Olivier and Leigh began an affair after acting as lovers in Fire Over England ( 1937 ), when Olivier was married to actress Jill Esmond.

Esmond was granted custody of Tarquin, her son with Olivier.

Eloped with Esmond Romilly to the Spanish Civil War.

At age 19, Mitford met her second cousin Esmond Romilly, who was recuperating from dysentery caught during a stint with the International Brigades defending Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.

Darby and Joan appear in William Makepeace Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond ( 1852 ), when the beautiful, spoiled Beatrix taunts Esmond for his seemingly hopeless infatuation with her:

On 15 November 1712, Hamilton fought a celebrated duel with Charles Mohun, Lord Mohun in the Hyde Park, London, in an episode narrated in Thackeray ’ s The History of Henry Esmond.

Back at the nightclub, challenged by the elder Esmond, Lorelei impresses him with her acumen on the subject of patriarchal money: " I don't want to marry him for his money ; I want to marry him for your money.

The first Broadway production opened at the Times Square Theatre on 27 January 1931 with Coward, Lawrence and Olivier reprising their roles and Jill Esmond, who had married Olivier a few months earlier, as Sybil.

Then, as well as the flagship evening news programme Reporting Scotland presented by Mary Marquis and Douglas Kynoch with contributions from Renton Laidlaw in Edinburgh and Donny B MacLeod in Aberdeen, there were popular current affairs series like Compass, Checkpoint with Esmond Wright and Magnus Magnusson, Person to Person with Mary Marquis, Current Account, Public Account and Agenda.

British historian Esmond Wright, of the Institute of US Studies, noted ' a vast amount of popular identification with the American story '.

Eva Moore with her husband Henry V. Esmond.

In October 1920, she and Esmond toured Canada with Nigel Bruce as their stage manager, who also played Montague Jordan in Eliza Comes to Stay, which re-opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 14 June 1923.

* Esmond Romilly, " Boadilla " ( Edition in Spanish with an Introduction by Antonio R. Celada ) Amarú Ediciones, Salamanca, Spain.

The relationship with the Hall Institute continued until World War II, particularly via joint projects on viral diseases including polio and influenza coordinated by Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Esmond ' Bill ' Keogh.

* January 28 – Esmond Train Wreck: fourteen people are killed when the Crescent City Express ( No. 8, bound for Benson, Arizona ) collides head-on with the bound Pacific Coast Express ( No. 7, bound for Tucson ).

While her parents toured with theatre companies, Esmond spent her childhood in boarding schools until she decided at the age of 14 to become an actress.

In his autobiography Olivier later wrote that he was smitten with Esmond, and that her cool indifference to him did nothing but further his ardour.

However, Esmond kept in touch with Olivier and in a letter to their son Tarquin said " It's funny after all that time how I can still love him so much.

Henry V. Esmond with his wife Eva Moore.

He then toured the United States and Canada with Henry V. Esmond and Eva Moore 1912-1913.

Strikingly beautiful, she was romantically linked with several men, including Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Esmond Harmsworth and society artist Simon Elwes ( 1902 – 1975 ), which caused a minor scandal as he was married and a Roman Catholic.

Rothermere's son Esmond was received with royal pomp during a visit to Budapest, and some political actors in Hungary later went so far as to inquire about Rothermere's interest in being placed on the Hungarian throne.

In February 1940, Jill Esmond agreed to divorce Olivier, and Leigh Holman agreed to divorce Leigh, although they maintained a strong friendship for the rest of Leigh's life.

In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels.

* Wright, Esmond.

* 1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress ( d. 1990 )

* November 30 – Esmond Romilly, British socialist ( b. 1918 )

* July 25 – Laurence Olivier marries Jill Esmond.

The area ( initially as Kidderminster, then after 1983 as the Wyre Forest constituency ) has been represented by Conservative MPs Gerald Nabarro 1950 – 63, Sir Tatton Brinton 1964 – 74, Esmond Bulmer 1974 – 87, Anthony Coombs 1987 – 97, and Labour MP David Lock 1997 – 2001.

He remained " at the top of the tree ," as he put it, for the remaining decade and a half of his life, producing several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes, and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis.

Also notable among the later novels is The History of Henry Esmond, in which Thackeray tried to write a novel in the style of the eighteenth century.

Not only Esmond but also Barry Lyndon and Catherine are set then, as is the sequel to Esmond, The Virginians, which takes place in America and includes George Washington as a character who nearly kills one of the protagonists in a duel.

The Politics of Irony in Thackeray ’ s Mature Fiction: Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, The Newcomes.

Others in the cast include Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Katharine Blake, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph O ' Conor, William Squire, Vernon Dobtcheff, Denis Quilley, Esmond Knight and T. P. McKenna.

The film stars Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring and features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina, renowned dancers from the ballet world, as well as Esmond Knight and Albert Basserman.

* Reid, Esmond.

Then, York forces a captured German officer ( Charles Esmond ) at gunpoint to order the Germans still fighting to surrender.

* Jill Esmond as Mrs. Cavanaugh

The county is divided into thirteen townships: Badger, Baker, Denver, De Smet, Esmond, Hartland, Iroquois, Le Sueur, Manchester, Mathews, Spirit Lake, Spring Lake, and Whitewood.

Over the next few years the couple had 10 children: Bernice Gwendolyn Florence, Henry, Philis, Charles Esmond, Clyde, Vivian, Ronald, Frank, Gerald, and Gordon.

* Hale is a small community within the township at M-65 and Esmond Road.

Jessica, a communist supporter, had moved to the US, but her husband Esmond Romilly volunteered for the RCAF and died when his bomber developed mechanical problems over the North Sea.