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His wife Emma Darwin became known throughout the parish for helping in the way a parson's wife might be expected to, and as well as providing nursing care for her own family's frequent illnesses she gave out bread tokens to the hungry and " small pensions for the old, dainties for the ailing, and medical comforts and simple medicine ".
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* Emma of Italy-born 948, queen of France and wife of Lothair of France
On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.
** Emma Darwin née Wedgwood ( 1808 – 1896 ), wife of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )
He later married his model Emma Hill, who appears in many of his paintings and is the wife in The Last of England.
Additionally, if the elder Emma was also an illegitimate child of Henry I, this would make Guy and his wife Emma first cousins, something that casts more doubt on the claim.
* Josiah Wedgwood II ( 1769 – 1843 ) ( father of Emma Darwin, cousin and wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin )
Men like Rabanus Maurus, Louis ' younger half-brothers Drogo and Hugh, and Emma, Judith's sister and Louis the German's new wife, worked on the younger Louis to make peace with his father, for the sake of unity of the empire.
* 1808 – Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin ( d. 1896 )
Other early Mormons who said they saw Moroni include Emma Hale Smith, Hyrum Smith, Luke S. Johnson, Zera Pulsipher, W. W. Phelps, John P. Greene and his wife Rhoda, John Taylor, Oliver Granger, Heber C. Kimball, Lucy Harris, and Harrison Burgess.
Reasons suggested have included fear of religious persecution or social disgrace if his views were revealed, and concern about upsetting his clergymen naturalist friends or his pious wife Emma.
Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890, the third child and only son of Perry Bush, the local Universalist pastor, and his wife Emma Linwood née Paine.
In an effort to improve matters, King Æthelred the Unready took Emma of Normandy, sister of Duke Richard II, as his second wife in 1002.
Æthelred and Emma's two sons, Edward and Alfred, went into exile in Normandy while their mother, Emma, became Cnut's second wife.
After Cnut's death in 1035 the English throne fell to Harold Harefoot, his son by his first wife, while Harthacnut, his son by Emma, became king in Denmark.
Angels crowning Canute the Great as he and his wife Emma of Normandy present the Winchester Cross to the church, dated 1031
* Emma of Normandy, wife of Canute the Great
Emma ( – 6 March 1052 in Winchester, Hampshire ), was a daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, by his second wife Gunnora.
In 1000 – 1 Normandy gave shelter to a Viking army threatening England, and Æthelred may have attempted an invasion of Normandy in response, but in 1002 he changed tack and arranged to marry Emma, the sister of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, as his second wife.
Edward the Confessor was the seventh son of Æthelred the Unready, and the first by his second wife Emma, sister of Richard, Duke of Normandy.
Cnut had put aside his first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton in order to marry Emma, and according to the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a book she inspired many years later, Cnut agreed that any sons of their marriage should take precedence over the sons of his first marriage.
She suspects that the tale started out as a popular myth, or intentional defamation presumably tailored by Emma of Normandy, the other wife of Cnut and rival to Ælfgifu.
Other personalities who were attracted by his talks were American poets Harriet Monroe and Ella Wheeler Wilcox ; Dr. Lewis G. Janes, president of Brooklyn Ethical Association ; Sara C. Bull, wife of Ole Bull, the Norwegian violinist ; Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress and Madame Emma Calvé, the French opera singer.
* Emma Micawber-Wilkins Micawber's wife and the mother of their children.
In the foreword to the recent re-release of the books, Emma Thompson explains that her father had felt that he was most like Brian of all the characters and that Ermintrude was in some respects based upon his wife, Phyllida Law.
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Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).
In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.
* Francis Cornford FBA: cremated and interred in grave of Francis Darwin with his wife Frances Cornford, Francis Darwin's daughter.
The holders of the puppet strings turn out to be a " psychotic American corporation ," Mayflower Industries, run by husband and wife Darwin ( Richard E. Grant ) and Minerva Mayflower ( Sandra Bernhard ) and a blade-slinging butler, Alfred ( Donald Burton ).
Redgrave made his first professional appearance at the Liverpool Playhouse on 30 August 1934 as Roy Darwin in Counsellor-at-Law ( by Elmer Rice ), then spent two years with its Liverpool Repertory Company where he met his future wife Rachel Kempson.
In 2009 he appeared as Charles Darwin in Creation, starring opposite wife Jennifer Connolly.
When this came to light, in order to prevent his wife and daughter living in destitution, his friend and colleague Bartholomew Sulivan began an Admiral FitzRoy Testimonial Fund which succeeded in getting the government to pay back £ 3, 000 of this sum ( Darwin contributed a further £ 100 ).
Male lactation was of some interest to Alexander von Humboldt, who reports in Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent of a citizen of the village Arenas ( close to Cumana ) who allegedly nurtured his son for three months when his wife was ill, as well as Charles Darwin, who commented on it in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ( 1871 ):
Charles Darwin reported that " With the Abipones when a man chooses a wife, he bargains with the parents about the price.
In 1982 he was awarded the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society jointly with his wife, and the same year was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was the fourth son and eighth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma ( née Wedgwood ).
As Darwin wrote, he posted chapters to his daughter Henrietta for editing to ensure that damaging inferences could not be drawn, and also took advice from his wife Emma.
Emma Darwin, wife of Charles
Emma Darwin ( née Wedgwood ) ( 2 May 1808 – 7 October 1896 ) was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin, the English naturalist, scientist and author of On the Origin of Species.
During the voyage Charles ' sisters kept him informed of news including the death of Emma's sister Fanny at the age of 26, and the gossip that his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin was " paired off " with Emma to avert " an action in the Papers " over his " carrying on " with Hensleigh Wedgwood's wife.
Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood.
He was the third son and seventh child of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma.
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