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Mary Davis may refer to: * Moll Davis (Mary Davis, c. 1648–1708), actress and mistress of Charles II of Great Britain *Mary E. P. Davis (1840–1924), American nursing instructor *Mary Davis (artist) (1866–1941), English artist *Mary Davis (actress) (1870–1944), American silent film actress *Mary Gould Davis (1882–1956), American author, librarian, storyteller and editor *Mary Lund Davis (1922–2008), modernist architect *Mary Davis (activist) (born 1954), Special Olympics organiser and candidate in the Irish presidential election, 2011 *Mary Bond Davis (born 1958), American singer, actor and dancer *Mary Hayes Davis (c. 1884–1948), American writer, newspaper editor and publisher * Mary Elizabeth Moragne Davis (1815–1903), American diarist and author * Mary Fenn Robinson Davis (1824–1886), American reformer, spiritualist lecturer, and poet * Mary Davis (singer) (born 1958), American singer of the S.O.S. Band The S.O.S. Band (sometimes written as S.O.S. Band; abbrev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moll Davis
Mary "Moll" Davis (c. 1648 – 1708), also spelt Davies or Davys, was a courtesan and mistress of King Charles II of England. She was an actress and entertainer before and during her role as royal mistress. Early life Mary Davis was born in Westminster, as a presumed illegitimate child of Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire. The eminent diarist Samuel Pepys wrote of Mary as "… a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire." Her parentage is also attributed to Thomas' elder brother Charles Howard. Mary's birth is often contradicted, though it is believed to be around 1648. In 1663 Mary had installed herself as an actress in the Duke's Theatre Company, and boarded with the company's manager, Sir William Davenant.Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson, ''Davis avies; married name Paisible Mary oll(c.1651–1708), actress and royal mistress'' in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004) There she quickly became a popular singer, dancer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary E
Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary * Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus * Mary of Bethany, follower of Jesus, considered by Western medieval tradition to be the same person as Mary Magdalene * Mary, mother of James * Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus * Mary, mother of John Mark * Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents * Mary of Rome, a New Testament woman * Mary, mother of Zechariah and sister of Moses and Aaron; mostly known by the Hebrew name: Miriam * Mary the Jewess one of the reputed founders of alchemy, referred to by Zosimus. * Mary 2.0, Roman Catholic women's movement * Maryam (surah) "Mary", 19th surah (chapter) of the Qur'an Royalty * Mary, Countess of Blois (1200–1241), daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Davis (artist)
Mary Davis, Lady Davis (née Halford; 22 March 1866 – 30 October 1941) was a British artist known as a designer and painter of fans. Biography Davis was born in London and studied art at the Ridley Art School. She exhibited landscape paintings and painted fans at the Royal Academy in London from 1886 onwards and at the Paris Salon from 1898. In 1914 Davis had a joint exhibition with Charles Conder, another noted fan artist of the time, in New York at the Colnaghi & Obach gallery. In 1919 Davis shared an exhibition, entitled ''Pictures, Portraits, Fans and Frivolities'', with Laura Anning Bell and Constance Rea at the Fine Art Society in London. Davis also exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, the Grosvenor Gallery and with both the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. The Tate holds an example of her painted fans. In 1889 she had married Edmund Davis, who was knighted in 1927. Edmund Davis had made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Davis (actress)
Mary Isabel Gunnis Davis (born 1870 in London, England–Died 15 July 1944 in San Bernardino) was a British-born American silent film actress. She was married to J. Gunnis Davis. Motion pictures She made her début in Hollywood with a role in '' Leave It To Cissy'' (1916). This appearance was followed by parts credited as ''Mary I. Davis'' in '' I Accuse'' and ''Mary G. Davis'' in ''The Haunted Manor'', both from 1916. Her career was short-lived, concluding with performances in '' Rich Man, Poor Man'' (1918), ''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' (1919), and '' An Amateur Widow'' (1919). She is also sometimes credited as Mary B. Davis, Mary Gunniss, and Mary Gunniss Davis. Davis' Los Angeles, California address was 1113 South Union Avenue. She died at the Ramona Community Hospital in San Bernardino in California in 1944. Personal life Born in London in 1870 as Mary Isabel Michael, she was the daughter of surgeon John William Michael (1847–1897) and Kate ''née'' Soilleux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gould Davis
Mary Gould Davis (February 13, 1882 – April 15, 1956) was an American author, librarian, storyteller and editor. She received a Newbery Honor. Early and personal life Davis was born on February 13, 1882, in Bangor, Maine. She moved to Middlesboro, Kentucky, before relocating more permanently to New York City in 1896. Career Davis began working at Brooklyn Public Library as an assistant librarian in 1905, before working at New York Public Library, in the same position, starting in 1913. She was promoted to supervisor of storytelling in 1922, and held that position until her retirement from librarianship on New Year's Eve, 1944. During and after her tenure as supervisor of storytelling, she published a number of books, mainly collections of stories for children. Her first book was 1930's ''A Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Stories to Tell and to Read Aloud'', and, perhaps her most lauded, '' Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy'', was published in 1931 and received a Newbery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lund Davis
Mary Lund Davis (1922–2008) was a 20th-century modern architect of the Pacific Northwest and one of the few women to graduate from the University of Washington College of Built Environments, University of Washington School of Architecture in the 1940s. Early life and education Mary Lund was born on February 13, 1922, to Niels Hansen and Frieda Lund. She grew up in Sacramento, California, where her father was a builder, and she began helping her father design houses at an early age. During her childhood she learned how to sail, and she would go on to win a number of races on the West Coast and elsewhere, including the 1960 Adams Cup sailboat race in Chicago, Illinois. She attended the University of Washington, where she earned a B.A. in architecture in 1945, thereby becoming the first woman to graduate from UW's School of Architecture after WWII. In later years she recalled drawing architectural plans with blackout curtains on the windows. During her undergraduate years, she inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Davis (activist)
