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Kathleen Manners, Duchess Of Rutland
Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland (' Tennant; 30 January 18944 December 1989) was an English aristocrat and the wife of John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland. Early life Kathleen Tennant, who was informally known by the nickname Kakoo, was born on 30 January 1894 in London into the Tennant family, an influential Scottish industrial family that had been ennobled. Her mother was Annie Geraldine Redmayne and her father was Francis John Tennant of Innes, Morayshire, and Lympne Castle, Kent. Her paternal grandfather was the industrialist Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet. Her father, who was a member of The Souls, was the younger brother of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner and Margot Asquith, the wife of British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Royal friendship As a close friend to the Duke and Duchess of York, Manners disliked Wallis Simpson and disapproved of Edward VIII's abdication. At the 1937 Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, she was one of four duchesses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Grace
His Grace and Her Grace are English styles of address used with high-ranking personages, and was the style for English monarchs until Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), and for Scottish monarchs until the Act of Union of 1707, which united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England. In Great Britain and Ireland, it is also the style of address for archbishops, dukes, and duchesses; e.g. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk and His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The correct style is “Your Grace” in spoken and written form; as a stylistic descriptor for British dukes, it is an abbreviation of the full, formal style: “The Most High, Noble and Potent Prince His Grace”. However, a royal duke, such as Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, is addressed as Your Royal Highness. Ecclesiastical usage Christianity The style "His Grace" and "Your Grace" is used in England and some other English-speaking countries to address Catholic archbishops whose seats have come from an Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was also the last Empress of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved on 15 August 1947. After her husband died, she was officially known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to avoid confusion with her daughter Queen Elizabeth II. Born into a family of British nobility, Elizabeth came to prominence in 1923 when she married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. The Duchess undertook a variety of public engagements and became known for her consistently cheerful countenance. In 1936, Elizabeth's husband unexpectedly ascended the throne as George VI when his older brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belvoir Castle
Belvoir Castle ( ) is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated west of the town of Grantham and northeast of Melton Mowbray. A castle was first built on the site immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and has since been rebuilt at least three times. The final building is a grade I listed mock castle, dating from the early 19th century. It is the seat of David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland (the tiny county of Rutland lies south of Belvoir Castle), whose direct male ancestor inherited it in 1508. The traditional burial place of the Manners family was in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford, situated to the north of the Castle, but since 1825 they have been buried in the ducal mausoleum built next to the Castle in that year, to which their ancient monuments were moved. It remains the private property of the Duke of Rutland but is open to the general public. The castle is situated at the extreme northern corner of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Throckmorton Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for different branches of the Throckmorton family, 6th cousins, both descended from Sir John Throckmorton (d. 1445), Under-Treasurer of England ''temp.'' King Henry VI (1422–1461). Both titles, which were in the Baronetage of England, are now extinct. The Throckmortons, originally of Throckmorton near Pershore, Worcestershire, trace their history back to the 12th century. In 1409 Sir John de Throckmorton, Under-Treasurer of England, married Eleanor Spinney (or Spiney or Spinetti or de la Spine), daughter and heiress of Guy Spinney of Coughton, Warwickshire, where the senior branch of the family, which bore the junior baronetcy, became established. The Coughton estate included in 1968 a dower house named "Spiney House, Coughton", named after that family. The senior Throckmorton Baronetcy, of Tortworth in the County of Gloucester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for William Throckmorton (d. 1628), of Coss Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness Of Dufferin And Ava
Serena Belinda Rosemary Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (''née'' Guinness; 25 March 1941 – 26 October 2020), also known as Lindy Guinness, was a British artist, conservationist and businesswoman. She was married to the fifth Marquess from 1964 until his death in 1988. Early life and artistic career Born in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, Guinness was the daughter of financier Loel Guinness and his second wife, Lady Isabel (''née'' Manners), daughter of John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland and Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland. She had an older brother, William Loel Guinness (born 1939). She had an older half-brother from her father's first marriage to Hon. Joan Yarde-Butler, daughter of 3rd Baron Churston, Patrick Benjamin "Tara" Guinness (1931–1965). Tara Guinness married his stepsister Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise von Fürstenberg, daughter of his father's third wife, but was killed in a car crash. When Lindy was 9 years old, her p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Seymour Guinness
