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Mary / ˈ m ɛəˌr i / is a feminine given name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek name Μαρία, María or Μαριάμ, Mariam, found in the Septuagint and New Testament.
In 1911, there were nearly two million people with the name in Britain, representing just over 4% of the total population. [4] There was an estimated further one million in the British colonies. [5] For both the 1911 [5] and 1922 [6] collections, the name Mary was deemed to include its variants Marie, Maria, Marian, Miriam, May and Molly. The ...
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V.
The Honourable Dame Mary Anne Morrison GCVO (born 17 May 1937) is a former lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth II, and was a Woman of the Bedchamber from 1960 until the Queen's death in 2022. Biography [ edit ]
Irene Mary Wetton (26 July 1936 – 10 November 1998), better known by her stage name Mary Millar, [1] was an English actress and singer best remembered for her role as the second actress to play Rose in the successful BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances from 1991 to 1995 and for originating the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors of the day in John Bodenham ...
Toxic Town. Netflix, early 2025. If a drama has the name Jack Thorne attached to it, the likelihood is that it will be very good, and will aim to make the world a better place in some way.
— Thomas Picton, Welsh officer of the British Army (18 June 1815), before being shot in the temple at the Battle of Waterloo "Soldiers, save my face; aim at my heart. Farewell." [1] — Joachim Murat, King of Naples (13 October 1815), to his firing squad The Execution of Marshal Ney (1868), by Jean-Léon Gérôme