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Francis Bruguière
Francis Joseph Bruguière (15 October 1879 – 8 May 1945) was an American photographer. Biography Francis Bruguière was born in San Francisco, California, to Emile Antoine Bruguière (1849–1900) and Josephine Frederikke (Sather) Bruguière (1845–1915). He was the youngest of four sons born into a wealthy banking family and was privately educated. His brothers were painter and physician Peder Sather Bruguière (1874–1967), Emile Antoine Bruguiere Jr. (1877–1935), and Louis Sather Bruguière (1882–1954), who married wealthy heiress Margaret Post Van Alen. He was also a grandson of banker Peder Sather. His mother died in the 1915 sinking of the British ocean liner SS ''Arabic'' by a German submarine. In 1905, having studied painting in Europe, Bruguière became acquainted with photographer and modern art promoter Alfred Stieglitz (who accepted him as a Fellow of the Photo-secession), and set up a studio in San Francisco, recording in a pictorialist style images of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleton Cheney
Middleton Cheney is a large village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The village is about east of Banbury in Oxfordshire and about west-northwest of Brackley. The A422 road between Banbury and Brackley used to pass through Middleton Cheney, but now Bypass (road), bypasses it to the south. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population (including Thenford) as 3,597. Archaeology and history The village's name means "middle farm" or "middle settlement". John de Chendut held the manor in the 12th century. Traces of Prehistoric Britain#Neolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age and Roman Britain, Roman settlements have been found in the parish. An open field system of farming prevailed in the parish until the 18th century. Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament passed the (9 Geo. 3. c. ''102'' ) and the parish was surveyed for its inclosure awards in 1770. There is a row of 19th-century almsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
