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Cathérine Françoise Charlotte de Cossé-Brissac. Jean de Noailles, 5th Duke of Noailles ( Jean Louis Paul François; 26 October 1739, Paris – 20 October 1824) was a French nobleman and was the fifth Duke of Noailles. He first became known for his efforts as a chemist which gained him the election as a member of the Académie des sciences in ...
Oct 31, 2018 · Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), Writer and Traveller 1739. Carlo Francesco Rusca (1696–1769) Government Art Collection. Fortunately, the paintings above, and Lady Mary's letters, help us recognise the pioneering role she had in developing the process of vaccination that has saved tens of millions of lives in the past two centuries.
Ashley Montagu. Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg; June 28, 1905 – November 26, 1999) was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. [1] He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO "statement on race".
Artist | A. Devaria Source | Wikimedia Commons License | CC BY SA 4.0. (1698-1762) Mary Wortley Montagu was daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of Kingston (1655-1726) and Mary Fielding (cousin of novelist Henry Fielding), who died when Montagu was five. As a female, she was tutored at home but was largely self-educated through reading the ...
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762)Self-taught aristocrat of keen intelligence and sparkling wit, whose most enduring legacy can be found in her hundreds of surviving letters which incisively describe the mores of English high society, the mysteries of the East, and the life of an aristocratic exile in 18th-century Italy and France.
William Montagu, alias de Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Baron Montagu, King of Man (1301 – 30 January 1344) was an English nobleman and loyal servant of King Edward III . The son of William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu, he entered the royal household at an early age and became a close companion of the young Prince Edward.
Robert Montagu, who married Mary de Devon; Richard Montagu (d. after 1400), who died unmarried and without issue. Some sources suggest he had a son, Edward Montagu, by Eleanor (Alianore) de Holand. Anne Montagu (d.1457), who married firstly (as his 2nd wife) Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397 – 1431) of Annery, Monkleigh in Devon, feudal baron of ...
