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Thyra Alleyne
Thyra Blanche Alleyne (1875–1954) was one of the first women to graduate from Durham University and, for nearly 30 years, principal of College Hall, London. Early life Alleyne was the second daughter of Forster Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. The Alleynes were a prominent family of plantocracy of Barbados. Her aunt was Leonora Blanche Lang (née Alleyne), wife of folklorist Andrew Lang and coauthor (with her husband) of the well-known "Coloured" Fairy Books. She was educated at Clifton High School and Durham University,"Miss Thyra B. Alleyne." ''The Times'', 30 April 1954, p. 10. from which institution she was awarded the degree of M.Litt (Master of Letters). She was one of the first women to graduate from Durham. Career Alleyne spent ten years on the staff of St Leonards School, St. Andrews, after which she was appointed warden of Langdale Hall, Manchester. In 1916 she was appointed principal of College Hall, London."News in Brief", ''The Times'', 2 June 1916, p. 5. She r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plantocracy
A slavocracy (from ''slave'' + '' -ocracy'') is a society primarily ruled by a class of slaveholders, such as those in the southern United States and their confederacy during the American Civil War. The term was initially coined in the 1830s by northern abolitionists as a term of disparagement and subsequently used in wider senses, including as a term for the planter class of such a society itself.. Slavocracies are also sometimes known as plantocracies, after " planter" used as a term for the owners of plantations. A number of European colonies in the New World were largely slavocracies, usually consisting of a small European settler population relying on a predominantly West African chattel slave population as well as smaller numbers of indentured servants, both European and non-European in origin. In the Caribbean, the slaves were primarily used to produce sugar, while in North America the slaves were primarily used to produce cotton. These proslavery societies at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrington Gardens
Harrington Gardens is a street which has a communal garden regionally sometimes known as a garden square in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. The street runs from Collingham Gardens and Collingham Road in the east to Gloucester Road and Stanhope Gardens in the west. It is crossed by Ashburn Place and joined by Colbeck Mews on its north side. It contains several listed buildings including an important group of grade II* buildings on the south side numbered 35 to 45 (odd numbers only). In March 1954, Kenneth Gilbert (22) and Ian Grant (24), porters at the Aban Court Hotel at no 25, killed their colleague 55-year old night porter George Smart, and on 17 June 1954, they became the UK's last side-by-side execution when they were hanged at HM Prison Pentonville. After a long era in which double hangings were normal for partners in crime, the Homicide Act 1957 The Homicide Act 1957 ( 5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 11) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the year (Third Class is renamed Second Class in 1956). * January 5 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated as the home of the Paris Opera. * January 12 – Guangxu Emperor, Guangxu becomes the 11th Qing dynasty Emperor of China at the age of 3. He succeeds his cousin, the Tongzhi Emperor, who had no sons of his own. * January 14 – The newly proclaimed King Alfonso XII of Spain (Queen Isabella II's son) arrives in Spain to restore the monarchy during the Third Carlist War. * January 24 – Camille Saint-Saëns' orchestral ''Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), Danse macabre'' receives its première. February * February 3 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Lácar – Carlist commander Torcuat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Deaths
Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of St Mary's College, Durham
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase ''alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in fosterag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Alleyne, 1st Baronet
Sir John Gay Alleyne, 1st Baronet (28 April 1724 – 1801) was a Barbadian politician and the first of the Alleyne baronets which still exists today. Background Alleyne descended from the first settlers on Barbados and was born at St James as the second son of John Alleyne and his wife Mary Terrill, daughter of William Terrill. On 19 October 1746 at St James Church, Barbados, he married Cristen Dottin, fourth daughter of Anne Jordan Dottin and Joseph Dottin, with whom he had a son. After her death in 1782, Alleyne remarried his forty years younger cousin Jane, daughter of Abel Alleyne, on 29 June 1786. With her, he had five daughters and two more sons. Career In 1757, Alleyne was elected for the Parish of St. Andrew to the Parliament of Barbados, a seat he held for the next forty years, with only a break in 1771. Already after a decade in the Parliament, he became Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados, serving until 1770 and after another two years was reappointed un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Brodrick
