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Betty Askwith
Betty Ellen Askwith (26 June 1909 – 10 April 1995) was an English writer and biographer. Personal life Betty Ellen Askwith was born on 26 June 1909 in Chelsea, London, the only daughter of the first Lord Askwith and Ellen Graham (née Peel). George Askwith had been Chief Industrial Commissioner before the First World War, and her mother was a descendant of Sir Robert Peel. Both Askwith's parents were published writers, and she showed a passion for writing from a young age. Her first book of poems was published in 1928, when Askwith was 19, and a second followed in 1931. Although Askwith attended the Lycée Francais, she never went to university. Askwith married Keith Miller Jones, a solicitor, in 1950, and the couple lived in Egerton Terrace, London. Jones died in 1978. Career During a career spanning fifty years, Askwith published poems, novels, and biographies. In the 1930s, with her friend Theodora Benson, Askwith wrote three humorous books: ''Foreigners, or the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea, London
Chelsea is an area in West London, England, due south-west of Kilometre zero#Great Britain, Charing Cross by approximately . It lies on the north bank of the River Thames and for postal purposes is part of the SW postcode area, south-western postal area. Chelsea historically formed a manor and parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex, which became the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea in 1900. It merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington, forming the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea upon the creation of Greater London in 1965. The exclusivity of Chelsea as a result of its high property prices historically resulted in the coining of the term "Sloane Ranger" in the 1970s to describe some of its residents, and some of those of nearby areas. Chelsea is home to one of the largest communities of Americans living outside the United States, with 6.53% of Chelsea residents having been born in the U.S. History Early history The word ''Chelsea'' (also formerly ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward White Benson
Edward White Benson (14 July 1829 – 11 October 1896) was archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 until his death. Before this, he was the first Bishop of Truro, serving from 1877 to 1883, and began construction of Truro Cathedral. He was previously a schoolmaster and was the first Master of Wellington College, Berkshire, Wellington College from 1859 to 1872. Life Edward White Benson was born at Lombard Street in Highgate, Birmingham, on 14 July 1829, the eldest of eight children of chemical manufacturer Edward White Benson senior (26 August 1802 – 7 February 1843) and his wife Harriet Baker Benson (13 June 1805 – 29 May 1850). He was baptised in St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, on 31 March 1830. The family moved to Wychbold when his father became manager of the British Alkali Works at Stoke Prior, Worcestershire. From 1840, he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA (8th in the Classical tripos) in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Lycée Français Charles De Gaulle
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughters Of Barons
A daughter is a female offspring; a girl or a woman in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state, condition or quality of being someone's daughter. The male counterpart is a son. Analogously the name is used in several areas to show relations between groups or elements. From biological perspective, a daughter is a first degree relative. The word daughter also has several other connotations attached to it, one of these being used in reference to a female descendant or consanguinity. It can also be used as a term of endearment coming from an elder. In patriarchal societies, daughters often have different or lesser familial rights than sons. A family may prefer to have sons rather than daughters and subject daughters to female infanticide. In some societies, it is the custom for a daughter to be 'sold' to her husband, who must pay a bride price. The reverse of this custom, where the parents pay the husband a sum of money to compensate for the financial burden of the wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Births
Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across drift ice, ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition, ''Nimrod'' Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the Farthest South, farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies. * January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established. * January 16 – Members of the ''Nimrod'' Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect). * January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic (1903), RMS ''Republic'' sinks the day after a collision with ''SS Florida'' off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued. * January 28 – The last United States t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Wagner
Dame Gillian Mary Millicent Wagner (née Graham; born 25 October 1927) is a British writer, philanthropist and social administrator, and formerly chair of the children’s charity Barnardo’s, the Thomas Coram Foundation and the Carnegie Trust. She has published biographical and historical works, as well as reports on social care. Early life and education Gillian Mary Millicent Graham was born in London in 1927, the daughter of Major Henry Archibald Roger Graham and Hon. Margaret Beatrice Lopes. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and the University of Geneva, and later did a diploma in social administration at the London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ..., and subsequently a Ph.D., ''Dr Barnardo and the Charity Organisation Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith
George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith, Order of the Bath, KCB, King's Counsel, KC (17 February 1861 – 2 June 1942), known as Sir George Askwith between 1911 and 1919, was an England, English lawyer, civil servant, and industrial arbitrator. Early life Askwith was from an old Yorkshire family, the great-grandson of William Askwith, Mayor of Ripon. He was the son of Gen. William Harrison Askwith and his wife, Elizabeth Ranken, daughter of London merchant George Ranken. He was educated at Marlborough College and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1880, graduating B.A. in 1884 and M.A. in 1887. He was Call to the Bar, called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1886. At the start of his legal career, Askwith was in the legal chambers of Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, Sir Henry James. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1908. Public life In 1899 Askwith was one of the counsel in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895, Venezuelan arbitration case. In 1907 he entered the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia Dilke
Emilia Francis Strong (2 September 1840, Ilfracombe, Devon – 23 October 1904), better known as Emilia, Lady Dilke, was a British author, art historian, feminist, suffragist and trade unionist. Early life and family Emilia Francis Strong was born in 1840. She was the daughter of East India Company officer Henry Strong and his wife Emily Strong ( Weedon). She was called by her middle name, with its masculine spelling, during her childhood and youth. Her middle name was in honour of her godfather. She was raised in Iffley, near Oxford, and was educated by governesses before attending the South Kensington Art School in London in her late teens. She married Mark Pattison, the humanist rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1861. She was known after her marriage as Francis Pattison, Mrs. Mark Pattison, or, in some of her publications, as E. F. S. Pattison. She was much younger than her husband and they had an age gap of 27 years. Dilke was a close friend of George Eliot, and her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Information (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a Departments of the United Kingdom Government, United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the World War I, First World War and again during the World War II, Second World War. Located in Senate House (University of London), Senate House at the University of London during the 1940s, it was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda. The MOI was dissolved in March 1946, with its residual functions passing to the Central Office of Information (COI); which was itself dissolved in December 2011 due to the reforming of the organisation of government communications. First World War Before the Lloyd George War Cabinet was formed in 1917, there was no full centralised coordination of public information and censorship. Even under the War Cabinet, there were still many overlapping departments involved. The Admiralty, War Office and Press Committee (AWOPC) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
