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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 Sibylle ... [...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] |
Sibella Annie Barrington
Sibella Annie Barrington (4 or 21 December 1867 – 9 or 17 December 1929) was a Canadian nurse. Born to a family of British settlers in Cape Breton in 1867, Barrington studied at the Aberdeen Hospital School of Nursing in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. She graduated in 1904 and became a registered nurse in 1922, when the province introduced registration. Barrington continued her studies internationally, first in Chicago, and then in Dublin where she learned of Lady Aberdeen's work in combatting tuberculosis. In London, she worked with the New Zealand physician and child welfare advocate, Frederic Truby King. She returned to Nova Scotia and by 1917 had a thriving private practice. The British Red Cross Society granted her a lifetime membership for her volunteer work following the 1917 Halifax Explosion. From 1918 to 1923 she served as superintendent of the Halifax Infants' Home. She served as vice-president of the Children's Aid Society, president of the Graduate Nurses' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sibella Brown
Margaret Sibella Brown (March 2, 1866November 16, 1961) was a Canadian amateur bryologist specializing in mosses and liverworts native to Nova Scotia. Early in her career she was involved with gathering supplies of sphagnum moss to be used as surgical dressings during World War I, when cotton was in short supply. After the war, she researched mosses from around the world, collecting specimens in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States, as well as her native Canada. She published several papers in academic journals, some on materials she had collected herself and some cataloging samples collected by other investigators. Samples she collected are now housed at several major herbaria in North America and Europe. Born into upper-class society, Brown was educated in Halifax, Stuttgart, and London. Although lacking formal scientific training, she has been recognized for her contributions to bryology and as an authority on the mosses and liverworts of Nova Scotia. At the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scooby-Doo And The Ghoul School
''Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School'' is a 1988 animated comedy horror made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the '' Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. The film was followed by '' Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf'' in 1988, with the five girl ghouls making their return in the '' OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' episode "Monster Party" in 2018. Plot Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Scrappy-Doo are on their way to Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. However, once there, they find that it is actually a school for daughters of paranormal beings. The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenteen Sr.; Winnie, the daughter of the Wolfman; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short) the ghostly daughter of a phantom; and Tanis ( named after an Egyptian city), the daughter of the Mummy. Other residents include a disembodied floating white hand; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kind Hearts And Coronets
''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' is a 1949 British crime film, crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel ''Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'' (1907) by Roy Horniman. It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, a vengeful Louis decides to take the family's dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title. Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios and the producer of ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'', appointed Hamer as director. Filming took place from September 1948 at Leeds Castle and other locations in Kent, and at Ealing Studios. Themes of class and sexual repression run through the film, particularly love between classes. ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' was released on 13 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iolaus Sibella
''Iolaus sibella'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri), Uganda, western Kenya and Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor .... The habitat consists of forests. The larvae feed on '' Globimetula braunii'' and '' Englerina woodfordioides''. References External links ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68''g'' Butterflies described in 1910 Iolaus (butterfly) {{Theclinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibilla (other)
Sibilla may refer to: * Monte Sibilla, a mountain of Marche, Italy * Grotta della Sibilla, a cave in the Sibillini Mountains * Italian corvette ''Sibilla'' People with the given name *Sibilla Aleramo (1876–1960), Italian feminist and writer * Sibilla (1954), Italian singer * Sibilla Di Vincenzo (born 1983), Italian racewalker See also * Sibila, a village in Mali * Sibylla (other) Sibylla or Sybilla may refer to: People with the name Pre-modern era * Sibylla of Acerra (1153–1205), queen consort of Sicily * Sibylla of Anhalt (1514–1614), Duchess of Württemberg * Sibylla of Anjou (died 1165), Countess of Flanders * Sibyll ... {{disambiguation, given name Italian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylla (other)
Sibylla or Sybilla may refer to: People with the name Pre-modern era * Sibylla of Acerra (1153–1205), queen consort of Sicily * Sibylla of Anhalt (1514–1614), Duchess of Württemberg * Sibylla of Anjou (died 1165), Countess of Flanders * Sibylla of Armenia (c. 1240–1290), Princess of Antioch * Sybilla of Burgundy (1060–1103), Duchess of Burgundy * Sibylla of Cyprus (1198–c. 1230 or 1252), queen consort of Armenia * Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (c. 1160–1190), queen regnant of Jerusalem * Sybilla of Normandy (c. 1092–1122), queen consort of Scotland * Sybilla Corbet of Alcester (c. 1077–1157), English noblewoman and mistress of King Henry I of England Modern era * Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908–1972), a member of the Swedish royal family * Sibilla Aleramo (1876–1960), Italian poet * Sibylla Budd (born c. 1977), Australian actress * Sibylla Bailey Crane (1851–1902), American educator, composer, author * Sibylla Flügge (born 1950), German lawyer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibyl
The sibyls were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophet, prophesied at holy sites. A sibyl at Delphi has been dated to as early as the eleventh century BC by Pausanias (geographer), PausaniasPausanias 10.12.1 when he described local traditions in his writings from the second century AD. At first, there appears to have been only a single sibyl. By the fourth century BC, there appear to have been at least three more, Phrygian Sibyl, Phrygian, Erythraean Sibyl, Erythraean, and Hellespontine Sibyl, Hellespontine. By the first century BC, there were at least ten sibyls, located in Greece, ancient Italy, Italy, the Levant, and Asia Minor. History The English word ''sibyl'' () is from Middle English, via the Old French and the Latin from the ancient Greek (). Varro derived the name from an Aeolic Greek, Aeolic ''sioboulla'', the equivalent of Attic ''theobule'' ("divine counsel"). This etymology is not accepted in modern handbooks, which list the origin as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
