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Elizabeth Campbell (politician)
Elizabeth Campbell may refer to: *Betty Campbell (1934–2017), Welsh schoolteacher * Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell (1902–2004), American public television pioneer *Elizabeth Campbell, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon (1733–1790), Irish belle and society hostess *Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (1824–1878), Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria *Elizabeth Macquarie (1778–1835), née Campbell, wife of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales *Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell (1749–1825) * Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman (1726–1785), American shopkeeper, teacher, philanthropist and proto-feminist * Liza Campbell (Lady Elizabeth Campbell, born 1959), artist *Elizabeth Campbell, a character in '' The General's Daughter'' * Elizabeth Campbell (poet) (born 1980), Australian poet *Elizabeth (Bessie) Campbell (1870–1964), Australian banjo player * Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell, American archeologist * Elizabeth Campbell (psychologist), Scottish clinical psych ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Campbell
Betty Campbell (6 November 1934 – 13 October 2017, born Rachel Elizabeth Johnson) was a Welsh community activist, who was Wales' first black head teacher. Born into a poor household in Butetown, she won a scholarship to the Lady Margaret High School for Girls in Cardiff. Campbell later trained as a teacher, eventually becoming head teacher of Mount Stuart Primary School in Butetown, Cardiff. She put into practice innovative ideas on the education of children and was actively involved in the community. Early life and education Betty Campbell was born Rachel Elizabeth Johnson in Butetown, Cardiff, in 1934. The area was formerly known as Tiger Bay, which had built up around Cardiff docklands and was one of the UK's first multi-cultural communities. Her mother, Honora, known as Nora, was Welsh Barbadian. Her father, Simon Vickers Johnson, who had come to the UK from Jamaica when he was 15, was killed in World War II when his ship the '' Ocean Vanguard'' was torpedoed in 1942. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Campbell (television)
Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell (December 4, 1902 – January 9, 2004) was an American public television executive. She was also a teacher, college administrator and a notable board member for the Arlington Public Schools, and the founder of WETA-TV, the first public television station in Washington, D.C. Early and family life Elizabeth Pfohl was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to a Moravian minister and a music teacher. She had a sister, Ruth, who survived her. Pfohl received her high school education at Salem Academy where she graduated in 1919. She then attended Salem College, a related institution, and received a bachelor's degree in education in 1923. She later received her master's degree in education from Columbia University. Pfohl married the trial lawyer Rev. Edmund D. Campbell Jr., a widower, in 1936, and moved with him to Arlington, Virginia, where she helped to raise his two children. The couple also had three children together. Campbell predeceased his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Campbell, 1st Baroness Hamilton Of Hameldon
Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon ( December 1733 – 20 December 1790), earlier Elizabeth Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, Gunning, was a celebrated Anglo-Irish beauty, lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, and society hostess. Early life Born in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, Elizabeth Gunning was one of the daughters of John Gunning of Castle Coote, County Roscommon, and his wife, Bridget Bourke, a daughter of Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo (1681–1741). Elizabeth's elder sister was Maria Gunning, later Countess of Coventry. In late 1740 or early 1741, the Gunning family returned from England to John Gunning's ancestral home in Ireland, where they divided their time between their country house in Roscommon and a rented town house in Dublin. According to some sources, when Maria and her sister Elizabeth came of age, their mother urged them to take up acting, in order to earn a living, owing to the family's relative poverty, even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess Of Argyll
Elizabeth Georgiana Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (''née'' Leveson-Gower; 30 May 1824 – 25 May 1878) was a British noblewoman and abolitionist. Born into the wealthy Sutherland-Leveson-Gower family, she was the eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland by his wife, the political hostess Lady Harriet Howard. In 1844 Elizabeth married George Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, eldest son and heir to the 7th Duke of Argyll. She became the Duchess of Argyll in 1847 when her husband succeeded his father. Like her mother, the Duchess of Argyll was a prominent opponent of slavery. The pair helped write a letter titled ''An Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters, the Women of the United States of America'', calling for an end of slavery; it attracted signatures from 562,848 British women. The two often hosted the American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe when she visited England. The Duchess and Beec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Macquarie
Elizabeth Macquarie (; 1778–1835) was the second wife of Lachlan Macquarie, who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. She played a significant role in the establishment of the colony and is recognised in the naming of many Australian landmarks including Mrs Macquarie's Chair and Elizabeth Street, Hobart. Governor Macquarie named the town (now city) of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Campbelltown, New South Wales after his wife's maiden name and a statue of her now stands in Mawson Park, Campbelltown. Biography Born Elizabeth Henrietta Campbell, she was the youngest daughter of John Campbell of Airds, Scotland. A distant cousin of Macquarie's she first met him at the age of 26 when he was an army officer. They were married three years later in 1807. Shortly after, in 1809, he was appointed to the governorship of New South Wales and she followed him. She is said to have taken a particular interest in the welfare of women convicts and indigenous people as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell
Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell (1749–1825), a sister of Patrick Henry and Annie Henry Christian, was born in Hanover County, Virginia, to John Henry and Sarah Winston. In 1776 she married Gen. William Campbell (1745–1781), the commander of the American forces that defeated the British at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780; this was the turning point of the American Revolution. Following Campbell's death in 1781, she married Gen. William Russell in 1783. They lived at Aspenvale, near Seven Mile Ford, Virginia until 1788 when they moved to Saltville where they carried on the manufacture of salt. The Russells converted to Methodism in 1788. After Gen. Russell's death in 1793, Elizabeth spent the remainder of her life fostering Methodism in southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. Francis Asbury and various Circuit Riders stopped regularly at her home. She is credited with bringing Methodism to western Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. In 1812 she moved to Chilh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman
Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman (July 7, 1726 – May 25, 1785) was a shopkeeper, teacher, and philanthropist in Boston, Massachusetts before, during, and after the American Revolution.Patricia Cleary's ''Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America,'' 2000 Murray spent much of her adult life teaching her nieces and female friends the importance of personal financial autonomy through shopkeeping and other traditionally female domestic duties. Biography Early life Elizabeth Murray was born in and spent the first twelve years of her life in Unthank, Scotland, until her older brother James, an up-and-coming merchant, brought her to his new North Carolina home to be his housekeeper. In this capacity, Murray learned the attendant responsibilities, such as "keeping accounts with local merchants and vendors, selecting and purchasing the items needed for household consumption, overseeing the work of any servants, and performing numerous chore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liza Campbell
Lady Elizabeth Campbell (born 24 September 1959), known as Liza Campbell, is an artist, calligrapher, columnist, and writer, born in the north of Scotland and currently living in London, England. She is the second daughter of Hugh Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor (1932–1993), by his first wife, the former Cathryn Hinde. She is the last child of an Earl Cawdor to have been born at Cawdor Castle, which has previously been erroneously associated with Shakespeare's Macbeth. (Her older sister Lady Emma Campbell was also born there, but her brothers and younger sister were born elsewhere, as were the children of the present Earl.) Campbell was raised in Cawdor Castle during the Sixties, and studied art at Chelsea. She lived in Mauritius, Kenya (Nairobi) and in Indonesia between 1990 and 1996. Career As an artist, Liza Campbell worked in an art gallery, and has had exhibitions of engraved soapstone at All Saints Gallery, Babbington House and the Sladmore Gallery. More recently, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The General's Daughter (film)
''The General's Daughter'' is a 1999 American mystery thriller film directed by Simon West from a screenplay co-written by Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson DeMille. It stars John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III, and James Woods. The plot concerns the mysterious death of the daughter of a prominent Army general. ''The General's Daughter'' received negative reviews from critics, but was a box-office success, grossing $149.7 million worldwide against an estimated budget of $60 to $95 million. Plot While in Georgia, Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, an undercover agent of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division Command, masquerades as First Sergeant Frank White to broker an illegal arms trade with a self-proclaimed freedom fighter. At Fort MacCallum, Brenner gets a flat tire and Captain Elisabeth Campbell, a psychological operations officer and the daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Campbell (poet)
Elizabeth Campbell is an Australian poet. Biography Elizabeth Campbell was born in Melbourne in 1980. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Honours Degree in English in 2000. She has taught English at Eltham High School and MacRobertson Girls' High School, Victoria. ''AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource'', 21 May 2014 She has published two collections of verse, ''Letters to the Tremulous Hand'' and ''Error'', both published by John Leonard Press. Her poetry has been widely published and anthologised, and she been the recipient of many awards and residencies for her poetry. Several of Campbell's poems were included in the 2011 landmark anthology of Australian poetry, ''Australian Poetry Since 1788''. Works Poetry *''Letters to the Tremulous Hand''. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth (Bessie) Campbell
Elizabeth "Bessie" Campbell (1870–1964), whose heritage is Irish, was an Anglican Australian-born banjo player as well as a charity worker. Early life Elizabeth Campbell, known as "Bessie", was born on 21 July 1870 in Melbourne, Australia. She is from an Irish and Anglican background and is the daughter of Christopher Campbell, a former employee for Madam Tussaud in Dublin, and Eliza ''née'' McMullen who was his second wife. Christopher and his wife migrated to Melbourne in 1849. In the early 1870s their family moved to Sydney as he continued his work in the waxworks industry. Education When Bessie was 14 years old, she went to London with her parents. Whilst there she was taught the banjo by Joe Daniels and documented that, "she took a great fancy to the five stringed banjo". The year after the family returned to Sydney where she remained learning the banjo for three more months from the American Hosea Easton. Career Bessie Campbell started to come out and play her ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell (1893–1971) was an American archeologist, notable for proposing a much earlier date for the presence of man in the desert Southwest than was generally accepted. She worked with her husband William (Bill) Campbell and first proposed that artifacts found along the shores of Lake Mojave and other Pleistocene lakes and rivers of the desert West were contemporaneous with the presence of water. They showed that there were virtually no sites that were not associated with archaic water sources. They hypothesized that the geologic features associated with the artifacts could be used to date the period of human habitation. This is the first use of what has become known as environmental archaeology. Life Elizabeth Crozer was the youngest of four daughters born to upper class parents: John Price Crozer II and Elizabeth Steger Warder Crozer of Upland, Pennsylvania. She was born on August 11, 1893, at the Crozer summer cottage in Beach Haven, New Jersey. Her fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
