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Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman, based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Elizabeth von Arnim. The film stars Bette Davis as a beautiful but self-centered woman who has many suitors but marries Job Skeffington, played by Claude Rains , solely to save her brother from going to prison.
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
John Skeffington succeeded his father, John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene, in 1992 and regularly attended the House of Lords (where he sat under the title Baron Oriel, his Irish Viscountcies not entitling him to a seat) until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 which ended the automatic right for hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords.
John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene and 6th Viscount Ferrard DL (22 October 1914 – 27 December 1992) was a British politician and landowner. He was also Baron of Loughneagh (1660, Ireland), 6th Baron Oriel (1790, Ireland), and 6th Baron Oriel (1821, UK), and served as a Deputy Lieutenant for ...
Scavenger's daughter. Inquisition Exhibition at the Palacio de los Olvidados in Granada.. The Scavenger's Daughter (or Skevington's Daughter) was invented as an instrument of torture in the reign of Henry VIII by Sir Leonard Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, [1] a son of Sir William Skeffington (died 1535), Lord Deputy of Ireland, and of his first wife, Margaret Digby. [2]
John Skeffington may refer to: Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet (c. 1590–1651), English landowner and politician John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (1632–1695), Anglo-Irish politician and official
John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (December 1632 – 21 June 1695) was an Anglo-Irish politician, official, and peer. He was one of the leading Presbyterians in Ireland during his lifetime. [ 1 ]
John Foster-Skeffington, 10th Viscount Massereene KP (30 November 1812 – 28 April 1863) was an Irish peer and poet. He was the son of Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard and his wife, Harriet Skeffington, 9th Viscountess Massereene. He inherited his mother's title upon her death in 1831, and his father's title upon his death in 1843.