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Lettice
Lettice is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Lettice Boyle, wife of George Goring, Lord Goring *Lettice Bryan (1805–1877), American author *Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), English writer * Lettice Curtis (1915–2014), English woman aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot and sportswoman *Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly (1580–1658), Irish peeress and landowner *Lettice Digby (scientist) (1877–1972), British cytologist, botanist and malacologist *Lettice D'Oyly Walters (1880–1940), English writer *Lettice Fisher (1875–1956), English economist and historian * Lettice Jowitt (1878–1962), English Quaker educationalist *Lettice Knollys (1543–1634), mother of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth I's courtier * Lettice Lee (1731–1776), Colonial American society hostess *Lettice Mary Tredway (1595–1677), English abbess *Lettice Paget, Baroness Paget (1583–1655), English noblewoman born to Sir Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice And Lovage
''Lettice and Lovage'' is a comical and satirical play by Peter Shaffer.''A Dictionary of Writers and their Works'' (2 ed.) (2012) Oxford University Press; It is centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who butts heads with a fact-conscious official at the house. The play was written specifically for Dame Maggie Smith, who originated the title role of Lettice Douffet in both the English and American runs of the production. The role of Lotte Schoen was played by Margaret Tyzack. Following a tour of provincial theatres, the play was produced in London in 1987. Its two-year run of 768 performances at the Globe Theatre counts as one of the longer runs in London theatrical history. After a year in the West End play, Smith and Tyzack were replaced by Geraldine McEwan and Sara Kestelman. The play was revised by Shaffer in 1988. The first American production opened on March 13, 1990, with a preview performance of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Knollys
Lettice Knollys ( , sometimes latinized as Laetitia, alias Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester (8 November 1543Adams 2008a – 25 December 1634), was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Penelope Rich. By her second marriage to Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, she incurred the Queen's unrelenting displeasure. A grandniece of Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, and close to Elizabeth since childhood, Lettice Knollys was introduced early into court life. At 17 she married Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford, who in 1572 became Earl of Essex. After her husband went to Ireland in 1573, she possibly became involved with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. There was plenty of scandalous talk, not least when Essex died in Ireland of dysentery in 1576. Two years later Lettice Knollys married Robert Dudley in private. When the Queen was told of the marriage, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly
Lettice FitzGerald, 1st Baroness Offaly (c. 1580 – 1 December 1658) was an Irish noblewoman and a member of the FitzGerald dynasty. Although she became heiress-general to the Earls of Kildare on the death of her father, the title instead went to the next FitzGerald male heir when her grandfather, the 11th Earl of Kildare, died in 1585. In 1620, she was created ''suo jure'' Baroness Offaly by King James I of England. She was the wife of Sir Robert Digby, a landed English aristocrat by whom she had ten children. They were a notoriously litigious couple, who spent many years asserting their rights before numerous courts, and were quite prepared to accuse even their closest relatives of wrongdoing. In early 1642, around the age of about sixty-two, her castle of Geashill was besieged by a force of insurgents from the O'Dempsey clan; she managed to hold out against them until October 1642. Her defence has been described as having been the "most spirited episode in the histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Curtis
Eleanor Lettice Curtis (1 February 1915 – 21 July 2014) was an English aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot, and sportswoman. Origins Curtis was born on 1 February 1915 at Denbury in Devon, a daughter of Eleanor Francis (née Master) and Walter Septimus Curtis (born 1871) of Denbury House. Her father was lord of the manor of Denbury, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn Burke's ''Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry'', 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, 1937, p.544, pedigree of "Curtis of Denbury Manor" and a grandson of Matthew Curtis (1807–1887) of Thornfield in the parish of Heaton Mersey, Lancashire, a leading manufacturer of cotton-spinning machinery in Britain and thrice Mayor of Manchester. She had one brother and five sisters. Early life Curtis was educated at Benenden School and St Hilda's College, Oxford where, in addition to studying Mathematics, she was Captain of the University Women's Lawn Tennis and Fencing teams. She al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Ramsey
Lettice Ramsey (2 August 1898 – 12 July 1985) was a British photographer. Life Lettice Cautley Ramsey (née Baker) was born on 2 August 1898 in Guildford, Surrey, England. Her father Cecil was a surveyor and her mother Frances (née Davies-Colley) was a painter, trained at the Slade. The Baker family moved to County Sligo, Ireland, soon after Lettice's birth, where Cecil Baker had leased rights to oyster farming in the estuary near Rosses Point. Ramsey's father died when she was a small child; her mother remarried in 1915. She attended Bedales, then Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied philosophy. After working for a brief time in vocational guidance in London, she returned to Cambridge to work in the Psychology Library. In 1925, she married mathematician Frank P. Ramsey, and they had two daughters before his early death in 1930 from liver disease. To support her family, Ramsey took a photography course at Regent Street Polytechnic. Introduced to photographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lettice
