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The Ice House is a short film that is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas, and the final instalment of the original 1971-78 run.. Written by John Bowen, who wrote the earlier instalment The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974), [1] produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by Derek Lister, it first aired on BBC1 on 25 December 1975, only the second of the ...
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite the promise of its credits Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman is a sex comedy which achieves the dual feat of being neither erotic nor funny in charting the progress of an innocent abroad in London.
Seymour was the fourth child and first son of Sir Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, KCB (1843–1902), and Elizabeth Mary Romilly (1859–1950). His father had been private secretary to Gladstone during 1880–1885, a Commissioner of Customs and Deputy Master of the Mint. The family had numerous aristocratic and naval connections.
M. R. James in about 1900. The first five films are adaptations of stories from the four books by M. R. James, published between 1904 and 1925. [8] The ghost stories of James, an English mediaeval scholar and Provost of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, were originally narrated as Christmas entertainments to friends and selected students.
The son of the watchmaker, journalist and encyclopedist Jean Romilly, whom he predeceased, his mother was Elizabeth Adrienne Joly (born 1719) and his younger sister was Elisabeth Jeanne Pierrette Romilly (1742–1814).
On 3 August 1897, Lord Romilly was married to Violet Edith Grey-Egerton (1870–1906) in London. She was the only daughter of Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 11th Baronet of Oulton Park and the former Hon. Henrietta Elizabeth Sophia Denison (eldest daughter of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough). [6] Together, they were the parents of one son: [3]
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His only sibling was sister Violet Edith Grey-Egerton, who married John Gaspard Le Marchant Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly in 1897. His paternal grandparents were Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet and the former Anna Elizabeth Legh. [1] His grandfather was a Member of Parliament for Chester, South Cheshire, and West Cheshire.