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Mary Scott (actress) (1895–1983), American historic preservationist
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Mary Scott may refer to: *Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch (1647–1661), Scottish peeress *Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1900–1993) *Mary Scott (poet) (1751/2–1793), English poet * Mary Scott (artist) (born 1948), Canadian artist *Mary Augusta Scott (1851–1918), American scholar * Mary Scott (novelist) (1888–1979), New Zealand novelist, teacher and librarian * Mary Scott (missionary) (1887–1964), Scottish missionary and educator * Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott, Canadian physician and Christian medical missionary *Mary Wingfield Scott Mary Wingfield Scott (1895–1983) was an American historic preservationist who documented Richmond, Virginia neighborhoods and advocated for preservation over demolition. Biography Scott was born on July 30, 1895, in Richmond, Virginia. She at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Scott, 3rd Countess Of Buccleuch
Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch and Countess of Tarras (31 August 1647 – 11 March 1661) was a young Scottish peer. Mary was born at Dalkeith Castle, Midlothian, to Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch and his wife, Lady Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes. In 1651, her father died, making four-year-old Mary, who was the Earl's eldest daughter, the ''suo jure'' countess of Buccleuch. She immediately became one of the most desirable matches in the kingdom. On 9 February 1659, aged only eleven years old, she married Walter Scott of Highchester, who was at that time fourteen. He was created Earl of Tarras a year later. Her mother arranged the marriage without proclamation, with a warrant from the presbytery of Kirkcaldy. It created a lot of disapproval and the court ruled that the couple should be separated until Mary reached the age of twelve. During their separation, they continued a very affectionate correspondence. However, she fell ill and died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess Of Buccleuch
(Vreda Esther) Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry (17 September 1900 – 9 February 1993), was the elder of the two daughters of Major William Frank Lascelles and Lady Sybil Evelyn de Vere Beauclerk, daughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans. On 21 April 1921 she married Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch and 10th Duke of Queensberry; she was styled "Duchess of Buccleuch" from 19 October 1935. They had three children: * Lady Elizabeth Diana Montagu Douglas Scott (20 January 1922 – 19 September 2012) * Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry (28 September 1923 – 4 September 2007) *Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott ( 1927- 2004 ) The Duchess died aged 92 at Boughton House on 9 February 1993. She was buried next to her husband among the ruins of Melrose Abbey St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Scott (poet)
Mary Scott (1751/52–1793), married name Mary Taylor, was an English poet, born in Milborne Port, Somerset. She wrote '' The Female Advocate'' (1774) in defence of women writing. Life and work Scott's father was a linen draper. Not much else is known about her life before the publication of '' The Female Advocate'', dedicated to her friend Mary Steele, in 1774. Scott credits John Duncombe's '' The Feminead'' (1754), a poem in praise of the accomplishments of women writers, as the inspiration for her own poem. The poem consists of 522 lines of rhyming couplets; it supplements Duncombe's, and discusses more contemporary writers. Among the poets referred to are Lucy Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Fielding, Anne Killigrew, Catharine Macaulay, Catherine Parr, Helen Maria Williams, and Phillis Wheatley. Men are also praised: Duncombe; Rev. Thomas Seward, author of ''The Female Right to Literature, in a Letter to a Young Lady from Florence'' (1766); William Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Scott (artist)
Mary Scott may refer to: * Mary-anne Scott, New Zealand writer, singer, and musician *Mary Augusta Scott (1851–1918), American scholar * Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott, Canadian physician and Christian medical missionary * Mary McKay Scott (1851-1932), Canadian temperance reformer, journalist, writer *Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1900–1993), British duchess *Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch (1647–1661), Scottish peeress * Mary Scott (Australian artist) (born 1957), Australian artist * Mary Scott (Canadian artist) (born 1948), Canadian artist * Mary Scott (missionary) (1887–1964), Scottish missionary and educator * Mary Scott (novelist) (1888–1979), New Zealand novelist, teacher, and librarian *Mary Scott (poet) (1751/1752–1793), English poet *Mary Wingfield Scott Mary Wingfield Scott (1895–1983) was an American historic preservationist who documented Richmond, Virginia neighborhoods and advocated for preservation over demolition. Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Augusta Scott
Mary Augusta Scott (1851–1918) was a scholar and professor of English at Smith College. She was one of the first women to receive a PhD from Yale University, in 1894. Biography Scott was born in Dayton, Ohio, and received her master's degree at Vassar College. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, Johns Hopkins University, and Yale University; she earned her Ph.D. from Yale in 1894.Guide to the Mary Augusta Scott Papers (Vassar College Archives and Special Collections) A professor of English at Smith College from 1902, Scott edited and published ''The Essays of Francis Bacon''. She also completed ''Elizabethan Translations from the Italian'', published in the Vassar Semi-Centennial Series in 1916, and reviewed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Scott (novelist)
Mary Edith Scott (; 23 September 1888 – 16 July 1979) was a New Zealand novelist, teacher and librarian. She was a prolific writer who specialised in romantic comedies set in rural New Zealand, and her books were widely read both in New Zealand and overseas. From 1953 to 1978 she wrote at a rate of at least one book per year. She published over thirty novels, five detective novels written jointly with Joyce West, an autobiography, and three collections of plays. Early life and education Scott was born in Waimate North, Northland, New Zealand in 1888. She was the daughter of Marsden Clarke, a grazier, and his wife Frances Emily Stuart. She was a great-granddaughter of George Clarke, an early New Zealand missionary. After Scott's father died in 1889, her mother took her and her older siblings to Napier, New Zealand to live with their maternal grandfather, Edward Stuart, the second Bishop of Waiapu. She attended Napier Girls' High School for two years, after which the family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Scott (missionary)
Mary Harriet Hepburn-Scott (1887 – 1964) was a Scottish missionary and educator who pioneered women's education in Sikkim. Despite her lack of formal medical training, she became the leading medical, educational and religious missionary in Gangtok, educating an entire generation of Sikkimese physicians and significantly improving health outcomes, despite Christian missionaries historically not being allowed in Gangtok for political and religious reasons. Scott also founded Gangtok's first girls school, the Paljor Namgyal Girls' School, which still exists today and has been credited with greatly improving the overall state of women's education in Sikkim both historically and currently. Additionally, Scott has been recognized for almost-single-handedly creating the largest period of growth in Christianity in Sikkim, which still significantly impacts Sikkim's religious demographics. Early life and Kalimpong Mary Scott was born in 1877 to the 8th Lord Polwarth. Little is known of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott
Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott (c. 1865 - 27 August 1941) was a Canadian physician and Christian medical missionary who spent twenty years in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). She was the first female doctor to serve in Jaffna, Ceylon. Scott started the first nursing school in Ceylon at Manipay and her training of women nurses was considered by historians to be “revolutionary” at the time. Early life and education Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott was born in Martintown, Ontario, Canada in 1865. She was raised in a Christian household. Scott was the daughter of the Rev. Daniel MacCallum, a Congregational minister, and Jeanette MacEwen MacCallum. She was trained as a teacher and then a nurse, graduating in 1886 from Farrand Training School, Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. She then attended Queens University Medical School in Kingston, Ontario and completed her medical training in New York at Belleview Hospital. She earned her M.D. and became a doctor in pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
