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Lilias Ashworth
Lilias or Lillias is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Lilias Armstrong (1882 – 1937), British phonetician * Lilias Craven, fictional character in the children's novel ''The Secret Garden'' (1911) * Lilias Farley (1907–1989), Canadian artist * Lilias Folan (20th century), television show host * Lilias Mary Gower (1877 – 1959), Welsh croquet player * Lillias MacDonald (1885–1961), American college dean * Lilias Mackinnon (1889–1974) Scottish pianist *Lilias Maitland, Lillias Maitland (1862–1932), one of the first women graduates from a Scottish university, University of Edinburgh 1893 * Lilias Massey, Viceregal consort of Canada, Chatelaine of Rideau Hall * Lilias Torrance Newton (1896 – 1980), Canadian painter * Lilias Trotter (1853 – 1928), Christian missionary in Algeria * Lillias Hamilton (1858 – 1925), British doctor * Lilias Rider Haggard (1892 – 1968), English writer * Lillias Rumsey Sanford (1850 – 1940), founder of Rumsey Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Armstrong
Lilias Eveline Armstrong (29 September 1882 – 9 December 1937) was an English phonetician. She worked at University College London, where she attained the rank of Reader (academic rank), reader. Armstrong is most known for her work on English intonation (linguistics), intonation as well as the phonetics and tone (linguistics), tone of Somali language, Somali and Kikuyu language, Kikuyu. Her book on English intonation, written with Ida C. Ward, was in print for 50 years. Armstrong also provided some of the first detailed descriptions of tone in Somali and Kikuyu. Armstrong grew up in Northern England. She graduated from the University of Leeds, where she studied French and Latin. She taught French in an elementary school in the London suburbs for a while, but then joined the University College Phonetics Department, headed by Daniel Jones (phonetician), Daniel Jones. Her most notable works were the 1926 book ''A Handbook of English Intonation'', co-written with Ward, the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Torrance Newton
Lilias Torrance Newton LL. D. (November 3, 1896 – January 10, 1980) was a Canadian painterMayberry Fine Art biography /ref>Canadian Women Artists History Initiative biography /ref> and a member of the . She was one of the more important portrait artists in Canada in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillias White
Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She is particularly known for her performances in Broadway musicals. In 1989 she won an Obie Award for her performance in the off-Broadway musical '' Romance in Hard Times''. In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for portraying Sonja in Cy Coleman's '' The Life''. She was nominated for a Tony Award again in 2010 for her work as Funmilayo in Fela Kuti's '' Fela!''. White is also known for her roles as Calliope in the Disney film ''Hercules'' (1997), and its animated series of the same name; Evette in the film '' Pieces of April'' (2003); and as Fat Annie in the Netflix series '' The Get Down''. She has also starred as Bloody Mary in Rodgers and Hammerstein's '' South Pacific'' on PBS's '' Great Performances'' with Reba McEntire, and in the PBS documentary ''In Performance at the White House''. She is an activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillias Margaret Skene
Lillias Margaret Skene, (''née'' Hamilton; 28 March 186725 March 1957) was an Australian women's rights activist. Early life Lillias Hamilton was born on 28 March 1867 in Smythesdale, Victoria, Australia, the third child of Scottish-born police magistrate John Prendergast Hamilton and his English-born wife Agnes Margaret (née Buchanan). Hamilton attended the local Alexandra College in Hamilton. On 7 November 1888, at St Mary's Anglican Church in Caulfield, she married 33-year-old sheepmaster David Alexander Skene.Smart, JSkene, Lillias Margaret (1867–1957) ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 254–255. Career Straddled in debt, Hamilton's husband had to seek employment in New South Wales, while she and her children remained in Hamilton. In 1900 the family moved to Manly, Sydney, where they ran a modest dairy farm. In 1906, they moved to Melbourne and her husband began selling wool. The family purchased a property in So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumsey Hall School
Rumsey Hall School is an independent, coed junior boarding (5 - 9) and day (Pre K - 9) school in Washington, Connecticut. Rumsey Hall enrolls 309 students, and the campus consists of 32 buildings located on 231 acres along the scenic Bantam River in the Litchfield Hills region. History Founded in 1900 by Lillias Rumsey Sanford (1850–1940) as an all-boys school in Seneca Falls, New York, Rumsey Hall School moved to Cornwall, Connecticut in 1906. In 1941, the school passed into the hands of John F. Schereschewsky Sr. Rumsey Hall moved to its current location in 1949, at which point it became coeducational. in 1943 John F. Schereschewsky Sr. left Rumsey Hall to join the Navy for two years. During this time, David Griffin Barr, a devoted faculty member since 1914, was appointed interim Director of Rumsey Hall. He led Rumsey Hall until Mr. Sherry returned. Mr. Barr remained as Headmaster until 1956 and John F. Schereschewsky Sr. acted as Director until his death in 1969. John F. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillias Rumsey Sanford
Lillias Rumsey Sanford (1850-1940) was the founder of Rumsey Hall School, the second private nondenominational pre- preparatory school in the United States, originally located in Seneca Falls, New York Seneca Falls is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 9,027 at the 2020 census. The Town of Seneca Falls contains the former village also called Seneca Falls. The town is east of Geneva, New York, in the north .... References 1850 births 1940 deaths {{US-edu-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Rider Haggard
Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard, MBE (9 December 1892 – 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa MargitsonDawson Haggard D.,''The History of the Haggard Family in England and America: 1433-1899'' (Albany, New York, 1899) - retrieved online at on 3 October 2010 and a cousin of the naval officer Sir Vernon Haggard and the diplomat Sir Godfrey Haggard. A member of the Haggard family, she was educated at Saint Felix School in Southwold, Suffolk. For her work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment auxiliary nurse during the First World War, she was awarded an MBE in 1920. She was a member of Norfolk County Council from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 was elected president of the Norfolk Rural Craftsmen's Guild. She wrote a number of books, including a biography of her father entitled ''The Cloak That I Left''. Her book ''Norfolk Life'', based on columns she wrote for the ''Eastern Daily Press'', contains an introduction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillias Hamilton
Lillias Anna Hamilton (7 February 1858 – 6 January 1925) was a British medical doctor and writer. She was born at Tomabil Station, New South Wales to Hugh Hamilton (1822– 1900) and his wife Margaret Clunes (née Innes). After attending school in Ayr and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890. She was a court physician to Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in Afghanistan in the 1890s, and wrote a fictionalized account of her experiences in her book ''A Vizier's Daughter: A Tale of the Hazara War'', published in 1900. After a spell in private practice in London, she became Warden of Studley Horticultural College in the years before World War I, taking leave from the College in 1915 to serve in a typhoid hospital in Montenegro under the auspices of the Wounded Allies Relief Committee. Her published works include ''A Nurse's Bequest'', 1907. Early life and educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Trotter
Isabella Lilias Trotter (14 July 1853 – 27 August 1928) was a British artist and a Protestant missionary to Algeria. Early life Lilias Trotter was born in Marylebone, London, to Isabella and Alexander Trotter, a wealthy stockbroker for Coutts Bank. Both parents were well-read, intellectually curious, and inclined toward humanitarianism. Isabella Strange, a Low Church Anglican and the daughter of colonial administrator Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, married Alexander after the death of his first wife, who had borne him six children. Lilias was the first of three children born to this second marriage. Although Lilias was devastated by the death of her father when she was twelve, the family's financial circumstances were only comparatively diminished by his loss. The next year, the family moved to 40 Montagu Square, where a next-door neighbor was writer Anthony Trollope. Career In her early twenties, Trotter and her mother were greatly influenced by the Higher Life Movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viceregal Consort Of Canada
The viceregal consort of Canada is the spouse of the serving governor general of Canada, assisting the viceroy with ceremonial and charitable work, accompanying him or her to official state occasions, and occasionally undertaking philanthropic work of their own. As the host/hostess of the royal and viceroyal residence in Ottawa, the consort, if female, is also known as the ''Châtelain, chatelaine of Rideau Hall''. This individual, who ranks third in the Canadian order of precedence, after the Canadian monarch and the governor general, is addressed as Excellency, ''His'' or ''Her Excellency'' while their spouse is in office, and is made ''ex officio'' an Extraordinary Companion () of the Order of Canada and a Knight or Dame of Justice of the Venerable Order of Saint John, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem. The present viceregal consort is Whit Fraser, the husband of Governor General Mary Simon, who took office on July 26, 2021. Role The position of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Craven
''The Secret Garden'' is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in ''The American Magazine'' (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is seen as a classic of English children's literature. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations by M. L. Kirk, and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson. Several stage and film adaptations have been made of ''The Secret Garden''. Plot summary At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who spoil her and allow her to have free rein. After a cholera epidemic kills her parents, Mary is left alone when the few surviving servants flee. Mary is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Massey
Lilias Evva Massey (formerly Van Buskirk; ;"Mrs. Lionel Massey Leads Busy Social Life". ''Ottawa Citizen'', May 14, 1954. 1918 – January 19, 1997) was a Canadian dignitary, who served as châtelaine of Rideau Hall during her father-in-law Vincent Massey's term as Governor General of Canada. Vincent Massey was a widower whose wife Alice died 18 months before his appointment as Governor General. Lilias, who was married to Vincent and Alice Massey's son, Lionel, is to date the only person to have served as the official host or hostess of Rideau Hall who was not the Governor General's spouse. Due to the conventions of formal address that were used in the 1950s, she may also be referred to in some references as "Mrs. Lionel Massey" rather than by her own given name. However, she was not given the honorary style of Her Excellency,"Girl Who Grew Up Around Corner Rideau 'First Lady'". ''Toronto Star'', May 10, 1952. which is normally given to a Governor General's spouse, nor was she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
