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Anna Maria dePeyster DSG (née Torv; formerly Murdoch and Mann; born 30 June 1944) is a British and Australian journalist and novelist. She became known as the second wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch , and was a director at News Corp .
Footballer for both Manchester City FC and Manchester United FC Y760 (CE) [27] [28] [2] Sergeant Major Joseph Pardoe 1820-1889 Heavy Brigade Officer at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War: L 1691 (CE) [29] [2] Henry Patteson 1835–1887 Lord Mayor of the City of Manchester 1879-80 Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska: 1891–1945 Polish poet ...
Stephen Grimason, 87, Northern Irish journalist and editor of BBC News NI. [183] (death announced on this date) Brian McCardie, 59, Scottish actor (Rob Roy, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Ellie Parker) and writer. [184] 29 April Christian, 80, Scottish singer and entertainer. [185]
Stanley Houghton (1881–1913) Playwright; together with Harold Brighouse and Allan Monkhouse a member of the Manchester School of early 20th-century dramatists. Hindle Wakes is his best-known play. Thomas Tendron Jeans (1871–1938), a Royal Navy medical officer who wrote juvenile fiction to show boys what life in the modern navy was really ...
Sir Walter Murdoch, who was born at Rosehearty, was a prominent Australian academic and essayist. He married Violet Catherine Hughston in 1897. Murdoch published his first essay, "The new school of Australian poets", in 1899 and for many years he wrote a weekly column titled "Books and Men" for the Melbourne Argus (under the pen name of ...
According to a BBC News article in 2018, the origins of the Manchester Pusher story can be traced back to a Daily Star Sunday article from January 2015, [3] in which Professor Craig Jackson, head of psychology at Birmingham City University, concluded that "It (was) extremely unlikely that such an alarming number of bodies found in the canals (could be) the result of accidents or suicides", and ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Vizefeldwebel Karl Bohnenkamp was a World War I flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories. He scored his first victory on 21 September 1917 and continued through 28 October 1918. [ 2 ] His 15 victories made him the leading ace in his squadron. [ 3 ]