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The first to use the double-barrelled name, John Bonham-Carter (1788–1838), was a British Member of Parliament and barrister. His wife Joanna Maria Smith was the daughter of William Smith , the abolitionist MP; her sister Frances was the mother of Florence Nightingale , and her brother Benjamin was the father of Barbara Bodichon and Benjamin ...
Heather Cox Richardson (born October 8, 1962) is an American historian who works as a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Richardson has ...
Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury [m] 21 December 1964 19 February 1969 Life peeress Labour: Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips [n] 21 December 1964 14 August 1992 Life peeress Labour: Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer [o] 10 May 1965 13 June 1972 Life peeress Crossbench: Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill [p] 17 ...
The suggestion is that only the element -cox may have endured as a surname for some families. Another opinion is that the name is derived from the Old English cock, which means a "heap" or "mound", and was a topographic name for a man living near any heap, hill or other bundle. Names like Haycock or Haycox come from such practice, meaning from ...
Family: Jeff Carter married Annette Davis in 1975, and they had three children: Joshua (b. 1984), Jeremy (b. 1987), and James (b. 1991). Jeremy passed away in 2015, and Annette passed away in 2021.
Violet Bonham Carter was a diarist and biographer. Her works include: "Winston Churchill As I Know Him" by Violet Bonham Carter, in Winston Spencer Churchill: Servant of Crown and Commonwealth, ed. Sir James Marchant, London: Cassell, 1954.
Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter built quite the family over the course of their 77-year marriage. Tying the knot in 1946, the couple went on to welcome a combined total of ...
After Rosalynn Carter's death in November 2023, Amy Carter spoke at a memorial service in Atlanta and read an emotional love letter from her father to her mother, dated 75 years earlier.