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Sibella (other)
Sibella is a female given name. Notable persons with that name include: * Sibella Macarthur-Onslow (1871–1943), Australian charity worker * Sibella Cottle, mistress to Irish noble * Sibella Elizabeth Miles (1800–1882), English poet * Sibella Ross (1840–1929), New Zealand schoolteacher and businesswoman * Sibella Annie Barrington (1867–1929), Canadian nurse * Margaret Sibella Brown (1866–1961), Canadian bryologist Fictional characters * Sibella Dracula, the daughter of Dracula in the 1998 animated film '' Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School'' * Sibella Hallward, a character in the 1949 film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' See also * '' Iolaus sibella'', a butterfly * Sibilla (other) * Sibylla (other) * Sibyl * Sibyl (other) * Sibylle (other) Sibylle is a given name. It may refer to: * Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1542–1580), eldest surviving daughter of Count Philipp IV and Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg *Duchess Magdalene Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibella Macarthur-Onslow
Rosa Sibella Walton Onslow became Rosa Macarthur-Onslow CBE (4 June 1871 – 16 July 1943) was an Australian charity and church worker. She inherited and managed Camden Park in New South Wales. Guests at the house included the Duke and Duchess of York. Life Macarthur-Onslow was born in 1871 at Camden Park which was her family's 20,000 acre estate. Her parents were Elizabeth (born Macarthur) and Captain Arthur Alexander Walton Onslow, R.N. who became an M.P. While her brothers were sent to private schools in Australia and Britain for their education, she was taught by a German tutor and her mother. Her father died in 1882 and her mother took over the management of the estate. Sibella would organise frequent musical evenings at Camden Park which were led by Emmeline Woolley and Ethel Charlotte Pedley. Her mother's father was an important figure as he had helped to establish the Australian wool industry. Her mother was the end of her father's line. In 1892, a Royal license was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibella Cottle
Sibella Cottle was the mistress of Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Baronet (popularly known as Sir Harry; 1749–88) of Balla, County Mayo, Ireland. Biography His family conformed to Protestantism in the mid-18th century. She had seven children by him, each of whom was left a generous legacy in their father's will of 1788. Cottle was portrayed by Matthew Archdeacon as uneducated and a "professed woman of pleasure." T. H. Nally maintained she was not a peasant but joined Sir Harry as a governess from a local Big House. Sir Harry was urged to abandon Cottle and marry a woman of his own class and religion. Cottle reputedly responded by commissioning a powerful love charm, the spancel of death (). The spancel has been described as "an unbroken hoop of skin cut with incantations from a corpse across the entire body from shoulder to footsole and wrapped in silk of the colours of the rainbow and used as a spancel to tie the legs of a person to produce certain effects of witchcraft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibella Elizabeth Miles
Sibella Elizabeth Miles (''née'' Hatfield; 1800–1882), was an English schoolteacher, poet and writer of the 19th century. Biography Sibella Elizabeth Miles was born at Falmouth 28 September 1800, and was the daughter of John Westby Hatfield, an auctioneer in West Cornwall, who died at York 13 January 1839, aged 72, by his wife Sibella, who died on 1 June 1832, aged 68. Sibella Miles ran a girls' boarding-school at Penzance for a number of years prior to 1833 and occupied her leisure hours with the composition of poetry. On 13 August 1833 she married, at Madron, Cornwall, Alfred Miles, a commander in the Royal Navy, who was afterwards an assistant in the hydrographic department Hydrographics may refer to: *Hydrography, the measurement of physical characteristics of waters and marginal land *Hydrographics (printing), a printing technique for three-dimensional objects * Hydrographic Department, UK agency for providing hyd ... of the admiralty, and edited two editions (1841 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibella Ross
Sibella Mary Ross (née Wilson; 1840 – 7 September 1929) was a New Zealand schoolteacher and businesswoman. She established Ross House, a preparatory school for boys, in Christchurch in 1869. Biography Ross was the eldest of five daughters of Reverend (later Archdeacon) James Wilson and Sibella Anne Wilson (née Morison). She was born in England and baptised at Ashton-on-Ribble, Lancashire, on 31 May 1840. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1851, arriving at Lyttelton, New Zealand, Lyttelton on the ''Isabella Hercules'' in March. Her parents established a farm at St Martins, New Zealand, St Martins in Christchurch. When she was 18 years old she met George Ross (farmer), George Ross, a Canterbury Province, Canterbury provincial councillor. George's mother and Sibella's father were cousins, and as George was recuperating from an illness the family had invited him to stay with them. George and Sibella became engaged in December 1858. They were married on 2 March 1859 at Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |