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Georgiana Studio Of Design
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] |
Greek Language
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the list of languages by first written accounts, longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marchioness Of Cholmondeley
Georgiana Charlotte Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley ( ; 7 August 1764 – 23 June 1838), formerly Lady Georgiana Charlotte Bertie, was the wife of George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley. She was the daughter of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and his second wife Mary. She married the marquess, then still an earl, on 25 April 1791 in London. They had three children:G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 128. *Lady Charlotte Georgiana Cholmondeley (February 1795 – 24 June 1828), who married Lt.-Col. Hugh Henry Seymour, son of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, and had children * George Horatio Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Lobonț
Georgiana Maria Lobonț (born 9 April 1994) is a Romanian singer. Life and career Lobonț was born on 9 April 1994 in Gherla, Cluj County. She began singing at the age of 4 and first performed in the children's competition "Tip Top Mini Top". She graduated from the folk art school "Tudor Jarda" in Cluj-Napoca with a focus on folk singing. In 2016, she also completed a law degree at Babeș-Bolyai University. Lobonț made her official debut in 2005 in the television show "Tezaur Folcloric". In 2010, she released her first folk music album entitled "Mi-o spus frunza fagului". Her big breakthrough came in 2017 with the album "Vin nuntașii după mine", which included the successful songs "Bârgăuanul" and "Jupâneasa". Personal life Since 2016, Lobonț has been married to Rareș Ciciovan, who also acts as her manager. The couple have two children. Ciciovan gave up his career as a dentist to devote himself entirely to his wife's management. Discography Studio albums * 2020: ''Tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiana Leicester, Baroness De Tabley
Georgiana Maria Leicester, Lady de Tabley (née Cottin, 1794–1859) was an English aristocrat, and the wife of John Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley. Married in 1810, the couple resided at the Leicester country estate Tabley House in Cheshire, where they raised two sons. Following Lord de Tabley's death in 1827, Lady Georgina formed a close relationship with her late husband's nephew, Reverend Frederick Leicester, who had recently joined the household as a clergyman. Their controversial decision to marry him in 1828, at a time when aunt-nephew unions were prohibited by the Church of England, ignited scandal but did not permanently damage Lady Georgina's standing among the aristocracy. She retained the title of Lady De Tabley until she died in 1859. Early life and first marriage Georgiana Mary Cottin was born on February 28, 1794, in London to Josiah Cottin, a captain in the 10th Light Dragoons, and Lavinia Cottin (née Chambers). Her father was descended from a French Huguenot ... [...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] |
Georgiana Keate
Georgiana Jane Henderson or Georgiana Keate (1771 (probably) – 8 January 1850) was an UK, English painter. She sat for two noted portraits and was the daughter and mother of other noted artists. Life Keate is thought to have been born in 1771 but it is not certain. Her father was George Keate and her mother was Jane Catharine (born Hudson) and her uncle was Sir Charles Hudson, 1st Baronet, Sir Charles Grave Hudson, bart. In 1785 she painted "Mr Biggin and Mrs Sage ascending from St Georges Fields in Lunardis Balloon 29 June 1785" which records a balloon flight. The picture is now held by the Royal Astronomical Society. She met Prince Lee Boo who had come from what was then called the Palau, Pelew Islands. He died from smallpox. Her father decided to write his story ''An Account of the Pelew Islands...'' Georgiana recreated his portrait fifteen months after his death. This portrait was the basis of Henry Kingsbury's engraving in the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Po ... [...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 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 Finch-Hatton, Countess Of Winchilsea
Georgiana Charlotte Finch-Hatton (or Finch), Countess of Winchilsea (3 June 1791 – 13 February 1835), formerly Lady Georgiana Charlotte Graham, was the first wife of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea. Early life She was born at Petersham, London, Petersham, the daughter of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, and his wife, Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose, the former Lady Caroline Maria Montagu, daughter of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, 4th Duke of Manchester and Elizabeth Montagu, Duchess of Manchester, Elizabeth Dashwood. Georgiana's siblings included Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis, Lady Emily Foley and James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose. Her paternal grandparents were William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose and the former Lady Lucy Manners (daughter of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland). Her other relations included her mother's first cousin, Susan Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Duchess of Marlborough (through Dashwoods) and her mother' ... [...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] |
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] |
