In its heyday, many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as actress Florence Farr, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Welsh author Arthur Machen, English author Evelyn Underhill, and English author Aleister Crowley.

Influenced by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, several prominent writers and artists were involved in these organizations, including William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley.

He was an active recruiter for the sect's Isis-Urania temple, and brought in his uncle George Pollexfen, Maud Gonne, and Florence Farr.

In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne, then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist.

Maud Gonne c. 1900

His final proposal to Maud Gonne took place in the summer of 1916.

In addition to those mentioned in the text above, notable people born in Farnham include William Willett, campaigner for daylight saving time ( 1856 ); George Sturt, writer and social historian ( 1863 ); and Maud Gonne, feminist and activist in Irish politics ( 1866 ).

Meanwhile, back home Irish pro-Boer fever, whipped up by Arthur Griffith and Maud Gonne in what was the most popular and most violent of the European pro-Boer movements, proved to be a ' dry run ' for 1916.

After the war he travelled to Paris where Maud Gonne lived.

Yeats, who hated MacBride for capturing his muse Maud Gonne, and who later heard negative reports of MacBride's treatment of Gonne in their marriage, from Gonne herself, gave him the following ambivalent eulogy in his poem " Easter, 1916 ":

Maud Gonne wrote to Yeats " No I dont like your poem, it isn't worthy of you & above all it isn't worthy of its subject ... As for my husband he has entered eternity by the great door of sacrifice ... so that praying for him I can also ask for his prayers ".

MacBride was born in Paris in 1904, the son of Major John MacBride and Maud Gonne.

She was born at Tongham near Farnham, Surrey, as Edith Maud Gonne, the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Gonne ( 1835 – 1886 ) of the 17th Lancers, whose ancestors hailed from Caithness in Scotland, and his wife, Edith Frith Gonne, born Cook ( 1844 – 1871 ).

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Maud Gonne ( far right ) with relief agency members in Dublin in July 1922

Maud Gonne MacBride published her autobiography in 1938, titled A Servant of the Queen, a reference to a both a vision she had of the Irish queen of old, Cathleen ( or Caitlin ) Ní Houlihan and an ironic title considering Gonne's Irish Nationalism and rejection of the British Queen.

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When Maud told her that she was going to marry, Iseult cried and told her mother that she hated MacBride.

After having turned down at least four marriage proposals from Yeats between 1891 and 1901, Maud married Major John MacBride in Paris in 1903.

MacBride was the son of John MacBride and Maud Gonne.

** Maud Gonne MacBride is arrested and charged with seditious libel against the State.

* August 8-A Parisian court cannot grant a divorce to Maud Gonne and John MacBride.

Former Irish politician and Cabinet Minister, Seán MacBride, and his mother, Maud Gonne, lived at Roebuck House, near Clonskeagh Green.

Maud Gonne's estranged husband John MacBride was executed in 1916 for taking part in the Easter Rising.

Maud of Savoy (, also known as Mahaut or Matilda ) ( 1125 – 1158 ) was the first Queen of Portugal.

The first newspaper, Maud Monitor, appeared in 1904, and the city was incorporated July 21, 1905.

Maude Farris-Luse, ( January 21, 1887 – March 18, 2002 ), also known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian.

Five years later, on 21 November 2000, Cock broke the Australian longevity record of 112 years 330 days, which was set by Caroline Maud Mockridge ( 11 December 1874 – 6 November 1987 ).

** 21 Maud Island frogs ( 2006 )

# Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke ( c. 1208 – 22 December 1245 ), married Maud de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford.

* HH Princess Maud of Fife ( 3 April 1893 – 14 December 1945 ) married the 11th Earl of Southesk, and had issue.

* Lady Maud Duff later H. H Princess Maud of Fife ( 3 April 1893 – 14 December 1945 ) married the 11th Earl of Southesk, and had issue.

Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk ( Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgina Bertha Carnegie ; née Duff ; 3 April 1893 – 14 December 1945 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a female line granddaughter of King Edward VII.

Princess Maud was christened at Marlborough House by John Jackson, Bishop of London, on 24 December 1869.

He was married to Mary Loveland and had three children, one of them the minor poet Helen Hoyt, and Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. ( December 1856 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – 1910 ) and Maud Buckingham Hoyt ( July 12, 1859 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. – ?).

In December 2010, a young aboriginal man named Evan Maud in Winnipeg accused the police of taking him to the edge of the city at 4: 00 a. m., threatening him with a Taser, and taking his jacket.

Wanda Jackson was born to Tom Robert Jackson and Nellie Vera Jackson ( December 19, 1913-January 14, 2011 ) in Maud, Oklahoma in 1937, but has lived much of her life in Oklahoma City.

He married ( c. 1150 ) Maud de St. Hilary ( 1132-24 December 1193 ), daughter of James de St. Hilary and Aveline.

Upon Queen Eleanor's death in 1290, her husband, King Edward I, granted Maud ’ s marriage to his brother Edmund, Earl of Lancaster on 30 December 1292.

The novel was also adapted as a radio play, serialised in 15 parts on BBC Radio 4's ' Woman's Hour ' between 19 December 2011 and 6 January 2012, with Jemma Redgrave as Maud, Harry Hadden-Paton as Roland, James D ' Arcy as Ash and Rachael Stirling as LaMotte.

* Richard Joshua Reynolds, Jr. ( April 4, 1906-December 14, 1964 ) who married Elizabeth McCaw " Blitz " Dillard ( 1909-Dec. 1961 ), Marianne O ' Brien ( d. 1985 ), Muriel Maud Marston Laurence Greenough ( December 28, 1915 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada-1980 ), and Annemarie Schmitt ( b. 1932-) RJ Jr and Blitz had four sons, Richard Joshua " Josh " Reynolds III, John Dillard Reynolds, Zachary Taylor Reynolds, and William Neal Reynolds II.

Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun ( 10 December 1833 – 23 January 1874 ) was a Scottish peeress, the daughter of George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings and his wife Barbara nee Yelverton.