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Harriet Woodley, later Pickard (1766–1844) was an English amateur artist.. Woodley was the daughter of politician William Woodley and his wife Ann. In 1788 she married Thomas Pickard (1755–1830) of Bloxworth House, Dorset; her sister Frances (1760–1823), meanwhile, married Henry Bankes of Kingston Lacy, where there is a group portrait by Johann Zoffany depicting the girls with their parents.
One man was paralyzed and another died. His death is considered the only credible case of death-by-meteorite. [45] [46] [47] Isaack Rabbanovitch August 1891: A bear walked into the barkeep's inn in Vilna, Russia (now part of Lithuania) and picked up a keg of vodka. When he tried to take it back, he was hugged to death by the intoxicated bear ...
Pages in category "19th-century deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 252 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
William Bankes was born 11 December in 1786 to Frances Woodley (1760–1823) and Henry Bankes, MP, of Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle in Dorset. [3] Frances was the eldest daughter of William Woodley (MP for Great Bedwyn and Marlborough), a Caribbean sugar planter, Governor and Captain-General of the Leeward Islands (1766–1771 and 1791–1793), and his wife Frances Payne of St Kitts. [4]
Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh (née Woodley; July 1799 – January 24, 1846) was an early American murderer who was hanged for poisoning her husband. Background.
In the 19th century post-mortem photography continued the tradition. Recent research on deathbed portraits, which can be found also in prints and photographs up to today, shows that they became popular after the Protestant Reformation but were never treasured as family heirlooms in the same way as other artworks and thus relatively few early ...
The Taiping Rebellion was the bloodiest conflict of the 19th century, leading to the deaths of around 20–30 million people. Its leader, Hong Xiuquan , declared himself the younger brother of Jesus Christ and developed a new Chinese religion known as the God Worshipping Society .
Fabian Strachan Woodley was born on 19 July 1888, in Redland, Bristol, the son of William Augustus Woodley jnr. (1855-1933), a solicitor and part-proprietor of the Somerset County Gazette, and Ada Constance Woodley, née Strachan (d. 29 December 1920); [1] [2] [3] he had one younger brother, Seymour Woodley.