There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Early portrayers of the character Sherlock Holmes, particularly William Gillette and Basil Rathbone, took advantage of this fact when it was required to portray Holmes smoking.

It was the first of eight films co-starring De Havilland and Flynn, and in 1938, the two would be re-united with Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Captain Blood was adapted as a radio play on the February 22, 1937 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Flynn, de Havilland and Rathbone all reprising their film parts.

In 1939, he was picked to play the role that would eventually go to Basil Rathbone in Son of Frankenstein ; Lorre had to decline the part due to illness.

Along with Rathbone, Gollancz was the foremost British campaigner during the Second World War on the issue of the Nazi extermination of European Jewry.

Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, MC ( 13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967 ) was a South African-born British actor.

Rathbone was educated at Repton School in Repton, Derbyshire and was engaged with the Liverpool and Globe Insurance Companies.

During the war, Rathbone displayed a penchant for disguise ( a skill which he coincidentally shared with what would become perhaps his most memorable character, Sherlock Holmes ), when on one occasion, in order to have better visibility, Rathbone convinced his superiors to allow him to scout enemy positions during daylight hours instead of during the night, as was the usual practice in order to minimize the chance of detection by the enemy.

In Green Lantern: The New Corps, during his weeks-long adventure in space, Rayner first recruited Magaan Van ' n Intraktus of the planet Van ' n, Hammeroon, a bounty hunter from Ilskado System, Anya Savenlovich, a lieutenant colonel from the Soviet Air Forces who was in suspended animation after she participated in a space mission in 1964, Garl Rathbone, a miner from the debris belt over the planet Daffith, and Sool, a judge from Daffith.

In 1856, part of Woodhull was taken for the Town of Rathbone.

They were John, Amariah and Hannah ( wife of George L. Byon ) Hammond ; Esther Wright ( second wife of Ira Bulkley ); Elizabeth Cook ( wife of Orsemus Rathbone ); Willis and Nancy ( wife of Brockhurst L. Baker ) Hammond ; George L. and Harris T. Ryon ; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs ; Maria Coates ( wife of Lorenzo Cook ); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck ; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles ; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright ’ s pay for teaching was " calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat.

In 1940, the Old People ’ s Welfare Committee ( OPWC ), chaired by Eleanor Rathbone, was formed as a forum for discussion between government and voluntary organisations.

Her eldest son, Henry Riggs Rathbone ( 1870 – 1928 ), was a U. S. Congressman from Illinois.

* Lord Rathbone would not have had to kill 10 members of the Royal family, but at least 20 to gain the throne: The Prince of Wales, his sons Albert Victor and George ; Prince Arthur and his son Arthur Jr .; Prince Alfred and his son Alfred Jr .; Prince Leopold's son Prince Charles ; and the Princes Christian Victor and Albert ( nephews of the queen ).

Born in Manchester, the son of Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and the junior Samuel Greg.

Percy Greg ( 7 January 1836 Stand, Prestwich, near Manchester-24 December 1889, Chelsea ), son of William Rathbone Greg, was an English writer.

He played " Little John " in the 1922 film Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, reprised the role sixteen years later in The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, then played him yet again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest in 1950 with John Derek as Robin Hood's son.

Born in Manchester, the son of the elder Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and Robert Hyde Greg.

* Henry Riggs Rathbone, US Congressman and son of Henry Rathbone

His youth was shaped partly by spending time in the household of the wealthy and intellectual Mrs Benson Rathbone of Green Bank, and he became a close friend of her son Benson, who died in an accident in 1834.

The family origins are traced to Gawsworth, near Macclesfield, where the first William Rathbone was born in 1669, as the son of Phillip Rathbone.

It was his son, William Rathbone II, born on 22 May 1696, who left Gawsworth for the growing port of Liverpool, where he worked as a sawyer and, it appears, established a timber business.

* Tim Rathbone Conservative MP ( son of above )

* District nursing begins in Liverpool, England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes.

He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in 1935 in The Casino Murder Case, but his major role came in 1943's Watch on the Rhine, when he played a man working against the Nazis ( he had played the same role on Broadway in 1941 ).

She also starred with William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man ( 1934 ) and played Kitty in Anna Karenina ( 1935 ) with Greta Garbo and Basil Rathbone.

In 1926, William Rathbone ' Rath ' Pashley founded Pashley and Barber in New John Street West, Birmingham.

Particular admirers from his youth were the painter George Romney, and a cultivated clergyman, Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Mrs. Mathew, in whose house in Rathbone Place the young Flaxman used to meet the best " blue-stocking " society of the day and, among associates of his own age, the artists William Blake and Thomas Stothard, who became his closest friends.

For those of a similar name, see William Gregg ( disambiguation ) William Rathbone Greg ( 1809 – 15 November 1881 ) was an English essayist.

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* William Rathbone Greg

The park features a Gothic drinking fountain and several prominent statues including a memorial to William Rathbone V by Sir Thomas Brock unveiled in 1887, and an obelisk, the Samuel Smith memorial located by the principal entrance to the Park.

Sefton Park has a large glass Palm House, which contains a statue of William Rathbone V unveiled in 1887, and originally had many other features including an aviary and an open-air theatre.

* District nursing begins in Liverpool, England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes.

Ron Rathbone in his book " A Village Called Arncliffe " says that an early land speculator, William Hirst, created a subdivision in 1840.

The 1939 film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce was based on the stage play by William Gillette and was not a direct adaptation of the book.

Rathbone was the daughter of the social reformer William Rathbone VI and his second wife, Emily Lyle.

After graduation, she worked alongside her father to investigate social and industrial conditions in Liverpool until William Rathbone died in 1902.

Among the several actors who played Vance on the screen were William Powell, Warren William, and Basil Rathbone, all of whom had great success playing other detectives in movies.

She bore him seven daughters and six sons, among them Robert Hyde Greg, William Rathbone Greg and the younger Samuel Greg.

* William Rathbone II ( 1696 – 1746 )