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Mary Green may refer to: *Dame Mary Green (headteacher) (1913–2004), English head of first comprehensive school in London *Mary Green (journalist), British radio and television presenter *Mary Green (sprinter) (1943–2022), British Olympic sprinter *Mary Green (painter) (1766–1845), English painter *Mary Ann Green (1964–2017), American tribal leader and politician *Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English historian *Mary Hayden Pike (1824–1908), née Green, American author *Mary Jane Green, Confederate spy and bushwhacker *Mary Letitia Green (1886–1978), British botanist and bibliographer *Mary-Pat Green (born 1951), American actress * Mary Ann Ashford (1787–1870), English cook, married Edward Green * Mary Cozens-Walker married name Mary Green, (1938–2020) English textile artist and painter *Marygreen, a fictional village in Thomas Hardy's novel ''Jude the Obscure'', inspired by Fawley, Berkshire See also * Mary Greene (other) *Green (surname) Green i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Green (headteacher)
Dame Mary Georgina Green DBE aka "Molly" Green (27 July 1913 – 19 April 2004) was an English headteacher who led Kidbrooke School, the first purpose-built comprehensive school in London. Life Green was born in Wellingborough to Rose Margaret (born Gibbs) and Edwin George Green. Her father was a solicitor's clerk. Her schooling was usual but she was a linguist and studied modern languages at Westfield College, University of London. One of her first teaching jobs was at William Hulme's Grammar School in Manchester where she took the classes of a teacher who was away in the war. From there she obtained her first leadership post as head of Colston's Girls' School in Bristol. She was there until 1954 when she took the job of leading Kidbrooke School, the first purpose-built comprehensive school in London. She was not an educationalist or an intellectual, she would think and then do. She relied on her own experience and common sense to decide the right path. She did keep the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Green (journalist)
Mary Green is a British radio and television presenter. She currently hosts the ''Sunday Breakfast Show'' on BBC Radio Berkshire from 7am to 9am. Previously, she presented '' Thames Valley Tonight'' on ITV Thames Valley alongside Wesley Smith, covering the Central South and Meridian West regions, until 6 February 2009. Green had presented ''Meridian Tonight'' for Meridian West until 1 December 2006 when the Meridian West and Central South news services were combined to create ''Thames Valley Tonight/Today''. Green worked for ITV in the South of England for many years, having been employed previously by TVS and Channel Television ITV Channel Television, previously Channel Television, is a British television station which has served as the ITV contractor for the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey and broadcasts regional programme for insertion into the .... She worked in the Meridian South region between 1993 (when Meridian started broadcasting), until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Green (sprinter)
Mary Green (née Tagg; 10 November 1943 – 7 April 2022) was a British sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Green was originally from Norfolk. Her brother, Mike Tagg Michael John Tagg (born 13 November 1946) is a British former long-distance runner. He finished second in the 10,000 metres at the 1969 European Championships. Tagg was born in East Ruston, Norfolk. He competed in the 10,000 metres at the 19 ..., was also an athlete and represented Great Britain at the same Olympics. She died in April 2022, at the age of 78. References External links * 1943 births 2022 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics British female sprinters English female sprinters Olympic athletes for Great Britain Olympic female sprinters Sportspeople from Derby Sportspeople from Norfolk {{UK-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Green (painter)
Mary Green born Mary Byrne (1766 – 22 October 1845) was a British painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Life Mary Byrne was born in 1766. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Mary 1766 births 1845 deaths 19th-century British painters British women painters 19th-century British women artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Green
Mary Ann Green (1964 – January 8, 2017) was an American tribal leader and politician who served as the Chairwoman of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, a federally recognized Cahuilla band of Native Americans based in Coachella, California, from 1988 until 2016. Under Green, who was first elected chairperson in 1988, the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians established a tribal government in 1994 and resettled their reservation, located in Coachella, in 1996. She also oversaw the development and establishment of the Augustine Casino, which opened in 2002. Through the casino, the small Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians is now one of the largest employers in the Coachella Valley, as of 2017. Biography Green was born Mary Ann Martin in 1964, years after members of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians had abandoned their reservation and traditional lands surrounding Coachella. (There were only 11 living members of the Augustine Band in 1951, thirteen years before Green's bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne Everett Green
Mary Anne Everett Green ( Wood; 19 July 1818 – 1 November 1895) was an English historian. After establishing a reputation for scholarship with two multi-volume books on royal ladies and noblewomen, she was invited to assist in preparing calendars (abstracts) of hitherto disorganised historical state papers. In this role of "calendars editor", she participated in the mid-19th-century initiative to establish a centralised national archive. She was one of the most respected female historians in Victorian Britain. Family and early career Mary Anne Everett Wood was born in Sheffield to a Wesleyan Methodist minister, Robert Wood, and his wife Sarah ( Bateson; born Wortley, Leeds, youngest daughter of Matthew Bateson, clothier). Her father was responsible for her education, offering an extensive knowledge of history and languages, and she benefited from mixing with her parents' intellectual friends including James Everett, the minister and writer, for whom she was named. When th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hayden Pike
Mary Hayden Pike (''née'' Green) (November 30, 1824 – January 15, 1908) was an American author. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Langdon and Sydney A. Story, Jr. Biography She was born Mary Hayden Green in Eastport, Maine, to Elijah Dix Green and Hannah Claflin Hayden. She was educated in Calais, Maine, and acquired religious convictions at age twelve, when she went through baptism in an icy stream. She graduated from the Charlestown Female Seminary in 1843. In 1846 she married Frederick A. Pike, who was later elected to the 37th United States Congress. Pike's paternal grandfather, Thomas Green (pastor), Thomas Green, was the first pastor of the North Yarmouth and Freeport Baptist Meetinghouse in today's Yarmouth, Maine. He died in 1814, ten years before Pike was born. Her most well-known writing is ''Ida May'', a sentimental antislavery novel. The book, published in 1854, features the titular character kidnapped from Pennsylvania, her skin forcibly dyed darker, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jane Green
Mary Jane Green was a Confederate spy and bushwhacker. Early life and education Not much is known about Mary Jane Green's early life. She claims to have been born in Sutton, Braxton County (currently known as West Virginia). Green's level of education was unknown, but she was illiterate. Considering her lack of education she probably came from a poor family. According to public records, she was likely either born around 1839 or 1846, as there was a Mary Jane Green living in Sutton who was 11 at the time of the 1850 census. Records indicate that she may have also been the Mary Jane Green who married William Watson during the war, in Jefferson, West Virginia in 1864, at age 18, which puts her age closer to surviving descriptions of her. She had three brothers, who also became guerillas. Civil War At the time of her first arrest in August 1861 for smuggling confederate intelligence, Green was described as a teenager. She was incarcerated in Wheeling, Virginia until that De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Letitia Green
Mary Letitia (Green) Sprague (1886–1978) was a British botanist and bibliographer at Kew Gardens. In 1938 she married Scottish botanist Thomas Archibald Sprague, the Deputy Keeper of the Kew Herbarium, and together they compiled several supplements to the ''Index Kewensis''. She was an expert on ''Loranthaceae''. She revised Arthur Fenton Hort's translation of Linnaeus' '' Critica Botanica'', for an edition published by the Linnean Society of London in 1938, with an Introduction by Arthur William Hill Sir Arthur William Hill (11 October 1875, in Watford – 3 November 1941, in Richmond) was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and a noted botanist and taxonomist. The only son of Daniel Hill, he attended Marlborough College where hi .... References 1886 births 1978 deaths British women scientists British botanists British bibliographers Women bibliographers {{UK-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Pat Green
Mary-Pat Green is an American film, television, and theatre actress. Career Television and film She is best known for playing Odessa on the television series '' Any Day Now''. She has appeared as a guest star on many television series, including '' Saving Grace'', ''Eli Stone'', ''My Name Is Earl'', ''Home Improvement'', ''NYPD Blue'', '' Married... with Children'', ''Melrose Place'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', '' Step by Step'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', ''Friends'', ''Millennium'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', '' Ally McBeal'', '' Six Feet Under'', ''The West Wing'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Cold Case'', '' The Middle'', ''Anger Management'', ''Mom'', and others. Theatre Green has appeared on Broadway theatre, Broadway in the original cast of ''Sweeney Todd'' and the 1974 revival of ''Candide''. She has performed the role of Reverend Mother in ''Nunsense'' over 1500 times and in 2002 she played Lorena Hickok in Michael John LaChiusa's stage musical ''First Lady Suite'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Ashford
Mary Ann Ashford (1787–1870) was an English cook. She was born in 1787 as the daughter of a licensed victualler, in London and by 1800 was an orphan. At the age of 13 she decided to become a servant which is said to have horrified her extended family who were upwardly mobile. Mary worked her way up to be a cook during her seventeen years as a domestic servant. In 1844 she wrote about her second job, at the age of 16, in 1803: "My mistress made me nurse the child, and do everything that was laborious; but all that required any art or knowledge, she not only would not let me do it, but would send me out of the way, with the little boy, while she did it herself. This was done that I should not leave her, or think myself qualified for a better place". On 3 November 1817 Ashford married James Allison, who was a sergeant-shoemaker at the Royal Military Asylum The Duke of York's Royal Military School, more commonly called the Duke of York's, is a co-educational academy (for stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Cozens-Walker
Mary Cozens-Walker (married name Mary Green, 11 August 1938 – 4 July 2020) was an English textile artist and painter best known for her three-dimensional works pertaining to her own domestic life. She exhibited in the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. She has appeared as a model in about 600 paintings. Her own work is in national collections and paintings of her are also in national collections. Personal life Mary Cozens-Walker was born on 11 August 1938 in Harrow, Middlesex. She was educated at North London Collegiate School, London (where she was taught by Peggy Angus) and the Slade School of Art (where her contemporaries included Mario Dubsky, Dorothy Mead and Dennis Creffield and future RAs Ben Levene, Patrick Procktor and Anthony Green). Her tutors at the Slade included William Coldstream, Cecil Beaton, Lucian Freud, L.S. Lowry and David Bomberg. In 1961 she married Anthony Green, and they had two daughters, Kate and Lucy. In 1967 she traveled t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
