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Mary Fraser (athlete)
Mary Fraser may refer to: * Mary Crawford Fraser (1851–1922), American writer * Mary Isabel Fraser (1863–1942), New Zealand school principal and educationalist * Mary Fraser Dott (?–c. 1980), Scottish nationalist and political activist * Mary Fraser Tytler Mary Seton Fraser Tytler (married name Mary Seton Watts) (1849–1938) was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer. Biography Watts, née Fraser-Tytler, was born on 25 November 1849, in India. She was the daughter of Charles Edward ... (1849–1938), Indian-born English symbolist craftswoman, designer, and social reformer * Mary Fraser Wesselhoeft (1873–1971), American artist {{hndis, Fraser, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Crawford Fraser
Mary Crawford Fraser (April 8, 1851 – 1922), usually known as Mrs. Hugh Fraser, was a writer noted for her various memoirs and historical novels. Early life Mary Crawford was born in Italy on April 8, 1851. She was the daughter of American sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward. She was sister to novelist Francis Marion Crawford and the niece of Julia Ward Howe (the American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic"). After her father's death in 1857, her mother remarried to Luther Terry, with whom she had Mary's half-sister, Margaret Ward Terry, who later became the wife of Winthrop Astor Chanler. Her father died when she was young, and she was raised in Italy, as well as in England and New Jersey. She was educated at a girls' boarding school run by the Sewell sisters, famous for their contribution to Victorian educational literature, on the Isle of Wight. The school received a number of pupils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Isabel Fraser
Mary Isabel Fraser (20 March 1863 – 18 April 1942) was a New Zealand teacher, school principal and educationalist. Throughout her career as a teacher and then as a school principal, she was a strong advocate for girls' education Female education is a catch-all term of a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. It is frequently called girls .... She is also known for having introduced, after returning from a trip to Yichang in China, the first kiwifruit seeds in New Zealand, in 1904. This allowed nurseryman Alexander Allison to grow plants from these seeds, and it was from this experience that the worldwide kiwifruit industry developed. References 1863 births 1942 deaths Schoolteachers from Dunedin {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fraser Dott
Mary Fraser Dott (died about 1980) was a Scottish nationalist political activist and founding member of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish National Party. She was a candidate for the Edinburgh East by-election of 1947. Political career Mary and her husband George Dott were already Scottish nationalists when, in 1928, they became founder members of the National Party of Scotland;William Wolfe, ''Scotland lives'', p.19 when this merged into the Scottish National Party (SNP), they became founder members of the new party. From the 1930s, Dott organised the Scottish Literature Society, and under this title, held events at her house in Edinburgh which included readings by people including Hugh MacDiarmid. In 1946, the SNP's revised policy document was developed and signed by leading party members at the Dott's house, and incorporated some of their ideas, taken from social credit and Georgism. Following this, in 1947, she was appointed as the party's National Secre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fraser Tytler
Mary Seton Fraser Tytler (married name Mary Seton Watts) (1849–1938) was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer. Biography Watts, née Fraser-Tytler, was born on 25 November 1849, in India. She was the daughter of Charles Edward Fraser Tytler of Balnain and Aldourie, who worked for the East India Company. She spent much of her youth in Scotland, where she was raised by her grandparents, and settled in England in the 1860s. Early in 1870 she studied art in Dresden before enrolling at the South Kensington School of Art later the same year. During 1872 and 1873 Tytler studied sculpture at the Slade School of Art. She initially became known as a portrait painter, and was associated with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Freshwater community. There she met painter George Frederic Watts, and at the age of 36 (he was 69), became his second wife on 20 November 1886 in Epsom, Surrey. Watts was President of the Godalming and District National Union of Women's Suffrage Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