Benjamin Seymour Guinness (18 November 1868 – 15 December 1947), ''Principe di Mignano'', was an Anglo-American businessman, banker and lawyer. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1868, into the "banking line" of the prominent Anglo-Irish Guinness family, Benjamin Seymour Guinness was the fourth son of Richard Seymour Guinness (1826–1915) and a grandson of Robert Rundell Guinness, founder of the Guinness Mahon bank. He was great-nephew of the brewer Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, Bart. and thus a cousin of the Earls of Iveagh. Guinness was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Navy in 1882. He retired in 1892 with the substantive rank of Lieutenant. Based in New York, Guinness was a director of the New York Trust Company, Lackawanna Steel Company, Kansas City Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Duquesne Light Company, and United Railroads of San Francisco. He was also a partner in Ladenburg Thalmann. Guinness married Bridget Henrietta Williams-Bulkeley (1870–1931), the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas "Loel" Guinness
Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, (9 June 1906 – 31 December 1988) was a British politician, Royal Air Force officer, business magnate and philanthropist. He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath (1931–1945) and achieved fame as a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain during World War II. Guinness also financed the purchase of the ''Calypso'', leasing her for one symbolic franc a year to famous oceanic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Early life Born in Manhattan and raised in the United States and England, Loel Guinness was the only son of Benjamin Seymour Guinness, an Anglo-Irish banker from whom he inherited a fortune. His mother, his father's first wife, was Bridget Henrietta Frances Williams-Bulkeley (1870–1931), half-sister of Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet, of an old and prominent Anglesey landed family. Loel Guinness had two sisters: Meraud Michelle Wemyss Guinness and Tanis Eva Bulkeley Guinness (who married Lt. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Freire Marreco
Anthony (Tony) Freire Marreco (9 August 1915 – 4 June 2006) was a British barrister. He was Junior Counsel at the Nuremberg trials, and later a founding director of Amnesty International. He was also known for his romantic liaisons, marrying four times and having numerous other affairs. Early life Marreco was the only son of Geoffrey Freire Marreco, of St Mawes in Cornwall. Marreco's family were of Portuguese descent, although his great-grandfather Antonio Joaquim Freire Marreco (1787–1850) had become a naturalised British subject, establishing himself in business in England in the early 1820s as a wine importer. He was educated at Westminster School, where he met Mahatma Gandhi and T. E. Lawrence. He then attended RADA but was expelled when he missed lessons to attend the Derby. Career In the Second World War, Marreco was commissioned in the RNVR in 1940, serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Fleet Air Arm until 1946. He served on the staff of the Commander-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Margaret's, Westminster
The Church of St Margaret, Westminster Abbey is in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square, London, England. It is dedicated to Margaret the Virgin, Margaret of Antioch, and forms part of a single World Heritage Site with the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey. History and description The church was founded in the twelfth century by Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine monks, so that local people who lived in the area around the Abbey could worship separately at their own simpler parish church, and historically it was within the hundred of Ossulstone in the county of Middlesex. In 1914, in a preface to ''Memorials of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster'', a former Rector of St Margaret's, Hensley Henson, reported a mediaeval tradition that the church was as old as Westminster Abbey, owing its origins to the same royal saint, and that "The two churches, conventual and parochial, have stood side by side for more than eight centuries – not, of course, the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Manners, Duchess Of Rutland
Marion Margaret Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (''née'' Lindsay; 7 March 1856 – 22 December 1937) was a British artist and noblewoman. A granddaughter of the 24th Earl of Crawford, she married Henry Manners in 1882. She was styled the Marchioness of Granby from 1888 to 1906, when Manners succeeded as Duke of Rutland. She had five children, including John Manners, the 9th Duke of Rutland and the socialite Lady Diana Cooper. Though she had no formal training as an artist, the Duchess painted portraits of her social circle. Many of her works were displayed at various major art exhibits in the UK, including the Grosvenor Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the New Gallery. Violet was also a prominent member of The Souls, an aristocratic social circle that favoured intellectual pursuits and avant-garde artistic tastes. Known for her beauty, she was the subject of many paintings. Watts Gallery Trust acquired a beautiful Watts portrait of her in Dec 2016 (Art Fund, the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Manners, 8th Duke Of Rutland
Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland, (16 April 1852 – 8 May 1925), styled Marquess of Granby between 1888 and 1906, was a British peer and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. Early life and education Rutland was born at Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, the only surviving child of John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland, Lord John Manners by his first wife, Catherine Marley, daughter of Colonel George Marley of Belvedere House and Gardens, Belvedere House, County Westmeath, Ireland. Just before Rutland's second birthday, his mother died aged 23 from childbirth complications, weeks after giving birth to a daughter, Edith Katharine Mary, who lived only 12 days. In 1862, his father remarried to Janetta Manners, Duchess of Rutland, Janetta Hughan. He had four half-siblings from his father's second marriage, including Lord Edward Manners and Lord Cecil Manners. He gained the courtesy title of Marquess of Granby in 1888 when his father succeeded h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
