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Margaret More
Margaret More or Moore may refer to: *Margaret Roper (1505–1544), née More, English writer and translator, daughter of Sir Thomas More *Margaret Clement (1508–1570), née Giggs, English noblewoman, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More *Kate Barry (1752–1823), or Margaret Barry, née Moore, American Revolutionary War heroine *Maggie Moore (1851–1926), American-Australian actress *Margaret Hodges (1911–2005), née Moore, American author * Margaret Moore, Canadian author * Margaret More (composer) (1903–1966), Welsh composer, daughter-in-law of Sir Granville Bantock *Margaret Moore (academic) Margaret Moore is a Canadian political theorist, academic and scholar. She is a Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston. Moore has written on territorial and global distributive justice, just war theory, h ..., Canadian political theorist, academic and scholar See also * Margaret Moore Jeffus, American politician {{hndis, More, Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Roper
Margaret Roper (1505–1544) was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. She is celebrated for her filial piety and scholarly accomplishments. Roper's most known publication is a Latin-to-English translation of Erasmus' ''Precatio Dominica'' as ''A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster.'' In addition, she wrote many Latin epistles and English letters, as well as an original treatise entitled ''The Four Last Things''. She also translated the ''Ecclesiastical History'' of Eusebius from the Greek into the Latin language. Early life Margaret More was the eldest child of Sir Thomas More and Joanna "Jane" Colt. Colt was the daughter of an Essex gentleman and died of unknown causes in 1511. Margaret was most likely baptized at St. Stephen's Church, across the street from the Mores' family home. Besides Margaret, Joanna had four other children: Elizabeth, Cecily, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Clement
Margaret Clement or Clements (1508–1570), née Giggs, was one of the most educated women of the Tudor era and the foster daughter of Sir Thomas More. Biography Clement's maiden name was Giggs. She was born in 1508 and was the daughter of a gentleman of Norfolk. Sir Thomas More was her legal guardian, bringing her up from a child with his own daughter who was also named Margaret. Algebra was probably her special study and More had an "algorisme stone" of hers with him in the Tower of London during his imprisonment, which he sent back to her the day before his execution in 1535. In devotion to her Catholic faith and to its adherents, she risked her life to aid the Carthusian Martyrs, monks starved to death in prison for refusal to renounce the Faith. She obtained also the shirt in which Thomas More suffered, and preserved it as a relic. Sir Thomas Elyot had conveyed to her and her husband the indignation felt by Emperor Charles V, Catherine of Aragon's nephew, at More's r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Barry
Catherine Moore Barry (October 1752 – September 1823) was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. She was the daughter of Charles and Mary Moore, and the eldest of ten children. She married Andrew Barry in 1767 at the age of 15 and lived on Walnut Grove Plantation in Roebuck, South Carolina during the 18th century. She was instrumental in helping to warn the militia of the coming British before the Battle of Cowpens in 1781. According to legend, she tied her toddler to the bedpost while she rode out to warn neighbors that the British were coming. Her warning helped to prepare the colonial forces to defeat the British governor, Cornwallis and his men and drive them north, out of the state of South Carolina. She is buried in the family cemetery in Moore, South Carolina, beside her husband, Andrew, who was one of the first elders of the Nazareth Presbyterian Church. She knew the Indian trails and shortcuts where almost no patriots lived. Barry was a spy and message bearer f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Moore
Maggie Moore (April 10, 1851 – March 15, 1926) was an American-Australian actress born as Margaret Virginia Sullivan. She met and married producer J. C. Williamson in the U.S. and became popular as an actress in their production of ''Struck Oil'', which premiered in 1873 and was revived many times. Soon after their marriage, they took the play on a tour of Australia. It was such a success that they stayed there, where he founded the most successful theatrical company in Australia, and she became a leading actress. Moore was also successful in Williamson's Gilbert and Sullivan operas, other operetta productions, and other stage pieces. She continued a busy acting career in Australia and on tour worldwide, ending her marriage with Williamson and later marrying actor Harry R. Roberts. She retired in 1925 and moved to San Francisco. Life and career Sullivan was born in San Francisco, California, in 1851 to Irish parents; her father, who died when she was eight years old, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hodges
Sarah Margaret Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005) was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller. Sarah Margaret Moore was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle Moore and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with '' One Little Drum'', she wrote more than 40 published books. She also wrote the book '' John F. Kennedy Voice of Hope''. In 1953, she was hired as the storyteller for a radio show called '' Let's Tell A Story''. It became the storytelling segment, "Tell Me a Story", for Fred Rog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Moore
Margaret Moore is a Canadian author of romance novels. Biography The ''USA Today'' bestselling author of over 40 historical romance novels and novellas, Margaret Moore graduated with distinction from the University of Toronto with a degree in English literature. She sold her first book, ''A Warrior's Heart'', to Harlequin Historicals in 1991. She has also sold historical romances to Avon Books and a Young Adult historical romance to HarperCollins Children's Books. Moore has been a ''Romantic Times Book reviews'' finalist for Career Achievement in Medieval Historical Romance, won an award for Best Foreign Historical from Affaire de Coeur, and two of her characters have received K.I.S.S. (Knights in Shining Silver) Awards from ''Romantic Times Book reviews''. In 2005 her medieval romance ''The Unwilling Bride'' made the ''USA Today'' bestseller list. The sequel, ''Hers To Command'', was nominated for a Reviewers' Choice award by SingleTitles.com. ''Publishers Weekly'' reviewed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret More (composer)
Margaret More (26 June 1903 – 1966) was a British composer. Early years Margaret More, often called "Peggy", was born in 1903 to English parents William and Alice More in Crown Lodge in Harlech, North Wales. Her interest in music showed early, but she was not an infant prodigy. It became clear that her main concern was composition; she had no interest whatever in a career as a performer. She was educated at home by a governess, who gave her a grounding in musical theory and encouraged her ambition. In her early teen-years More became friends with the composer Joseph Holbrooke who at that time was living in Harlech. He introduced her to the work of Debussy and gave her the recently published '' Préludes'' and ''Children's Corner''. These had a lasting effect on More's own work. It was also through Holbrooke that she met her future husband Raymond Bantock, who was a writer. Career In the mid-1920s Margaret More left Harlech to spend a year in London, where she attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Moore (academic)
Margaret Moore is a Canadian political theorist, academic and scholar. She is a Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston. Moore has written on territorial and global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, nationalism, multiculturalism, immigration, and place-related interests. Moore has authored four books including ''Foundations of Liberalism'', ''The Ethics of Nationalism'', ''A Political Theory of Territory'', and ''Who Should Own Natural Resources?''. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Education and career After receiving her doctoral degree from London School of Economics and Political Science in 1990, Moore returned to Canada, where she taught at York University from 1990 till 1993 before being appointed by University of Waterloo as an assistant professor at Department of Political Science. In 1997, she was promoted to associate professor. In 2002, Moore left University of Waterloo and was recruite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
