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On June 15, 1937, Virginia Bell married the diplomat Henry Ashley Clarke in Tokyo.Clarke was a son of Dr. and Mrs. H. H. R. Clarke of Kent. [13] During their marriage, he was posted to Lisbon and Paris, before he was knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1952, [14] and in 1953 became the British Ambassador to Italy in Rome. [15]
Lambuth McGeehee Clarke was the president of Virginia Wesleyan College when the college opened its doors in 1966 to its first students. He helped grow the college's student body from just 75 students to 1,440 in 1992 when he retired.
Staples was born at Martinsville, Virginia in 1885 to Abram Penn Staples (1858–1913), a prominent Virginia lawyer and his wife. His grandfather, Samuel Granville Staples, was the elected clerk of the Circuit Court of Patrick County, Virginia and had signed the Articles of Secession in 1861.
Victoria Mary Clarke has thanked actor and musician Johnny Depp for his “compassion and loyalty” towards her and her late husband, The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan.. The Anglo-Irish musician ...
Clark was born on December 2, 1927, in Richmond, Virginia, the son of a life insurance salesman father. He grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. [3] Clark was a 1950 graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. [4]
Pages in category "People from Clarke County, Virginia" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Waller Redd Staples (February 24, 1826 – August 21, 1897) was an American lawyer, law professor, judge, slave-owner and politician who was briefly a member of the Virginia General Assembly before the American Civil War, became a Congressman serving the Confederate States of America during the war, and after receiving a pardon at the war's end became a judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals ...
Bethel Memorial Church, also known as Bethel Baptist Memorial Church, is a historic Baptist church building located at White Post, Clarke County, Virginia.It replaced an earlier log Quaker meeting house, used by the Baptist congregation from 1808.