Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

* 1862 – Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer ( d. 1900 )

In 1866, Mary Kingsley Tibbits became the first regularly admitted female student of UNB.

* June 3 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer and writer ( b. 1862 )

( Study of 18th Century Natural History — Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm and Mary Kingsley ) Contains colour and black and white reproductions.

Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of Anna Lyna Mary ( née Goodman ), an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a Nizari Ismaili Muslim medical doctor.

He had two siblings, a sister, Jean, and a brother, Denis, as well as two half-siblings-sister Mary and brother Kingsley.

* June 3 — Mary Kingsley, English travel writer and explorer ( born 1862 )

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Mary Kingsley

* Mary Kingsley ( October 13, 1862 – June 3, 1900 ) – explored the Upper Ogawe River in Gabon and journeyed alone into unknown regions of the Congo jungle.

English explorer Mary Kingsley, one of the first Europeans to scale the mountain, recounts her expedition in her 1897 memoir Travels in West Africa.

The Original Broadway cast also features Victoria Clark ( Mother Superior ), Fred Applegate ( Monsignor ), Sarah Bolt ( Sister Mary Patrick ), Chester Gregory ( Eddie ), Kingsley Leggs ( Curtis ), Marla Mindelle ( Sister Mary Robert ) and Audrie Neenan ( Sister Mary Lazarus ).

* Mary Kingsley: Imperial Adventuress ( 1992 )

* McLoone, Margo, Women explorers in Africa: Christina Dodwell, Delia Akeley, Mary Kingsley, Florence von Sass Baker, and Alexandrine Tinne ( Capstone Press, 1997 )

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Mary Henrietta Kingsley ( 13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900 ) was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism.

Kingsley was born in Islington, London on 13 October 1862, the daughter and oldest child of doctor, traveller, and writer George Kingsley and Mary Bailey.

Later while in Gabon, Mary Kingsley travelled by canoe up the Ogooué River where she collected specimens of previously unknown fish, three of which were later named after her.

Mary Kingsley upset the Church of England when she criticised missionaries for attempting to convert the people of Africa and corrupt their religion.

* Kingsley, Mary H. West African Studies.

" The Life of Mary Kingsley.

In the second, since he had no heirs and if he should die abroad the estates would pass to his sister, Mary, he entailed the lands of the earldom on his first cousin, Hugh Vere.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

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.

Getting agreement took many months, and Mary and Pope Julius III had to make a major concession: the monastery lands confiscated under Henry were not returned to the church but remained in the hands of the new landowners, who were very influential.

His sisters Mary and Martha fled Judea with him, assisting him in the proclaiming of the Gospel in various lands.

* August 18 – Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.

In January 1557 Robert and Amy Dudley were allowed to repossess some of their former lands, and in March of the same year Dudley was at Calais where he was chosen to deliver personally to Queen Mary the happy news of her husband's return to England.

As the Veres became the earls of Oxford, their estate at Kensington came to be known as Earls Court, while the Abingdon lands were called Abbots Kensington and the church St Mary Abbots.

* On the northeast edge of the town, at the end of a broad avenue decorated with orange trees, stands the Basílica of Santa Maria del Lledó ( European Hackberry or Celtis australis ), a basilica devoted to an image of the Virgin Mary found in 1366 by a farmer when he was ploughing his lands.

Lacock Abbey was founded on the manorial lands by Ela, Countess of Salisbury and established in 1232 ; and the village — with the manor — formed its endowment to " God and St Mary ".

His estates fell prey to the ruling clique in the reign of Edward VI, for which he was later partly compensated by lands worth £ 1626 a year from Queen Mary.

His son Sir Thomas Finch ( died 1563 ), was also knighted for his share in suppressing Sir Thomas Wyatt's insurrection against Queen Mary I, and was the son-in-law of Sir Thomas Moyle, some of whose lands Finch's wife inherited.

Awkward and shy 16-year-old high-schooler Ted Stroehmann ( Ben Stiller ) lands a prom date with his dream girl Mary Jensen ( Cameron Diaz ), only to have it cut short by a painful and embarrassing zipper accident.

Since the adoption of Christianity in all Slavic lands, she has been identified with Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Queen Mary granted the lands to Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, but by the middle of the 17th century the manor had passed to the Arundells of Wardour, and in 1728 was in the hands of Henry Arundell, 6th Baron Arundell of Wardour.

" In the year 1260, ' a controversy arose between the monks of the Isle of May and Sir John of Dundemore, relative to the lands of Turbrech, in Fife, which, after many altercations, was settled by Sir John relinquishing all claim to the lands ; in consideration of which the prior and monks granted him a monk to perform divine service in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Isle of May, for his soul, and the souls of his forefathers and successors.

The Flemings found themselves on the wrong side in the 16th century, when they supported Mary, Queen of Scots, and their lands were given over to the Elphinstone family.

In 1554, following the beheading of Lady Jane Grey, the manor of Bosworth was among lands confiscated in the name of Mary I of England and her husband Philip II of Spain.

The lands and the earldom passed to Walter Comyn ( d. 1258 ) in right of his wife Isabella, and then through Isabella's sister Mary to Stewarts, and finally to the Grahams, becoming extinct in 1694.

Her lands passed to her second cousin once removed, Hugh de Courtney, great-grandson of Mary and Robert de Courtney above.

He married Mary, a niece of Ralph Allen, through whom lands in Combe Down, Somerset, came into his family.

Whilst inheriting all entailed property and assets from his cousin and a £ 1 million debt, a large share of the Hamilton lands and properties went to Lady Mary, latterly the Duchess of Montrose.