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Elizabeth Grey (1440-1501)
Elizabeth Gray or Grey may refer to: People * Elizabeth Gray (Irish artist) (1837–1903), Irish artist * Elizabeth Gray (British artist) (1928–2022), British artist *Elizabeth Gray (broadcaster), Canadian radio broadcaster *Elizabeth Gray (fossil collector) (1831–1924), Scottish malacologist *Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle (c. 1482–c. 1525), English noble woman who flourished during the reigns of Henry VII and VIII *Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare (c. 1497 – after 1548), English noblewoman, and the second wife of Irish peer Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare *Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle (1505–1519), Tudor noblewoman jilted for Mary Tudor *Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent (1582–1651), née Elizabeth Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury * Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1810–1887), Scottish historian *Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), English author *Elizabeth Gray Vining (1902–1999), born Elizabeth Gray, librarian *Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gray (Irish Artist)
Elizabeth Gray (née Sharpe) (1837 – 29 April 1903) was an Irish artist, etcher, and amateur photographer. Life Elizabeth Sharpe was born in Dublin in 1837 to a distinguished family. Her brother was Richard Sharpe RHA, inventor of the chromograph. Elizabeth was living in Sydney by early 1857. She married Charles Gray on 19 March 1857 in Portland, Victoria. The couple lived at their property at Nareeb Nareeb, near Portland. They had at least three daughters, with the eldest Annie was born on 14 April 1858. Gray died on 29 April 1903. Artistic work Gray worked in watercolour and pen-and-ink, with some of her early work in Australia consists of two watercolours of ''Sydney Town and Harbour'', and ''Sydney Heads'' from 1857. Gray continued to work artistically after her marriage. Her work in pen and ink was on a variety of surfaces, including eggs. Her work ''View of Ferntree Gully'' from 19 February 1860 is on porcelain. She contributed five works to the fourth Annual Exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gray (British Artist)
Elizabeth Gray (1928 - 2022), also known as Ben Venuto and Emmie Gee, was an artist specialising in sporting and wildlife pictures. Gray was born in 1928 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. She began working as a musician and in broadcasting. However she also began to produce illustrations for magazines. She developed as an artist trying a large number of artistic mediums including water-colours and oil, finally specialising in wildlife and sporting pictures. She was awarded medals by the Royal Horticultural Society. Shows of her artwork have been held in the UK and USA, including the Sportsman’s Edge Gallery, New York and her work is in the permanent collection of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is located in Wausau, Wisconsin. It is best known for its annual "Birds in Art" exhibition, which exhibits contemporary artistic representations of birds. The annual exhibition has been held beginning the week af ... in Wisconsin, USA. She had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gray (broadcaster)
Elizabeth Gray is a Canadian radio broadcaster, who has been a host and documentary producer for CBC Radio. Previously a researcher on '' Cross-Country Checkup'' and a substitute host on ''This Country in the Morning'' and '' Morningside'', Gray took over from Barbara Frum as cohost of ''As It Happens ''As It Happens'' is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One in Canada and various public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange. Its 50th anniversary was celebrated on-air on November 16, 2018. It has bee ...'' in 1981. In a controversial decision by the show's producers, she was replaced by Dennis Trudeau in 1985. She subsequently hosted '' Sunday Morning'' for several years, and produced documentary reports for the network. More recently, with different producers in charge of ''As It Happens'', Gray has returned to the program as an occasional guest host. She was married to journalist John Gray. References Living people Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gray (fossil Collector)
Elizabeth Gray (born Elizabeth Anderson; 21 February 1831 – 11 February 1924) was a Scottish early fossil collector. Gray created scientifically organised collections of fossils for several museums. Life Elizabeth Anderson was born in Alloway Alloway ( gd, Allmhaigh, ) is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland, located on the River Doon. It is best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns and the setting for his poem "Tam o' Shanter". Tobias Bachope, the mason responsible for the cons ... in 1831. She and her family moved to Enoch near Girvan in Ayrshire where they farmed and Elizabeth attended a small private school. Her father was described as an enthusiastic collector of fossils who had a type of trilobite named after him. Anderson was sent to a boarding school in Glasgow when she was fifteen. She stayed for a year and then returned to help in the home.R. J. Cleevely, 'Gray , Elizabeth (1831–1924)', '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle
Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle (c.1482/1484 – c.1525/1526) was an English noblewoman during the reigns of Henry VII and VIII. Origins Elizabeth Grey was the daughter of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (d. 1492) by his wife Elizabeth Talbot (d. 1487), daughter and eventual heir of John Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle (1423–1453).Byrne, Muriel St Clare, (ed.), The Lisle Letters, London & Chicago, 1981, 6 vols., vol.1, appendix 9, pedigree of Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle Marriages Elizabeth married two times: * Firstly to Edmund Dudley (c. 1462-1510); they had three children: **John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (c. 1502-1553) **Andrew Dudley **Jerome Dudley *Secondly, after the execution of Edmund Dudley, Elizabeth married Arthur Plantagenet (d. 1542). Arthur and Elizabeth had three daughters: **Frances Plantagenet **Elizabeth Plantagenet **Bridget Plantagenet. Succession to Barony of Lisle On the death of her niece Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Grey, Countess Of Kildare
Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare (c.1497 – after 1548), was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman, the second wife of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare. Her father was Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset. She went to France in 1514 as one of the Maids of Honour of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and remained to serve the latter's successor, Queen Claude, in the same capacity. Family and early years Elizabeth Grey was born in about 1497, a daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, member of the House of Grey, and Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville, one of the wealthiest heiresses in England in the latter half of the 15th century. Elizabeth's paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of King Edward IV of England. Elizabeth had 13 siblings, including her eldest brother Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, who succeeded their father when he died in September 1501, when she was about four years old. Two years later, their mother, Cecily married Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle
Elizabeth Grey, 5th Baroness Lisle, 3rd Viscountess Lisle (25 March 1505 – 1519) was an English noblewoman. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle and Lady Muriel Howard. After the death of her stepfather, Sir Thomas Knyvet, in August 1512, Elizabeth was left an orphan and became the ward of Sir Charles Brandon, a favourite of King Henry VIII. Brandon had already been married twice before, in scandalous circumstances, and would marry twice more, also in scandalous circumstances, but at this point was a widower. In 1513, Elizabeth and Brandon were betrothed, and he was made Viscount Lisle in anticipation of their marriage - she was then only eight years old. In 1515, he married Mary Tudor, the queen dowager of France and Henry VIII's younger sister (without having obtained the consent of the King). Having married, he was obliged to surrender the title and Elizabeth's wardship. This was passed on to Katherine Plantagenet, Countess of Devon, who marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Grey, Countess Of Kent
Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent (née Lady Elizabeth Talbot) (1582 – 7 December 1651) was a medical recipe collector, and the wife of Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent. Biography She was a daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Cavendish.{{Cite journal, last=Kingsford, first=Charles Lethbridge, title=Grey Elizabeth, url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grey,_Elizabeth_(DNB00), journal=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, volume=23 She was appointed a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth in June 1600. She married Grey on 16 November 1601, at St Martin-in-the-Fields. They lived at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, where she managed the large household. They had no children, and the Earl died in 1639. Afterwards she may have married the writer, John Selden, who had worked for the Earl and to whom she left most of her property. She was a favourite attendant of Queen Anne of Denmark, As her husband was Baron Grey of Ruthin, she was named as "Lady Ruthin" in lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Caroline Gray
Elizabeth Caroline Hamilton Gray (''née'' Johnstone; 3 April 1800 – 21 February 1887) was a Scottish historian and travel author, born in Alva, Clackmannanshire, as the eldest daughter of James Raymond Johnstone and Mary Elizabeth Cholmeley. She was the granddaughter of the colonial businessman John Johnstone. After marrying John Hamilton Gray, a priest and genealogist, in June 1829, Gray moved to Bolsover Castle in England, where she lived until shortly before her death. Research Gray became interested in the history of the Etruscans after visiting an exhibition of their artefacts in London organised by Domenico Campanari in 1837. She pursued the subject on a visit to Italy in 1837–1839, drawing on contacts in German and Italian archaeological circles. In 1840 she published ''Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria'', which served as a travelogue and an account of her archaeological research. She then wrote a general ''History of Etruria'': the first two volumes in 1843–184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Caroline Grey
Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. There is some controversy about the details of her life story, and if she actually authored any penny dreadfuls. Biography Commenting on her literary reputation in 1859, American critic Samuel Austin Allibone said Grey "has fairly earned a title to be ranked as one of the most popular novelists of the day." That reputation has not lasted, her life and body of work today are fairly obscure outside of a few specialised fields of study such as Victorian literature and vampire literature. Grey is probably most often remembered today as being the first woman to write and publish a vampire story; one of her earliest stories, '' The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress'', it was first published in 1828 in a weekly paper called ''The Casket''. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gray Vining
Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining (October 6, 1902 – November 27, 1999) was an American professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince. She was also a noted author, whose children's book '' Adam of the Road'' received the Newbery Medal in 1943. Early life and education Elizabeth Janet Gray was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1902. She was a graduate of Germantown Friends School and received an AB from Bryn Mawr College in 1923. In 1926, she earned an MS in library science from the Drexel University, and became a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She married Morgan Fisher Vining, associate director of the Extension Division of UNC, in 1929. In 1933, her husband was killed in a New York City automobile accident, and Vining was severely injured. During her convalescence, she converted to the Quaker faith. Vining soon became known as an author, primarily of children's books, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Woodville
Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile;Although spelling of the family name is usually modernised to "Woodville", it was spelt "Wydeville" in contemporary publications by Caxton, but her tomb at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle is inscribed thus: "Edward IV and his Queen Elizabeth Widvile". c. 1437Karen Lindsey, ''Divorced, Beheaded, Survived'', p. xviii, Perseus Books, 1995. – 8 June 1492), later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from her marriage to King Edward IV on 1 May 1464 until Edward was deposed on 3 October 1470, and again from Edward's resumption of the throne on 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. At the time of her birth, her family was of middle rank in the English social hierarchy. Her mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, had previously been an aunt-by-marriage to Henry VI. Elizabeth's first marriage was to a minor supporter of the House of Lancaster, Sir John Grey of Groby. He died at the Second Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
