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Margaret Scott (other)
Margaret Scott or Maggie Scott may refer to: *Margaret Scott (Salem witch trials) (c. 1615–1692), convicted at the Salem witch trials and hanged *Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott (1846–1918), Scottish aristocrat * Lady Margaret Scott (golfer) (1874–1938), British golfer *Margaret Scott (suffragette) or Margot Schenke (1888–1973), UK suffragette * Margaret Scott (dancer) (1922–2019), South African-born Australian dancer * Margaret Scott (New Zealand author) (1928–2014), New Zealand writer, editor and librarian *Marilyn Waltz or Margaret Scott (1931–2006), American actress and model *Margaret Scott (Australian author) Margaret Daphne Scott (20 June 1934 – 29 August 2005) was an Australian author, poet, comedian, educator and public intellectual. Background Margaret, her first husband, playwright Michael Boddy and her first son, Daniel, migrated to Tasmania ... (1934–2005), Australian author, poet and television personality * Maggie Scott, Lady Scott (born 1960) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Scott (Salem Witch Trials)
Margaret Scott (née Stephenson, March 28, 1616 – ) was found guilty of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials and was executed by hanging on September 22, 1692. She was part of the last group to be executed, which also included Mary Eastey, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker (Salem witch trials), Mary Parker, Alice Parker, and Wilmot Redd.Salem Massachusetts – Salem Witch Trials The Stones: September 19, 1692 and September 22, 1692 salemweb.com; accessed December 24, 2014. She was the only accused person from Rowley, Massachusetts, Rowley to be executed. As a lower-class, long-term widow, having lost several children in infancy, she was a prototypical witch candidate. When her husband, Benjamin, died, he left a very small estate and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott
Lady Margaret Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott (10 October 1846 – 5 February 1918), originally known as Lady Margaret Scott, was a Scottish aristocrat and traveller. She married Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel. Early life Lady Margaret Scott was born at Dalkeith Palace in 1846, the second daughter of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, an eminent peer and politician, and his wife, Lady Charlotte Anne Thynne, daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Bath and Hon. Isabella Byng, daughter of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington (11 October 1740 – 14 December 1812) was an English peer. Origins He was the eldest son and heir of George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (1701-1750) by his wife Elizabeth Daniel. Career He inherited the .... The details of her life before marriage are relatively unknown. She is known however, to have been a bridesmaid at the wedding of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein in Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Margaret Scott (golfer)
Lady Margaret Rachel Scott (5 April 1874 – 27 January 1938) was a dominant player in early women's golf, who won the first three British Ladies Amateurs in 1893, 1894, and 1895. Scott was a daughter of John Scott, 3rd Earl of Eldon, and the fourth of seven children. Several of her brothers were also golfers; Michael Scott won The Amateur Championship in 1933 towards the end of a long career, Osmund Scott was the runner-up in the same tournament in 1905, and Denys Scott also played. In her first two championship wins, Lady Margaret Scott beat Issette Pearson, the founder and first Secretary of the Ladies' Golf Union The Ladies' Golf Union (LGU) was the governing body for women's and girls' amateur golf in Great Britain and Ireland. It was founded in 1893 and was based in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland until merging with The R&A at the start of 2017. Issette .... She won by 7 & 5 in 1893 and 3 & 2 in 1894, then beat Emma Lythgoe 5 & 4 in 1895. Thereafter, Scott retire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Scott (suffragette)
Gretel Schenke, Margaret Schenke or Margaret Scott (1888 – 1983) was a UK based suffragette who was born in Germany. She was arrested after two agent provocateurs encouraged her to break a window. The authorities secretly photographed her and identified her as a person who should be kept under surveillance. Life Gretel Schenke was born in Zwickau in 1888. She resulted from her father's second marriage and a family row led to her emigrating to Britain with the name of Margot Schenke in about 1908. She took lodging in Chelsea and fell in with suffragettes and spent her time selling suffragette newspapers. She reported how the police saved her at Hyde Park Corner. Youths, who made her task difficult with sexual remarks became physical' seizing her banner and trying to seize her. She was grateful when two mounted policemen dispersed the youths and others escorted her away and placed her on a bus to go home. The authorities were not so supportive when Schenke was demonstrating agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Scott (dancer)
Dame Catherine Margaret Mary Scott, (26 April 1922 – 24 February 2019) was a South African-born pioneering ballet dancer who found fame as a teacher, choreographer, and school administrator in Australia. As the first director of the Australian Ballet School, she is recognised as one of the founders of the strong ballet tradition of her adopted country. Early life and training Margaret Scott was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the youngest of three, including twins Joan and Barbara. As a child, she was encouraged by her free-spirited family to pursue her interest in dance, which had developed early in her childhood. Throughout her youth, she attended ballet classes at the Conmee School of Dancing, where, under the direction of London-trained Ivy Conmee, instruction was given according to the syllabus of the Royal Academy of Dancing. On graduation from the Parktown Convent School, Scott went with her mother to London in 1939, when she was 17, and auditioned successfully for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Scott (New Zealand Author)
Margaret Allan Scott (née Bennett; 27 January 1928 – 4 December 2014) was a New Zealand writer, editor and librarian. After her husband's early death in 1960, she trained as a librarian, and was appointed as the first manuscripts librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library. She was the second recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 1971. Scott completed the transcription and editing of the notebooks of Katherine Mansfield, a task made difficult by Mansfield's eclectic handwriting. Her work led to the publication of five volumes of Mansfield's letters between 1984 and 2008, and two volumes of Mansfield's notebooks in 1997. In 2001 she published her memoir. She was a friend of many literary New Zealanders, including Charles Brasch and Denis Glover, and completed the transcription of Brasch's journals before she died in 2014. Early life and career Scott was born in Te Aroha and grew up in Christchurch. She attended Christchurch Girls' High School and graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Waltz
Marilyn may refer to: * Marilyn (given name) * Marilyn (singer) (born 1962), English singer * Marilyn (hill), a type of mountain or hill in the British Isles with a prominence above 150 m * 1486 Marilyn, a Main-belt asteroid * ''Marilyn'' (1953 film), directed by Wolf Rilla * ''Marilyn'' (2011 film), a 2011 romance film * ''Marilyn'' (2018 film), a 2018 Argentine film * Marilyn (''Mario'' character), a character in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' * "Marilyn", a 2000 horror short story by Jack Dann Related to Marilyn Monroe * Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), an American actress ** ''Gold Marilyn Monroe'', a 1962 painting by Andy Warhol ** ''Marilyn Diptych'', a 1962 painting by Andy Warhol ** ''Marilyn'' (1963 film), a documentary film ** '' Shot Marilyns'', a series of 1964 paintings by Andy Warhol ** ''Untitled from Marilyn Monroe'', a 1967 series of silk-screen prints by Andy Warhol ** '' Marilyn: A Biography'', a 1976 biography by Norman Mailer ** '' Marilyn'', a 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Scott (Australian Author)
Margaret Daphne Scott (20 June 1934 – 29 August 2005) was an Australian author, poet, comedian, educator and public intellectual. Background Margaret, her first husband, playwright Michael Boddy and her first son, Daniel, migrated to Tasmania from the United Kingdom in 1959. Two more children, Kate and Marcus, were born in Tasmania. From 1979, she lived with legal scholar Michael Scott and had her final child, Sarah, as well as becoming the step mother to Jane, Christian and Katharine Scott. In 1978, Margaret received her PhD from the University of Tasmania, and was head of the English department at the university until 1989. She worked at the university for over 25 years, but left to devote herself full-time to her writing career. Her publications include four books of poetry, two novels, a libretto and numerous articles. She became well known in Australia in the 1990s as a regular guest on the television show ''Good News Week''. She was also known for her activism on envir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Scott, Lady Scott
Margaret Elizabeth Scott, Lady Scott (born 1960, Nairobi, Kenya) is a Scottish lawyer who was appointed a judge in 2012. Early life and education Scott was born in 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya. She graduated from University of Edinburgh with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and from the University of Strathclyde with a Diploma in Legal Practice (DipLP). Legal career Scott was admitted as a solicitor in 1989, and she was called to the bar in Scotland (the Faculty of Advocates) in 1991. She "took silk" (became a Queen's Counsel) in 2002. She has acted as lead counsel in a number of high-profile appeal cases such as the Lockerbie bombing and the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, in which she defended Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Thomas "TC" Campbell, respectively. She was also successful in the appeal case of Kim Galbraith, whose murder conviction for shooting her policeman husband was reduced to diminished responsibility. Megrahi's second appeal On 6 November 2008, Scott applied to the Court of Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Scott (feminist, Artist)
Margaret Scott or Maggie Scott may refer to: *Margaret Scott (Salem witch trials) (c. 1615–1692), convicted at the Salem witch trials and hanged *Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott (1846–1918), Scottish aristocrat *Lady Margaret Scott (golfer) (1874–1938), British golfer *Margaret Scott (suffragette) or Margot Schenke (1888–1973), UK suffragette * Margaret Scott (dancer) (1922–2019), South African-born Australian dancer * Margaret Scott (New Zealand author) (1928–2014), New Zealand writer, editor and librarian *Marilyn Waltz or Margaret Scott (1931–2006), American actress and model *Margaret Scott (Australian author) Margaret Daphne Scott (20 June 1934 – 29 August 2005) was an Australian author, poet, comedian, educator and public intellectual. Background Margaret, her first husband, playwright Michael Boddy and her first son, Daniel, migrated to Tasmania ... (1934–2005), Australian author, poet and television personality * Maggie Scott, Lady Scott (born 1960), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Freeman (actor)
Paul Freeman (born 18 January 1943) is an English actor who has appeared in theatre, television and film. In the United Kingdom, he is best known for his role in the romance TV series '' Yesterday's Dreams'' (1987) as Martin Daniels. Internationally, he is known for playing the rival archaeologist René Belloq in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981), evil wine baron Gustav Riebmann on season 4 of the soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' (1984–85), supervillain Ivan Ooze in '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie'' (1995), Julius Morlang in Morlang' (2001), Ray in ''When I'm 64'' (2004), Reverend Shooter in ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007) and Shrewd Eddie in ''Hard Boiled Sweets'' (2012) Referring to Freeman's extensive theatre work, in 1995 the ''Los Angeles Times'' described him as "one of Britain's best-regarded actors, classically trained, with stints at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre". Personal life Freeman was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, on 18 January 1943. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Margaret Scott
The Stone Fleet consisted of a fleet of aging ships (mostly whaleships) purchased in New Bedford and other New England ports, loaded with stone, and sailed south during the American Civil War by the Union Navy for use as blockships. They were to be deliberately sunk at the entrance of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina in the hope of obstructing blockade runners, then supplying Confederate interests. Although some sank along the way and others were sunk near Tybee Island, Georgia, to serve as breakwaters, wharves for the landing of Union troops, the majority were divided into two lesser fleets. One fleet was sunk to block the south channel off Morris Island, and the other to block the north channel near Rattlesnake Shoals off the present day Isle of Palms in what proved to be failed efforts to block access the main shipping channels into Charleston Harbor.Spence 1995, pp. 142–152, 159–164 History Various old ships, specifically purchased by the Navy for this purpose, were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |