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Mary Baldwin (actress)
Mary Baldwin may refer to: * Mary Julia Baldwin (1829–1897), American educator after whom Mary Baldwin University is named * Mary Briscoe Baldwin Mary Briscoe Baldwin (May 20, 1811June 20, 1877) was a 19th-century American missionary educator to Greece and Joppa. She was the "first unmarried woman sent out by the Foreign Committee of the Protestant Episcopal church's Mission Board". During ... (1811–1877), American missionary educator * Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (née Baldwin, 1916–2018), English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson * Mary Baldwin University, a private women's university in the USA {{dab, hn=Baldwin, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Julia Baldwin
Mary Julia Baldwin (4 October 1829 – 1 July 1897) was a Virginia educator in Staunton, Virginia. For thirty four years she ran Mary Baldwin College, which was named in her honor in 1895 and later became Mary Baldwin University. Early and family life Born to Margaret Sarah Sowers Baldwin Heiskell (1810-1855) and her husband William Daniel Baldwin (1803-1830) in Winchester, Virginia at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley on October 4, 1829, Mary Julia Baldwin never knew her father, who died when she was a baby. Raised by her maternal grandparents in Staunton, Virginia after her mother remarried, in 1842 Mary became a member of the first class of sixty girls at the Augusta Female Seminary. Local Presbyterian ministers had organized it, and the Virginia General Assembly incorporated it on January 30, 1845. After four years of studies, Mary Baldwin graduated at the top of her class. Baldwin suffered a high fever as a child that permanently twisted and paralyzed the left side ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Briscoe Baldwin
Mary Briscoe Baldwin (May 20, 1811June 20, 1877) was a 19th-century American missionary educator to Greece and Joppa. She was the "first unmarried woman sent out by the Foreign Committee of the Protestant Episcopal church's Mission Board". During the Crimean War, Baldwin assisted Florence Nightingale in hospitals, and they became friends. Early life and education Mary Briscoe Baldwin was born at Belle Grove, Frederick County, Virginia, May 20, 1811, in a mansion in the Shenandoah Valley. It was the home of her grandfather. Her father was Dr. Cornelius Baldwin (d. 1828), of Winchester, Virginia. Her mother was Nelly Conway Hite (d. 1830), (daughter of Maj. Isaac Hite, of Belle Grove). Nelly was a niece of James Madison, fourth President of the United States. Mary was the second daughter in a family of twelve —including Eleanor Conway Baldwin, Isaac Hite Baldwin, Ann Maury Baldwin, James Madison Baldwin, and Robert Stuart Baldwin. The family home was at Cedar Grove, which was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson Of Rievaulx
Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (; 12 January 19166 June 2018) was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as British prime minister. She was the first British prime minister's spouse to become a centenarian, living to the age of . Life She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the daughter of the Reverend Daniel Baldwin, who was a Congregationalist minister. She attended boarding school at Milton Mount College near Crawley, leaving aged 16 to attend a secretarial course for two years. She was employed as a stenographer at Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight before marrying Harold Wilson on New Year's Day 1940. She and Wilson had two sons, Robin (born 1943) and Giles (born 1948). In 1970, her volume of poetry ''Selected Poems'' was published and, in 1976, Wilson was one of three judges of the Booker Prize, the other judges being Walter Allen and Francis King. According to the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' entry for Harold Wilson, written by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