John Lettice (27 December 1737 – 18 October 1832) was an English clergyman, translator, academic, and author. Lettice served as vicar of Peasmarsh, East Sussex. He was prebendary of Chichester Cathedral, chaplain to the Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton from 1804 to 1832, and was fellow and tutor of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.Staff report (November 1832). Obituary – Rev. John Lettice, D. D. ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Volume 102, Part 2; Volume 152 Life and career Lettice was born at Rushden in Northamptonshire. His father was Rector of Strixton and Vicar of Bozeat. His mother Mary (née Newcome) was the daughter of Richard Newcome, rector of Wymington. He attended Oakham School from 1752 until his admission to Sidney Sussex College in 1756. An inheritance upon his father's death allowed him to continue his studies. Lettice ultimately received a Doctor of Divinity. After earning a master's degree and winning the Seatonian Prize in 1764 for his poem called "The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Digby (scientist)
Lettice Digby (31 July 1877 – 27 November 1972) was a British cytologist, botanist and malacologist. Her work provided the first demonstration that a fertile polyploid hybrid had formed between two cultivated plant species. Education and personal life Digby was born on 31 July 1877 in Chelsea, London, UK. She was the second of the four children of Sir Kenelm Edward Digby and Hon. Caroline Strutt who had married on 30 August 1870. She studied at the Royal College of Science. By 1907 she was living in Kingsford, Colchester, and she died in Colchester, Essex, UK on 27 November 1972. Scientific career Digby was active in research within both botany and malacology, where she applied the technologies of cytology. Her application of cytology to the Kew primrose (''Primula kewensis'') provided the first example of a polyploid hybrid to be recorded. This fertile polyploid species arose through chromosome doubling in an otherwise infertile hybrid. The fertile polyploid with 36 chromo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Sandford
Lettice Sandford (born Lettice Mackintosh Rate; 1902–1993) was a draftsman, wood-engraver, pioneer corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist of her beloved Herefordshire. She was a daughter of Lachlan Mackintosh Rate of Milton Court, Surrey, a director of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, the central bank of the Ottoman Empire, and wife of Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, for which she provided wood-engravings. She was the mother of playwright Jeremy Sandford. References * Obituary, ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ... '', 15 December 1993. * Sandford, Christopher & Sandford, Lettice: ''The Magic Forest : a story'' ith wood engravings London: Chiswick Press, 1931. * Sandford, Lettice: ''Coo my Doo''. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice D'Oyly Walters
Lettice D’Oyly Walters (September 24, 1880 – February 3, 1940) was an English writer and editor. In addition to publishing chapbooks of her own poetry, she edited two volumes of poems in collaboration with Irish artists and writers, including ''The Year’s at the Spring'' (1920) and ''Irish Poets of To-day'' (1921). Later, she founded Swan Press in Chelsea, London. Early life Walters was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England on September 24, 1880 to Colonel Charles D’Oyly Harmar (1844-1922) and Alice Mary, nee Byas (1848-1924).“Charles D. Harmar” (1891). ''Census return for Ramridge House, Weyhill, Penton Grafton, Andover, Hampshire.'' National Archives, Kew'':'' RG 12/964, folio 13, p. 3. Available atFindmypast Retrieved July 8, 2022. Her siblings were: * Fairlie Harmar (1876–1945), painter, Viscountess Harberton * Charles D'Oyly Walters (1878-1963), later Major D’Oyly Harmar, Royal Marines * Phillis Cowlard, nee Harmar (1889-1966). Phillis was painted by Fairlie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Fisher
Lettice Fisher ( Ilbert; 14 June 1875 – 14 February 1956) was the founder of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, now known as Gingerbread. She was also an economist and a historian. Background and education Lettice Ilbert was born on 14 June 1875 in Kensington, London to Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert and his wife, Jessie. She was educated at Francis Holland School, London and Somerville College, Oxford, where she was awarded a first in modern history in 1897. She worked as a researcher at the London School of Economics from 1897 to 1898. From 1902 to 1913, she taught history at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and she also taught economics for the Association for the Higher Education of Women in Oxford. Whilst at Oxford, Fisher was also involved in voluntary work in housing, public health and child welfare. She was an active suffragist, chairing the national executive of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1916 to 1918. She r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Lee
Laetitia "Lettice" Lee, also known as Lettice Lee Wardrop Thompson Sim, (1731 – April 3, 1776) was an American colonial planter, society hostess, slaveowner, and châtelaine of Darnall's Chance. A member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia and Maryland, she lived a privileged life typical for members of the planter class. Unusual for her time, Lee was married three times; first to James Wardrop, then Adam Thompson, and lastly to Colonel Joseph Sim. She lived at Darnall's Chance for the second half of her life, throughout all three of her marriages. Biography Lee was born in Prince George's County, Maryland in 1731. She was the daughter of Philip Lee Sr., the progenitor of the Maryland branch of the Lee family, and Elizabeth Fowke. A member of the American gentry, she was a granddaughter of Colonel Richard Lee II, a Virginian planter and politician, and his wife, Laetitia Corbin Lee, and a great-granddaughter of Richard Lee I, who immigrated to the Colony of Virginia fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Jowitt
Lettice Jowitt (1878–1962) was a Quaker educationist and refugee worker, and the first warden at the Bensham Grove settlement in Gateshead. Life Lettice Jowitt was born into a large Anglican family in Stevenage, the daughter of William Jowitt, a rector and headmaster. Her brother, William Jowitt, was a lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor. Educated at Somerville College, Oxford, Jowitt gained experience in education in Bristol, working as a tutor at the University of Bristol, as well as for the Workers' Educational Association. In 1911, she was a co-founder (alongside Hilda Cashmore) of the Bristol University Settlement, and later recalled as a 'pioneer in the Resident Settlement movement'. Young residents remembered her as having 'grace and good looks', and having a 'charming gift' for 'encouraging them to think and read'. During the First World War, Jowitt undertook relief work in France. In 1919, Jowitt moved to Gateshead to oversee the newly established Bensham Grove sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
