- Mary Royal and Countess of Harewood Mary Princess Royal and Countess of
The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal. Mary held the title of princess with the style Highness from birth as the then great-granddaughter of the British Sovereign, and later "Her Royal Highness", as the granddaughter and finally daughter of the Sovereign. After her marriage she held the title of Countess of Harewood. - Mary of Blois Mary Countess of Blois
Marie of Avesnes, was countess of Blois from 1230 to 1241. She was the daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois. In 1226, Marie married Hugh I of Châtillon (sur Marne), son of Gaucher II of Châtillon and Elisabeth de Saint Pol. They had five children: #John I (d. 1280), Count of Blois #Guy II (d. 1289), Count of Saint Pol #Gaucher (d. 1261), lord of Crécy and Crevecoeur #Hugh (d. 1255) #Basile (d. 1280), became Abbess of Notre Dame du Val in 1248. - Princess Mary Mary Duchess of Gloucester and Edin
The Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (25 April 1776 - 30 April 1857) was a member of the British Royal Family, the eleventh child and fourth daughter of George III. - Brownie Mary
Mary Jane Rathbun (December 22, 1923, Minneapolis, Minnesota - April 10, 1999, Forest Hill, San Francisco, California) popularly known as Brownie Mary, was an American medical cannabis activist. Brownie Mary was famous for baking and distributing Alice B. Toklas brownies and volunteering in the AIDS ward of San Francisco General Hospital. She also helped Dennis Peron establish the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, … - Helen Mary
Helen Mary Innocent (born March 14, 1977 in Kerala) is a female field hockey goalkeeper from India, who made her international debut for her native country in 1992 in the test serie against Germany. In 2003 she saved two penalty strokes in final tie-breaker to win title for India at the Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad. - Mary
According to the New Testament, Mary (Judeo-Aramaic מרים, Maryām, from Hebrew Miriam) was the mother of Jesus of Nazareth; at the time of the Holy Spirit inspiring Mary to conceive a child she was betrothed (or engaged) to Joseph and was a virgin (had she not been considered a virgin, the child would have been conceived out of wedlock). The child was purportedly conceived by the agency of the Holy Spirit, and Mary was a virgin at the time of the birth, … - Saint Joseph
Joseph "of the House of David" (heb."יוֹסֵף" also Saint Joseph, Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph the Worker) was, according to Christian Gospel accounts and tradition, the husband of Mary and the legal father of Jesus of Nazareth, although Christian faith tradition holds that Joseph did not physically beget Jesus, … - John Taylor
John Taylor (November 1, 1808 - July 25, 1887) was the third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. Taylor was born in Milnthorpe, Westmorland (now Cumbria), England, the son of James and Agnes Taylor. He had formal schooling up to age fourteen, and then he served an initial apprenticeship to a cooper and later received training as a woodturner and cabinetmaker. He was christened in the Church of England, … - Tom Arnold
Tom Arnold also known as Thomas Arnold the Younger (1823 - 1900) was a British literary professor. He was the second son of the Rugby School headmaster Thomas Arnold and his elder brother was the poet Matthew Arnold. After taking a first at Oxford University, Arnold grew discontented with Victorian Britain and took up farming in New Zealand. Failing to take to this career, Arnold moved to Tasmania, … - Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey, formally Jane of England, a grand-niece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned Queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days in July 1553. Though Jane's accession, pursuant to the Will of King Edward VI, may have breached the laws of England, many powers of the land proved willing to accept her as Queen of England, even if only as part of a power-struggle to stop Henry's elder daughter, Princess Mary, a Roman Catholic, … - Martha
Martha is a figure mentioned only in the Bible. No other historical detail about her is known. According to the gospel of John, she was the sister of Lazarus and Mary, and she witnessed her brother's resurrection. - Robert King
Robert King (d. 1558) was an English churchman who became the first Bishop of Oxford. He was a Cistercian monk, of Thame Park Abbey, and the last Abbot there, a position he obtained perhaps through the influence of the Bishop of Lincoln, John Longland, as whose prebendary and suffragan bishop he had acted from 1535. This was a move from the position of abbot at Bruerne Abbey. Previously he had been vicar at Charlbury. King became abbot at Oseney Abbey in 1537. - Richard Davies
Richard Davies (c. 1505 - 7 November 1581), Welsh bishop and scholar, was born in north Wales, and was educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford, becoming vicar of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, in 1550. Being a reformer he took refuge at Geneva during the reign of Mary, returning to England and to parochial work after the accession of Elizabeth in 1558. His connection with Wales was renewed almost at once; for, after serving on a commission which visited the Welsh dioceses, he was, … - Mary Of Burgundy
Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, called Mary the Rich (February 13, 1457 - March 27, 1482), Duchess of Burgundy, was the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon. Her mother died in 1465, but Mary was on very good terms with her step-mother Margaret of York, whom Charles married in 1468. - Jack Anderson
Jack Anderson (born 1924) was an American figure skater. He competed in ice dance with his sister Mary. - William Bruce
Sir William Bruce of Kinross, 1st Baronet (1630 - 1710) was a Scottish architect, sometimes viewed as Scotland's first significant architect. He was a key figure in introducing the Palladian style into Scotland, and has been compared to the pioneering English architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. Bruce played a role in the Restoration of Charles II, carrying messages between the exiled king and General Monck, and was rewarded with lucrative official appointments, … - John Radcliffe
John Radcliffe (1652-1714) was a British physician. A number of landmark buildings in Oxford, including the Radcliffe Camera, the Radcliffe Infirmary, and the Radcliffe Observatory were named after him. Radcliffe was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. He graduated from Oxford University, where he was an exhibitioner at University College, to become a Fellow of Lincoln College. - James McCartney
James Louis McCartney was born on 12 September, 1977 in London to Paul McCartney of The Beatles and his first wife, rock photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney. He was named after both his paternal grandfather Jim McCartney and father Paul, (whose birth name is James Paul McCartney), as well as Linda's late mother, heiress Louise Linder Eastman. He is a musician, songwriter and sculptor, living in London, England. - Maria Celeste
Sister Maria Celeste, born Virginia Gamba on August 16, 1600, was the daughter of Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba. She was the eldest of three siblings: sister Livia and brother Vincenzio. All three children were born out of wedlock, and their father considered daughters Virginia and Livia unmarriageable. He entered them into San Matteo convent shortly after Virginia's thirteenth birthday. Virginia chose her new name, Maria Celeste, in honor of the virgin Mary, … - William Stuart
William Stuart (March 1755 - 6 March 1822) was the Bishop of St David's and then Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh from 1800 to his death. He was the son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and his wife, Mary. On 3 May 1796, he married Sophia Penn and had three children: *Mary Juliana Stuart (died 11 July 1866, married Thomas Knox born 19 April 1786-died 21 March 1858, … - Robert Knox
Robert Knox (1641-1720) was an English sea captain in the service of the British East India Company. He was the son of another sea captain, also called Robert Knox. The two Knoxes were driven ashore on Ceylon, now Sri Lanka in a storm in 1659 while on their way home from Fort St George (now Madras). They were captured in the name of the King of Kandy near Mooduthora (Mutur), Trincomalee along with 17 other members of the crew by the Sultan of Ceylon, … - Mary Of Modena
Mary of Modena (5 October 1658 - 7 May 1718) was the queen consort of King James II of England and VII of Scotland. Daughter of Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena and Laura Martinozzi (niece of Jules Cardinal Mazarin), she was born in Modena and christened Maria Beatrice Eleanor Anna Margherita Isabella d'Este. She had a strict Roman Catholic upbringing, and thought briefly of becoming an abbess in an order of nuns founded by her mother. - John Lake
John Lake (1624-1689) was a 17th century Bishop of Sodor and Man, Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Chichester in the British Isles. He was born in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was an ardent Royalist and fought valiantly for the King at Basing House and Wallingford. On leaving the army, Lake entered the Church and rose to become Bishop of Sodor and Man on 7 January 1683. - Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers (July 30, 1763 - December 18, 1855) was an English poet. Rogers was born at Newington Green, London. His father, Thomas Rogers, a banker, was the son of a Stourbridge glass manufacturer, who was also a merchant in Cheapside. Thomas married Mary, the only daughter of his father's partner, Daniel Radford, becoming himself a partner shortly afterwards. On his mother's side Samuel Rogers was connected with the two well-known Nonconformist clergymen, … - Elizabeth Tudor
Elizabeth Tudor (July 2, 1492 - September 14, 1495) was the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth lived much of her short life in the nursery at Eltham Palace in Kent. A marriage to the French prince Francis (later Francis I) was being proposed when she died of atrophy, around six months before the birth of her sister Mary. Elizabeth was buried in Westminster Abbey in the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor. - Thomas Pope
Sir Thomas Pope (c. 1507 - January 29, 1559), founder of Trinity College, Oxford, was born at Deddington, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, probably in 1507, for he was about sixteen years old when his father, a yeoman farmer, died in 1523. He was educated at Banbury school and Eton College, and entered the Court of Chancery. He there found a friend and patron in the lord-chancellor Thomas Audley. As clerk of briefs in the star chamber, warden of the mint (1534-1536), … - John McElroy
