Its cast included William Faversham as Algernon, Henry Miller as Worthing, Viola Allen as Gwendolen, and Ida Vernon as Lady Bracknell.

Gwendolen and her formidable mother Lady Bracknell now call on Algernon.

As he distracts Lady Bracknell in another room, Jack proposes to Gwendolen.

The size of Cecily ’ s trust fund soon dispels her initial doubts over the young lady ’ s suitability, but any engagement is forbidden by her guardian Jack: he will consent only if Lady Bracknell agrees to his own union with Gwendolen — something she declines to do.

As the happy couples embrace — Jack and Gwendolen, Algernon and Cecily, and even Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism — Lady Bracknell complains to her newfound relative: “ My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality .” “ On the contrary, Aunt Augusta ”, he replies, “ I ’ ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest .”

Michael Denison ( Algernon ), Michael Redgrave ( Jack ), Dame Edith Evans ( Lady Bracknell ), Dorothy Tutin ( Cecily ), Joan Greenwood ( Gwendolen ), and Margaret Rutherford ( Miss Prism ) were among the cast.

Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002 ; it stars Colin Firth ( Jack ), Rupert Everett ( Algy ), Dame Judi Dench ( Lady Bracknell ), Reese Witherspoon ( Cecily ), Frances O ' Connor ( Gwendolen ), Anna Massey ( Miss Prism ), and Tom Wilkinson ( Dr. Chasuble ).

In Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest there is an exchange between Jack Worthing and Lady Bracknell about his suitability as a match for her daughter Gwendolen.

* Gwendolen Mary Fitzalan-Howard, née Constable-Maxwell, Duchess of Norfolk, 12th Lady Herries of Terregles ( 1877 – 1945 )

** Martin Richard de László ( son of Peggy Hennessy ); married 7 February 1967 Mary Gwendolen Freeman, daughter of Lady Winefride Freeman, née Fitzalan-Howard ( 1914 – 2006 ), youngest daughter of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk ).

* November 10-In fog, the Guinness ship Lady Gwendolen rams and sinks the Freshfield anchored in the Mersey.

His mother was Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard, suo jure Gwendoline Mary Herries, 12th Lady Herries of Terregles, and he inherited her peerage when she died in 1947.

In 1908 Gwendolen succeeded her father as Lady Herries of Terregles.

The black-and-white costumes designed by Cecil Beaton for the Royal Ascot sequence in My Fair Lady were inspired by the " Black Ascot " of 1910, when the court was in mourning for Victoria's son, Edward VII.

The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil ( 1687 – 1708 ), daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter.

* Lady Beatrix Cecil ( 11 April 1858 – 27 April 1950 ), married the 2nd Earl of Selborne

* Lady Franny Cecil ( 1865 – 24 April 1867 )

Cavendish was the son of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil.

Lord Selborne married Lady Maud Cecil, elder daughter of future Prime Minister Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, in 1883.

Less than a year later, on 15 April 1650, Cooper re-married, to seventeen-year-old Lady Frances Cecil ( 1633 – 1652 ), daughter of David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter.

* Lady Sophia Georgiana Lennox ( 21 July 1809 – 17 January 1902 ), married Lord Thomas Cecil, died without issue.

Geoffrey Tiarks, Captain Hamish Lochore, Lady Cecil Cameron of Lochiel and Jane Holderness-Roddam.

Her other notable ancestors include Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Lady Mary Boleyn, King James IV of Scotland, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.

Salisbury was the son of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, and Lady Emily Mary, daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire.

* Lady Mary Arabella Arthur Cecil ( 26 April 1850 – 18 August 1903 ), married Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway

* Lady Margaret Elizabeth Cecil ( 1850 – 11 March 1919 )

Lord Harrowby married Lady Mary, daughter of Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter, in 1861.

The earldom was revived in 1905 in favour of the Liberal politician Cecil Foljambe, 1st Baron Hawkesbury, son of George Foljambe and his second wife Lady Selina Charlotte Jenkinson, daughter of the third Earl of the first creation.

It was created in 1780 for William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, with remainder to his daughter, Lady Cecil, wife of George Rice, a member of a prominent Welsh family.

Wellesley's paternal grandparents included the famous Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Catherine Pakenham and, on the maternal side, Henry Pierrepont, Lady Sophia Cecil.

Pierrepont married Lady Sophia Cecil, daughter of Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter, in 1818.

Ormsby-Gore was the second son of William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech, a Conservative politician, and Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred ( born Cecil ).

He was twice married, firstly to Lady Catherine Cecil ( d. 1752 ), and secondly to Catherine Compton.

* 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ( she had been elected to that position on November 28 ).

Among the early writings of Abbadie were four Sermons sur divers Textes de l ' Ecriture, 1680 ; Réflexions sur la Présence réelle du Corps de Jésus-Christ dans l ' Eucharistie, 1685 ; and two highly adulatory addresses on persons in high stations, entitled respectively Panégyrique de Monseigneur l ' Electeur de Brandebourg, 1684 ; and Panégyrique de Marie Stuart, Reine d ' Angleterre, d ' Ecosse, de France, et d ' Irlande, de glorieuse et immortelle mémoire, décédée à Kensington le 28 décembre 1694, 1695, also published in England as A Panegyric on our late Sovereign Lady, 1695.

Before Macbeth ’ s opponents arrive, he receives news that Lady Macbeth has killed herself, causing him to sink into a deep and pessimistic despair and deliver his " Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow " soliloquy ( 5. 5. 17 – 28 ).

* Abigail Adams, second First Lady of the United States, wife of John Adams, died of typhoid fever on October 28, 1818.

* October 28 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1744 )

* April 28 – Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines ( shot ) ( b. 1888 )

* June 28 – The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan was stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia.

* July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American First Lady ( d. 1994 )

* December 28 – Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921.

As CNN explained on February 28, 1997, " The report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup ", but " despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and First Lady tried to cover it up ".

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes ( 28 August 1831 – 25 June 1889 ) was a First Lady of the United States and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort of Scotland, Countess of Angus, Lady Methven ( 28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541 ) was the elder of the two surviving daughters of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the elder sister of Henry VIII.

* The island of Inchconnachan in Loch Lomond, Scotland, has a population of around 28 red-necked wallabies introduced by Lady Colquhoun in the 1920s.

Lady Lake is located at ( 28. 929165 ,-81. 930888 ).

The first Mass to be celebrated in Wyandanch took place in June 1932 in a real estate building, with fund-raising eventually allowing construction of the Little Mission Chapel of the Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Roman Catholic parish, completed in June 28, 1936.

Tracks nine to twelve were recorded at the Electric Lady Studio, on January 28, 1992.

Although the Jefferson Starship albums of this era were only modestly successful, they continued to string together hit singles like " Winds of Change " (# 38 ), " Be My Lady " (# 28 ), and " No Way Out " (# 23 ).

In the wake of the January 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan traveled to JSC on January 31 to speak at a memorial service honoring the astronauts.

On 28 February 1922, Princess Mary married Henry Charles George, Viscount Lascelles ( 9 September 1882 – 23 May 1947 ), the elder son of Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood, and Lady Florence Bridgeman, daughter of Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford of Weston Park.

Joan Plowright, Joan Ann Olivier, the Lady Olivier, DBE ( born 28 October 1929 in Brigg ), known by her maiden name as Dame Joan Plowright, is a British actress, widow of Laurence Olivier.

Entertainer Lady Gaga stated she received a pair for her birthday on March 28, 2011.

* Lady Caroline Grey ( 30 August 1799 – 28 April 1875 ); married Capt.

* Lady Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck ( 3 October 1775 – 28 July 1862 ).