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Hannah Woolley, sometimes spelled Wolley (c.1622 – in or after 1675), [1] was an English writer who published early books on household management; she was probably the first person to earn a living doing this.
Katharine Elizabeth, Lady Woolley (née Menke; June 1888 – 8 November 1945) was a spy, British military nurse and archaeologist who worked principally at the Mesopotamian site of Ur. She was married to archaeologist Leonard Woolley .
Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton, Viscountess Combermere was born in 1799 in Cork, the only daughter of Robert Gibbings, a wealthy Irish physician, and Barbara Woolley. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1838, she became the third wife of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere , 26 years her senior.
Mary & George is a British television historical drama created by D. C. Moore. [1] The show is based on Benjamin Woolley's non-fiction book The King's Assassin (2017), which explores the complex relationship between James VI and I and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
Woolley in 1895. Woolley was born in Hereford, [2] England, eldest of five daughters of Mary Margaret Woolley, née Turner (died 21 September 1886), [3] and her husband John Woolley, who in 1850 was headmaster of King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich. [4] Blanche Mary Elizabeth Woolley (1845–1906), mother of Freda Du Faur, was a sister.
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
Katherine Neville (c. 1397 – late summer 1483) was a medieval English noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and his second wife Joan Beaufort. [1] Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of John of Gaunt [2] and a great-granddaughter of King Edward III.
Elizabeth Wolley (née More; 28 April 1552 – 21 January 1600) was one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies of the Privy Chamber.She was the eldest daughter of Sir William More of Loseley, Surrey, and his second wife, Margaret Daniell, and the wife of the Queen's Latin secretary, Sir John Wolley, and the Queen's Lord Chancellor, Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley.