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Georgiana
Georgiana is a Catalan, English, Greek and Romanian name. It is the feminine form of the male name George and a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word (), meaning "farmer". A variant spelling is Georgianna. List of persons with the given name Georgiana *Georgiana Astley (1796–1835), English daughter of Sir Henry Dashwood, MP *Georgiana Birțoiu (born 1989), Romanian footballer * Georgiana Blankenship (1861–1936), American writer * Georgiana Bloomfield, Baroness Bloomfield (1822–1905), British courtier and author * Georgiana Bonser (1898–1979), British physician *Georgiana Buller (1884–1953), English hospital administrator *Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), artist, wife and biographer of Edward Burne-Jones *Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) *Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), English aristocrat, traveler, and author *Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, (1764–1838) *Lady Georgian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer; ; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), was an English aristocrat, socialite, political organiser, author, and activist. Born into the Spencer family, married into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. The Duchess was famous for her charisma, political influence, beauty, unusual marital arrangement, love affairs, socializing, and notoriety for her gambling addiction, leading to an immense debt. She was the great-great-great-grandaunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. Their lives, two centuries apart, have been compared in tragedy. Early life and family The Duchess was born Miss Georgiana Spencer, on 7 June 1757, as the first child of John Spencer (later Earl Spencer) and his wife, Georgiana (née Poyntz, later Countess Spencer), at the Spencer family home, Althorp. After her daughter's birth, her mother Lady Spencer wrote that " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana McCrae
Georgiana Huntly McCrae (15 March 1804 – 24 May 1890) was an English-Australian painter and diarist. Early life Born in London, McCrae was the illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, the Marquess of Huntly, son and heir to Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon. Her mother was Jane Graham, about whom little is known: ‘whether she was a housemaid or a milliner, a singer or an actress, she did not belong to Lord Huntly’s world’. Her father, although he publicly acknowledged her, played little part in her life but he financially supported her mother. Some of her early life was spent time in Scotland, with her first memories of playing with rocks in Newhaven, Edinburgh. By the end of 1806 she was back in London, where she was baptised on 6 October at St James's Church, Piccadilly. By 1809, Georgiana and her mother had moved to Somers Town, a district of London where she began her education at a convent school. Somers Town was full of French refugees from the French Revolution som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Burne-Jones
Georgiana, Lady Burne-Jones (''née'' MacDonald; 21 July 1840 – 2 February 1920) was a British painter and engraver, and the second oldest of the MacDonald sisters. She was married to the Late Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, and was also the mother of painter Philip Burne-Jones, aunt of novelist Rudyard Kipling and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, confidante and friend of George Eliot, William Morris, and John Ruskin. She was a Trustee of the South London Gallery and was elected to the parish Council of Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex. She is known for the biography of her husband, ''The Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones'' and for publishing his '' Flower Book''. She became the mother-in-law of John William Mackail, who married her daughter Margaret. Their children were the novelists Angela Thirkell, Denis Mackail and Clare Mackail. Early life Georgiana, always called "Georgie", was born in Birmingham on 21 July 1840, one of eight surviving children born to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Chatterton
Georgiana, Lady Chatterton, later Mrs Dering (''née'' Iremonger; 11 November 1806 – 6 February 1876) was an English aristocrat, traveller, and author. Her first Travel literature, travelogue, ''Rambles in the South of Ireland,'' was published in 1839. Life Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Iremonger was born at 24 Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London, on 11 November 1806, the only child of the Rev. Lascelles Iremonger (died 6 January 1830), a prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, and his second wife, the former Harriett Gambier, youngest sister of Admiral James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Lord James Gambier. Her mother's family had been acquainted with Samuel Johnson, William Wilberforce, Germaine de Staël, Madame de Staël, Joshua Reynolds, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Hannah More, among other public figures, who visited their seat at Barham Court."MEMOIRS OF GEORGIANA, LADY CHATTERTON." The Catholic World, A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science (1865-1906), vol. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Georgiana Fullerton
Lady Georgiana Fullerton (; 23 September 1812 – 19 January 1885) was an English novelist, philanthropist, biographer, and school founder. She was born into a noble political family. She was one of the foremost Roman Catholic novelists writing in England during the nineteenth century. Biography Lady Georgiana Fullerton, born as Lady Georgiana Charlotte Leveson-Gower, was born at home in Tixall Gatehouse, Tixall Hall, Staffordshire, England. She was the second daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, the first Earl of Granville, and Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, Lady Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish. She was baptized in the Anglicanism, Anglican faith on 10 October 1812, in Tixall Hall, where her family was staying at the time. For many of her younger years, she resided in Paris, where her father served as the English ambassador. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Bonser
Georgiana May Bonser (; 5 May 1898 – 9 June 1979) was a British physician and researcher in cancer at the University of Leeds, and consultant at St James's Hospital. She was Manchester Royal Infirmary's first woman house surgeon and later the first woman chairman of the Leeds Division of the British Medical Association. Bonser's early research focussed on lung cancer in Leeds, hereditary factors in breast cancer, and testicular cancer in York's blast furnace workers. She developed strains of inbred mice and led early investigations into whether chemicals used in the dyeing industry caused bladder cancer. Later, the UK government asked her to look at the risk of cancers from food additives and preservatives. Between 1959 and 1960, Bonser was president of the Medical Women's Federation. Following her retirement in 1963, she continued to be involved at her university's cancer research centre and in the breast clinic at Leeds General Infirmary. In 1966, she delivered the Goul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Klingle Holmes
Georgiana Klingle Holmes (November 4, 1841 - April 22, 1940) was an American poet and painter. She founded the Arthur's Home For Destitute Boys and the LaRue Holmes Nature Lovers' League, both in memory of her sons, who died young. Early life Georgiana Klingle was born on November 4, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of George Franklin Klingle (1796-1840), M.D. and Mary Hunt Morris (1812-1897). Mary Hunt Morris was the daughter of William H. Morris and Catherine Tiers of New York City. She descended from Lewis Morris (governor), Lewis Morris, of List of United States political families (M)#The Morrises of Morrisania and New Jersey, Morrisania, Pennsylvania, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Once widow, Mary Hunt Morris Klingle married John Haas, of Philadelphia, who raised Georgiana Klingle as his daughter. Georgiana Klingle father's ancestry is found in Upper Saxony. Hans George Klingle, her great-grandfather, arrived in the United States in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Hill
Georgiana Hill (8 December 1858 – 29 March 1924), was a British social historian, journalist, and women's rights activist. Early life Georgiana Hill was born on 8 December 1858, at 9 Mount View, Lambeth, London, the younger of two daughters of George Hill (1822–1897), a master printer, journalist, and newspaper publisher, and his wife, Emily, née Kitson (1815–1894). George Hill was the founder and editor of the local newspaper, the '' Westminster and Lambeth Gazette'', and was a local political activist, including being the representative for Lambeth on the Metropolitan Board of Works. Career Neither Hill nor her older sister, Emily Hill (1851/52–1936) ever married, and they worked and lived together until Hill's death in 1924. Georgiana and Emily Hill were active in an extensive array of social and philanthropic movements, and actively participated in their father's business. They worked as journalist, and also trained other women in composition, proof-reading, journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Harcourt
Georgiana Charlotte Frances Harcourt (1807IGI: Baptism: 27 July 1807 Georgiana Charlotte Frances Harcourt at Parish Church, Dalston, Cumberland, England to Edward Harcourt and Anne Leveson-Gower – 29 October 1886 Burkes Peerage ) was the daughter of the Archbishop of York. Her correspondence has been published, but she is primarily known for the novels of Gustav Freytag and the theological works she translated from German originals. Her husband, General Malcolm had a distinguished career in the British army. Biography Harcourt was born shortly before her baptism on 27 July 1807 in Dalston, Cumberland. She was the youngest daughter of 16 children of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, the incumbent Bishop of Carlisle, and his wife, Lady Anne Leveson-Gower. She would later live at Bishopthorpe Palace, the official residence of the Archbishop of York. On 12 September 1835, when Princess Victoria visited Harewood House in Yorkshire with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, she attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Houghton
Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) was a British artist and spiritualist medium. Biography Houghton was born in 1814 in Spain, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, but later moved to London. She produced her first abstract works, then referred to as 'spirit' drawings, in 1859 at private séances. She exhibited a collection of abstract watercolour drawings to the public at an exhibition at the New British Gallery in Bond Street, London in 1871. Houghton became associated with the spirit photographer Frederick Hudson to sell reproductions of his photographs. In 1882, Houghton published ''Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye''. The book included alleged spirit photographs from Hudson and other photographers featuring mediums such as Agnes Guppy-Volckman, Stainton Moses and spiritualists Alfred Russel Wallace and William Howitt. The photographs in the book were criticized by magic historian Albert A. Hopkins. He noted that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Goddard King
Georgiana Goddard King (August 5, 1871 – May 4, 1939) was an American pioneer Hispanist and medievalist, as well as a photographer and teacher at Bryn Mawr College, where she was educated (B.A. 1896), and later taught creating the Department of Art History, the first in the United States that specialized in Spanish art. Biography King was born August 5, 1871, in West Columbia, West Virginia. She was a member of the Hispanic Society of America and of the Royal Galician Academy. She was a traveling companion of M. Carey Thomas and had a friendship with Gertrude Stein. King died on May 4, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, and is buried in the cloisters of Bryn Mawr College's Old Library (previously M. Carey Thomas Library and College Hall). Selected works Books * ''Comedies and Legends for Marionettes: A Theatre for Boys and Girls'' (1904) * ''The Way of Perfect Love'' (1908). * George Edmund Street, ''Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain'' (1914, edited and enlarged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Georgiana Curzon
Lady Georgiana Mary Curzon Kidston, Lady Starkey (7 January 1910 – 11 January 1976) was an English socialite, included in '' The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton. Early life Lady Georgiana Mary Curzon was born in 1910 at Curzon House (21 Curzon Street), Mayfair,''1911 England Census''Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 the daughter of Viscount Howe (later 5th Earl Howe) and Mary, Viscountess Howe, first cousins who married in 1907 and divorced in 1937. Her older brother was Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. Her paternal grandparents were Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe and, his first wife, Lady Georgiana Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill (fifth daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Vane). Her mother was the only daughter of Esmé FitzRoy and Col. Montagu Curzon (the eldest son, by his second wife, of Richard Curz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