John McElroy (1846-1929) was a journalist and author. He wrote "The Red Acorn" and "Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons" (1879) (based on his fourteen month incarceration in the Confederate prison camp of Andersonville). He was the brother-in-law of President Chester A. Arthur, McElroy having married his sister, Mary, who served as First Lady of the United States for her widowed brother - Charles Ingalls
Charles Phillip Ingalls (January 10, 1836, Cuba, New York - June 8, 1902, De Smet, South Dakota) was the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her "Little House on the Prairie" series of books. He was the second of nine children of Landsford and Laura Colby Ingalls. Ingalls is better known as "Pa" from the "Little House on the Prairie" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. - Heather McCartney
Heather Louise McCartney, née Heather Louise See, is the biological daughter of Linda McCartney (née Eastman) and Joseph Melville See Jr., an American geologist. McCartney's parents divorced after only eighteen months of marriage, because See had taken off for Africa and expected his wife and daughter to follow. Linda See refused, and sent a letter to her husband stating that she wanted a divorce. - Mary Mother Of James
Mary was the wife of Zebedee and mother of James the Great in the New Testament. She is commemorated with Joanna and Salome in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod on August 3. - William Hay
William Hay (February 17, 1647 - March 17, 1707, Castlehill, Scotland) was a Scottish clergyman and prelate. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen. He entered the church, receiving holy orders from Patrick Scougal, Bishop of Aberdeen, and took control of Kilconquhar parish church in Fife. He soon moved on to Perth, and in early 1688 was selected to be Bishop of Moray. He was consecrated on February 4, 1688. However, Hay's days as a bishop were not to last long. - Caroline Ingalls
Caroline Lake Ingalls, née Quiner was the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie". She was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin, the fifth of seven children of Henry Quiner and Charlotte (Tucker) Quiner. She may have been the first non-Native child born in what is now the Greater Milwaukee area. She lost her father at the age of five in a shipping accident, reportedly on Lake Michigan, near the Straits of Mackinac. - Aaron Ruell
Aaron Ruell (born June 23, 1976) is an American actor who grew up in Clovis, California, and is most noted for his performance as Kipland Ronald Dynamite (or Kip) in the indie movie "Napoleon Dynamite". He also shot all of the promotional photography for the film as well as designing the opening title sequence to the film. Ruell stars in, "On the Road With Judas," premiering in the Dramatic Competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, … - Mary Of Clopas
Mary of Clopas was one of various Maries named in the New Testament. Mary of Clopas is explictely mentioned only in, where she is among the women present at the Crucifixion: :"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary [the wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene." The expression "Mary of Clopas" in the Greek text is ambiguous as to whether Mary was the daughter or wife of Clopas, … - Anne Hyde
Lady Anne Hyde (March 1637 - 31 March 1671), daughter of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and his wife, Frances Aylesbury, became the first wife of James, Duke of York (the future King James II of England and VII of Scotland), and the mother of two queens, Mary II of England and Anne of Great Britain. She was born, on either 12 March or 22 March 1637, at Windsor, Berkshire, to Frances (daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, … - James, Son Of Alphaeus
James, son of Alphaeus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus of Nazareth. He is mentioned only briefly in the Synoptic Gospels. "The son of Alphaeus" appears in the slightly varying lists of the Twelve Apostles provided by the Synoptic Gospels, as well as in the Acts of the Apostles. James is the son of Alphaeus and a possible brother of the Apostle Matthew though they are never described as such. James is clearly distinguished from James, son of Zebedee, … - Yves Congar
Yves Marie Joseph Cardinal Congar (April 8, 1904-June 22, 1995) was a French Dominican priest and theologian. Born in Sedan, in northeast France, in 1904, Congar's home was occupied by the Germans for much of World War I. During this time he kept extensive diaries recording the occupation. He spent several years as a prisoner of war during World War II after being drafted into the French army as a chaplain. - Eileen O'Brien
Eileen O'Brien is an English actress who currently appears in ITV soap opera "Emmerdale" as teacher Bridget Burgess. During the 1980s O'Brien had a recurring role in the BBC soap opera, "EastEnders". She played Edie Smith, the mother of Linda Davidson's character, Mary, from 1987-1988. She has also appeared in "Casualty", "Doctors", "The Royal", "Where the Heart Is", "Brookside", … - Jack Pickford
Jack Pickford (August 18, 1896 - January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor. - Edward Vernon
Edward Vernon ("Old Grog") (12 November 1684-30 October 1757) was an English naval officer. Born in Westminster, London, Vernon was the second son of James Vernon, secretary of state to William III. Vernon attended Westminster School, then joined the Royal Navy on 10 May 1700 as a Volunteer on HMS "Shrewsbury". In March 1701, he was transferred to HMS "Ipswich" and three months later, joined HMS "Mary".
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