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His widow, Jane Ewart-Biggs ( died 8 October 1992 ), became a Life Peer in the House of Lords, campaigned to improve Anglo-Irish relations and established the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for literature.
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:* Jane Stanford ( 1828 – 1905 ), widow of Leland Stanford
When Jane died in 1511, More remarried almost immediately, choosing as his second wife a rich widow named Alice Middleton.
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Thomas Cromwell's son Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, married Elizabeth Seymour, the sister of Queen Jane Seymour and widow of Sir Anthony Ughtred ( or Oughtred ).
All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ) is a romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love.
Cary Scott ( Jane Wyman ) is an affluent widow in suburban New England, whose social life involves her country club peers, college-age children, and a couple of men vying for her affection.
In April 1547, using Edward ’ s support to circumvent Somerset ’ s opposition, Thomas Seymour secretly married Henry VIII's widow Catherine Parr, whose Protestant household included the 11-year-old Lady Jane Grey and the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
His widow, Martha Jane Huskey Ogle ( 1756 – 1827 ), moved the family to Virginia, where she had relatives.
After the death of Jane Irwin Boggs in 1783, John Boggs married Mary Williamson Barr ( 1748-1828 ), the widow of Robert Barr ( 1750-1778 ), about 1785.
He had been notified of the honor, but died two months before the award ceremony, thus the award was collected by his widow Jane Robinson.
Alistair Cooke divorced Ruth in 1944, and married Jane White Hawkes, a portrait painter and the widow of neurologist A. Whitfield Hawkes, the son of Albert W. Hawkes, on 30 April 1946.
*( 2 ) in 1642 Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Shirley of Ifield in Sussex and widow of Sir Walter Covert of Slougham, Sussex
Kelley married a widow, Jane Cooper of Chipping Norton ( 1563 – 1606 ).
Thomas ' uncle James died in 1764, and his widow Jane probably provided both the funds and accommodation which allowed Thomas to attend school in London ; in 1765 or 1766 he started at the Soho Academy.
He married secondly Jane Hawkins, widow of Charles Hawkins and originally of the Suffolk family of Reve or Reeve.
He died at Chiswick, Middlesex, on 31 May 1806, the title becoming extinct, and his property, after the death of his widow ( Lady Jane Stuart, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bute ; they were married in 1768 ), going to his niece, whose son took the name.
He died of an epidemic fever on the island of St. Christopher when Stevenson was an infant ; at much the same time, Stevenson's uncle died of the same disease, leaving Alan's widow, Jane Lillie, in straitened financial circumstances.
He had many visitors, most notably in 1829 Jane Swift ( Ianthe ) now a widow, who inspired him to write poetry again.
President-elect Harrison asked his daughter-in-law Jane Irwin Harrison, widow of his namesake son, to accompany him and act as hostess until Anna's proposed arrival in May.
Only 41 when her husband became president, widow Mrs. Sarah Polk outlived several of her successors: Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eliza Johnson and Lucy Webb Hayes.
His second wife was Jane Fletcher, a widow, and his third wife was Sarah Davis, widow of Nicholas Davis.
Byrne's widow, Jane, would eventually become Mayor of Chicago.
The architect was buried in the lair adjacent to that in which his five deceased children were laid to rest, in Gorbals Southern Necropolis, on 26 March 1875, and he was joined there by his widow, Jane, in 1889.
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She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.
When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.
In late 1992, friends introduced him to the artist Judith Kliban, widow of B. Kliban, a cartoonist who had died of a pulmonary embolism.
Theodora, widow of the Emperor Theophilus ( died 842 ), acted as regent during the minority of her son Michael III, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother Bardas.
Peirce died destitute in Milford, Pennsylvania, twenty years before his widow.
In 1927 Dunn's widow, Mrs. George Pross ( Dunn had died in 1922 ), sold the team to a syndicate headed by Alva Bradley.
Arthur died on 2 April 1502 ; Catherine recovered to find herself a widow.
They said that among those signing the letter were officers who had no knowledge of their inclusion or who had refused to be included, and even one instance of a general's widow who signed her husband's name to the letter though he had died before the survey was published.
His widow, Caitlin, died in 1994 and was buried alongside him.
The legend then states that Chūai died soon after and his widow, Jingū, conquered the promised land, which is conjectured to be part of modern day Korea.
Patrick Delany died in 1768 at the age of 82, prompting his widow to sell Delville and return to her native England until her death twenty years later.
The Hebrew Bible forbids a man from marrying his brother's widow with the exception that, if his brother died childless, the man is instead required to marry his brother's widow so as to " raise up seed to him " ( taken from Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 6 ).
His father, Samuel Polk, had left Polk more than 8, 000 acres ( 32 km² ) of land, and divided about 53 slaves to his widow and children after he died.
He died in 1656 in The Hague, still unbelievably 18, 000 guilders in debt, forcing his widow to sell their remaining furniture and paintings.
Elizabeth Weissmüller eventually filed for, and was granted, a divorce ( various biographies erroneously state that Weissmüller's father died of tuberculosis leaving her a widow ).
In 1751, he married Helene Amalie Ascherfeld ( another of Arndt's great-great-grandchildren ); Jodocus died six years later, which left his widow to run the business: a family first.
Friedrich's father, the widow's son, had died 11 years previously ; since that time, the widow had tutored the boy in the ways of commerce, as he seemed the logical family heir.
In 1810, the widow died, and in what would prove a disastrous move, left virtually all the Krupp fortune and property to Friedrich.
Leon Battista's mother, Bianca Fieschi, was a Bolognese widow who died during an outbreak of bubonic plague.
* Monegund, widow and recluse of Tours ( died 544 )
* Eustadiola, widow of Bourges ( died 684 )
His father, Gruffydd Fychan II, hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, died some time before 1370 leaving Glyndŵr's mother Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth a widow and Owain a young man of maybe 16 years at most.
Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87, while his widow, Irma, died 20 years later on April 26, 1990 at the age of 95.
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