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Vera Cathcart, Countess Cathcart
Vera Estelle Cathcart, Countess Cathcat (14 May 1892 – April 1993) was a South African writer and actress. Early life Vera Estelle Fraser was born 14 May 1892 at Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town, Cape Colony. She was a daughter of John Fraser of Cape Town. Career Following her divorce from Lord Cathcart, she wrote the play ''Ashes of Love (play), Ashes of Love'' which was staged in London, Washington, D.C., and New York City where she succeeded Earl Carroll as the producer of the show. In addition she wrote other plays and several novels, including ''The Woman Tempted''. Personal life In September 1910, Vera married Captain Henry de Grey Warter of Cruckmeole in Shropshire, in London. Before he was killed at the Battle of the Somme in France, they were the parents of two children: * Dolores de Gray Warter, who was engaged to Theodore Medlam in 1929; she married Gerald Holdsworth. * Henry Grosvenor de Gray Warter (1911–1993), who married "musical comedy star" Mabel Bowers Rean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislature, legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest (after Johannesburg). Colloquially named the ''Mother City'', it is the largest city of the Western Cape province, and is managed by the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality (South Africa), metropolitan municipality. The other two capitals are Pretoria, the executive capital, located in Gauteng, where the Presidency is based, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital in the Free State (province), Free State, where the Supreme Court of Appeal is located. Cape Town is ranked as a Alpha world city, Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The city is known for Port of Cape Town, its harbour, for its natural setting in the Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as Table Mountain and Cape P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gloucester and other principal towns and villages include Cheltenham, Cirencester, Kingswood, Bradley Stoke, Stroud, Thornbury, Yate, Tewkesbury, Bishop's Cleeve, Churchdown, Brockworth, Winchcombe, Dursley, Cam, Berkeley, Wotton-under-Edge, Tetbury, Moreton-in-Marsh, Fairford, Lechlade, Northleach, Stow-on-the-Wold, Chipping Campden, Bourton-on-the-Water, Stonehouse, Nailsworth, Minchinhampton, Painswick, Winterbourne, Frampton Cotterell, Coleford, Cinderford, Lydney and Rodborough and Cainscross that are within Stroud's urban area. Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 Births
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets— creative professionals (advertising and graphic design), the media (print and online publishing), and corporate (in-house design, marketing and communication departments). Getty Images has distribution offices around the world and capitalizes on the Internet for distribution with over 2.3 billion searches annually on its sites. As Getty Images has acquired other older photo agencies and archives, it has digitised their collections, enabling online distribution. Getty Images operates a large commercial website that clients use to search and browse for images, purchase usage rights, and download images. Image prices vary according to resolution and type of rights. The company also offers custom photo services for corporate clients. History In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Rowland Hodge, 1st Baronet
Sir Rowland Frederick William Hodge, 1st Baronet (15 September 1859 – 21 September 1950) was an English shipbuilder. Early life Hodge was born on 15 September 1859 in Sunderland, the son of Emily (née Davis) Hodge and John Rowland Hodge of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was educated at Houghton-le-Spring. Career He entered the shipbuilding industry and later founded his own company, the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, of which he was managing director for more than twenty years. He was also chairman of Eltringhams Ltd, another shipbuilder, and a director of the Canning Town Glass Works in London. He was created a baronet in the 1921 New Year Honours for his company's services during the First World War, despite a conviction in 1918 for "food hoarding". The Hodges were fined £600 and £100 costs for hoarding over a ton of food. Personal life On 28 March 1895, Hodge was married to Mabel Thorpe, a daughter of William Edward Thorpe. Before her death in 1923, they were the pare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron De Freyne
Baron de Freyne, of Coolavin in the County of Sligo, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1851 for Arthur French, 1st Baron de Freyne, with remainder to his younger brothers John, Charles and Fitzstephen French. He had earlier represented County Roscommon in the House of Commons and later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Roscommon. French had already been created Baron de Freyne, of Artagh in the County of Roscommon, in 1839, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom but with normal remainder to heirs male. Lord de Freyne was childless and on his death in 1856 the barony of 1839 creation became extinct. The barony of 1851 creation survives according to the special remainder by his younger brother John, the second Baron. On his death, the title passed to another brother, Charles, the third Baron. In 1851 this Charles was married to Catherine Maree, daughter of Luke Maree, by a Catholic priest. Afterwards, a question arose as to the validity of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Cathcart, Countess Cathcart
Marie Isobel Cathcart, Countess Cathcart, DStJ (née Marie Isobel French, formerly Marie, Lady Weldon) (18 June 1923 – 25 February 2015) was a British peeress. Early life She was born Marie Isobel French, eldest daughter of the Hon. William Joseph French, a son of the 4th Baron de Freyne, and Victoria Louise (née Bellasis). She had three siblings. She was educated at Les Oiseaux, Westgate on Sea, Kent, and at Ware, Hertfordshire, by the sisters of the FCJ.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 719. Career She joined the Wrens as soon as she was old enough to do so in 1941 during World War II. She did voluntary work for various charities throughout her lifetime. She belonged to the Dames of Malta and was also a Dame of the Venerable Order of St John. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart (22 August 1919 – 15 June 1999), styled Lord Greenock until 1927, was a British Army officer who served as List of Commandants of Berlin Sectors, Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin from 1970 until his retirement in 1973. Military career The only child of George Cathcart, 5th Earl Cathcart and Vera, Countess Cathcart, Alan was educated at Eton College and Magdelene College, Cambridge,Debrett's People of Today 1994 Cathcart was Officer (armed forces), commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1939. He served in the Second World War and went on to be Adjutant at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst after the war. He was made Adjutant of the Scots Guards in 1951 and Brigade Major for 4th Guards Brigade in 1954. He then went on to be Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion Scots Guards in 1957. He was posted to Scottish Command in 1962 and became Commander of 152nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 152n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher founded in 1826, when the Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage, baronetage, knightage and landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. His first publication, a ''Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom'', was updated sporadically until 1847, when the company began releasing new editions every year as ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'' (often shortened to just ''Burke's Peerage''). Other books followed, including ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', ''Burke's Colonial Gentry'', and ''Burke's General Armory''. In addition to the peerage, the Burke's publishing company produced books on royal families of Europe and Latin America, ruling families of Africa and the Middle East, distinguished families of the United States and historical families of Ireland. History The firm was established in 1826 by John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 70,898. The Wilmington Metropolitan Division, comprising New Castle County, Delaware, Cecil County, Maryland and Salem County, New Jersey, had an estimated 2016 population of 719,887. Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area, which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Camden, and other urban are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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