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Frances " Fanny " Abington ( 1737 – 4 March 1815 ) was a British actress.
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Frances and Fanny
George next paid attention to Anne Henderson where he lodged with her family, but when she also rejected him he transferred his attentions to her sister Frances ( Fanny ), who was nine years his senior.
He was the eldest of four surviving children ; his younger siblings were George ( 1797 – 1841 ), Thomas ( 1799 – 1818 ), and Frances Mary " Fanny " ( 1803 – 1889 ).
He was raised by a stepmother, Fanny ( Frances ), née Phelps, with whom he also got along very well.
: For playwright Frances Burney ( 1776 – 1828 ), niece of novelist Fanny Burney Madame d ' Arblay 1752-1840, see Frances Burney ( 1776 – 1828 )
Frances Wright ( September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852 ) also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825.
Her parents were William Edward Nightingale, born William Edward Shore ( 1794 – 1874 ) and Frances (" Fanny ") Nightingale née Smith ( 1789 – 1880 ).
Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).
Three years after her death, he married Frances Louisa Tracy, known as Fanny ( 1842 – 1924 ) on May 31, 1865.
Charles Burney ; and his second daughter was Frances or Fanny, the famous novelist, later Madame D ' Arblay.
Frances was named after English novelist Frances ( Fanny ) Burney, the American poet Frances Osgood, and her sister who had died the previous year, Caroline Elizabeth.
Graham married Frances (" Fanny ") Callander, of Craigforth and Ardkinglas, a famous society beauty, on 8 July 1819.
* Frances Adeline " Fanny " Seward ( 1844 – 1866 ), daughter of United States Secretary of State, William H. Seward
In 1834 the grandson Pierce ( Mease ) Butler married the notable English actress Frances (" Fanny ") Kemble, who had been touring in the United States for two years with her father.
Frances Jane Crosby ( March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915 ), usually known as Fanny Crosby in the United States and by her married name, Frances van Alstyne, in the United Kingdom, was an American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer.
Frances Jane " Fanny " Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about north of New York City.
Frances and Abington
Subsequent successes established her reputation and she became the natural successor to Frances Abington when the latter left Drury Lane in 1782.
Frances and 1737
He married Frances, daughter of Thomas Worsley of Hovingham, on 13 July 1737, and had two sons and six daughters.
Frances and –
* Frances Bunsen ( 1791 – 1876 ), or Baroness Bunsen, Welsh painter and author, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen
In mid-1917 ten-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa – were staying with Frances ' aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire ; Elsie was then 16 years old.
In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.
" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.
' Emigrants Leave Ireland ', engraving by Henry Doyle ( 1827 – 1892 ), from Mary Frances Cusack's Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868
* 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U. S. Congress.
* 1886 – U. S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
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