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Marjorie Carlton
Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery, Marjory or Margaery. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ..., from the Latin ''Margarita (given name)">Margarita'' (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj (other)#People, Marj and Jorie. People *Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce * Marjorie (singer) (1965–2024), Finnish singer * Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman *Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist *Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), American writer, activist, and professor * Marjori ...
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A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ...
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Marjorie Agosín
Marjorie Agosín (June 15, 1955 - March 10, 2025) was a Chilean-American writer. She won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile. The United Nations honored her for her work on human rights. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2000. She has been a recipient of the Belpré Medal. In the United States, she received the Letras de Oro, the Latino Literary Prize, and the Peabody Award, together with the United Nations Leadership Award in Human Rights. Early life and education Agosín was born in 1955 to Jewish Chilean parents, Moisés and Frida Agosín, in Bethesda, Maryland, where her father Moisés was completing graduate studies. At the age of three months her family returned with her to Chile, growing up in Santiago de Chile and at the family's summer house in El Quisco where the poet Pablo Neruda was an occasional guest. While she was raised to appreciate her Jewish heritage, her family al ...
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Marjorie Barrows
Marjorie Barrows (18921983) was an American magazine editor, book compiler, and author. Career Barrows was an editor of '' Child Life Magazine'' and '' Family Weekly'', as well as a book reviewer for ''The Continent''. A 1932 article from the ''Spring Lake Gazette'' stated that Barrows was "a famous editor of ''Child Life Magazine'' and that she was an "internationally recognized editor" of the same magazine. An article from ''School Life'' reported in 1933 that she "has the endorsement of leading children's librarians". A 1932 review in the '' Standard-Examiner'' reported that ''The Picture Book of Poetry'', which was compiled by Barrows, has "gems of verses by writers who understand boys and girls". The ''Denton Record-Chronicle'' reviewed ''The Family Reader'' in 1961, stating, ''The Family Reader'' is a book for your lighter moments, for the times you want to relax and lose yourself in a good story". Bibliography *''The Children's Hour'' *''One Thousand Beautiful Things'' * ...
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Marjorie Barretto
Marjorie Bernardine Castelo Barretto (; born 19 May 1974) is a Filipino former actress and politician. She also served as the city councilor of second district of Caloocan from 2007 to 2013; she ran for the same position in 2025 but lost. Her sisters, Claudine and Gretchen Barretto, and her daughter Julia are also actresses. Personal life Barretto has 5 children: Dani Barretto with Kier Legaspi, three children including actress Julia Francesca with ex-husband Dennis Padilla, and Erich with former Caloocan Mayor Recom Echiverri. In 2019, Dani Barretto married Xavi Panlilio with child Millie. In June, 2024, Dani and Xavi confirmed their second child would be a boy, "To our Millie girl and our son, I’m yours forever." In November 1997, Barretto married actor-comedian Dennis Padilla, few months after their first child Julia was born. The former couple relationship began to deteriorate due to a year and a half of growing differences and they separated in 2007. In the same ...
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Marjorie Barrett
Marjorie Barrett born Lucy Marjory East (1889-1968) was an English badminton player. Biography She started playing badminton in the village of Shaldon in Devon where Meriel Lucas tutored her. After becoming a member of the Crystal Palace Club she married Frederick Barrett in 1915. The left hander became a force after the war and secured five All England singles titles. Her husband died in 1932 and she remarried in 1949 to another badminton player Percy Macfarlane. She died in 1968, aged 79 in Newton Abbott. Her brother Frederick Arthur Dudley East married Dorothy Lyon, another leading badminton player at the time. Medal Record at the All England Badminton Championships References {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrett, Marjorie 1889 births 1968 deaths People from Camberwell English female badminton players ...
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Marjorie Barnard
Marjorie Faith Barnard (16 August 18978 May 1987) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian and librarian. She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian. She was employed as a librarian for two periods in her life (1923–1935 and 1942–1950), but her main passion was writing. Barnard met her collaborator, Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956), at the University of Sydney, and they published their first novel, ''A House is Built'' in 1929. Their collaboration spanned the next two decades, and covered the full range of their writing: fiction, history and literary criticism. They published under the pseudonym M. Barnard Eldershaw. Marjorie Barnard was a significant part of the literary scene in Australia between the wars and, for both her work as M. Barnard Eldershaw and in her own right, is recognised as a major figure in Australian letters.Nelson (2004) Life Barnard was born in Ashfield, Sydney, to Ethel Frances and Oswald ...
