* Briggs, Constance Victoria, 1997.

< span id =" Charles George Cornwallis Eliot "> Charles George Cornwallis Eliot </ span >, ( 16 October 1839 – 22 May 1901 ), courtier and soldier, succeeded Alpin McGregor as a Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Queen Victoria in 1899, married on 26 October 1865 Constance Rhiannon Guest, daughter of Sir John Josiah Guest, Bt and Lady Charlotte Guest.

William's wife Constance died in 1948 and he married Lois Victoria Cross on 7 February 1950.

John-Walter, succumbing to family pressures, married Lady Cecil Victoria Constance, but the secret love affair continued.

* Vera Constance Victoria Studd b. 14 Jun 1897

Beaufort married the Lady Victoria Constance Mary Cambridge ( 1897 – 1987 ), daughter of Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge and niece of Queen Mary, on 14 June 1923.

Dame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle, AC, DBE ( née McCarthy ; born 15 May 1926 ) was a British-born Australian Senator for the state of Victoria from 1971 to 1987.

Gothic Romances of this description became popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, with authors such as Phyllis A. Whitney, Joan Aiken, Dorothy Eden, Victoria Holt, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart, and Jill Tattersall.

< div class =" center "> Mary, Queen of Scots by an unknown artist after François Clouet ( c. 1559 ) London, Victoria and Albert Museum </ div > The Queen is shown wearing her rope of famous black pearls.

His autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan, co-written with his journalist girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke, was released in 2001.

* March 9 – Victoria Mary Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener ( d. 1962 )

In late 1891, Edward's eldest son, Albert Victor, was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.

In November 1891, George's elder brother Albert Victor became engaged to his second cousin once removed, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.

Her mother, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, was a male-line grand-daughter of King George III and a first cousin of Queen Victoria.

Mary of Teck ( Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes ; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953 ) was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V.

Princess Victoria Mary (" May ") of Teck was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London.

When her husband asked her to drop one of her two official names, Victoria Mary, she chose to be called Mary, preferring not to take the name of her husband's grandmother, Queen Victoria.

* 26 May 1867 – 6 July 1893: Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Mary of Teck

It was as in recognition of his services to the nation that Queen Victoria made Mary Anne a peeress in her own right, Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, as Benjamin wished to remain in the House of Commons.

Even Queen Victoria herself was said to be amused when Mary Anne commented, in response to a remark about some lady's pale complexion, " I wish you could see my Dizzy in his bath!

* Academy of Mary Immaculate, Fitzroy, Victoria

He went on to become leader of the British Union of Fascists, and Diana became his mistress ; he was at the time married to Lady Cynthia Curzon, a daughter of Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India and his first wife, American mercantile heiress Mary Victoria Leiter.

Huxley was born on 22 June 1887, at the London house of his aunt, the novelist Mary Augusta Ward, while his father was attending the jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.

Coming home, Victoria West ( Phyllis Kirk ) spots her husband, playwright Gregory West ( Keenan Wynn ), through the window sharing a drink in his study with Mary, an attractive blonde.

When Victoria barges into the room, Mary is nowhere to be found.

Frantic, Gregory rushes to his dictation machine and begins to re-describe Victoria, then reconsiders, and instead describes Mrs. Mary West.

William McDougall married November, 1872, as his second wife, Mary Adelaide Beatty, daughter of Dr. John Beatty, a professor in Victoria University, Cobourg, Ont., and his wife, Eleanor.

Through his great-grandmother Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, who was briefly Princess of Monaco, he was a descendant of James IV of Scotland ( descended from three of his illegitimate daughters ).

A hot air balloon takes off from Royal Victoria Park, Bath | Royal Victoria Park, Bath, Somerset | Bath, England.

The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, Volume VIII, The Poldens and the Levels.

( Author is Somerset editor for the Victoria County History series )

A separate " Barnstaple " station, renamed Barnstaple ( Victoria Road ) in 1949, was opened to the east of the town in 1873 as the terminus of the Devon and Somerset Railway, eventually a part of the Great Western Railway.

Their territory which occupies both banks of the Somerset or Victoria Nile between Foweira and Magungo, extends eastwards beyond Unyoro proper to the valley of the Chol, one of the chief upper branches of the Sobat.

The north end passes above the Victoria Embankment where the road joins the Strand and Aldwych alongside Somerset House.

* Victoria History of the County of Somerset: Vol 3: Somerton, R. W. Dunning ( 1974 )

Somerset House seen from the Victoria Embankment

Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, QC who is usually referred to as A. E. B. Davie, ( born in Wells, Somerset, November 24, 1847 – August 1, 1889 Victoria, British Columbia ) was a British Columbia politician and lawyer, and was premier of British Columbia from 1887 until his death.

* Somerset Victoria County History

* Victoria County History of Somerset

He was born at Wells, Somerset, the son of Prebendary William Keate, D. D., rector of Laverton, Somerset, and brother of Robert Keate FRCS ( 1777-1857 ), Serjeant-Surgeon to King William IV and Queen Victoria.

One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Prince of Wales Island is an Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada, lying between Victoria Island and Somerset Island and south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovil, Somerset, England.

The Victoria Cross citation, published in the London Gazette reads: The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the posthumous award of the VICTORIA CROSS to :— Lieutenant George Albert CAIRNS ( 198186 ), The Somerset Light Infantry, attd.

When Carlin was approximately 26 years old, he served as a private in the 1st Battalion, 13th Regiment of the British Army, later known as The Somerset Light Infantry ( Prince Albert's ), during the Indian Mutiny when on 6 April 1858 at Azumgurh, India, he did the deed for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross:

His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Somerset Light Infantry Museum, Taunton, Somerset.

Leet was 45 years old, and a Major in the 1st Bn., 13th Regiment of Foot ( later The Somerset Light Infantry ( Prince Albert's )), British Army during the Anglo-Zulu War when the following deed took place on 28 March 1879 at Battle of Hlobane, Zululand, South Africa for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross:

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Somerset Light Infantry Museum, located in Taunton, Somerset, England.

* Victoria County History, Somerset, vol. 3, 1974, pp. 61-71, Aller

* The Victoria History of Somerset, Vol II: Ancient Earthworks ( 1911 )