Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal; born 10 February 1940) is a British former track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.
Mary Randolph (August 9, 1762 – January 23, 1828) was a Southern American cook and author, known for writing The Virginia House-Wife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824), [1] one of the most influential housekeeping and cook books of the 19th century.
The adaptation kept the details of the historic mystery virtually identical, but the present day sections introduced a number of confidantes for Morse, the book's author Dr Van Buren (portrayed by Lisa Eichhorn), Adele Cecil (a character from the adaptation of Death is Now My Neighbour) and Detective Constable Adrian Kershaw (played by Matthew ...
Mary English may refer to: Mary English (Anglo-Colombian) (1789–1846), Anglo-Colombian adventurer, landowner, trade representative, farmer and businesswoman; Mary English (mycologist) (1919–2009), British mycologist and historian; Mary English (born c. 1962), spouse of the prime minister of New Zealand
Mary May Robertson (born 7 June 1948) is a South African neuropsychiatrist and academic. She holds honorary positions at the University of Cape Town and University College London , where she serves as an Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Professor at the Department of Psychiatry respectively.
Mary Stanley Low (14 May 1912 – 9 January 2007) was a British-Cuban political activist, Trotskyist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher. [1] She is most known for the book Red Spanish Notebook: the first six months of revolution and the civil war .
Mary Courthope English (22 March 1789 – 30 September 1846), also commonly remembered as Mary Ballard, Mary Greenup and the Belle of Bogota, was an Anglo-Colombian adventurer, landowner, trade representative, farmer and businesswoman in Colombia. [1] Her personality and connections gave her financial and political agency in Colombia and Britain.
Bancroft was born in Boston to Mary (Cogan) and Hugh Bancroft. [2] Her mother died from an air embolism shortly after giving birth to Mary. [3] Her father married Jane Wallis Waldron Barron in 1907 and Mary was raised by her step-grandfather Clarence W. Barron. Bancroft studied at Smith College in Massachusetts, but dropped out after a year. [4]