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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.
In 1901-02 he taught in St Kieran's College in Kilkenny, where he was a colleague and friend of the school's English, French and history master Thomas MacDonagh; the two also lodged in the same house in Kilkenny City. [citation needed] He then took a job as the Registrar of University College.
He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and was fined £1,152 in November 1650, which was reduced later to £961. [ 1 ] Skeffington was succeeded in the baronetcy briefly by his son William (died 7 April 1652), then by a cousin, John Skeffington, the 4th baronet, who was the son of Sir Richard Skeffington , knight.
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (born 1953) [ 1 ] is an Irish botanist and equity advocate. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Elected President of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland in November 2022, she was the third woman and second Irish person to hold the position since the Society's founding in 1836.
Richard Waring and Ethel Barrymore in the Broadway production of The Corn Is Green (1940). Richard Waring was born Richard Stephens in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire in 1911, the son of Thomas E. Stephens, a painter, whose portrait of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents.
The Farrell-Skeffington, later Skeffington Baronetcy, of Skeffington in the County of Leicester, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 June 1786 for William Farrell-Skeffington. The second baronet used the surname Skeffington only. The title became extinct on his death in 1850.
Algernon William John Clotworthy Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene and 5th Viscount Ferrard, DSO (28 November 1873 – 20 July 1956) was a British Army officer and an Ulster Unionist member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929.
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