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Nimitz married Joan Leona Labern at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 18 June 1938. [7] She was born in León, Nicaragua in 1912 to British parents, [8] William Oscar Stonewall and Frances Mary (née Wells) Labern. [9] With her parents she returned to England at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, [10] and was raised in England. [11]
Chester William Nimitz (/ ˈ n ɪ m ɪ t s /; 24 February 1885 – 20 February 1966) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy.He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.
Arthur MacArthur IV's early life was chronicled extensively in the press. His early childhood was spent around the penthouse built for his father atop the Manila Hotel. [1]
Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and repeatedly imprisoned for her actions; Grace Paterson (1843–1925) – school board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery
Annette Frances Braun (1911–1968), American entomologist, expert on microlepidoptera; Victoria Braithwaite (1967–2019), British biologist and ichthyologist. Linda B. Buck (born 1947), American neuroscientist (Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 for olfactory receptors) Hildred Mary Butler (1906–1975), Australian microbiologist
Whitelaw was born on 6 June 1932 in Coventry, Warwickshire, [a] the daughter of Frances Mary (née Williams) and Gerry Whitelaw. [2] She had one sister, Constance, who was 10 years older. Whitelaw grew up in a working class part of Bradford and later attended Grange Girls' Grammar School in Bradford. [citation needed]
The National Museum of the Pacific War is located in Fredericksburg, Texas, the boyhood home of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.Nimitz served as commander in chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPAC), and was soon afterward named commander in chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, during World War II. [1]
Lord Robert Cecil was born at Hatfield House, the third son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and Frances Mary, née Gascoyne. He was a patrilineal descendant of Lord Burghley and the 1st Earl of Salisbury, chief ministers of Elizabeth I. The family-owned vast rural estates in Hertfordshire and Dorset. This wealth increased sharply in 1821, when ...