Any hope Oxford might have had of assuming parental care of his daughters was dashed by Sir Robert Cecil, due to the fact that he had never supported them financially in the past, and now had yet another wife and child.

Cross-cutting was also used to get new effects of contrast, such as the cross-cut sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus, in which a supposedly dead husband is having a liaison with a Chinese prostitute in an opium den, while simultaneously his unknowing wife is being remarried in church.

" But in spite of this, and though the plotters offered him a large sum of money from the Pope, as well as safe passage for his wife and children to come to him from England, in the end he declined to have anything further to do with their plans and begged pardon from Sir Robert Cecil and from the Queen.

His first wife was the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, the actress Katherine DeMille, whom he married in 1937.

Cecil was born in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1520, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate ( near Stamford, Lincolnshire ), and his wife, Jane Heckington.

) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: " Seeing great perils threatened upon us by the likeness of the time, I do make choice to avoid the perils of God's displeasure.

* Constance Adams DeMille ( 1874-1960 ), actress and wife of director Cecil B. DeMille.

Established in 1979, the college was one of the youngest of the university, and was named after its main benefactors: Dr Cecil H. Green and his wife Dr Ida Green.

Bickley's Grocery, owned and operated by Cecil Alonzo Bickley ( 1912 – 2004 ) and his wife, Peggy Patterson Bickley ( 1913 – 2007 ), was a popular business in Denver City from 1939 until the couple retired in 1974.

An early arrangement to marry Anne Cecil, daughter of Sir William Cecil and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen through in 1571.

Burt was born on 3 March 1883, the first child of Cyril Cecil Barrow Burt ( b. 1857 ), a medical practitioner, and his wife Martha.

The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil ( 1687 – 1708 ), daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter.

Anthony Quinn and his wife Katherine DeMille ( daughter of Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille ) were visiting Fields one afternoon when the Quinns ' two-year-old son, Christopher, drowned in Fields ’ s lily pond.

Cavendish was the son of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil.

The title may pass through the female line when there is no male heir, and accordingly, when the 3rd earl, Edward Manners ( c. 1548 – 1587 ), left no sons, the barony of Ros passed to the family of his daughter Elizabeth ( d. 1591 ) who became the wife of William Cecil, Earl of Exeter.

In bringing the skull to show Prof. Raymond Dart, she set in motion a chain of events that led to the discovery of the ' Child skull of Taung ' She later became wife of Prof. Cecil Jackson, Professor of Anatomy at Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, University of Pretoria.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

When they met Cecil was 46 and his future second wife was 22.

Newspaper reports alleged that his wife was being unfaithful, including with an unidentified jockey, while a front page story in the News of the World suggested that Cecil had stayed at the Grand Hotel in Brighton with an £ 800-a-night prostitute.

Cecil and his wife divorced in 2002.

) Back home in Coolidge, Ariz., his 36-year-old wife, Mary, said: `` I thought they were going to Phoenix to look for jobs ''.

In 1816 Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley visited Geneva and all three were inspired by the scenery in their writings.

Doubleday and his wife, Mary.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

* 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills ( b. 1911 )

Allen's wife Mary died in June 1783 of consumption, to be followed several months later by their first-born daughter Loraine.

Shoudy named the town after his wife, Mary Ellen Shoudy, and officially began the city of Ellensburgh around 1872.

When his wife Queen Mary fell ill in 1558, King Philip sent the Count of Feria to consult with Elizabeth.

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).

The driving force in the east African researches was the Leakey family, with Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey, and later their son Richard and daughter in-law Meave being among the most successful fossil hunters and palaeoanthropologists.

* 1457 – Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1482 )

In the Siege of Neuss ( 1474 – 75 ), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian.

He was the eldest of the twelve sons of Edmund Drake ( 1518 – 1585 ), a Protestant farmer, and his wife Mary Mylwaye.

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascending of the English throne as William III of England jointly with his wife Mary II of England.

This changed the existing line of succession by displacing the heir presumptive, his daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange, with young James as heir apparent.

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.

He was the eldest of four children of Christopher Fox, a successful weaver, called " Righteous Christer " by his neighbours, and his wife, Mary née Lago.

Neither this, nor his moves towards absolutism, provoked outright rebellion, as it was believed that he would be succeeded by his daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

His sister, Mary Ellen Edgerton, was the wife of L. Welch Pogue ( 1899 – 2003 ) a pioneering aviation attorney and Chairman of the old Civil Aeronautics Board.