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Constance (given Name)
Constance is a female given name that derives from Latin and means "constant." Variations of the name include Connie, Constancia, and Constanze. Notable people *Constance of Antioch (1127–1163), only daughter of Bohemund II of Antioch *Constance of Aragon (1179–1222), Aragonese infanta *Constance of Arles (986–1034), third wife and queen of King Robert II of France *Constance of Austria (1588–1631), Queen consort of Poland *Constance of Burgundy (1046–1093), daughter of Duke Robert I of Burgundy *Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster (1354–1394) second wife of John of Gaunt *Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), Irish countess and political activist *Constance, Queen of Sicily (1154–1198), also Holy Roman Empress (Dowager) *Constance of Portugal (1290–1313), daughter of King Denis of Portugal *Constance de Salm (1767–1845), poet and miscellaneous writer; through her second marriage, she became Princess of Salm-Dyck *Constance of Wrocław (c. 1221 – 1257), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female
Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes, unlike isogamy where they are the same size. The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, Sex-determination system, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced Secondary sex characteristic, secondary female sex characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance, Duchess Of Brittany
Constance (Breton: ''Konstanza''; c. 1161c. 5 September 1201) was Duchess of Brittany from 1166 to her death in 1201Judith Everard, Michael Jones, ''The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and her Family (1171-1221)'', The Boydell Press, 1999, p. 38 and Countess of Richmond from 1171 to 1201. Constance was the daughter of Duke Conan IV by his wife, Margaret of Huntingdon, a sister of the Scottish kings Malcolm IV and William I. Life and reign Constance's father Conan IV had reunited the Duchy of Brittany in wars with Henry II of England. After the wars with Henry II, Conan IV faced rebellions from some Breton nobles. He appealed to Henry II for assistance in putting down those rebellions. In 1166, Henry invaded Brittany in order to punish the local barons' revolt. In order to gain complete control over the duchy, he forced Conan IV into abdicating in Constance's favor and betrothing her to his fourth legitimate son Geoffrey. Five-year-old Constance succeeded him as D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Cox
Constance Cox (25 October 1912 – 8 July 1998) was a British script writer and playwright, born in Sutton, Surrey. Life and career Cox was born Constance Shaw in Sutton, Surrey, in 1912. She married Norman Cox, a fighter pilot, who was killed in 1942. She had been a postmistress in Shoreham-by-sea, and moved to Brighton where she took up writing full-time after the end of the war. Cox specialised in adaptations of books by Charles Dickens and other classic literature. Her 1962 adaptation of Charles Dickens' ''Oliver Twist'' led to viewer complaints over the murder of Nancy by Bill Sikes and questions asked in Parliament about the suitability of such content for family audiences. In 1957 she adapted the J.B. Priestley novel ''Angel Pavement'' into a BBC series of the same title. She also was a prolific playwright. She was a member of the Brighton Little Theatre from the early 1950s and directed her own and others' work there for many years. Selected works and adaptations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Coltman
Constance Mary Coltman (née Todd; 23 May 1889 - 26 March 1969) was one of the first women ordination, ordained to Minister (Christianity), Christian ministry in Britain. She practised within the Congregational Church. A decade earlier Gertrude von Petzold became minister at Narborough Road Free Christians (Britain), Free Christian (Unitarianism, Unitarian) church, Leicester, after studying at Mansfield College, Oxford. A generation earlier, in 1880, the Glasgow Universalists ordained Caroline Soule. (The Methodists and Quakers had women preachers from much earlier). Early life Born in Putney in London, Constance Todd grew up in a Presbyterianism, Presbyterian family who attended the Putney Presbyterian Church. After attending Saint Felix School, Southwold as a boarding school, boarder, she read history in Somerville College, Oxford. Call to ministry She became conscious of her call to ministry, but was told that it would be impossible in the Presbyterian Church of England. In 1909 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Collier
Constance Collier (born Laura Constance Hardie; 22 January 1878 – 25 April 1955) was an English stage and film actress and acting coach. She wrote hit plays and films with Ivor Novello and she was the first person to be treated with insulin in Europe. Early life and stage career Born Laura Constance Hardie in Windsor, Berkshire to Auguste Cheetham Hardie and Eliza Georgina Collier, Constance Collier made her stage debut at the age of three, when she played Fairy Peasblossom in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. In 1893, at the age of 15, she joined the Gaiety Girls, the famous dance troupe based at the Gaiety Theatre in London. In 1905, Collier married English actor Julian Boyle (stage name Julian L'Estrange). She soon became so tall that she towered over all the other dancers. In addition, she had an enormous personality and considerable determination. On 27 December 1906, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's extravagant revival of ''Antony and Cleopatra'' opened at His Majesty's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Marie Charpentier
