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Agnes Freda Forres
Agnes Freda Forres, Baroness Forres ( Herschell; 9 October 1881 – 5 May 1942) was a British artist known for her sculpture work in bronze and plaster. Biography Forres was born in Weybridge in Surrey. She was the daughter of Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, Lord Herschell, the British Solicitor General for England and Wales, Solicitor-General and later Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and appears to have been educated abroad. In 1912 she married Sir Archibald Williamson, 1st Baron Forres, Archibald Williamson, a politician and businessman who became Lord Forres. During the 1920s Agnes Forres spent three years in the studio of the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger, first as a pupil and then as a studio assistant. In 1926 Forres exhibited a bronze bust portrait at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris and showed a plaster work there the following year. Between 1926 and 1938 Forres exhibited five works at the Royal Academy in London. In 1930 Fo ...
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''The Right Honourable'' ( abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is always pronounced. Countries with common or ...
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