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  • On May 7, 1788, he married the widow Mary Pitt (née Baldwin) at St Laurence's Church, Upton in Slough. His sister Caroline then moved to separate lodgings, but continued ...
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  • Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both ...
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  • Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; May 21, 1780 – October 12, 1845) was an English prison reformer who was the driving force in legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more ...
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  • Cameron's niece, Julia Prinsep Stephen née Jackson (1846–1895), wrote the biography of Cameron which appeared in the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography ...
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  • Butler, Rector of Langar; his mother's name was Fanny (née Worsley). He went to Shrewsbury School, where his grandfather, also called Samuel, former Bishop of Lichfield and ...
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  • | parents = Louis Leakey|Mary Douglas Leakey (née Nicol) }} Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (December 19, 1944 - January 2, 2022) was a paleontologist and archaeologist ...
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  • parents, Samuel Alexander, a prosperous saddler, and Eliza (née Sloman). His father died shortly before he was born, but left his wife in comfortable circumstances; in 1863 she moved ...
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  • The most popular of Kenyatta's wives was Ngina Kenyatta (née Muhoho), also known as Mama Ngina. They were married in 1951. It was she who would make public appearances ...
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  • James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant) Mancham. After graduating high school and Seychelles College, his father, a successful businessman, sent ...
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  • Яковлевна Мандельштам, née Hazin; October 18, 1899 — December 29, 1980) was a writer in her own right. Born in Saratov into a middle-class Jewish family ...
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  • official in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne née Beacher, married Richmond Thackeray on October 13, 1810 after being sent to India in 1809. She was sent abroad after ...
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  • from Perth, Scotland, and his wife, Martha (née Thompson), originally of Hornchurch, Essex, England. An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/R/RutherfordSirE ...
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  • salesman who descended into alcoholism; his mother Caroline, née Quernest (1842–1893), was interested in music and literature. A precociously brilliant student, Jarry enthralled ...
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  • to William Congreve (1637–1708) and his wife, Mary (née Browning; 1636?–1715). Although the inscription on his monument over his grave lists his date of birth as 1672, he ...
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  • | relatives = Ingvald Martin Undset (father)Anna Marie Charlotte Nicoline née Gyth ... home of her mother, Charlotte Undset (1855–1939, née Anna Maria Charlotte Gyth). Undset ...
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  • and Morocco. He was married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet (née Rstakian). His first novel The Erasers (Les Gommes) was published in 1953, after which he dedicated himself full ...
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  • Susanne Langer (December 20, 1895 - July 17, 1985) née Susanne Katherina Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator. She was best known for her ...
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  • | parents = Percival Augustus HillaryGertrude Hillary, née Clark | children = Peter ... Hillary was born to Percival Augustus Hillary and Gertrude Hillary, née Clark, in ...
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  • Frieda "Friedel" Henriette Auguste Louise (née Adler) Bergman (September 12, 1884 – January 19, 1918), who was born in Kiel. Although she was raised in Sweden, she spent ...
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  • His father, Ernst Klimt, was an engraver who married Anna Klimt (née Finster). Klimt lived in poverty for most of his childhood. He enrolled in the Vienna School of Arts and ...
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