|
Hermione (given Name)
Hermione ( grc, Ἑρμιόνη ) is a feminine given name derived from the Greek messenger god Hermes. Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology. It was also the name of an early Christian martyr, Hermione of Ephesus, and of a character in William Shakespeare’s play ''The Winter's Tale''. Usage of the name has increased in recent years in part due to a character in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. People *Hermione of Ephesus (died 117 A.D.), an early Christian martyr *Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986), English actress *Hermione Cobbold (1905–2004), British matriarch *Hermione Cockburn (born 1973), British TV and radio presenter * Hermione Cock (1904–2015), British female supercentenarian *Hermione Corfield (born 1993), English actress and model *Hermione Darnborough, (1915–2010), English ballerina *Hermione Eyre (born 1980), British journalist and novelist *Hermione FitzGerald (born 1985), Irish professional golfer *Hermione Farthingale (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menelaus
In Greek mythology, Menelaus (; grc-gre, Μενέλαος , 'wrath of the people', ) was a king of Mycenaean (pre- Dorian) Sparta. According to the ''Iliad'', Menelaus was a central figure in the Trojan War, leading the Spartan contingent of the Greek army, under his elder brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Prominent in both the ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'', Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy, the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus. Description In the account of Dares the Phrygian, Menelaus was described as ". . .of moderate stature, auburn-haired, and handsome. He had a pleasing personality." Family Menelaus was a descendant of Pelops son of Tantalus. He was the younger brother of Agamemnon, and the husband of Helen of Troy. According to the usual version of the story, followed by the ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' of Homer, Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreus, king of Mycenae and Ae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Darnborough
Hermione Maria Louise Darnborough (1915 – 29 October 2010), later Hermione Mathieson, was an English principal ballerina who made her name at Sadler's Wells in the 1930s. She retired at a young age after marrying the conductor and composer Muir Mathieson. Background Hermione Darnborough came from a wealthy and well-connected family in Weybridge, Surrey. On the side of her "glamorous and determined" mother, Frances, she was a cousin of the Duke of Argyll and the Duke of Portland.John Huntley (1947) ''British Film Music'' Her American father, Bill (or Billy) Darnborough (1869–1958), a former minor league baseball player and chop house owner who amassed a small fortune at roulette in the early years of the twentieth century, has been described as "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, though ... ke many an habitual gambler, he would generally lose his winnings at the next turn of the wheel, and it took all his wife's pleading to persuade him to stop". Her brother was the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Kitson
Hermione Kitson is an Australian news presenter and reporter. Career Kitson studied Media/Communications at Sydney University and completed an internship at ABC Sydney News and Current Affairs. Network Ten Before joining Network Ten, Kitson worked as a reporter at WIN TV and as a reporter and newsreader at 2UE Radio Sydney. Kitson joined '' Ten News'' in Melbourne in mid-2008, where she was a senior reporter for around four years. She reported on a range of stories, many of them headlines and major news items. Kitson also reported on a number of breaking news events, both live and from the newsroom. In August 2010, Kitson presented her first on-air bulletin, filling-in for George Donikian on the Saturday edition of Ten News Melbourne (following Network Ten's AFL telecasts) and continued to occasionally fulfil this role until September. Thereafter she became a permanent fill-in presenter. During her time in Melbourne, she was the main fill-in presenter for Helen Kapalos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Hoby
Hermione Hoby is a British author, journalist, and cultural critic. She is the author of the 2018 novel ''Neon in Daylight''. Early and personal life Hoby was born and raised in South London. She is named for the character Hermione from Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale''. She studied at Cambridge University and graduated in English literature. Career Hoby worked at ''The Guardian'' until moving to New York City in 2010 to become a freelance culture writer. She has profiled writers, actors, musicians, and other public figures, including Toni Morrison, Naomi Campbell, Meryl Streep, and others. In 2016, Hoby began writing "Stranger of the Week", a column for ''The Awl'', in which she observed the wider state of culture, life, and politics based on character studies culled from real-life encounters. ''Neon in Daylight'' Published on 1 January 2018 by Catapult, Hoby's debut novel, ''Neon in Daylight'', is set in New York during the months leading up to Hurricane Sandy. The book fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Hobhouse
Mary Hermione Hobhouse (2 February 1934 – 17 October 2014) was a British architectural historian and prominent preservation campaigner. Family and early life Hobhouse was born on 2 February 1934 to Sir Arthur Hobhouse and Konradin Huth Jackson at Hadspen House, Castle Cary in Somerset. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read Modern History. Her sister believed Hermione's exposure to Victorian Gothic architecture in this period ignited her interest. On 2 July 1955, Lady Hobhouse held a small "coming-of-age" dance for Hermione and her sister Virginia at Hadspen. Career After a short spell in the United States, Hobhouse took a job as a researcher with Granada Television. After this she began working as a freelance writer. Her first book, published in 1959, was a history of the Ward of Cheap in the City of London. She was the author of ''Lost London'' (1971), in whose introduction she wrote: Between 1973 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Ruth Herrick
