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 ":

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

Maud Gonne MacBride (, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953 ) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats.

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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Balfe continued to compose new operas in English and wrote hundreds of songs, such as " When other hearts ", " I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls " ( from The Bohemian Girl ), " Come into the Garden, Maud " and " Excelsior " ( a setting of the poem by Longfellow ).

American writer and literary critic Maud Newton on reading the book wrote, " I was surprised, having only a vague negative impression of Farrell before reading Your Voice in My Head, at how charming, intelligent, and likeable he seems — before he calls things off and stops returning her texts, anyway.

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).

In 1797 he received the vicarage of Dumbleton in Gloucestershire, and in 1804 became vicar of Bremhill in Wiltshire, where he wrote the poem seen on Maud Heath's statue.

Rilla of Ingleside ( 1921 ) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight " Anne " novels she wrote.

The New York Times wrote that " Maud Adams, not John Drew, has made the success of The Masked Ball at Palmer's, and is the star of the comedy.

The Prince of Wales wrote to his Danish brother-in-law, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, “ I have given Maud and Charles a small house, their own country retreat – about one mile from here – they will always have a pied-à-terre when they come over to England.

In 1938, two days after Queen Maud ’ s interment, her husband, King Haakon wrote to King George VI and informed him that the time had come to return Appleton House to the British Royal Family.

Thompson wrote the one woman play while in Nova Scotia in 2008 and his newest work examines the life and art of Maud Lewis.

This is when Maud Jones wrote: “ For a whole year before our sorority was established, the need of such an organization was strongly felt.

He toured with the band, appearing on the album Of Queues and Cures, for which he wrote the instrumental tour-de-force " Squarer for Maud ", the later reunion effort DS Al Coda ( 1982 ) and the archive release Play Time.

This pleased Yeats as Maud began to visit him in London.

Maud made a series of allegations against her husband with Yeats as her main ' second ' though he did not attend court or travel to France.

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

She joined Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hÉireann (' Daughters of Ireland '), a revolutionary women's movement founded by the actress and activist Maud Gonne, muse of W. B. Yeats.

No divorce was given but a separation with Maud having custody to the baby until age 12.

No agents were reprimanded or disciplined for their actions during the shooting, but privately, Jacqueline Kennedy was bitterly critical of the agents ' performance, Greer's in particular, comparing his efforts to those of " Maud Shaw " ( the Kennedy children's nanny ).

One sister, Gisela, was married to Humbert II, Count of Savoy, and then to Renier I of Montferrat ; another sister, Maud, was the wife of Eudes I of Burgundy.

* David I of Scotland was buried here ( 1153 ) along with his queen Maud, Countess of Huntingdon ( 1130 )

Territorial claims in Antarctica ( Queen Maud Land and Peter I Island ) are only recognized by Australia, France, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

It was founded by Henry I in 1121 " for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, my brother, and Queen Maud, my wife, and all my ancestors and successors ".

The arms of Maud Green, Lady Parr, mother of Catherine Parr ( the last of the six wives of Henry VIII and stepmother to Elizabeth I ), were of three stags on an azure background, and this became one of the elements of the arms of Catherine Parr on her marriage.

Philip then remarried, to Princess Matilda of Portugal, daughter of Afonso I, the first King of Portugal, and Maud of Savoy.

Empress Maud, the only legitimate living child of Henry I, landed in England in 1139 in an attempt to press her claim to the monarchy.

Peter I Island is one of Norway's two territorial claims in Antarctica, the other being Queen Maud Land.

Sancho I (), nicknamed " the Populator " (), King of Portugal ( 11 November 1154 – 26 March 1212, both Coimbra ) was the second but only surviving legitimate son and fourth child of Afonso I of Portugal by his wife, Maud of Savoy.

His initiation in history was on the death of Henry I in 1135, when Maud expected to succeed to the throne of England, but her cousin, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, breaking an oath he had previously made to defend her rights.

* Humphrey I de Bohun ( died c. 1123 ), married Maud, daughter of Edward of Salisbury

Other children accredited to Hugh and Ermentrude include Maud d ' Avranches, Robert FitzHugh I, Hugh ( Lupus ) d ' Avranches II, Helga de Kevelioc, and Geva d ' Avranches.

They had three children, the eldest of whom, Maud, brought the earldom of Huntingdon to her second husband, David I of Scotland, and another, Adelise, married the Anglo-Norman noble Raoul III of Tosny.

Charles II of Naples had at first granted the fiefdom of Morea or Achaea to Princess Isabella of Villehardouin ( from the Villehardouin dynasty ), but he deposed her in 1307 and granted it to his son Philip I of Taranto, who in 1313 transferred it to Matilda ( or Mafalda, or Maud ) of Hainaut, heiress of Isabella of Villehardouin, who was married to Louis of Burgundy, titular King of Thessalonica.

* In Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery, a letter from Jem Blythe to the Blythe Family talks about a cootie hunt in the trenches during World War I.

Philip then remarried, to Infanta Matilda of Portugal, daughter of Afonso I, the first King of Portugal, and Maud of Savoy.

It was a popular enough ballad that another poem was written in reply, " Mad Maudlin's Search " or " Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam " ( the same Maud who was mentioned in the verse " With a thought I took for Maudlin / And a cruise of cockle pottage / With a thing thus tall, Sky bless you all / I befell into this dotage.