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Renée Haynes
Renée Haynes (23 July 1906 – 12 October 1992) was an English writer, historian, and psychical researcher. She was the author of an influential novel about her experience of Oxford University during the 1920s, and later coined the parapsychology term "boggle-threshold", to indicate the point at which tolerance of a claim turns to disbelief. Personal life Renée Oriana Haynes was born in London on 23 July 1906, the eldest daughter of lawyer and writer E. S. P. Haynes. Her mother was the granddaughter of Thomas Henry Huxley. Growing up, her parents' friends included Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc (whose biography Haynes would write in 1953). Haynes was educated at private schools, including an experimental day-school run by Theosophists. She then studied law and history at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, graduating in 1927. While there, Haynes was editor of the college's magazine, ''The Fritillary.'' ''The Times'' sugge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of the national government and parliament. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Bles
David Geoffrey Bles (5 September 1886 – 3 April 1957) was a British publisher, with a reputation for spotting new talent. He started his eponymous publishing firm in London in 1923 and published the first five books of C. S. Lewis' ''Narnia'' series. Early life Bles read Greats at Merton College, Oxford, followed by entry to the Indian Civil Service.Hooper, Walter. (2004) ''Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, The: Books, Broadcasts and the War, 1931–1949''. London: HarperCollins, p. 554. During the First World War he was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in October 1917 and was attached to the 17th Cavalry, Indian Army, in November 1917.''The Star and Crescent'' by Major F. C. C. Yeats-Brown He served in the Political Department in Mesopotamia in 1918 before demobilization in June 1919 and returning to the Indian Civil Service. On 3 January 1920, he married Evelyn Constance Halse. Publishing career Bles entered publishing in 1923. Geoffrey Bles Limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Parapsychologists
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huxley Family
The Huxley family is an England, English family; several of its members have excelled in science, medicine, arts and literature. The family also includes members who occupied senior positions in the public service of the United Kingdom. The patriarch of the family was the zoologist and comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). His grandsons include: * Aldous Huxley, author of ''Brave New World'' and ''The Doors of Perception''; * his brother Julian Huxley, an evolutionary biologist and the first director of UNESCO; * the Nobel laureate physiologist Andrew Huxley. Family tree Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Mostly a self-educated man, he had an extraordinary influence on the British educated public. He was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, and opposed those Christian leaders who tried to sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Births
Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the National Consultative Assembly, Majlis. * January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between French Third Republic, France and German Empire, Germany. * January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. * January 31 – The 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake, Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. * February 7 – is launched, sparking a Anglo-German naval arms race, naval race between Britain and Germany. * February 11 ** Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos'', de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, Application software, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a Information wants to be free, free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge". The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous Internet Archive#Book collections, book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodora Bosanquet
Theodora Bosanquet Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (3 October 1880 – 1 June 1961) was a writer, reviewer, editor, secretary, and amanuensis to Henry James. She worked as Executive Secretary of the International Federation of University Women, as well as being a contributor to, and subsequently director and literary editor of, the political and literary magazine Time and Tide (magazine), ''Time and Tide''. Her memoir, ''Henry James at Work'' (1924) is viewed today as "a pioneer work of critical biography". Early life Theodora Bosanquet was born on 3 October 1880 at Sandown, Isle of Wight to Gertrude Mary Fox (1854–1900) and Frederick Charles Tindal Bosanquet (1847–1928), a curate. Her family called her "Dora". She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, one of England's earliest educational institutions for women, founded in 1853. She then gained her BSc from University College London, having studied biology, geology, and physics. In 1907, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
