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Dora Walker
Dora Walker (1890–1980) was a British woman who became the first female fishing boat skipper on the north East coast. She became an author writing her memoirs and also history and tales of the fishing community in Whitby and the North East Coast. Early life and family Dora Muriel Walker was born to John Ely and Mary Elizabeth Walker, a textile manufacturing family in Mirfield, Yorkshire. Her father was a blanket manufacturer, she was one of a large family, including brother Sir Ronald Walker, sisters artist Hilda and Kathleen – who became secretary to Ramsay MacDonald. She was the sister of Eric Walker (RAF officer) and of artist Hilda Annetta Walker, the aunt of Yorkshire artist Marie Walker Last, and the great-great aunt of James Northcote. Career World War I years At the outbreak of war in 1914, she joined the British Red Cross but as they were not prepared to allow V.A.D's Voluntary Aid Detachment to nurse behind the front line she applied to join a Belgian Hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Walker At The Helm Of Her Boat 'Good Faith' Whitby
Dora may stand for: * Dora (given name) Places United States *Dora, Alabama * Dora, Arkansas * Dora, Missouri *Dora, New Mexico * Dora, Oregon * Dora, Pennsylvania * Mount Dora, Florida Other countries * Lake Dora (Tasmania) *Lake Dora (Western Australia) *Dora, Baghdad, Iraq *Dora, Cyprus * Dora, Lebanon *Dura, Hebron, in the Israeli West Bank *Dorasan or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea * Dora Beel, a lake in Assam (India) *Dora Baltea river and Dora Riparia river, northern Italy Entertainment * ''Dora the Explorer'', American children's television program * ''Dora and the Lost City of Gold'', a 2019 live-action movie loosely based on the TV program * ''Dora'' (TV series), a 1973 British sitcom series * ''Dora'' (1933 film), a British comedy film * ''Dora'' (2017 film), a Tamil language horror thriller movie * Dora Mavor Moore Award for Canadian professional theatre * "Dora", 1984 song by Ambitious Lovers from the album ''Envy'' * Dora, a designated bonus tile used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Depage
Dr. Antoine Depage (Watermael-Boitsfort, 28 November 1862 – The Hague, 10 June 1925), was the Belgian royal surgeon, the founder and president of the Belgian Red Cross, and one of the founders of Scouting in Belgium.John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 35, 37 Depage married Marie Picard in 1893 and they had three children. Marie Depage died on 7 May 1915 in the sinking of when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. Medicine Depage studied medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and graduated magna cum laude in 1887. He became one of the founders and the first secretary of the International Surgical Society (1902–1912). In 1903 he founded a surgical institute, the Berkendael Institute, and Edith Cavell became its head nurse. During World War I Depage established the military hospital l'Océan at De Panne. He became the first head of the surgical department of the Brugmann hospital (1923). Antoine Depage was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Mirfield
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitby Museum
Whitby Museum is an independent museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, run by Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, a learned society and registered charity, established in 1823. It is located in a building opened in 1931 in Pannett Park, Whitby, which also contains the Society's Library and Archive. The museum contains a wide range of material relating to the history of Whitby, and has specialist collections relating to: *Jurassic fossils, in particular ammonites and marine reptiles *Whitby jet * Captain James Cook and HM Bark ''Endeavour'' * Whitby's whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industr ... industry. The museum also contains a Hand of Glory, the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man, said to have magical powers. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Walker Statue In Whitby
Dora may stand for: * Dora (given name) Places United States *Dora, Alabama * Dora, Arkansas * Dora, Missouri *Dora, New Mexico * Dora, Oregon * Dora, Pennsylvania * Mount Dora, Florida Other countries * Lake Dora (Tasmania) *Lake Dora (Western Australia) *Dora, Baghdad, Iraq *Dora, Cyprus * Dora, Lebanon *Dura, Hebron, in the Israeli West Bank *Dorasan or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea * Dora Beel, a lake in Assam (India) *Dora Baltea river and Dora Riparia river, northern Italy Entertainment * ''Dora the Explorer'', American children's television program * ''Dora and the Lost City of Gold'', a 2019 live-action movie loosely based on the TV program * ''Dora'' (TV series), a 1973 British sitcom series * ''Dora'' (1933 film), a British comedy film * ''Dora'' (2017 film), a Tamil language horror thriller movie * Dora Mavor Moore Award for Canadian professional theatre * "Dora", 1984 song by Ambitious Lovers from the album ''Envy'' * Dora, a designated bonus tile used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calais
Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. The population of the city proper is 72,929; that of the urban area is 149,673 (2018).Comparateur de territoire: Aire d'attraction des villes 2020 de Calais (073), Commune de Calais (62193) INSEE Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the |
Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess Of Sutherland
Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, The Duchess of Sutherland RRC (née Lady Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine, 20 October 1867 – 20 August 1955) was a British society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist, and playwright, often using the pen name ''Erskine Gower''. Her first husband was Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland. By her two later marriages, she was known as Lady Millicent Fitzgerald and Lady Millicent Hawes, the latter of which was the name she used at the time of her death. Birth and family She was born at Dysart House in Fife, the eldest daughter of the Scottish Conservative politician Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn. Her sisters were Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland and Lady Angela Forbes. Their mother, Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy, was the widow of the Hon. Charles Maynard, making them half-sisters to Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick and Blanche, Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox (mother to Ivy Cavendish-Bentin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Of Bavaria, Queen Of Belgium
Elisabeth of Bavaria (Elisabeth Gabriele Valérie Marie; 25 July 187623 November 1965) was Queen of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 to 17 February 1934 as the spouse of King Albert I, and a duchess in Bavaria by birth. She was the mother of King Leopold III of Belgium and of Queen Marie-José of Italy, and grandmother of Kings Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium, and Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg. Family Born in Possenhofen Castle, her father was Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, head of a cadet branch of the Bavarian royal family, and an ophthalmologist. She was named after her paternal aunt, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known as Sisi. Her mother was Maria Josepha of Portugal, daughter of exiled Miguel I of Portugal. Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Empress Zita, the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and Felix of Bourbon-Parma, husband of Grand Duchess Charlotte and brother of Empress Zita, were among Elisabeth's first cousins. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voluntary Aid Detachment
The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The most important periods of operation for these units were during World War I and World War II. Although VADs were intimately bound up in the war effort, they were not military nurses, as they were not under the control of the military, unlike the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, and the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. The VAD nurses worked in field hospitals, i.e., close to the battlefield, and in longer-term places of recuperation back in Britain. World War I The VAD system was founded in 1909 with the help of the British Red Cross and Order of St John. By the summer of 1914 there were over 2,500 Voluntary Aid Detachments in Britain. Of the 74,000 VAD members in 1914, two-thirds were women and girls. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Cædmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship and, coincidentally, where his vessel to explore the southern ocean, ''The Endeavour'' was built.Hough 1994, p. 55 Tourism started in Whitby during the Georgian period and developed with the arrival of the railway in 1839. Its attraction as a tourist destination is enhanced by the proximity of the high ground of the North York Moors national park and the heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel '' Dracula''. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby jet, which was mined by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with more than 17,200 volunteers and 3,400 staff. At the heart of their work is providing help to people in crisis, both in the UK and overseas. The Red Cross is committed to helping people without discrimination, regardless of their ethnic origin, nationality, political beliefs or religion. Queen Elizabeth II was the patron of the society until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death on 8 September 2022. In the year ending December 2019, the charity's income was £244.9million, which included £68.7M from government contracts and grants. It spent £197.5M (80%) of its income delivering its charitable activities. Guiding ethos The mission of the British Red Cross is to mobilise the power of humanity so that individuals and communities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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