conquista, and Marchioness of Gracia Real de Ledesma, of Palacios and Viscountess of la Frontera, “Camarera mayor” (First Lady of the Bedchamber) to Queen Maria Christina of Austria. Also well known are the 8th Marquis, Don Alfredo Moreno Uribe, who was vice president of RENFE, the Spanish national Railway Company and his nephew, the present and 10th Marquis, Don Jose Manuel Romero Moreno, also 8th Count of Fontao.
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Alexander was subsequently sworn-in during a ceremony in the Senate chamber on 12 April that year. The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946 Alexander took his duties as the viceroy quite seriously, feeling that as governor general, he acted as a connection between Canadians and their King, and spent considerable time traveling Canada during his term; he eventually logged no less than 294,500 km (184,000 mi) during his five years as governor general. On these trips, he sought to engage with Canadians through various ceremonies and events; he was keenly interested in his role as Chief Scout of Canada and, in preparation for his kicking of the opening ball in the 1946 Grey Cup final, practised frequently on the grounds of the royal and viceregal residence, Rideau Hall. Also, in commemoration of Alexander being named the first non-aboriginal chief of the Kwakiutl tribe, he was given a totem pole on 13 July 1946; crafted by Mungo Martin, it remains on the grounds of Rideau Hall today.
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In his memoirs, Costello was to admit that Alexander's behaviour had in fact been perfectly civil and could have had no bearing on a decision which had already been made to declare the Republic of Ireland. The Alexanders' relatively informal lifestyle at Rideau Hall was demonstrated when during the Canadian tour of Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Viscount and Viscountess hosted a square dance in the palace's ballroom. Alexander painted (creating a personal studio in the former dairy at Rideau Hall and mounting classes in art at the National Gallery of Canada), partook in a number of sports (including golf, ice hockey, and rugby), and enjoyed the outdoors, particularly during Ontario and Quebec's maple syrup harvest, himself overseeing the process on Rideau Hall's grounds. The Viscount was known to escape from official duties to partake in his most favourite pastime of fishing, once departing from the 1951 royal tour of Princess Elizabeth to take in a day's fishing at Griffin Island, in Georgian Bay, and granting a day off for students in the town of Drayton, Ontario, where his train briefly stopped.
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