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Frances Vernon (1 December 1963 – 11 July 1991) was a British novelist. She was the daughter of the tenth Baron Vernon. [1] Novels. Vernon was encouraged in her ...
In an author's note, Frances Vernon explains that she based the central plot on events surrounding the resignation of Charles John Vaughan, Headmaster of Harrow School 1844-59, as recounted in the memoirs of John Addington Symonds, though she adds that many of the characters have undergone considerable elaboration or, in some cases, total invention.
He was the son and heir of Augustus Venables-Vernon, 6th Baron Vernon, and his wife Lady Harriet Frances Maria Anson (a daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield). Lord Vernon had succeeded his father in the barony in 1883, when he inherited around 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. [1]
Francis Vernon (c. 1637 – 1677) was an English traveller and author. Serving as secretary to the Paris embassy, Vernon became a key link between French and English scholars, copying important works for the Royal Society. He was considered frivolous, sharing court gossip and cultural news.
In 1920, Cagney was a member of the chorus for the show Pitter Patter, where he met Frances Willard "Billie" Vernon. They married on September 28, 1922, and the marriage lasted until his death in 1986. Frances Cagney died in 1994. [167] In 1940 they adopted a son whom they named James Francis Cagney III, and later a daughter, Cathleen "Casey ...
He was the father of James Vernon (d1756) who settled in Suffolk and of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684–1757). James' son Francis Vernon (1715–1783), Member of Parliament for Ipswich, was created Baron Orwell of Orwell Park, Nacton, Suffolk in 1762, Viscount Orwell in 1762 and Earl of Shipbrook in 1777. The Earldom was extinct on his death in 1783.
Frances Vernon: 1963–1991 Author British novelist. "She was educated partly at Cranborne Chase, a free-thinking school where there was no religious education, and was a committed atheist." [54] Pierre Vidal-Naquet: 1930–2006 Historian French classical historian.
In 1844, he married Maria Frances Vernon, the widow of architect George Coleman and adopted her son, George Vernon Coleman, who would die at sea on board of HMS Maeander in 1848 at age 4. They soon had a daughter in 1846, Maria J Napier. Memorial to James Brooke Napier, Fort Canning