Mary Anne Davis (''née'' Rooney; born 6 August 1954) is an Irish social entrepreneur, activist and long-term campaigner for the rights and inclusion of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. She has been the chief executive officer of Special Olympics International since May 2016. She previously served as managing director and Regional President of Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia (SOEE), with the responsibility of overseeing the growth and development of Special Olympics across 58 countries in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Davis also served as Chairperson of Special Olympics Ireland. She is well known for serving as CEO of 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Dublin, Ireland. This was the first time the event was staged outside of North America since Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the movement in 1968 and the largest sporting event in the world that year. Davis was awarded a Person of the Year Award in 2003, for her work for this even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Bond Davis
Mary Bond Davis (born June 3, 1958) is a singer, actor, and dancer from Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her performance as Motormouth Maybelle in the 2002 Broadway run of Hairspray (musical), Hairpsray. Biography Davis began her career at the age of 15 singing with different bands. She was a member of The Young Americans from 1974 to 1976, and appeared with them on ''The Bing Crosby Christmas Show''. In 1980, Davis auditioned for Ain't Misbehavin' (musical), Ain't Misbehavin', which traveled throughout the United States and Canada, and in 1982, spent a year with the world tour of ''Ain't Misbehavin''. Davis' most memorable film appearance is in Eddie Murphy's Coming To America. Additional film credits include ''Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling''; ''The Art Of Dying''; ''Hook''; ''Jeffrey''; ''New York Minute''; and ''Romance and Cigarettes''. Davis was in the original cast of the Broadway shows ''Mail'', ''Jelly's Last Jam'', ''Marie Christine'', and ''Hairspr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hayes Davis
Mary Hayes Davis (c. 1884 – May 18, 1948) was an American writer, a newspaper editor and publisher, and the owner of several movie theaters. She is best known as the co-author of '' Chinese Fables and Folk Stories,'' which she wrote with Reverend Chow Leung, while based in Chicago. Published in 1908 and widely reprinted today, the compilation claimed to be “the first book of Chinese stories ever printed in English”. Between 1908 and 1912, Davis collected Native American folk tales from the Pima and Apache tribes in Oklahoma and Arizona, for a book she never completed. In the early 1920s, Davis moved to southwest Florida, where she published ''The'' ''Hendry County News,'' and later owned and operated a chain of seven movie theaters. In 1926, ''The Tampa Tribune'' called Davis "the heroine of LaBelle" for her courageous reporting of the lynching of Henry Patterson, despite threats of further mob violence. In 1928, ''The Hendry County News'' received the Florida Newspaper Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Elizabeth Moragne Davis
Mary Elizabeth Moragne Davis (, Moragne; pen names, A Lady of South Carolina, M. E. Moragne; 1815–1903) was an American diarist, and an author of romantic fiction, poetry, and religious topics. In 1838, she was awarded First Prize for "The British Partizan", a short historical romance published in the ''Augusta Mirror''. Early life and education Mary Elizabeth Moragne was born in 1815, at Oakwood, in Abbeville District, South Carolina. Her father, Isaac, Moragne, was a planter. Her mother was Margaret Blanton Caine Moragne. There were ten younger siblings, including brothers, John Moragne and William C. Moragne. Moragne is descended, on the paternal side, from the French Huguenots who sought religious freedom in the United States in 1764. That portion of the colony which did not remain in Charleston, South Carolina found refuge on the banks of Little River, in that district, where they formed a township after the manner of the country which they had left. Her connection with, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fenn Robinson Davis
Mary Fenn (Robinson) Davis (1824-1886) was a reformer, spiritualist lecturer, and poet. She was a member of Sorosis, a women's club. She was married several times, first to Samuel G. Love, with whom she had a son. Her marriage to Andrew Jackson Davis after her divorce caused a scandal. She fought against alcohol consumption and slavery and for women's rights. Early life Mary Fenn Robinson was born in Clarendon, New York on July 17, 1824. Her parents were farmers Damaris (Fenn) and Chauncey Robinson. They were members of the Baptist church, and Chauncey promoted temperance. Mary went to LeRoy Female Seminary and graduated with honors. Marriages and children Mary married Samuel G. Love in 1846 in Buffalo, New York, becoming Mary Fenn Robinson Love. She had two children with her husband, a teacher, Frances and Charles. What had been a happy marriage began to dissolve as Davis became interested in spiritualism and became a medium. After the Loves heard Andrew Jackson Davis speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Davis (singer)
The S.O.S. Band (sometimes written as S.O.S. Band; abbreviation for Sounds of Success) is an American R&B and electro-funk group who gained fame in the 1980s. They are best known for the songs " Take Your Time (Do It Right)", " Just Be Good to Me", and " The Finest". History The Atlanta, Georgia, band was started in 1977, when keyboardist / vocalist Jason Bryant, saxophonists Billy Ellis and Willie "Sonny" Killebrew, guitarist Bruno Speight, bassist John Alexander Simpson, drummer James Earl Jones III, and lead vocalist Mary Davis formed a group called Sounds of Santa Monica that played at Atlanta nightclub the Regal Room. Their manager (Bunny Jackson-Ransom) sent a demo to Clarence Avant, head of Tabu Records. After signing the band to Tabu, Avant suggested that the band work with songwriter/producer Sigidi Abdullah. Abdullah was curious as to why an Atlanta-based band named itself Santa Monica. Keyboardist Jason Bryant replied that the band had an enjoyable concert in San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
