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Oglander and family
The reason for this support is that she is the estranged daughter of the Oglander family, the resemblance being obvious from the portraits in the drawing room.

Oglander and was
According to the diaries of Sir John Oglander, the Governor of the Isle of Wight would donate 5 guineas for the purchase of the bull to be baited ; the meat was afterwards donated to the poor of the town.
In 1545 a French force was intercepted crossing from its beach head at Whitecliff Bay to attack Sandown by local levies under Sir John Oglander and a skirmish fought on the Down.
" I have seen ," wrote Sir John Oglander ( 1595 – 1648 ), " with my Lord Southampton at St. George's Down at bowls some thirty or forty knights and gentlemen, where our meeting was then twice every week, Tuesday and Thursday, and we had an ordinary there and card-tables.
From the French window, the Oglander home can be seen and the two visit there next, going by the garden path that was used by Miss Saintclair.
He returns there and assures Mrs. Oglander that the police will not find out what happened and he returns the playing card to her, telling her it was their only slip-up.

Oglander and house
She fled from the house through the window and garden towards the lights of the Oglander house.
He also has the missing king of clubs – it is in his pocket, he having taken it from the card box before he left the Oglander house.

Oglander and .
A hundred years later David Urry, described as of St. James, Westminster, sold the manor to Gilbert Serle of Leghorn, and it subsequently passed to Sir William Oglander.
The Town Trust has asked for it back, but Fanny Oglander has said that security arrangements should be improved and the matter remains unresolved.
* Lady Maria ( Mary ) Anne ( 1785 – 1855 ), married Sir William Oglander, 6th Baronet and had issue.

family and was
The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.
The family was Protestant, but for me it was only irksome and I let it go.
Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.
The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.
Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.
After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.
He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.
Meltzer was a boarder with the Banks family.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.
Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

family and playing
* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.
His father was a statewide champion fiddle player and the Wills family was either playing music, or someone was " always wanting us to play for them ," in addition to raising cotton on their farm.
This stance is also a key reason for the bass's sloped shoulders, which mark it apart from the other members of the violin family, as the narrower shoulders facilitate playing of the strings in their higher registers.
The requinto also appears in other Latin-American countries as a complementary member of the guitar family, with its smaller size and scale, permitting more projection for the playing of single-lined melodies.
Lineker's father was a greengrocer in Leicester and he grew up with his family in the city, playing football with his brother Wayne.
The use of cadency marks to difference arms within the same family and the use of semy fields are distinctive features of Gallo-British heraldry ( in Scotland the most significant mark of cadency being the bordure, the small brisures playing a very minor role ).
Migrant family from Arkansas playing hill-billy songs, 1939
He enjoyed playing golf and going on picnics with his family.
When family friend John T. Ford opened 1, 500-seat Ford's Theatre on November 9 in Washington, D. C., Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart.
Upon leaving school and with his family relocated in Conwy, Lemmy undertook menial jobs including working at the local Hotpoint factory while also playing guitar for local bands, such as The Sundowners, and spending time at a horse riding school.
The first reference to card games in world history dates from the 9th century, when the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang, written by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the " leaf game " in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the princess ' husband.
Wickenheiser continued playing minor hockey in Calgary, Alberta after moving there with her family.
* Poul Anderson's novel The Mother of the Kings is mainly concerned with the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe and his family, but a section takes place in Denmark, with a depiction of the young and ambitious Harald Bluetooth ruthlessly playing off various factions and Viking leaders against each other.
" When my grandmother found out that I was playing jazz in one of the sporting houses in the District, she told me that I had disgraced the family and forbade me to live at the house ... She told me that devil music would surely bring about my downfall, but I just couldn't put it behind me.
It was followed by the darker, less commercial The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family.
As a boy, he mostly worked in the family tavern, helped with basic agricultural work, and spent time playing outdoors in the countryside.
Soon after, he became a recurring cast member on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains, playing Luke Brower, a homeless boy who is taken in by the Seaver family.
According to his son's documentary film in 2003 the family couldn't afford pencils but made their own charcoal sticks from burnt twigs so that Louis could earn a little money from drawings and later by playing piano to accompany silent movies.
A microdeletion in one family of the snoRNA HBII-52 has excluded it from playing a major role in the disease.
He soon rendered himself popular by playing on his family ties to Napoleon I.
Well before he finally sought treatment for alcoholism, Mantle admitted his hard living had hurt both his playing and his family.
Isaac, who came from a musical family, had abandoned his original trade as a bookbinder and earned an itinerant living as a cantor in synagogues and playing the violin in cafés.
KdF Propaganda – " A family playing by a river with a KdF-Wagen and radio receiver "
At the end, with the family now wealthy and playing the parts of exaggerated polite-society characters, " No Place Like Home "" plays again, in a more sincere-sounding melody.
His mother had wanted her son to be a concert pianist but he stopped playing in July 1946 when she was killed in a car crash, together with his sister, after his father fell asleep at the wheel of the car in which the family was traveling and crashed into a culvert wall.

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