Frances Burke (other)
Frances Burke may refer to: * Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde (1567–1633), English noblewoman * Frances Marie Burke (1922–2017), Miss America 1940 * Frances Mary Burke (1904–1994) was an Australian artist See also * Francis Burke (other) *France Burke (born c. 1926), American poet and daughter of Kenneth Burke Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burk ...

Frances Burke, Countess Of Clanricarde
Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde, Dowager Countess of Essex ( Walsingham, formerly Devereux and Sidney; 1567 – 17 February 1633) was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State, she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 16. Her second husband was Queen Elizabeth's favourite, Robert Devereaux Earl of Essex, with whom she had five children. Two years after his execution in 1601, she married Richard Burke, Earl of Clanricarde, and went to live with him in Ireland. Family and first marriage She was the only surviving child of Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State for Queen Elizabeth I, and Ursula St. Barbe. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, she married Philip Sidney in 1583, a match arranged by her father over the objections of the Queen, possibly because she did not like the prospect of two close councillors forming a power block (Sidney was nephew to Robert, Earl of Leicester). Sidney was appoint ...
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Frances Marie Burke
Frances Marie Kenney (née Burke; May 4, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contestant who was the winner of Miss America in 1940. Biography Burke, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was crowned Miss America at the Boardwalk Hall Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, formerly known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall, is a multi-purpose arena in Atlantic City in Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was Atlantic City's primary convention center until the opening of the Atlant ... in Atlantic City on September 7, 1940. She competed in the pageant as Miss Philadelphia. After winning the Miss America title Burke worked as a successful model. Despite opportunities in Hollywood, she chose to stay close to her family in Philadelphia. Burke was married to Lawrence Kenney for 72 years and had four children (Missy, Wendy, Lawrence, and William) and was the grandmother of five boys and five girls. She died at the home of her daughter on December 2, 2017, at the age ...
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Frances Mary Burke
Frances Mary Burke (10 January 1904 – 14 October 1994) was an Australian artist. She holds a significant place in the development of Australian design and evolution of printed textile design in Australia. She is recognised not only as a textile designer, but also as a design activist, homeware retailer, manufacturer and business woman. Biography Frances Mary Burke was born in Spotswood, Victoria on 10 January 1904. She was the youngest of three children of Francis Henry Burke, tailor's presser, and his wife Frances Veronica, née Brown, a former tailoress. Before taking up the opportunity to train in art and design, Burke had been a nurse at Mount St Evin's and Homoeopathic hospitals, qualifying as a registered nurse in 1927. By the early 1930s she was living with fellow nurse Frances Mary (Fabie) Chamberlin who was to remain her life partner and business partner. A small inheritance on the early death of her mother enabled Burke to leave her nursing vocation and follow ...
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Francis Burke (other)
Francis Burke may refer to: * Francis Burke (Franciscan) (died 1697), Irish Franciscan friar and writer * Francis Burke (bishop) (died 1723), Irish Roman Catholic archbishop of Tuam * Francis Burke (Dean of Elphin) (1834–1904), priest of the Church of Ireland See also * Frank Burke (other) * Frances Burke (other) Frances Burke may refer to: * Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde (1567–1633), English noblewoman * Frances Marie Burke (1922–2017), Miss America 1940 * Frances Mary Burke (1904–1994) was an Australian artist See also * Francis Burke (dis ...