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Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis (February 6, 1866 – March 22, 1928) was a Jewish Canadian businessman and philanthropist. [1] The mansion that he built in Montreal's Golden Square Mile has been renamed Purvis Hall and is today owned by McGill University .
Henriette Marie Meyer, Lady Davis, CBE (1872–1963) was a Jewish-Canadian philanthropist. She was known as Lady Davis after her husband, Sir Mortimer Davis , was knighted in 1917. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Compton Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Compton, California, United States. The district serves almost all of Compton, all of East Rancho Dominguez , most of Willowbrook CDP , portions of Carson , Lynwood , West Rancho Dominguez CDP , and a small sliver of Paramount .
Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024.
By RYAN GORMAN School police in the gritty Los Angeles suburb of Compton have been armed with AR-15 assault rifles. Students heading to their first day of classes Monday were greeted with armed-to ...
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Little is known of the family's activities during the Middle Ages aside from Sir Otho Gilbert of Compton serving as High Sheriff of Devon from 1475 to 1476. It was descendants of this Otho Gilbert who would set out during the Elizabethan period on the family's “hereditary scheme of peopling America with Englishmen”. [2]
Compton was born around 1482, the only son and heir of Edmund Compton (d. 21 April 1493) of Compton, Warwickshire and Joan, the daughter of Walter Aylworth. [1] [2] [3] He was around eleven years of age when his father died in 1493, at which time he became a ward of Henry VII, who appointed him page to Prince Henry, Duke of York. [1]