His daughter, Nellie Cornish, having failed to open a successful piano teaching business in Blaine, moved to Seattle, where she founded the Cornish College of the Arts in 1914, which still exists today.

Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish ( 1876 – 1956 ), who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori, as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas on music pedagogy, and who served as the school's director for its first 25 years.

Ultimately, convinced that finances would not allow the school to do more than " tread water ," Nellie Cornish resigned her position as head of the school in 1939.

Miss Aunt Nellie: The Autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish, was published by the University of Washington Press in 1964, with the assistance of funds from the Cornish School Alumnae Association.

* Nellie Cornish ( 1914 – 1939 )

Nellie Cornish Arts Achievement Award from his alma mater, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA

Nellie Cornish had established the Cornish School ( now Cornish College of the Arts ) in 1914.

The Cornish School — later the Cornish Institute and now Cornish College of the Arts, an accredited college with courses in the sciences and humanities as well — was founded in 1914 by Nellie Cornish.

Nellie Cornish c. 1922

Nellie was in the kitchen, had just come to work, when she heard Tim arguing with Julia in the living room.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

This job was as a part-time assistant in " Booklovers ' Corner ", a second-hand bookshop in Hampstead run by Francis and Myfanwy Westrope, who were friends of Nellie Limouzin in the Esperanto movement.

Orwell needed somewhere he could concentrate on writing his book, and once again help was provided by Aunt Nellie, who was living at Wallington, Hertfordshire in a very small sixteenth-century cottage called the " Stores ".

Secombe was born in rooms in the Danygraig Area of St. Thomas and later the family moved to a council house in the St Thomas district of Swansea, the third of four children of Nellie Jane Gladys ( née Davies ), a shop manageress, and Frederick Ernest Secombe, a grocer .< ref >

* Liberally adapted by playwright Wallace Shawn, the work was brought back to Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in March 2006 with Alan Cumming playing Macheath, Nellie McKay as Polly, Cyndi Lauper as Jenny, Jim Dale as Mr Peachum, Ana Gasteyer as Mrs Peachum, Carlos Leon as Filch, Adam Alexi-Malle as Jacob and Brian Charles Rooney as a male Lucy.

Her performance was called " memorable ... funny and poignant in turns ", and she earned a Tony Award. Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote: " nothing I have ever seen her do prepared me for the loveliness, humor, gift for joyous characterization, and sheer lovableness of her portrayal of Nellie Forbush ....

She was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim.

His mother, Manuela " Nellie " Oaxaca, was of Aztec ancestry.

A bronze statue of Stratton by Nellie Walker was placed on the grounds of his estate in 1909.

Determined to get some army experience, Edward attended manoeuvres in Ireland, during which an actress, Nellie Clifden, was hidden in his tent by his fellow officers.

E. V. Rieu could not longer delay his callup and was drafted in 1917, the management then being under his wife Nellie Rieu, a former editor for the Athenaeum ‘ with the assistance of her two British babies .’ It was too late to have important electrotype and stereotype plates shipped to India from Oxford, and the Oxford printing house itself was overburdened with government printing orders as the empire ’ s propaganda machine got to work.

On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.

Nellie Tayloe Ross ( November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977 ) was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933 – 1953.

Nellie Davis Tayloe was born near Amazonia, in Andrew County, Missouri ( now part of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area ) to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.

In 1884, when Nellie Ross was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas.

Nellie was sent on a trip to Europe in 1896 by two of her brothers.

She was in Newcastle upon Tyne in the summer of 1949, accompanied by her friend Anne Dooley ( née Kelly ), a local woman, who was the model for Nellie Cotter, the extraordinary heroine of the book.

A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.

In Canada, Nellie McClung was a longstanding advocate of temperance.

* 1912 – Nellie Lutcher, American pianist, R & B and jazz singer ( d. 2007 )

Nellie turns the teacher against Laura and Miss Wilder loses control of the school for a time.

* 1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer ( d. 1922 )

* Nellie Campobello ( 1900 – 1986 ), Mexican writer, ballet dancer and choreographer

Personalities commemorated include opera singers June Bronhill, Ronald Dowd and Dame Nellie Melba ; actors Diane Cilento, Peter Finch, Cecil Kellaway, John McCallum, Michael Pate and Madge Elliott ( Elliott Avenue was previously called Mary Avenue ); comedians Kitty Bluett, Roy Rene and Gladys Moncrieff ; song writer, entertainer and radio broadcasting pioneer Jack Lumsdaine ; author and playwright Steele Rudd ; and Peggy Sager, prima ballerina.

* 15 Nellie Shabalala, 49, South African singer and wife of leader / founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala.

* 15 May – Nellie Shabalala, wife of Ladysmith Black Mambazo leader and founder Joseph Shabalala

However, following the annual celebration known as " Ivy Day " on the campus of Howard University in the spring of 1912, founder and former Basileus, Nellie Quander came to the realization that seven neophytes ( not the young ladies who had been accepted without initiation ), along with several other newly initiated members of the sorority elected to make fundamental changes to the colors, letters, and constitution and to make the sorority more active outside the walls of Howard University.

He was born 1605 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire ; England in 1631 he married Mary Harvie in St. Mary's church, as written in " Beardsley Genealogy-The Family of William Beardsley-One of the first settlers and founder of Stratford, Connecticut " ( Nellie Beardsley Holt, 1951 ).

The city includes one elementary school ( Rancho Mirage Elementary ) that is part of the Palm Springs Unified School District, the newly renovated Nellie Coffman Middle School on the city line with Cathedral City and two private schools: Marywood-Palm Valley and Xavier College Preparatory High School.

Three of the districts five schools are located in the city, Montague High School, Nellie B. Chisholm ( NBC ) Middle School, and R. R.

Nellie F. Bennett Elementary School ( 736 students ) and

At the close of the 19th century, the art of the Heidelberg School began to capture the unique colours of the Australian bush, famed writers Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson presented conflicting views of the harshness and romance of life in Australia, and performing artists like Dame Nellie Melba succeeded internationally in the traditional European arts.

The Orcas Island School District operates three schools: Orcas Island Elementary School housed in the island's historic Nellie S. Milton school building ; Orcas Island Middle School ; and Orcas Island High School.

In 1933, James and Nellie Dick, who earlier had been principals of the Stelton Modern School, founded the Modern School in Lakewood, New Jersey, which survived the original Modern School, the Ferrer Center, becoming the final surviving such school, lasting until 1958.

Kehoe attended Tecumseh High School and Michigan State College ( later Michigan State University ), where he met his wife, Ellen " Nellie " Price, daughter of a wealthy Lansing family.

Nellie Seeds, “ Democracy in the Making at Manumit School ,” The Nation, 6 / 1 / 1927 ; Seeds, “ Labor ’ s Laboratory School ,” The Survey, 6 / 15 / 1927, Seeds, “ Manumit ’ s Contribution to Social Reconstruction ,” Progressive Education ( May 1931 ).

Richardson was born to John Robert and Nellie Richardson, and was educated at Nottingham High School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.