Mary (May) Brodrick (5 April 1858 – 13 July 1933) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who was one of the first female excavators in Egypt. She persisted in her studies despite the initial opposition of her tutors and fellow students and achieved distinction in her field. The ''Daily Mail'' described her in 1906 as "perhaps the greatest lady Egyptologist of the day". Early life Brodrick was born at 18 Navarino Terrace,Gill, David, (2006Brodrick, Mary (1858–1933).''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 February 2015. Dalston, Middlesex (now London), in 1858, the eldest daughter of Thomas and Mary Brodrick. Thomas Brodrick was a solicitor, and the United Kingdom Census 1861, 1861 census shows the family living within the Liberty of the Close, in the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. Mary Brodrick had sisters Edith and Ethel. A brother, Thomas, born around 1862, died in South Africa in 1888. Brodrick was the first wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golders Green Crematorium
Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and is one of the oldest crematoria in Britain. The land for the crematorium was purchased in 1900, costing £6,000 (the equivalent of £136,000 in 2021), and the crematorium was opened in 1902 by Sir Henry Thompson. Golders Green Crematorium, as it is usually called, is in Hoop Lane, off Finchley Road, Golders Green, in northwest London, near Golders Green Underground station. It is directly opposite the Golders Green Jewish Cemetery. (Golders Green is an area with a large Jewish population.) The crematorium is secular, accepts all faiths and non-believers; clients may arrange their own type of service or remembrance event and choose whatever music they wish. The crematorium gardens are listed at Grade I in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. History The legality of cremation in Great Britain was not confirmed until 1885. The first crematorium was built in Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonora Blanche Alleyne
Leonora Blanche Lang (''née'' Alleyne; 8 March 1851 – 10 July 1933) was an English writer, editor, and translator. She is best known as variously the translator, collaborator and writer of '' The Fairy Books'', a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913. The best known of these are the '' Rainbow Fairy Books'', a series of twelve collections of fairy tales each assigned a different colour. Early life and education Lang was born 8 March 1851 in Clifton, Bristol, the youngest daughter and seventh child of Charles Thomas Alleyne (1798–1872), a plantation owner in Barbados, and his wife Margaret, sister of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare. Her elder sister was poet, translator, and promoter of women's education Sarah Frances Alleyne. She described a "sternly repressed childhood" dictated by her much older parents. She received a "usual desultory education as a day girl at a fashionable sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Hall, London
College Hall is a fully catered hall of residence of the University of London. It is situated on Malet Street in the Bloomsbury district of central London. It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at constituent colleges and institutions of the University, including King's College, University College, Queen Mary, the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies amongst others. History The hall was established in 1882 in Byng Place to cater for female students, primarily at UCL and the London School of Medicine for Women. It was co-founded by educationalist and suffragist Annie Leigh Browne, Mary Stewart Kilgour, Mary Browne ( Lady Lockyer) and Henrietta Müller.Jane Martin, ‘Browne, Annie Leigh (1851–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 12 Jan 2017/ref> The first Principal was Eleanor Grove, who arranged for lease of the house in Byng Place, assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Leonards School
St Leonards School is a co-educational private boarding and day school for pupils aged 4–19 in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Founded in 1877 as St Andrews School for Girls Company, it adopted the St Leonards name upon moving to its current premises, the site formerly occupied by the University of St Andrews’ St Leonard's College, in 1883. The school emerged from the St Andrews Ladies' Educational Association which was established in 1868. One of the school's founders was Lewis Campbell, chairman of the college council for many years and a Classics professor at St Andrews University who advocated for higher education for women. Consequently, from its earliest days, the college's senior students were encouraged to prepare to matriculate and enjoyed close links with various courses offered at the University of St Andrews; in 1892, the ''Fifeshire Journal'' asked its readers: "Who is to enjoy the proud distinction of being the first matriculated girl-student of St An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