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Marjorie Baker
Marjorie Baker (13 November 1912 – 9 November 2004) was a British photographer who documented the changing life of Henfield, Sussex, England from the mid to late twentieth century. Career Baker took photographs for over 60 years that recorded the way of life around her in the rural Sussex village of Henfield. She learnt professional photography as an apprentice to the photographer Margaret Ellsmoor, who was based in London but had a studio at Onslow House, Brighton Road, in Worthing and showed specimen work at 13 Chapel Road. Baker began to work from Henfield in 1932. She converted space in a coach-house to a studio in 1938, where she used large format cameras throughout her career. She also photographed outdoors at local events and festivals. Some of her photographs were used for postcards by businesses and the local church. Some of her portraits were shown in the Institute of British Photographers exhibitions in London. The photographs that she was commissioned to take often ...
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Marjorie Bailey
Marjorie Bailey (née Turner; born 21 November 1947) is a Canadian sprinter. At the 1976 Summer Olympics she competed in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slight .... She made the semi-final round in both events. She ran the anchor leg of the 4 x 100 metre relay, which placed fourth and set a Canadian and Commonwealth record of 43.17. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay. She won a bronze medal in the 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1975 Pan American Games, and finished fourth in the 200 metres. She finished fourth in the 200 metres, and sixth in the 100 metres at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games. She was a descendant of black Loyalists (escaped slaves and freed men and ...
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Marjorie May Bacon
Marjorie May Bacon, later Marjorie Macbeth-Raeburn (6 January 1902 – 9 February 1988) was a British printmaker and painter. Biography Bacon was born in Ipswich and lived in Great Yarmouth as a child. Bacon attended Yarmouth Art School from 1914–23 where she won a scholarship in 1917 and by 1921 passed the Board of Education's drawing examinations at the earliest age possible. She studied at the Norwich School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art in London, obtaining her diploma in 1927. Bacon produced aquatints, wood-engravings and lithographs. She exhibited at the Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its ... and with the New English Art Club. Her Royal Academy exhibits included ''Miss Aline Wilson of Welby Park'', 1934. An oil painting ...
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Marjorie Arnfield
Marjorie Helen Arnfield, (25 November 1930 – 26 April 2001) was an English artist who specialised in both industrial and rural landscapes, painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour. Her landscapes, particularly her paintings of Provence and Spain, are characterised by vivid colours and an impressionistic style. In an interview in the magazine Artists & Illustrators in 1998, Arnfield described her palette of colours, which included ochres, burnt siennas, cadmium, viridian, reds and blues, as "colours that sing". Biography Marjorie Arnfield was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1930 and brought up in Sunderland, attending Sunderland Church High School. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a nurse. Her paternal grandfather William Milburn, great-uncle Thomas Ridley Milburn, and two uncles were regional architects, responsible for many public buildings in the North East of England, including the Sunderland Empire Theatre. While attending Sunderland College of Art, and King E ...
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Marjorie Anthony Linden
Marjorie Anthony Linden (October 10, 1935 – April 1, 2013) was a Canadian broadcaster and media executive. She achieved multiple "firsts" for women in broadcasting, including being the first all-night woman disc jockey in Montreal, the first woman vice-president in the Canadian television industry, and the first female president of the Broadcast Executive Society.Susan Ferrier MacKay and Allison Lawlor (May 4, 2013). "Broadcast pioneer charmed all she met and shattered several glass ceilings", ''The Globe and Mail'', p. S12. Born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia, she was one of eight children of Barbara, who died when Marjorie was three years old, and Roy Anthony, a plumber. She was raised by an elder sister and various housekeepers. An entertainer from an early age, she sang and tap-danced on a local radio station at age thirteen. Although interested in studying to become a nurse, she took a job as a script assistant, commentator, and singer at CBC-TV in Halifax. She moved to Mon ...
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Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (née Cunningham) (9 February 1909 – 27 May 2002) was a Scottish historian and paleographer. Early years Born Marjorie Ogilvie Cunningham in St Andrews, she attended St Leonards School there before studying English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Career After graduation she joined Alan Orr Anderson, whose eyesight was failing, as his paleographer and assistant. They married in 1932. Alan Anderson died in 1958, but Anderson continued to publish on early Scottish subjects, most notably her ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland'' and her revision of ''Early Sources of Scottish History'', the standard collection of source material on Scottish History to 1286, written by Alan Anderson and first published in 1922. Honours Anderson received an honorary DLitt from the University of Saint Andrews in 1973. A festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academi ...
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