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Margaret Hill (poet)
Margaret Hill may refer to: People * Margaret Hill (social reformer) (1885–1970), a British social reformer * Margaret Hill (dancer) (1929–1975), British ballerina * Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007), American heiress and philanthropist * Margaret Hill McCarter (1860–1938), American teacher and novelist * Margaret Hill Morris (1737–1816), Colonial American Quaker medical practitioner and diarist Places * Margaret Hill (Antarctica), a peak on Rucker Ridge, Victoria Land, Antarctica See also * Margaret Hills Margaret Hills (née Robertson 1882 – 1967) was a British teacher, suffragist organiser, feminist and socialist. She was first female councillor on Stroud Urban District Council and later served as a Councillor on Gloucestershire County Counci ... (1882–1967), British teacher and feminist {{disambiguation Hill, Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hill (social Reformer)
Margaret Hill, Order of the British Empire, CBE (née Keynes, 1885 – 1970) devoted her career to the welfare of the elderly and was the founder of Hill Homes in Highgate, and Hornsey Housing Trust in Hornsey. Early years Margaret Neville Hill was born in Cambridge in 1885, the middle child of three of John Neville Keynes (1852–1949) and Florence Ada Keynes (1861–1958). Her older brother was the economist John Maynard Keynes and her younger brother the distinguished surgeon and scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes. She was brought up in Harvey Road, Cambridge and was educated at home by a governess and later at Wycombe Abbey School. Career Cambridge Instead of academia, Margaret chose a career which followed the pattern of her mother's, who after attending Newnham College, Cambridge, Newnham College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, went on to become a social reformer, magistrate and the first woman councillor of Cambridge, becoming Mayor in 1932. She established an early juvenile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hill (dancer)
Margaret Hill (1929 - 30 December 1975) was a British ballerina, a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. Hill studied at the Rambert Dance Company which she joined in 1944 at the age of 15 where she went on to become a soloist and a principal dancer. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1952. Sir Peter Wright described Hill as "a superb artist who joined the company from Rambert, but who did not really fit into the required Royal Ballet mould". Hill appeared in Kenneth MacMillan's first choreographed work, ''Somnabulism'' in 1953, alongside Maryon Lane. However, Hill fell ill at the last minute, and MacMillan himself danced her role, improvising his own choreography as he went. Nonetheless, the ballet was "a triumph", and it was televised by the BBC in 1954 under its new title, ''The Dreamers''. Hill later returned to the Rambert Dance Company in 1953 for two years after which she returned to The Royal Ballet in 1956. She had a close relationship with Kenneth MacMillan, and he cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hunt Hill
Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007) was an American heiress and philanthropist. Early life On October 19, 1915, Hill was born as Margaret Hunt in Lake Village, Arkansas. Hill's father was H. L. Hunt (1889–1974) and her mother was Lyda Bunker (1889-1955).Alan PeppardOil in the Family '' Vanity Fair'', June 2008Jaime S. JordanMargaret Hunt Hill dies at 91 ''Dallas Business Journal'', Jun 15, 2007 Hill had six siblings: Caroline Rose Hunt (1923–2018), H. L. Hunt III (1917–2005), Lyda Bunker Hunt (born and died in 1925), Nelson Bunker Hunt (1926–2014), William Herbert Hunt (1929), and Lamar Hunt (1932–2006). She also had a number of half-siblings on her father's side. Hill grew up in El Dorado, Arkansas and Tyler, Texas, and moved to Dallas, Texas in 1938. Education Hill graduated from Mary Baldwin College, a private women's college in Staunton, Virginia. Career Hill worked as an assistant for her father until she got married. Together with her husband, she built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hill McCarter
Margaret Hill McCarter (May 2, 1860 – August 31, 1938) was an American teacher and novelist. She was the best-known and highest-paid novelist in Kansas at the time. Biography Born Margaret Hill near Carthage, Indiana to Quaker parents Thomas Thornbury Hill and Nancy (Davis), she was educated at public schools in Indiana then at the Quaker school Earlham College. Margaret attended the State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana, studying Latin, English and history; earning an A.B. in 1884. She became the principal of the high school in Rensselaer, Indiana, then head of the English department at the Goshen, Indiana high school. In 1888 she was hired to head the English department at Topeka High School in Topeka, Kansas, remaining at that post for the next six years. She married William Arthur Carter, a doctor, on June 5, 1890, and the couple had three children. In 1894 she founded Western Sorosis, a women's club. Margaret became a writer in 1901; contributing articles for newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hill Morris
Margaret Hill Morris (November 2, 1737 – ) was a Colonial American Quaker medical practitioner and diarist. Her journal provides a first hand account of events of the American Revolutionary War in and around Burlington, New Jersey, including the 1776 Battle of Trenton. Life Margaret Hill was born on November 2, 1737 in South River, Maryland. She was the daughter of Richard Hill, a Quaker doctor, merchant, amateur botanist, and slaveholder, and Deborah Moore, granddaughter of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Lloyd. She had eleven siblings, including poet Milcah Martha Moore. In 1739, Hill's business ventures failed and he and his wife fled to Madeira to avoid creditors. They left Margaret and three of her siblings in Philadelphia with their eldest daughter, Hannah Hill Moore. In 1758, she married William Morris, Jr., a Philadelphia dry goods merchant from a prominent Quaker family. He died in 1766, leaving her a widow with four children. In 1770, she relocated to Burlingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hill (Antarctica)
Margaret Hill may refer to: People * Margaret Hill (social reformer) (1885–1970), a British social reformer * Margaret Hill (dancer) (1929–1975), British ballerina * Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007), American heiress and philanthropist * Margaret Hill McCarter (1860–1938), American teacher and novelist * Margaret Hill Morris (1737–1816), Colonial American Quaker medical practitioner and diarist Places * Margaret Hill (Antarctica), a peak on Rucker Ridge, Victoria Land, Antarctica See also * Margaret Hills Margaret Hills (née Robertson 1882 – 1967) was a British teacher, suffragist organiser, feminist and socialist. She was first female councillor on Stroud Urban District Council and later served as a Councillor on Gloucestershire County Counci ... (1882–1967), British teacher and feminist {{disambiguation Hill, Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hills
Margaret Hills (née Robertson 1882 – 1967) was a British teacher, suffragist organiser, feminist and socialist. She was first female councillor on Stroud Urban District Council and later served as a Councillor on Gloucestershire County Council. Early life Margaret Robertson was born at 41 Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill, London on 1 March 1882. Her father, Henry Robert Robertson, was an artist of Scottish extraction and her mother, Agnes Lucy Turner, was a descendant of Robert Chamberlain, who founded the china works of Chamberlain & Son at Worcester (which later became Royal Worcester), and her mother's relatives included John Davidson (traveller), the African explorer, and George Fownes, both of whom were Fellows of the Royal Society. Her paternal grandfather had a private school in Slough. Her siblings were botanist Agnes Arber, classicist Donald Struan Robertson and portrait artist Janet Robertson. She is the great aunt of musician Thomas Dolby. Hills attended North Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
