Elizabeth Richardson (witch)
Elizabeth Richardson may refer to: *Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond (1576/77 – 1651), English writer and peeress * Elizabeth Ann Richardson (1918–1945), Red Cross Clubmobiler * Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, wife of Ernest Hemingway See also *Richardson (surname) Richardson is an English surname of Middle English origin. The prefix Richard is a given name derived from the Old French ''ric'' ("power") and ''hard'' ("brave"/"hardy"). The suffix ''-son'' denotes "son/descendant of". The names Richard and Rich ...

Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond
Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond (1576/77 – 1651) was an English writer and peeress.George Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 1887–98 She is remembered for her collections of prayers. Biography Born Elizabeth Beaumont, she was the eldest child of Sir Thomas Beaumont (brother of Huntingdon Beaumont) and his wife, Catherine. On 27 November 1594 she married John Ashburnham (knighted in 1604) at Stoughton, Leicestershire, and they had ten children including John Ashburnham (MP). Their daughter, Elizabeth, was the first wife of Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis. Sir John's death in 1620 left the family in financial difficulty, but Lady Ashburnham was considerably influential at court due to Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham (mother of King James's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham) being her cousin. She procured a baronetcy for her son-in-law, Edward Dering, in 1627 and a letter to Buckingham, that year, indicates she enjoyed the compan ...
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Elizabeth Ann Richardson
Elizabeth Ann Richardson (1918–1945) was a volunteer for the American Red Cross who served in a Clubmobile serving coffee and doughnuts to US troops during the invasion of France in the Second World War. She was killed in a Piper Cub plane crash near Rouen when flying to Paris in 1945 and is now one of the four women to be buried in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. The other three women honored with burials there are African Americans who had served in the Army's unique 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was an all-black battalion of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). The 6888th had 855 black women, both enlisted and officers, and was led by Major Charity Adams. It was th ..., and been killed in a Jeep accident. References 1918 births 1945 deaths American Red Cross personnel American women civilians in World War II Milwaukee-Downer College alumni People from Akron, Oh ...
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Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (November 9, 1891 – January 22, 1979) was the first wife of American author Ernest Hemingway. The two married in 1921 after a courtship of less than a year, and moved to Paris within months of being married. In Paris, Hemingway pursued a writing career, and through him Hadley met other expatriate American and British writers. In 1925, Hadley learned of Hemingway's affair with Pauline Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer had been Hadley's best friend and had lived and traveled with the Hemingways. Hadley divorced Hemingway in 1927. In 1933, Hadley married a second time, to journalist Paul Mowrer, whom she met in Paris. Early life Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was born on November 9, 1891 in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of five children. Hadley's mother, Florence Wyman-Richardson, was an accomplished musician and singer, and her father James Richardson Jr., worked for a family-owned pharmaceutical company. As a child, Hadley fell out of a second-story window and con ...
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