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Sir Geraint keeps his feelings to himself, and begins to treat Enid coldly. Geraint suddenly claims one evening that he wishes to return to his father's castle, and they go. They spend their times merrily, but Geraint neglects his knightly duties. People gossip on how Geraint is inseparable from his wife, and that his wife has weakened him.
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Wilson, KCB, KCMG, FRS (14 March 1836 – 25 October 1905) was a British Army officer, geographer and archaeologist. Early life and career [ edit ]
Geraint, with his wife Enid, from Idylls of the King (1868) Geraint is most famous as the protagonist in the Welsh tale Geraint and Enid, where he becomes the lover of Enid. Geraint and Enid is one of the three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion. Its story closely parallels the French writer Chrétien de Troyes's Erec and Enide. [3]
Charles B. Wilson, photograph by Menzies Dickson. In 1866 Wilson joined the Honolulu Rifles, a militia unit. He was a Sergeant during the 1873 Barracks Revolt and was present in the standoff. He later joined the Royal Guard where he became one of a squad of personal bodyguards to King Kalākaua.
Charles McMoran Wilson, 1st Baron Moran, MC, PRCP (10 November 1882 – 12 April 1977) was personal doctor to Winston Churchill from 1940 until the latter's death in 1965. His book The Struggle for Survival revealed much about Churchill's physical and psychological state, possibly including clinical depression, while coping with the strain of ...
Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet (1844–1918) Sir James Robertson Wilson, 2nd Baronet (1883–1964) Sir John Menzies Wilson, 3rd Baronet (1885–1968) Sir Thomas Douglas Wilson, 4th Baronet (1917–1984) Sir James William Douglas Wilson, 5th Baronet (born 1960) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Thomas Edward Douglas Wilson (born 1990).
Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (née Baldwin; 12 January 1916 – 6 June 2018) was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as British prime minister. She was the first British prime minister's spouse to become a centenarian , living to the age of 102 years, 145 days.
In 1985 Wilson became Tong-Po Kan Professor of Neurosurgery. [5] He was profiled by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker in 1999, where Gladwell argued that Wilson was an example of “physical genius,” and compared him to such figures as Wayne Gretsky, Yo-Yo Ma and Tony Gwynn. [6] Wilson performed over 2,000 transsphenoidal surgeries.