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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.
Mary, the Duchess of Bedford (1865–1937) developed an interest in nursing whilst at school in Cheltenham, and in 1898 opened a cottage hospital at Woburn, the Bedford family country estate. [1] Although the Duchess attended ‘a course of lectures at the London Hospital’ as part of her preparation to run the hospital, she does not appear to ...
Faced with these taxes and with the cost of restoring Easton Park from it use as a Red Cross Hospital during the war, the late-12th Duke's daughter the Duchess of Montrose and her husband James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose, decided to sell the estate. The land was divided into 137 lots and sold by auction in 1919.
On her mother's side, Mary was a niece of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and first cousin of Lady Jane Grey, executed in 1554 after their alleged involvement in the Wyatt's Rebellion, which was intended to prevent the marriage of Queen Mary I with Philip II of Spain. As girls, both Mary and her sister Jane received a careful education.
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk also known as Elizabeth Plantagenet (22 April 1444 – c. 1503) was the sixth child and third daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (a great-grandson of King Edward III) and Cecily Neville. [1] She was thus a sister of kings Edward IV and Richard III. [1]
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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Mary Du Caurroy Russell, Duchess of Bedford, DBE, ARRC, DStJ, FLS (née Tribe; 26 September 1865 – ca. 22 March 1937) was a British aviator and ornithologist. [1] She was honoured for her work in founding hospitals and working in them during the First World War. She later financed and took part in record breaking flights to Karachi and Cape Town.