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Audley (surname)
Audley is a surname of Old English origin derived from the village of Audley, Staffordshire. surnamedb.com Notable people with the surname include: * Anselm Audley (born 1982), British fantasy writer * (1905–1991), American actress * (1175–1246), English baron * (1577–1662), English moneylender and lawyer in the 17th century * |
Audley, Staffordshire
Audley is a large village in Staffordshire, England. It is the centre of Audley Rural parish, approximately four miles (6 km) north west of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 3 miles (5 km) from Alsager near the Staffordshire-Cheshire border. Audley is located on the B5500, the former A52 road. Just south of the A500, the village is approximately five minutes from the M6 motorway. The first mention of Audley is in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was called ''Aldidelege'', when the lands were held by a Saxon called Gamel. At this time, the area was very sparsely populated, and because of its distance from the major towns of Stafford and Chester there was little outside contact. There was a medieval castle at Audley Castle Hill during the late 13th century; only a low earthwork remains of the former motte. Excavations have yielded some stonework. Church The parish church of St James is on Church Street, at the top of Wilbraham's Walk. Christians have met together on the site of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Audley
Maxine Audley (29 April 1923 – 23 July 1992) was an English theatre and film actress. She made her professional stage debut in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre. Audley performed with the Old Vic company and the Royal Shakespeare Company many times. She appeared in more than 20 films, the first of which was the 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel ''Anna Karenina''. Biography Maxine Audley was born in London on 29 April 1923. Her parents were Henry Julius Hecht and Katherine Arkandy, a coloratura soprano. Audley attended the Westonbirt School in Gloucestershire. She trained for the stage at the Tamara Daykharhanova School in New York City and the London Mask Theatre School. Audley was married four times, to the pianist Leonard Cassini, to company manager Andrew Broughton, to Frederick Granville the impresario, with whom she had a daughter, Deborah Jane, and to Glasgow born actor and Leo Maguire 1938-1992 (not to be confused with Irish songwriter of the same name). Audley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Audley's Secret
''Lady Audley's Secret'' is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. John Sutherland. "Lady Audley's Secret" in ''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', 1989. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". The plot centres on "accidental bigamy" which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s. The plot was summarised by literary critic Elaine Showalter (1982): "Braddon's bigamous heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two and sets fire to a hotel in which her other male acquaintances are residing". Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years.. Ppg. 217-18 A follow-up novel, ''Aurora Floyd'', appeared in 1863. Braddon set the story in Ingatestone Hall, Essex, inspired by a visit there. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regency Buck
''Regency Buck'' is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. It has three distinctions: it is the first of her novels to deal with the Regency period; it is one of only a few to combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the mystery novel; and it is the only one of her Regency stories to feature Beau Brummell as an actual character, rather than as someone merely mentioned in passing. The story is set in 1811–1812.See http://www.georgette-heyer.com/chron.html Plot summary Judith Taverner is a beautiful young heiress who comes to London to join high society. She takes an instant dislike to her unwilling guardian, Julian, fifth Earl of Worth, who, having met her earlier in a small town filled with bucks watching a boxing match, treats her with a familiarity reserved for loose women. Judith soon becomes a sensation in London. She gets many offers of marriage (including one from the Duke of Clarence Duke of Clarence is a substantive title which has been tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Price
Alan Anthony Price (16 August 1928 – 30 May 2019) was an author of espionage thrillers. Price was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. He attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of captain. He read history at Merton College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1952, and was awarded an MA in 1956. Price was a journalist with the Westminster Press from 1952 to 1988, as well as the editor of the ''Oxford Times'' from 1972 to 1988. He was the author of nineteen novels in the ''Dr David Audley''/''Colonel Jack Butler'' series. These books focus on a group of counter-intelligence agents who work for an organization loosely based on the real MI5. Price died in Blackheath, London from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 30 May 2019, at the age of 90. Bibliography Novels *''The Labyrinth Makers'' (1970) UK; (1971) US; winner of Silver Dagger Award. *''The Alamut Ambush'' (1971) UK; (1972) US *''Colonel Butler' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Infamous Army
