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Mary Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər / TEW-dər; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior. Mary was the fifth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the youngest to survive infancy.
As the great-great-granddaughter of Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk, the younger sister of King Henry VIII, Elizabeth became, after the death of her grandmother, Lady Margaret Clifford in 1596, third in line of succession to the English throne.
Farley Hospital, Farley (built 1681) Duchess of Somerset's Hospital, Froxfield (1694, 1775 and 1813) Hospital of St John, Heytesbury (endowed c.1472, rebuilt 1769) Sir James Thynne House, Longbridge Deverill (founded 1655) Hospital of St John, Malmesbury (13th century) College of Matrons, Salisbury (founded 1682) Topps Almshouses, Stockton ...
On 21 April 1730, she became one of the 21 aristocratic women whose support Thomas Coram would enlist in his efforts to establish the Foundling Hospital.Securing the support of notably pious women such as Lady Huntingdon as signatories to the Ladies' Petition for the Establishment of the Foundling Hospital lent his endeavour not only respectability but cachet; many of the women were lending ...
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, c. 1770 (unidentified artist). The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion was founded in 1783 by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, as a result of the Evangelical Revival.
The Countess of Suffolk, 1910. Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter was born in Chicago on 1 September 1879. She was the third daughter and youngest of four children born to Mary Theresa (née Carver) and Levi Ziegler Leiter, the co-founder of Field and Leiter dry goods business, and later partner in the Marshall Fields retail empire.
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The Duke and Duchess had two sons, Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, born 18 September 1534 at Katherine's mother's house in the Barbican, [18] and Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, born 1537. The marriage brought Katherine into the extended royal family, because Henry VIII's will made his younger sister Mary Tudor's descendants the next ...