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Mary Howard (mistress)
Mary Howard may refer to: *Maria Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (c.1693–1754), British noblewoman, known as Mary *Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset (1519–1557), née Lady Mary Howard, lady-in-waiting, wife of Henry Fitzroy, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk and daughter-in-law of Henry VIII *Mary FitzAlan (1541–1557), Duchess of Norfolk, whose married name was Mary Howard *Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross (1653–1735), English nun *Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1705) (c. 1659–1705), British peer *Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1773) (c. 1712–1773), British noblewoman after whom Norfolk Island was named *Mary Howard, pseudonym of American politician Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain (1870–1953) * Mary Howard (novelist) (1907–1991), British romantic novelist *Mary Howard de Liagre (1913–2009), American actress usually credited as Mary Howard *Mary Howard, fictional character in the 1941 film '' When Ladies Meet'' *Mary Shipman Howard Mary Shipman Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Howard, Duchess Of Norfolk
Maria (Mary) Winifreda Francisca Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (''née'' Shireburn or Sherburne; – 1754) was an English Catholic noblewoman, the last of the wealthy Shireburn family. She married twice, firstly to Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk from whom she became estranged before his death and secondly to Peregrine Widdrington. She built a house in London on Arlington Street, which today is the clubhouse of the Royal Over-Seas League. Early life The only surviving child and heir of Sir Nicholas Shireburn, 1st and last Baronet of Stonyhurst and Catherine Charleton, Maria Shireburn was born into a prominent Catholic family in 1692 or 1693. Born in London, she grew up mainly at Stonyhurst Hall (now Stonyhurst College) in Lancashire. She was christened as Maria Windforda Francesca and always called Mary. Her older sister Isabel had died in 1688 and her brother Richard Francis accidentally killed himself in 1702 by eating poisonous berries. Her health was also bad and in 1698 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary FitzRoy, Duchess Of Richmond And Somerset
Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset (1519 – 7 December 1557), born Lady Mary Howard, was the only daughter-in-law of King Henry VIII of England, being the wife of his only acknowledged illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset. Biography Lady Mary Howard was the second daughter of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk: a member of the ambitious Howard Family. At the time of her birth, her father was the second-most senior noble in the English peerage; her maternal grandfather Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, the most senior. After Buckingham's execution in 1521, her father was one of only two dukes in the Kingdom, (the other being Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk). This changed in 1525, when Henry VIII elevated Henry FitzRoy, his six-year-old illegitimate son by Elizabeth Blount, to the Dukedom of Richmond and Somerset. When in 1529 Thomas Wolsey, who was charged with FitzRoy's care, fell from grace the mantle passed to Thomas Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary FitzAlan
Mary FitzAlan, Duchess of Norfolk (1540 – 23/25 August 1557) was an English translator. She was the youngest daughter and child of Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel and his first wife Lady Katherine Grey, therefore Mary was a first cousin of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey. Because her only brother had predeceased her, she and her elder sister, Jane FitzAlan were co-heiresses to the earldom of her father. Mary and Jane both received an excellent education. Several of her translations from Greek to Latin have been preserved. Mary was the first wife of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, whom she married in 1555. They had one son, Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, born the following year. Mary died eight weeks after the birth of Philip at Arundel House. She was buried on 1 September 1557 in St Clement Danes. Upon the death of her father in 1580, the earldom of Arundel passed to Mary's son Philip, all of his aunt Jane's children having prede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Howard, Of The Holy Cross
Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross (28 December 1653 – 21 March 1735 at Rouen) was an English nun of the Poor Clares. Life She was a great-granddaughter of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, and a daughter of Sir Robert Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire, in whose home Mary's early youth was spent. At the age of eighteen, to escape the attentions of Charles II of England, she went to Paris, under the assumed name of Talbot, and was placed in the Benedictine convent of Val de Grace to learn French. Here she was received into the Catholic Church, a step which brought her into disfavour with Lady Osborne, her guardian in Paris. Remaining staunch, she was finally permitted to retire to the convent of the Canonesses of St. Augustine at Chaillot, near Paris, where she remained several years, until her admission into the English convent of Poor Clares at Rouen, under the name of Parnel, to safeguard further the secret of her identity. Here she was made succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Howard, Duchess Of Norfolk (died 1705)
Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk and 7th Baroness Mordaunt (c.1659–17 November 1705) was a British peer. Born Lady Mary Mordaunt, she was the only surviving child and heiress of Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough and Lady Penelope O'Brien, daughter of Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond. On 8 August 1677, she married Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel, who later succeeded his father as Duke of Norfolk in 1684. The duke and duchess separated a year later and she succeeded to her father's barony in 1697. The duke and duchess were divorced in 1700, due to her adulterous relationship with Sir John Germain, 1st Baronet, whom she married a year later; a previous effort by the Duke to divorce her in 1692 had failed. Although he had obtained damages in an action for criminal conversation, in which the details of her affair were revealed in lurid detail, the jury awarded her husband only £66 instead of the £100,000 he had asked for. This no doubt reflects their opinion of the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Howard, Duchess Of Norfolk (died 1773)
Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Mary Blount; ( 1712 – 1773), was a British noblewoman after whom Norfolk Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, was named. Early life The youngest of three daughters of Edward Blount (d. 1726) of Blagdon, Paignton in Devon, by his wife Anne Guise, a daughter of Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet. She was a co-heiress of her father's property. Born into an exiled Roman Catholic family, she spent her adolescence and early years of marriage on the continent. On 26 November 1727, she married Edward Howard, who in 1732 succeeded as the 9th Duke of Norfolk, upon the death of his older brother Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk. Activities The pair were socially active, using their position as the highest-ranking peers in the kingdom to promote religious tolerance. As Roman Catholics whose immediate predecessors, the 8th Duke and his wife Maria Shireburn, had supported the Jacobite rising of 1715, Mary and Edward Howard were keen to expres ... [...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 Howard (novelist)
Mary Mussi, née ''Edgar'' (27 December 19072 March 1991), was a British writer of over 50 romance novels as Mary Howard, who also wrote over 10 gothic romance as Josephine Edgar. She is one of the two novelists to win three times the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Biography Personal life Born Mary Edgar on 27 December 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, daughter of Jenny (Howard) and George Edgar, an author. She was educated privately. On 6 March 1934, she married Rudolph F. Mussi, they had one son, Max, and one daughter, Susan Jane. Mary Mussi died on 2 March 1991. Writing career Mussi started writing contemporary romance novels as Mary Howard in 1930, later she used the penname of Josephine Edgar to sign her gothic historical romances. She received three times the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels '' More Than Friendship'' (1960), ''Countess'' (1979), and '' Mr Rodriguez'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Howard De Liagre
Mary Howard de Liagre (May 18, 1913 – June 6, 2009) was an American actress usually credited as Mary Howard. Howard came from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and took dancing lessons when she was in kindergarten. Among her dancing instructors was Albertina Rasch. She began her entertainment career as a dancer, performing in shows in New York City when she was 14. That talent ran in her family, as two older sisters were in the Ziegfeld Follies. Howard's first film employment came when she signed a stock contract with Louis B. Mayer. Although she appeared in few films, she used the first six months to have her teeth straightened and the second six months to learn to act. Howard helped organize the USO in Los Angeles during World War II and toured for returning servicemen. In 1945, she moved to New York City and married Alfred de Liagre Jr., a theater producer who died in 1987. She was a founding member of Recording for the Blind, and served on the boards of the American Academy of Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Ladies Meet (1941 Film)
''When Ladies Meet'' (television broadcast title: ''Strange Skirts'') is a 1941 American romantic comedy film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher. The screenplay by S.K. Lauren and Anita Loos was based upon a 1932 play by Rachel Crothers. The film was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who also co-produced the film (with Orville O. Dull). The film was a remake of the 1933 pre-Code film of the same name, which starred Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, and Frank Morgan in the roles played by Garson, Crawford, Taylor and Marshall. Cast * Joan Crawford as Mary 'Minnie' Howard * Robert Taylor as Jimmy Lee * Greer Garson as Mrs. Clare Woodruf * Herbert Marshall as Rogers Woodruf * Spring Byington as Bridget 'Bridgie' Drake * Rafael Storm as Walter Del Canto * Mona Barrie as Mabel Guiness * Max Willenz as Pierre, Bridget's Summer House Handyman * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
