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After Thomas Druce's death in 1864, his daughter-in-law Anna Maria Druce (second wife to Druce's son Walter Druce) voiced claims that her father-in-law was leading a double life. She claimed that he was not the furniture retailer Thomas Charles Druce but rather that this was an alter ego and that he was really John Bentinck, the 5th Duke of ...
In 1897, a widow, Anna Maria Druce, claimed that the duke had led a double life as her father-in-law, Thomas Charles Druce of the furniture business Druce & Co., who had supposedly died in 1864. The widow claimed that the duke had faked the death of his alter ego Druce to return to a secluded aristocratic life and that therefore her son was ...
There were several components/trials. Anna Maria Druce was described in the 1908 perjury trials as "being insane and probably having been so for a long time": the 1907 trial was in effect an inheritance dispute between TC Druce's son and grandson (being half uncle and nephew).
Druce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Duncan Druce (1939–2015), British composer and musicologist; Eliot Druce (1876–1934), English cricketer;
Duncan Druce: British composer (1939–2015) United Kingdom: 1939-05-23 2015-10-12 2015-10-13 Cheshire: Q5314334: Noel Webb: American musician United States of America: 1940s Q7047250: Henry Flynt: American musician United States of America: 1940 Greensboro: Q971582: Margaret Brouwer: American composer and composition teacher United States of ...
C. René Cabral Torres; James Callis; Deborah M. Capaldi; Sarah Caplin; Helen H. Carr; Matt Carter (politician) Nicholas Casswell; Annie Castledine; Catherine Harmer
Roxalana "Roxana" Druse (c. 1847 – February 28, 1887), was the last woman hanged in the state of New York, and the first woman hanged in 40 years in Central New York.Her botched execution didn't kill her instantly, further motivating New York officials to replace the gallows with the electric chair in New York in 1890.
List of authors of South African botanical taxa is a list of authors who have named South African plants and the standard abbreviations used for those authors in the botanical literature.