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Charles Thomson (November 29, 1729 – August 16, 1824) was an Irish-born Founding Father of the United States and secretary of the Continental Congress (1774–1789) throughout its existence. As secretary, Thomson prepared the Journals of the Continental Congress , and his and John Hancock 's names were the only two to appear on the first ...
Portrait of Howard made on 25 June 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and currently owned by her great-great-grandson George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle. Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle (née Stanley; 20 February 1845 – 12 August 1921), known as the Radical Countess, was an English aristocrat and activist for women's political rights and temperance movement.
His parents were Charles Frazier "Charlie" Stanley, Sr. (April 27, 1904 – June 18, 1933) and Rebecca Susan Hall (nee Hardy, formerly Stanley; October 10, 1908 – November 29, 1992). His father died when he was nine months old. When Stanley was nine, his mother remarried John Hall, a truck driver, and had a daughter named Susan "Susie" Hall.
John Stanley (4 November 1641 – 10 September 1719) married a commoner, Alice Biddle. Charles's two sons, William, the 9th Earl (c. 1655–1702), and James, the 10th (1664–1736), both died without sons, and consequently, when James died in February 1736, his titles and estates passed to Sir Edward Stanley (1689–1776), a descendant of the ...
Lady Mary Brandon (2 June 1510 – between 1540/1544) was an English noblewoman, and the daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, by his second wife, Anne Browne. Mary was the wife of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Monteagle, by whom she had six children.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
While Charles Spencer (aka Princess Diana’s younger brother) embarks on the press tour for his new memoir, A Very Private School, the 9th Earl Spencer is celebrating the release of his book with on.
Princess Diana’s youngest brother, Charles Spencer, is the father of seven children. Spencer married Victoria Lockwood in September 1989, and the twosome welcomed daughter Kitty in 1990 followed ...