Hermione Ruth Herrick (19 January 1889 – 21 January 1983) was the Chief Commissioner for the New Zealand Girl Guides and the first director of the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service. Biography Herrick was born in Ruataniwha, Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, on 19 January 1889. She attended Queen's College in London along with Katherine Mansfield. During World War I she was secretary to the Nursing Division at Walton-on-Thames Hospital, England. Following the war she briefly returned to New Zealand where she became Provincial Commissioner for the girl guides in Hawkes Bay. This led to a growing interest and in 1931 she returned to England to pursue it further. She became close with Robert and Olave Baden-Powell and attended the seventh conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in Poland along with several smaller conferences in England. With this experience she was appointed deputy Commissioner for the New Zealand Girl Guides in 1932, qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione (Hennessy) Ross
Hermione Ross (born 7 February 1966) is a British singer-songwriter and joint owner of H&I Music. She is the daughter of Irish singer-songwriter Christie Hennessy. Her debut album ''Songs My Father Taught Me'' (Warner Brothers Ireland) stayed at number one in the Irish indie charts for five weeks. Background Hermione Ross grew up in Sutton in South London with her parents Christie and Gill Ross. Her mother, originally from Sweden, met her singer-songwriter father in a Soho disco. Ross has two younger siblings, musician and record label manager Amber Ross and producer Tim Ross from electro band Cash + David. Career Ross joined Zomba/Jive records (part of Zomba Group of Companies) in 1988 as Promotions Manager, eventually becoming Creative Director. Ross managed the career of her father, singer songwriter Christie Hennessy, from 1992 when he released his album ''The Rehearsal'', until his last album, ''The Two of Us'', which was released the year of his death in 2007. They dueted o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Harvey
Hermione Harvey (born Hermione Helen Mary Hudson; 25 June 1931 - 25 September 2016), was an English actress and dancer. She was known in the 1950s for starring on the West End stage in London. Early life Harvey was born Hermione Helen Mary Hudson to British parents in Mussoorie, India, on 25 June 1931. She was the child of Charles Hudson, a lieutenant colonel of the Black Watch regiment, and his wife, Helen. After her father's death, her mother married Eric Beauchamp Northcliffe Harmsworth. Career At age 15, Harvey made her first appearance on the West End stage in 1946 for a production of '' The Wizard of Oz''. She then joined the Metropolitan Ballet, and soon began a film career. During her career, she starred with Peter Sellers, Morecambe and Wise, Frankie Howerd, Diana Dors, Donald Sinden, Anna Neagle, Marcia Ashton and many others. In 1950, Harvey performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as the June Girl in the British production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Hannen
Hermione Hannen (26 January 1913 – 1 October 1983) was an English theatre and film actress. She was born in London, the daughter of Nicholas "Beau" Hannen, who was also an actor on the stage and in film. Biography Hermione Hannen was born on 26 January 1913, London. Hannen's grandfather was Sir Nicholas John Hannen, who served as Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and also as British Consul-General in Shanghai. Sir Nicholas died in office and marines from served as an honour guard and pallbearers at his funeral. On her mother's side she was the grand-daughter of Sir Henry Morland, a British administrator in the Bombay Presidency of India. Through his marriage to Fanny Ellen Hannah Louisa Carandini, she was the great-grand-daughter of the opera singer, Marie Carandini. Marie was married to the Italian nobleman, Jerome Carandini, the Marquis of Sarzano, and thus Hannen was also a distant cousin of the actor Christopher Lee. Career Hannen trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Hammond
Hermione Hammond (11 August 1910 – 29 July 2005) was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II. Born in Hexham, Northumberland, to an artist mother and an invalid father, Hermione Hammond had one brother and one sister. Rolt was a civil engineer who became a freelance journalist and wrote 26 books, notably engineering textbooks; Rosemary wrote music and assisted the composer Peter Maxwell Davies when he taught at Cirencester Grammar School. She attended the Francis Holland School in London (one of her schoolmates was actress Joyce Grenfell). She went on to study art at the Chelsea Polytechnic, then at the Royal Academy Schools, under Walter Russell and Tom Monnington. She learned mural decoration at the Royal College of Art and attended night classes in etching. She supported herself by winning prizes and doing odd jobs. One such job was the altarpiece in the ecumenical chapel of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Gulliford
Hermione Valentine Gulliford is an English actress, born in Somerset. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1994. She has worked in the theatre, appearing in ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Othello'', and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as Lady Capulet in ''Romeo and Juliet'' at Shakespeare's Globe in London in 2019.Programme for ''Romeo and Juliet'' - Shakespeare's Globe - 6 March 2019 - Glenn Christodoulou Collection Television credits include one episode of ''The IT Crowd'' and the roles of Kim in '' Oktober'', Sophie in ''Jane Eyre'', Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet in '' Monarch of the Glen'', Carol Emerson in ''Heartbeat'', and a recurring role as Elizabeth Addis in the final series of ''Foyle's War'' (2015). On 2 April 2013, she appeared as neurosurgeon Roxanna MacMillan in ''Holby City ''Holby City'' (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Gingold
Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (; 9 December 189724 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character. Her signature drawling, deep voice was a result of nodules on her vocal cords she developed in the 1920s and early 1930s. After a successful career as a child actress, she established herself on the stage as an adult, playing in comedy, drama and experimental theatre, and radio broadcasting. She found her milieu in revue, which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress Hermione Baddeley. Later she played formidable elderly characters in such films and stage musicals as '' Gigi'' (1958), ''Bell, Book and Candle'' (1958), ''The Music Man'' (1962) and ''A Little Night Music'' (1973). From the early 1950s Gingold lived and made her career mostly in the U.S. Her American stage work ranged from ''John Murray Anderson's Almanac'' (1953) to ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Menelaus")
