Katherine Wilson (other)
Katherine or Catherine Wilson may refer to: *Catherine Wilson (1822–1862), British woman hanged for murder *Catherine Wilson (philosopher), British philosopher * Catherine Stubblefield Wilson, American child pornographer *Katherine Austen (née Wilson; 1629–c.1683), writer *Katherine Sheppard (née Wilson; 1848–1934), suffragette in New Zealand *Marie Wilson (American actress) (Katherine Elisabeth Wilson; 1916–1972), American radio, film actress See also * Kate Wilson (other) *Wilson (surname) Wilson is an English, Scottish, and Northern Irish surname, common in the English-speaking world, with several distinct origins. The name is derived from a patronymic form of ''Will'', a popular medieval name. The medieval ''Will'' is derived fro ...

Catherine Wilson
Catherine Wilson (1822 – 20 October 1862) was a British murderer who was hanged for one murder, but was generally thought at the time to have committed six others. She worked as a nurse and poisoned her victims after encouraging them to leave their money to her in their wills. She was described privately by the sentencing judge as "the greatest criminal that ever lived". Crimes Wilson worked as a nurse, first in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and then moving to Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria. She married a man called Dixon but her husband soon died, probably poisoned with colchicum, a bottle of which was found in his room. The doctor recommended an autopsy but Wilson begged him not to perform it, and he backed down. In 1862 Wilson worked as a live-in nurse, nursing a Mrs Sarah Carnell, who rewrote her will in favour of Wilson; soon afterwards, Wilson brought her a "soothing draught", saying "Drink it down, love, it will warm you." Carnell took a mouthful and spat it out, complaining that ...
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Catherine Wilson (philosopher)
Catherine Warren Wilson (born 28 March 1951) is a British/American/Canadian philosopher. She was formerly Anniversary Professor at the University of York and from 2009 to 2012 the Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is known for her interdisciplinary studies of visuality, moral psychology and aesthetics, and especially early microscopy and Epicurean atomism and materialism. Biography Wilson was born in New York into a family of scientists and mathematicians. She attended a Quaker boarding school in Westtown, Pennsylvania, and attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, before transferring to Yale University in 1969. She took a B.Phil. in philosophy with Gareth Evans and Peter Seuren at Oxford in 1974 and a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton in 1977. After holding academic posts in the US and Canada, and fellowships at Cambridge University and in Konstanz and Berlin, she moved to the UK in 2009. She was Anniversary Professor of Philosophy ...
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Catherine Stubblefield Wilson
Catherine Stubblefield Wilson (born 1940) is a convicted American child pornographer who operated one of the largest child pornography distribution networks in U.S. history. From 1963 to 1982, Wilson's operation controlled up to 80 percent of the child pornography circulating in the United States, earning her the label "Kiddie Porn Queen". Her $500,000-a-year mail-order business, run from her home in the exclusive Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, catered to over 30,000 customers worldwide. Wilson ran the largest child pornography mail-order network, which catered to more than 30,000 customers worldwide. Her operation generated over $500,000 per year, making it one of the most profitable and far-reaching illegal enterprises of its kind. In May 1982, Wilson was arrested and later sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on 15 counts of distributing pornography and violating the Child Protection Act of 1984 A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth ...
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Katherine Austen
Katherine Austen (née Wilson; 1629 – ca. 1683) was a British diarist and poet best known for ''Book M'', her manuscript collection of meditations, journal entries, and verse. She also wrote the country-house poem, "On the Situation of Highbury" (1665). Personal life Early life Katherine Wilson was one of at least seven children born to Katherine Wilson (née Rudd; d. 1648) and her husband Robert Wilson (d. 1639), a draper. After her father's death, her mother remarried John Highlord, an Alderman of the City of London and a Committee member of the East India Company, thereby raising the family's status. Austen lived in London through the period of the Civil War and Restoration. She married Thomas Austen (1622–1658), barrister, also from a wealthy family, on 10 July 1645. Her husband would seem to have shared her social ambitions; however, he died at the age of thirty-six in 1658 and left Katherine, under the age of thirty, with three young children and the complicated ...
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Katherine Sheppard
Katherine Wilson Sheppard ( Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1868. There she became an active member of various religious and social organisations, including the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ). In 1887 she was appointed the WCTU NZ's National Superintendent for Franchise and Legislation, a position she used to advance the cause of women's suffrage in New Zealand. Kate Sheppard promoted women's suffrage by organising petitions and public meetings, by writing letters to the press, and by developing contacts with politicians. She was the editor of ''The White Ribbon'', the first woman-operated newspaper in New Zealand. Through her skilful writing and persuasive public speaking, she successfully advocated women's suffrage. Her pamphlets ' ...
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Marie Wilson (American Actress)
Marie Wilson (born Katherine Elizabeth Wilson; August 19, 1916 – November 23, 1972) was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in '' My Friend Irma''. Early life Wilson was born in Anaheim, California, on August 19, 1916. Her nickname at Anaheim High School was "Maybelle". Wilson graduated from high school in 1933. Career Radio Although Wilson was afraid of the microphone used in radio, she played scatterbrained Irma Peterson in the radio comedy '' My Friend Irma'' from April 11, 1947, to August 23, 1954. Film Wilson began her career in Hollywood in the 1934 film ''Down to Their Last Yacht'' as a ship passenger, and then appeared in '' Babes in Toyland'' as Mary Quite Contrary. Wilson appeared in '' Ladies Crave Excitement'' (1935), ''The Girl Friend'' (1935), '' Stars Over Broadway'' (1935), '' Miss Pacific Fleet'' (1935), '' The Big Noise'' (1936), '' Melody for Two'' (1937), '' Boy Meets Girl'' (1938), '' Swee ...
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Kate Wilson (other)
Kate Wilson may refer to: *Kate Wilson (scientist), Australian scientist *Kate Wilson (swimmer) (born 1998), Australian Paralympic swimmer *Kate Wilson (The Passage), fictional character *Kate Wilson in Hydrophobia (video game) *Kate Wilson-Smith, badminton player See also *Katherine Wilson (other) *Katie Wilson Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine, Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports * Katie Boulter (born 1996), British tennis player * Katie Clark (born 1994), B ...