Constance Marie Charpentier (born 4 April 1767 Paris, – 3 August 1849 Paris) was a French painter. She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Blondelu. Life and career Records of Charpentier's training are unclear, but she might have studied with numerous artists. She is typically believed to have studied with the acclaimed French painter Jacques-Louis David, but may also have been a pupil of François Gérard, Pierre Bouillon, Louis Lafitte and either Johann Georg Wille or his son, Pierre-Alexandre Wille. In 1788 she received a 'Prix d'Encouragement.' From 1795 to 1819 she exhibited approximately thirty paintings at various Salons, winning a gold medal in 1814 at the Paris Salon and a silver medal in 1821 at the Salon at Douai. It is believed that some of Charpentier's works were incorrectly attributed to her teacher, David. The well-known painting ''Young Woman Drawing'' (1801) was incorrectly at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Calenda
Constance Calenda ( it, Costanza or ; ) was an Italian surgeon specializing in diseases of the eye.Walsh JJ. 'Medieval Women Physicians' in ''Old Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages'', ch. 8, (Fordham University Press; 1911) (accessed 22 August 2007) She studied at the , and was one of the women known as the " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Briscoe
Constance Briscoe (born 18 May 1957 in England) is a former barrister, and was one of the first black female recorders in England and Wales. In May 2014, she was jailed for three counts of doing an act tending to pervert the course of justice in '' R v Huhne and Pryce''. She was disbarred and removed from the judiciary. Legal career Briscoe studied Law at Newcastle University and graduated with a 2:2, financing her studies with several casual jobs, including working in a hospice. She took an MA at the University of Warwick. She was called to the bar in 1983. After pupillage with Michael Mansfield, she joined the chambers of Barbara Calvert. In 1996 she became an assistant recorder, a part-time judge. Briscoe practised in criminal law and fraud, principally defending. She also undertook tribunal work, public inquiries, inquests and acted as president of Mental Health Tribunals. A room was named after her in the Newcastle University Students' Union building, which was later renam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Bolton
Constance Muriel Bolton (née Beard, 29 December 1884 – 30 March 1949) was a New Zealand artist. Born in Masterton, New Zealand, on 29 December 1884, she was the daughter of Spencer Francis Beard and Marion Rolleston Smith, and the eldest of four children. Bolton was educated in England and returned to New Zealand in 1913 to study at the Elam School of Art in Auckland. She married Edward Yates Bolton in 1922 and as an artist she was known under her married name (they divorced 1929). She travelled in the United Kingdom to study at the Royal College of Art in London and became an Associate in 1928. Returning to New Zealand in 1930, she married Frederick Charles Renyard in 1937. Bolton exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (also referred to as the Wellington Art Society) was founded in Wellington in July 1882 as The Fine Arts Association of New Zealand. Founding artists included painters William Beetham (first president of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Bennett
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s; during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Bennett frequently played society women, focusing on melodramas in the early 1930s and then taking more comedic roles in the late 1930s and 1940s. She is best remembered for her leading roles in ''What Price Hollywood?'' (1932), '' Bed of Roses'' (1933), '' Topper'' (1937), '' Topper Takes a Trip'' (1938), and had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo's last film, ''Two-Faced Woman'' (1941). She was the daughter of stage and silent film star Richard Bennett, and the older sister of actress Joan Bennett. Early life Bennett was born in New York City, the eldest of three daughters of actress Adrienne Morrison and actor Richard Bennett. Her younger sisters were actresses Joan Bennett and Barbara Bennett. All th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley (September 14, 1921 – September 28, 2005) was an American jurist and politician, who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A key strategist of the civil rights movement, she was state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan in New York City before becoming a United States federal judge."U.S. Courts: Constance Baker Motley – Judiciary's Unsung Rights Hero." ''Targeted News Service'', February 21, 2020''.'' She obtained a role with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a staff attorney in 1946 after receiving her law degree, and continued her work with the organization for more than twenty years. She was the first Black woman to argue at the Supreme Court and argued 10 landmark civil rights cases, winning nine. She was a law clerk to Thurgood Marshall, aiding him in the case ''Brown v. Board of Education.'' Motley was also the first African-American woman appointed to the federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Babington Smith
Constance Babington Smith MBE, FRSL (15 October 1912 – 31 July 2000) was a British journalist and writer, but is probably best known for her wartime work in imagery intelligence. Early life Constance Babington Smith was born on 15 October 1912 at Beech Law, Puttenham, Surrey. She was the daughter of the senior civil servant Sir Henry Babington Smith, a scion of the Babington family. Her mother, born Lady Elizabeth Bruce, was the eldest daughter of the 9th Earl of Elgin, making Constance a granddaughter of a Viceroy of India and a great-great-granddaughter of the man who bought the Elgin Marbles. Constance came from a large family and was the seventh of nine children. Her father died in 1923, when she was ten. By then, her eldest brothers were already adults, whilst her youngest sister was just two years old. She was educated at home at the family home 'Chinthurst', in Wonersh in Surrey. She finished her education in France and moved to London in adult life. A tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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