|
Mary Grey (other) (born ...
Mary Grey may refer to: *Mary Caroline Grey, birth name of Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto (1858–1940), British aristocrat * Mary Grey (theologian) (born 1941), English Roman Catholic ecofeminist liberation theologian *Lady Mary Grey (1545–1578), sister of Jane Grey, Queen of England *Mary Grey, Countess Grey (1776–1861), wife of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey * Mary Grey, Countess of Kent (died 1702), English peeress * Mary Grey, Baroness Grey de Wilton *Lady Mary Gregory (1719–1769), Lady Mary Grey, daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent Fictional characters *Mary Grey, in the 1939 US comedy film '' 5th Ave Girl'', played by Ginger Rogers See also * Mary Gray (other) *Mary Gray-Reeves Mary Gray-Reeves (born July 5, 1962) was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real. Early life and education Mary Gray-Reeves was born in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1962 and grew up in the Miami neighborhood of Coconut Grove, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess Of Minto
Mary Caroline Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto (''née'' Grey; 13 November 1858 – 14 July 1940) was a British aristocrat, Vicereine of India, and courtier to Queen Mary. She was a prominent healthcare campaigner in Canada and India, respectively. Early life and family She was born Mary Caroline Grey on 13 November 1858, the youngest of five children of General Charles Grey, courtier to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, and his wife, Caroline, ''née'' Farquhar. She was a granddaughter of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. She was raised at the Court of St James’s in Windsor and St James’s Palace, London. Her brother was Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey. On 28 July 1883, she married Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, becoming countess of Minto when her husband succeeded to his father’s title in 1891. They had five children: Eileen, Ruby, Violet, Victor and Gavin. Canada In 1898, Lady Minto’s husband was appointed governor-general of Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grey (theologian)
Mary Cecilia Grey (born 1941) is a Roman Catholic ecofeminist liberation theologian in the United Kingdom. She edited the journal ''Ecotheology'' for 10 years. She has previously been a professor teaching pastoral theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter; contemporary theology at the University of Southampton, La Sainte Union, and St Mary's University, Twickenham; and feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Grey was born on 16 June 1941 in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham. She completed Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Oxford, as well as a diploma in pastoral catechetics, a Master of Arts degree in religious studies, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. She is an honorary fellow of Sarum College, Salisbury, and was president of the European Society of Women in Theological Research from 1989 to 1991. Her r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Mary Grey
Lady Mary Keyes (née Grey; 20 April 1545 – 20 April 1578) was the youngest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Frances Brandon, and through her mother had a succession to Elizabeth I of England, claim on the crown of England. Early life Mary Grey, born about 20 April 1545, was the third and youngest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Lady Frances Brandon, daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Mary Tudor, the younger of the two daughters of Henry VII of England, King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Mary had two sisters, Lady Jane Grey and Lady Katherine Grey. Throne claims As great-grandchildren of Henry VII, Mary and her sisters were potential heirs to the crown. When Edward VI of England, King Edward VI died on 6 July 1553, he left a will (approved by John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland) naming Mary's eldest sister, Jane, recently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grey, Countess Grey
Mary Elizabeth Grey, Countess Grey (née Ponsonby; 4 March 1776 – 26 November 1861) was a British aristocrat and political hostess. She is notable for being the wife of the prime minister in the 1830s through her marriage to Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. Biography Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby was born on 4 March 1776 in Whitehaven. She was the only daughter of William Ponsonby (1744–1806), the future 1st Baron Ponsonby and his wife, the Honourable Louisa Molesworth (1749–1824), daughter of Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth. Personal life She married on 18 November 1794 Charles Grey MP (1764–1845), the future 2nd Earl Grey and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the son of Charles Grey (1729–1807), later 1st Baron Grey and 1st Earl Grey, and his wife Elizabeth Grey ''née'' Grey (1743–1822). They had ten sons and six daughters: *a stillborn daughter (1796) *Lady Louisa Elizabeth Grey (7 April 1797 – 26 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grey, Countess Of Kent
Mary Lucas, ''suo jure'' 1st Baroness Lucas of Crudwell (died 1 November 1702), also called Mary Grey, Countess of Kent, was an English peeress in her own right. Origins Mary Lucas was the only daughter of John Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Shenfield, Essex (1606–1671) and Anne Nevill. She had a brother named John, who was born in 1633, but he died young. As a result, she was the sole heiress of her father. Marriage and children On 2 March 1662/1663, Mary Lucas married Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent. By marriage, she became Countess of Kent. Mary and Anthony had two children: * Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent (1671 – 5 June 1740), married firstly to Jemima Crew, daughter of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew and Anne Airmyn, on 26 March 1695 and had eleven children; remarried to Sophia Bentinck, daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland and Jane Temple, on 24 March 1728/1729 and had two children. * Amabella Grey, did not get married. ''Suo jure'' peerage On 5 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grey, Baroness Grey De Wilton