''An Infamous Army'' is a novel by Georgette Heyer. In this novel Heyer combines her penchant for meticulously researched historical novels with her more popular period romances. So in addition to being a Regency romance, it is one of the most historically accurate and vividly narrated descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo. ''An Infamous Army'' completes the sequence begun with ''These Old Shades'' (although there is an inconsistency in the time line, with ''These Old Shades'' set in 1755, '' Devil's Cub'' set 25 years later, with only 35 years until the setting of ''An Infamous Army'', during which time there are supposed to be two grown generations) and is also a sequel to ''Regency Buck''. Plot summary In the early summer of 1815, while the Battle of Waterloo is just a threat, Brussels is the most exciting city in Europe and many of the British aristocracy have rented homes there. The novel opens in the home of Lord and Lady Worth, where several of their friends are discuss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Audley
Tom Audley (born 9 July 1986) is a rugby union player for London Welsh in National Division One. He formerly played for Saracens in the Guinness Premiership Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition. The Premiership has consisted of thirteen clubs since 2021, and is the .... Tom Audley's position of choice is as a flanker. External linksLondon Welsh profile 1986 births Living people Saracens F.C. players [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley Of Walden
Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden KG, PC, KS (30 April 1544), was an English barrister and judge who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544. Early life Audley was born in Earls Colne, Essex, the son of Geoffrey Audley, and is believed to have studied at Buckingham College, Cambridge, now known as Magdalene College. He was educated for the law, entered the Inner Temple, was named town clerk of Colchester in 1514, and became Justice of the Peace for Essex in November 1520. Career in Parliament In 1523 Audley was returned to Parliament for Essex, and represented this constituency in subsequent Parliaments. In 1527 he was Groom of the Chamber, and became a member of Wolsey's household. On the fall of the latter in 1529, he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the same year Speaker of the House of Commons, presiding over the famous assembly styled the Reformation Parliament, which abolished the papal jurisdiction. The same year he headed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Audley
Michael Audley (June 20, 1913 – October 3, 1995) was an American film and theatre director, actor, and dialogue advisor. Life and career Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Audley began his career as a stage actor and director. In 1942, he directed Allan Kenward's ''Cry Havoc'', a war drama in three acts, which premiered in Hollywood with a cast led by Victoria Faust and Anne Loos. The play was well reviewed and earned him a contract to direct for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Audley's first foray into directing for film was the 1945 short ''The All-Star Bond Rally'', which was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in conjunction with Twentieth Century Fox. The film included many seminal entertainers of the era, including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, June Haver, Linda Darnell, Vivian Blaine, Jeanne Crain, Faye Marlowe, Harpo Marx, Harry James and his band, and Jim Jordan and Marian Driscoll Jordan of ''Fibber McGee and Molly''. His most notable film as a director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret De Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley
Margaret de Audley, ''suo jure'' 2nd Baroness Audley and Countess of Stafford (c. 1318 – 7 September 1349G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, p. 346.) was an English noblewoman. She was the only daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, by his wife Lady Margaret de Clare. Her mother was the daughter of Joan of Acre, Princess of England; thus making Margaret a great-granddaughter of King Edward I by his first consort, Eleanor of Castile. As the only daughter and heiress of her father, she succeeded to the title of 2nd Baroness Audley ., 1317on 10 November 1347. Marriage and issue Margaret was abducted by Ralph, Lord Stafford, who had helped Edwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anselm Audley
Anselm Audley (born 1982) is a British fantasy writer. Early life and career Anselm Audley was born to Paul and Elizabeth Aston, and has a sister. His mother was also a novelist. He is a college graduate of Ancient and Modern History, but he started writing his epic ''Aquasilva'' novels when still a pupil at school. He finished his first novel at the age of 17. The Aquasilva Trilogy has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. ''Library Journal'' announced that, from Simon & Schuster U.K., Audley received one of the largest advances ever paid to a new British fantasy author. ''Vespera'', a sequel to the Aquasilva Trilogy, was released on 13 November 2007 and electronically published in English. ''Envoy'', a short story happening during Attila the Hun's invasion of the Roman Empire, published as part of the Foreworld Saga. It was released on 26 June 2013. ''The Day Democracy Died'', his first non-fiction piece. This narrative history work tells how hyste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Audley (other) (1540–1564), wife of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
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Margaret Audley may refer to: *Margaret Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley (died 1349), Countess of Stafford and wife of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford *Margaret Audley (FitzWarin) (died 1373), wife of Fulk VIII FitzWarin, 4th Baron FitzWarin (1341–1374) *Margaret Audley (Howard) Margaret Howard (née Audley), Duchess of Norfolk (1540 – 9 January 1564) was the sole surviving child of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, and Lady Elizabeth Grey, herself the daughter of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
