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MacDonald sisters

Index MacDonald sisters

The Macdonald sisters were four Scottish women of the Victorian era, notable for their marriages to well-known men. [1]

23 relations: Alfred Baldwin (politician), Angela Thirkell, Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Birmingham Set, Charles Carrington (historian), Denis Mackail, Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, Frederic W. MacDonald, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Ironmaster, Jane Morris, John Lockwood Kipling, John William Mackail, Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard, Staffordshire, Sheffield, Stanley Baldwin, The New York Times, Victorian era, Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain).

Alfred Baldwin (politician)

Alfred Baldwin (4 June 1841 – 13 February 1908) was an English businessman and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).

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Angela Thirkell

Angela Margaret Thirkell (30 January 1890 – 29 January 1961), was an English and Australian novelist.

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Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

Arthur Windham Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (22 March 1904 – 5 July 1976) was a British businessman, RAF officer, and author.

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Birmingham Set

The Birmingham Set, sometimes called the Birmingham Colony, the Pembroke Set or later The Brotherhood, was a group of students at the University of Oxford in England in the 1850s, most of whom were from Birmingham or had studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham.

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Charles Carrington (historian)

Charles Edmund Carrington, MC (21 April 1897 — 21 June 1990) was a scholar, Professor of History at Cambridge University, Educational Secretary to Cambridge University Press and a historian specialising in the British Empire and Commonwealth, a Professor of Commonwealth Relations at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the author of a number of books academic, learned and biographical.

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Denis Mackail

Denis George Mackail (3 June 1892 – 4 August 1971) was an English novelist and short-story writer.

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Edward Burne-Jones

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (28 August 183317 June 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

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Edward Poynter

Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet (20 March 1836 in Paris – 26 July 1919 in London) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy.

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Frederic W. MacDonald

The Reverend Frederic William MacDonald (25 February 1842 – 16 October 1928) was an English cleric and writer.

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Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (21 June 1826 – 12 February 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society.

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Georgiana Burne-Jones

Georgiana Burne-Jones, Lady Burne-Jones (Birmingham, 21 July 1840 – 2 February 1920), the second oldest of the Macdonald sisters, was the wife of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artist Edward Burne-Jones, mother of painter Philip Burne-Jones, aunt of novelist Rudyard Kipling, confidante and friend of William Morris and George Eliot, and something of a painter and engraver in her own right.

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Ironmaster

An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron.

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Jane Morris

Jane Morris (née Jane Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an embroiderer and English artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.

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John Lockwood Kipling

John Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911), was an English art teacher, illustrator, and museum curator who spent most of his career in British India.

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John William Mackail

John William Mackail (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar.

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Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1 March 1899– 10 August 1958), known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British socialist politician who had a career at political odds with his father, the Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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Rudyard, Staffordshire

Rudyard is a lakeside village in the county of Staffordshire, England, west of Leek and on the shore of Rudyard Lake.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who dominated the government in his country between the world wars.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was the name used by the majority Methodist movement in Great Britain following its split from the Church of England after the death of John Wesley and the appearance of parallel Methodist movements.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald_sisters

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