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Margaretta (given Name)
Margaretta is a feminine given name. It derives from Latin, where it came from the Greek word ''margaritari'' (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. It is cognate with Margaret, Marguerite, and Margarita.Iseabail MacLeod and Terry Freedman, Dictionary of First Names' (1995), p. 146. People with the name include: * Margaretta Brucker (1883–1958), American fiction author * Margaretta Higford Burr, also known as Anne-Margaretta Burr (1817–1892), English watercolour painter * Margaretta Parker Cox, née Blair (fl. 1910s–1950s), second wife of politician James M. Cox and First Lady of Ohio * Margaretta Craig (1902–1963), American nurse and a missionary * Margaretta D'Arcy (born 1934), Irish actress, writer, playwright, and activist * Margaretta Dressler, née Park (f. 1890s), wife of William F. Dressler * Margaretta Eagar (1863—1936), Irish woman who was a nanny to the daughters of the Emperor and Empress of Russia * Margaretta F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Graddon
Margarita Graddon or Mrs Gibbs (born 1804) was a British popular singer. Life Graddon was born in Bishops Lydeard near Taunton in 1804. She was trained by Tom Cooke and then sang in the provinces until she appeared at Vauxhall Gardens in 1822, later in Dublin, and then at Drury Lane Theatre in 1824 in The Marriage of Figaro. The same year she appeared in Henry Bishop's version of Der Freischütz.L. M. Middleton, ‘Graddon ibbs Margaretta (b. 1804)’, rev. J. Gilliland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 8 July 2018/ref> Her appearance as Linda was recorded in a portrait by William Brockedon. In June 1826, she performed a noted rendition of Mozart's ''Requiem'' in honor of the death of composer Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and Music criticism, critic in the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Best known for List of operas b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Salinger
Margaretta M. Salinger (March 22, 1907 – March 8, 1985) was an American art historian. She was curator of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Early life and education Salinger was born in New York City, the daughter of Arthur A. Salinger and Adaline Sager Magill Salinger. Her father was a veterinarian. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928. Career Salinger became a cataloguer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1928. She was a researcher, lecturer and writer for the museum for many years. She gave a popular series of free lectures on art appreciation at the museum in the 1950s, and traveled giving lectures in other cities. She chaired the boards of the museum's Scientific Publication Committee, and Editorial Advisory Committee. She was named a curator in 1970, a few years before she retired in 1972. Publications A colleague wrote in 1986 that, "In all of her work, whether spoken or written, Margaretta Salinger strove to express her per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Rockefeller
Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller (''née'' Fitler, formerly Murphy; June 9, 1926 – May 19, 2015) was a philanthropist who, as the wife of the 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller, served as second lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. She was previously the first lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, during her husband's last three terms in office. In 1991, she was appointed a public delegate to the United Nations by US President George H. W. Bush. She also was president of the board of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center north of Albany, New York, among other philanthropic projects. Family and education Margaretta Large Fitler was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1926. Her parents were Margaretta Large Harrison and William Wonderly Fitler Jr., an heir to a cordage fortune. Her mother would subsequently remarry. The younger Margaretta was known by her nickname, "Happy", given to her for her childhood disposition. She was a great-gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Riley
Margaretta Riley (also known as Meta, née Hopper; May 4, 1804 – July 16, 1899), was an English botanist. She studied ferns cultivation and was the first British pteridologist of her sex. Riley presented to the Botanical Society of London "a complete dried collection of every species and variety of fern represented in the British flora". Life Margaretta Riley, who was also known as Meta, was born in Castle Gate, Nottingham on 4 May 1804 to Richard and Margaretta Hopper. She married John Riley in 1826, agent for the Montague family in Papplewick, north of Nottingham, where she lived for the rest of her life. Margaretta Riley and her husband worked together as pteridologists collecting, cultivating and studying ferns. They were both members of the Botanical Society of London − he from 1838, and she from 1839 on. In 1840 Riley presented to the society "a complete dried collection of every species and variety of fern represented in the British flora". The Riley's presented a nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Angelica Peale
Margaretta Angelica Peale (October 1, 1795 – January 17, 1882) was an American painter, one of the Peale family of artists. The daughter of James Peale, she was the sister of Sarah, Anna, and Maria Peale. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was taught by her father, and painted primarily still lifes, some of which were copies of his work. Stylistically, her paintings are influenced by her father's work, her cousin Raphaelle Peale's still lifes, and seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes. Her works are noted for their "careful, precise observation" and "stark arrangements of objects". Her backgrounds tend to be "austere" or "neutral", setting off the colors and textures of her foreground objects. Margaretta Angelica Peale died in Philadelphia and is buried there in Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church Burial Ground. Her paintings may be found in numerous collections, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, of which she was a founding member. Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Palmer
Margaretta Palmer (1862–1924) was an American astronomer, one of the first women to earn a doctorate in astronomy. She worked at the Yale University Observatory at a time when woman were frequently hired as assistant astronomers, but when most of these women had only a high school education, so Palmer's advanced degree made her unusual for her time. Early life and education Palmer was born to a farming family in Branford, Connecticut on August 29, 1862, and completed a bachelor's degree at Vassar College in 1887. At Yale, she took two classes in astronomy with Maria Mitchell, although her graduation address concerned Greek tragedy. After graduating, she worked as an assistant to Mitchell and as a Latin instructor at Vassar for two years.Hoffleit, D. (2014). Palmer, Margaretta. In: Hockey, T., ''et al.'' Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1048 In 1889 she was hired by the Yale University Observatory, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Morris
Margaretta Hare Morris (December 3, 1797May 29, 1867) was an American entomologist. Morris is known for her work with agricultural pests, specifically the Hessian fly, cicadas, and the Colorado potato beetle. Her observations on water beetles were also included in Charles Darwin’s ''On the Origin of Species'', despite not being credited due to Darwin’s misogynistic beliefs. She and the astronomer Maria Mitchell were the first women elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1850. She was also the second woman elected to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1859, after Lucy Say. Life Morris was born on December 3, 1797, in Philadelphia into a prominent family with deep roots in the city’s founding. She was one of six children of Luke Morris (1760-1802), a lawyer, and Ann Willing Morris (1767-1853). She spent her early years at the Peckham Estate, in a large home overlooking the Delaware River. Due to their Quaker beliefs, the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Mitchell
Margaretta Mitchell (née Kuhlthau, born May 27, 1935) is an American photographer and writer who lives in Berkeley, California. As a photographer, she is known for her portraits and still lifes. She has authored art criticism, biographies of women artists, and photographic histories. Early life Mitchell was born May 27, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York, the second child of Conrad W. and Margaretta Kuhlthau. After graduating ''magna cum laude'' in 1957 from Smith College, Mitchell (then Kuhlthau) served until 1959 as a research assistant to Edwin Land, who was instrumental in the invention of the Polaroid instant camera. Work Mitchell’s photographs belong to the Pictorialist tradition, addressing formal concerns of line and shadow primarily in black and white. She occasionally incorporates graphic media, particularly in images of flowers. Her work can be found in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, the Akron Art Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta M
''Margaretta'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1875. A dozen names have been proposed as species within ''Margaretta'', but at present only one, ''Margaretta rosea'', is categorized as "accepted" by The Plant List. Most of the rest are "unresolved," in other words, of uncertain affinity. ''Margaretta rosea'' is native to Uganda in eastern Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac .... References External links * Flora of Africa Asclepiadoideae Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Taxa named by Daniel Oliver {{Apocynaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etta Lemon
Margaretta "Etta" Louisa Lemon (; 22 November 1860 – 8 July 1953) was an English bird Conservation movement, conservationist and a founding member of what is now the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). She was born into an Evangelicalism, evangelical Christian family in Kent, and after her father's death she increasingly campaigned against the use of plumage in hatmaking which had led to billions of birds being killed for their feathers. She may have been part of the ''Fur, Fin and Feather Folk'' with Eliza Phillips in Croydon and Catherine Victoria Hall in London in 1889, which two years later merged with Emily Williamson's Manchester-based ''Society for the Protection of Birds'' (SPB), also founded in 1889. The new organisation adopted the SPB title, and the constitution for the merged society was written by Frank Lemon, who became its legal adviser. Etta married Frank Lemon in 1892, and as Mrs Lemon she became the first honorary secretary of the SPB, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Elizabeth La Mott
Alfred Victor Philadelphe du Pont de Nemours (April 11, 1798 – October 4, 1856) was a French American chemist and industrialist, who was the eldest son and successor of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His son, Alfred Victor du Pont, was one of founding fathers of the alpha (first) chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity on October 19, 1850, affiliated with University of Pennsylvania, which is a charter member of the North American Interfraternity Conference. Early life and family Du Pont was born in Paris, son of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont and Sophie Madeleine Dalmas du Pont. He came to the United States in 1800 as an infant and grew up around the gunpowder mills founded by his father on the Brandywine Creek in Delaware. Later he attended Mount Airy College, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and then studied chemistry at Dickinson College. While there he was president of ''Belles Lettres Literary Society'' and became a friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
