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Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.
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Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.
Her father wrote of it, " I see nothing in the way of a good appreciation of Louisa's merits as a woman and a writer.
Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.
Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.
Her father was Mírzá Muḥammad ` Alí Nahrí of Isfahan an eminent Bahá ’ í of the city and prominent aristocrat.
Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his own father ( Charles Bardot ) in the family business.
Her father was " the sort of rebel destined to transform colonial America "; as clerk of the court, he was jailed for disobeying the local magistrate in defense of middle-class shopkeepers and artisans in conflict with wealthy landowners.
Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.
Her Journal reveals her growing sophistication as a critic as well as the influence of her father ’ s friend the artist Sir John Everett Millais who recognised Beatrix ’ s talent of observation.
Her father, unable to bear the grief of his loss, and feeling adrift in a foreign country, returned to his native France for 16 years, with only one visit back to Philadelphia.
" Her father did have a natural aptitude for drawing and the sisters were charmed by his whimsical sketches of animals.
Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.
Her father played the ukulele and guitar and sang professionally in nightclubs with a group called Step ' n ' Fetchit.
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An award-winning field hockey player, former typist, and daughter of a British army officer turned innkeeper, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Percy Gardiner, she was given the title Her Royal Highness Princess Muna al-Hussein and retained this title after they divorced on 21 December 1971.
Her critics, especially Walter White of the NAACP, claimed that she and other actors who agreed to play to stereotypes were not a neutral force, but rather were willing agents of black oppression.
Her collection of essays Men in Dark Times presents intellectual biographies of some creative and moral figures of the 20th century, such as Walter Benjamin, Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Hermann Broch, Pope John XXIII, and Isak Dinesen.
* Myers, Walter Dean, At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England, ISBN 0-590-48669-1 ( some information for this article was derived from the editorial reviews of this book as listed here: ) Category: 1802 births Category: 1880 deaths Category: African royalty
Her father, William Walter Cottle, died after a year-long illness when she was just seventeen months old, and her mother, Minnie Corina Cottle, struggled to raise the children alone.
Her husbands were John Young ( 1942 – 43 ), George Jenkins ( 1946 ), Robert Grayson ( 1947 ), Walter Buchanan ( 1950 ), saxophonist Eddie Chamblee ( 1957 ), Rafael Campos ( 1961 ), and pro football player Dick " Night Train " Lane ( 1963 ).
Her nephew was Ulster Unionist Party MP Sir Walter Smiles, her great-niece being Patricia Ford, Lady Fisher, also a UUP MP.
Her father went to serve the queen ’ s sister, Marguerite, who was the empress of Germany and the three younger children -- Walter, Philippa and Katherine -- were left in the care of Queen Philippa.
Her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica ( 1933 – 1935 ); she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring.
Her husband, Walter Sisulu, who died in 2003, was found guilty of high treason and sabotage, but was spared the death sentence.
Her life is detailed in a biography by her daughter-in-law Elinor Sisulu, Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In our lifetime.
Her death left Lowell depressed and reclusive for six months, despite the birth of his son Walter by the end of the year.
Her climbing partner, professional mountaineering guide Walter Kiener, went for help ; but when rescuers arrived, Vaille had died of fatigue and hypothermia.
Walter Kerr wrote that the musical: "... is in the main quite charming ... the actress ... is endearing throughout the evening and at her commanding best here ...." Her song, " I Don't Want to Know " is " a song surprised by its own unexpected passion.
Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott ( Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly ; Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811 ; and Blanche part of a projected series of ' Narrative poems on the Female Character ,' 1813 ).
Her personal struggle over David ( Abdullah ’ s grandson ) proposing to Lia ( Walter ’ s oldest daughter ) was far deeper than Emerson ’ s.
" Walter Terry also writing for the Tribune commented, "( Her dance ) attracts through rare beauty of pattern, through gently shaded dynamics and through that intangible essence we call quality.
Her successor Queen Elizabeth I granted in 1594 a lease of the manor to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland on his marriage to Dorothy Devereux the younger daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, who later received a grant of the freehold from King James I in 1604.
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