Katharine, Duchess of Kent ; her son and grandson, Lord Nicholas Windsor and Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, respectively, both of whose wives are Catholic, and her granddaughter, Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor, as well as politicians such as Baroness Masham of Ilton and Ann Widdecombe, and, most recently, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose wife and children are Catholic, are prominent among laypeople who have converted.

Gordon's Broadway acting appearances in the 1940s included Iris in Paul Vincent Carroll's The Strings, My Lord, Are False and Natasha in Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's revival of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as well as leading roles in her own plays, Over Twenty-One and The Leading Lady.

* Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded in Gloucestershire, England.

* Lady Katharine – attending on the Princess

In 1933, she was nominated at age 75 for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Lady for a Day, losing to Katharine Hepburn.

; Lady Francesca " Frankie " Scott Colby Hamilton Langdon ( Katharine Ross ( original cast ), 1985 – 1987 )

The couple thereafter had seven children: Edward, Marquess of Hartington ( born 1895 ), Lady Maud Louisa Emma ( born 1896 ), Lady Blanche Katharine ( born 1898 ), Lady Dorothy ( born 1900 ), Lady Rachel ( born 1902 ), Lord Charles Arthur Francis ( born 1905 ), and Lady Anne ( born 1909 ).

Villiers received the Grand Cross of the Bath in 1838 in acknowledgment of his services, and succeeded, on the death of his uncle, to the title of Earl of Clarendon ; in the following year, having left Madrid, he married a young widow, Lady Katharine Foster-Barham ( née Grimston ), eldest daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam.

* Anderson, Carol and Mallison, Katharine, Lunch With Lady Eaton: Inside the Dining Rooms of a Nation, Toronto: ECW Press, 2004.

Born in Oxford and a descendant of the family which founded London gin distillers J & W Nicholson & Co, Lady Nicholson is the third of four daughters of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Bt and his wife, Lady Katharine ( the fifth daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford ).

# 1901: Lady Mary Katharine Lockhart ( née Eccles ) widow of General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, Commander in Chief India ( 1898 – 1900 )

The Katharine Lady Berkeley's Grammar School was established in 1384 and is now a comprehensive named Katharine Lady Berkeley's School although the present modern building is a little outside of the town on the way to the village of Kingswood.

The Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor ( born Marina Charlotte Alexandra Katharine Helen Windsor on 30 September 1992 in Cambridge ) is the elder daughter of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews.

Notable Broadway musicals that have played at the theater include My Fair Lady, Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Katharine Hepburn musical Coco.

Elsie De Wolfe, Lady Mendl, later famous as the world's first professional interior decorator, acted in Club productions in the early years of the 20th Century, as did Hope Williams ( whom Katharine Hepburn understudied in " Holiday " in the 1920s ), and Julie Harris in the 1940s.

Individuals who have been described as having a recognizable Lockjaw accent include Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, whose " Lockjaw " intensified while at Miss Porter's School and affected it to her death, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, actress Katharine Hepburn, political commentator William F. Buckley, Jr., publisher and What's My Line personality Bennett Cerf.

Overt religious elements include an excerpt from the Rosary prayer on the cornice and planned statues of Mary, specifically Our Lady of the Rosary, and two archangels, St. Michael and St. Gabriel.

The Chapel of the Tablet at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum allegedly houses the original Ark of the Covenant.

The object is currently kept under guard in a treasury near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion and is used occasionally in ritual processions.

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen.

* " Bloody Mary ", a song by Lady Gaga

* 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1882 )

Our Lady of the Rosary is the title received by the Marian apparition to Saint Dominic in 1208 in the church of Prouille in which the Virgin Mary gave the Rosary to him.

In 1721 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had imported variolation to Britain after having observed it in Istanbul, where her husband was the British ambassador.

Her half-brother, Edward VI, bequeathed the crown to Lady Jane Grey, cutting his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Catholic Mary, out of the succession in spite of statute law to the contrary.

His will was set aside, Mary became queen, and Lady Jane Grey was executed.

His will swept aside the Succession to the Crown Act 1543, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk.

His mother, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Lord Burghley that ' my wise son has gone very far with my Lady Mary Vere, I fear too far to turn '.

The earliest known written evidence of the title is from the November 3, 1863, diary entry of William Howard Russell, in which he referred to gossip about " the First Lady in the Land ," referring to Mary Todd Lincoln.

The title first gained nationwide recognition in 1877, when newspaper journalist Mary C. Ames referred to Lucy Webb Hayes as " the First Lady of the Land " while reporting on the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes.

St. Francis is the principal patron of the town, together with Mary ( mother of Jesus ) | Our Lady of Escalera.

He became embroiled in a lively bisexual love-triangle with the politician John Hervey, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .< ref > Rictor Norton, " John, Lord Hervey: The Third Sex ", The Great Queens of History.

His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of slave plantations in Jamaica.

Mary is venerated as the Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Church, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, and other lofty titles.

Although this does not specifically cite the marriage of George Hayward Lindsay to Lady Mary Catherine Gore, George Lindsay almost certainly came into the lands at Glasnevin as a result of his marriage.

* Lady Mary Gordon ( 1682 – 1753 ), married Alexander Fraser, 13th Lord Saltoun, 26 October 1707

The practice was introduced to the west by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( May 26, 1689 – August 21, 1762 ).

* 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of reign.

Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tiltyard to its current form.

Lady Montagu's husband, Edward Wortley Montagu, served as the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1716 to 1717.

), ‘ The complete letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ’, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

One such relationship was between Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who wrote to Anne Wortley in 1709: " Nobody was so entirely, so faithfully yours ...

This kind of inoculation and other forms of variolation were introduced into England by Lady Montagu, a famous English letter-writer and wife of the English ambassador at Istanbul between 1716 and 1718, who almost died from smallpox as a young adult and was physically scarred from it.

Lady Montagu wrote to her sister and friends in England describing the process in details.

In 1717 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu observed the practice in Istanbul and attempted to popularize it in Britain, but encountered considerable resistance.

* August 21 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer ( b. 1689 )

* May 26 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer ( d. 1762 )

* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Istanbul, has her son inoculated.

* January 19 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu gives birth to a daughter.

Her sister-in-law ( born The Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott ) was given special dispensation by HM The Queen to use a similar style when she was widowed (" HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ") despite not being a princess by birth, rather than the more usual widow's style, " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester ".

She helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.

Although still home to the current Lord and Lady Montagu, parts of the house and gardens are open daily to the public.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Ottoman Constantinople, is widely credited with introducing the process to Great Britain in 1721.

Source material tells us on Montagu ; " When Lady Mary was in the Ottoman Empire, she discovered the local practice of inoculation against smallpox called variolation.

Reading of Lady Wortley Montagu ’ s efforts, they wanted to use inoculation on themselves.

Montagu, Exeter, and Lady Salisbury were arrested in November 1538.

In 1661 Sir Arthur's grandson Henry Ingram was created Viscount of Irvine and he married Lady Essex Montagu, the daughter of the Earl of Manchester.

Notable poets later in the period include Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, Susanna Blamire, Felicia Hemans, Mary Leapor, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hannah More, and Mary Robinson.

His mother was Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( née Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott ), a daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch.

He married Lady Catherine Caroline Montagu ( 1808 – 1833 ), daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich and Lady Louisa Mary Anne Julia Harriet Lowry-Corry, on 1 December 1831.