William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton (1508/1509 – 14 December 1562), was an English baron and military commander serving in France in the 1540s and 1550s, and in the The Rough Wooing, Scottish Wars of the 1540s. Early life Grey was the thirteenth Baron Grey de Wilton, fourth son of Baron Grey de Wilton#Grey family, Edmund Grey, 9th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1511) and Florence Hastings, eldest daughter of Ralph Hastings (died 1495), Sir Ralph Hastings. He was first summoned to parliament on 3 November 1529, by King Henry VIII of England. Service in France, 1544–1547 During the Italian War of 1542–1546, Grey was a commander in the expedition against France in 1544, under John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, John, lord Russell, and assisted in the siege of Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, Montreuil. There seems to have been some jealousy between Grey and the Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Surrey. Grey had been appointed chief captain of the army called 'the Crews,' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Mary Gregory
''Lady'' is a term for a woman who behaves in a polite way. Once used to describe only women of a high social class or status, the female counterpart of lord, now it may refer to any adult woman, as gentleman can be used for men. "Lady" is also a formal title in the United Kingdom. "Lady" is used before the family name or peerage of a woman with a title of nobility or honorary title ''suo jure'' (in her own right), such as female members of the Order of the Garter and Order of the Thistle, or the wife of a lord, a baronet, Scottish feudal baron, laird, or a knight, and also before the first name of the daughter of a duke, marquess, or earl. Etymology The word comes from Old English '; the first part of the word is a mutated form of ', "loaf, bread", also seen in the corresponding ', "lord". The second part is usually taken to be from the root ''dig-'', "to knead", seen also in dough; the sense development from bread-kneader, or bread-maker, or bread-shaper, to the ordinary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Grey, 1st Duke Of Kent
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, Order of the Garter, KG, Privy Council of England, PC (16715 June 1740) was a British politician and courtier. None of his sons outlived him, so his new title became extinct on his death. Though the house he built at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire has gone, parts of his very grand garden have survived relatively untouched. Family He was a son of Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent, and Mary Grey, 1st Baroness Lucas of Crudwell. He succeeded his father as 12th Earl of Kent in 1702, having succeeded his mother as 2nd Baron Lucas earlier the same year. He was the grandfather, through his daughter Lady Mary Gregory, Anne Grey, of Henry Cavendish, the preeminent English chemist and physicist of the late 18th century. Political career Having taken his seat in the House of Lords and though regarded as lacking talent and ambitionPhilip Carter, 'Grey, Henry, duke of Kent', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 he, as the polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Ave Girl
''Fifth Avenue Girl'', sometimes stylized as ''5th Ave Girl'', is a 1939 RKO Radio Pictures comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, and James Ellison. The screenplay was written by Allan Scott with uncredited contributions by La Cava and Morris Ryskind. The film is about a rich industrialist with business problems who feels neglected by his family and hires a young woman to stir things up. Plot Wealthy industrialist Timothy Borden has problems both at work and at home. His employees at Amalgamated Pump are making demands that may drive the business that he has built from nothing into bankruptcy. His son Tim, who prefers playing polo, has neglected and lost a major customer. On his birthday, when Timothy returns to his Fifth Avenue mansion, he finds nobody there but the servants. His unfaithful wife Martha, his daughter Katherine and Tim have all forgotten, are busy or do not care. Feeling lonely, Timothy takes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer and singer during the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (film), ''Kitty Foyle'' (1940), and performed during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire. Her career continued on stage, radio and television throughout much of the 20th century. Rogers was born in Independence, Missouri, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City. She and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when she was nine years old. In 1925, she won a Charleston dance contest that helped her launch a successful vaudeville career. After that, she gained recognition as a Broadway theatre, Broadway actress for her stage debut in ''Girl Crazy''. This led to a contract with Paramount Pictures, which ended after five films. Rogers had her first successful film roles as a supporting actress in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gray (other)
Mary Gray may refer to: * Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, ballad subjects * Mary Augusta Dix Gray (1810–1881), American missionary to Nez Perce people in the Oregon Territory * Mary Gray (socialist) (1854–1941), British socialist activist and founder of the first Socialist Sunday School * Mary Caroline Gray (1819 – 1893), British author * Mary L. Gray, American anthropologist and author * Mary Tenney Gray (1833–1904), American editorial writer, philanthropist, and suffragette * Mary Sophia Gray, alternate name of Sophia Hinerangi (c. 1834–1911), New Zealand tourist guide and temperance leader * Mary W. Gray (born 1938), American mathematician Fictional characters * Mary Gray, in the 1926 US silent comedy film '' The American Venus'', played by Esther Ralston See also * Mary Gray-Reeves (born 1962), bishop * Mary Grey (other) Mary Grey may refer to: *Mary Caroline Grey, birth name of Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto (1858–1940), British aristocrat * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
