Royal Artillery

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Family and Intimate relationships Diana Athill
DA 's father, Lawrence Francis Imbert Athill ,
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
was from a family of gentry who did not, however, own land. His father, a clergyman, had shot himself in rage over some domestic crisis. Lawrence Athill...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Anne Barker
Mary Anne Stewart was married in the cathedral at Spanish Town, Jamaica, to George Robert Barker (fourteen years her senior), a captain in the Royal Artillery who had been her father's aide-de-camp for about...
Family and Intimate relationships May Cannan
In fact, before sailing for France with the Royal Artillery , he applied for just a few hours' leave to travel to Oxford and propose marriage to May. His request for leave was turned down...
Family and Intimate relationships John Strange Winter
Her father, the Reverend Henry Vaughan Palmer , Rector of St Margaret's Church in York, was, she says, a scholarly gentleman, whose influence counterbalanced his daughter's resistance to learning during her youth.
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890.
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He...
Family and Intimate relationships Githa Sowerby
John Kendall had retired from the Royal Artillery in 1904, a year after he was sent home from India because of illness. He returned to the army during the First World War as a Major...
Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Smyth
ES 's father, Major-General John Hall Smyth of the Royal Artillery , firmly opposed her career in music, as he believed that all artists, like foreigners, were of low moral fibre.
Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber, 1984.
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In her memoirs...
Family and Intimate relationships Winifred Peck
She said she married to get away from her family's theological discussions, and with the feeling that James Peck would keep her safe.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Knox Brothers. Fourth Estate, 2002.
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He had been a university lecturer and inspector of schools before...
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Theresa Longworth
He was an officer in the Royal Artillery , until he was suspended from his military duties in March 1861 following the scandal of his contested marriage. At his father's death on 24 October 1870...
Textual Features Catherine Marsh
After his death, Arthur's widow requested that CM should write a biography of her husband, which she agreed to do.
O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co., 1917.
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CM recounts his boyhood Sunday school attendance, and how the death of his mother...
Travel Mary Anne Barker
MAB arrived at Calcutta in India (where her husband had accepted command of the Bengal Royal Artillery following the Indian Mutiny) on a ship badly damaged by a hurricane.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904.
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By June 1827: Edward Stanley, late of the Royal Artillery,...

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By June 1827

Edward Stanley , late of the Royal Artillery , published The Young Horsewoman's Compendium of the Modern Art of Riding.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
36 (1827): 301, 603

1997: Women members of the Royal Engineers and...

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1997

Women members of the Royal Engineers and the Royal Artillery were this year allowed to take positions at the front, although British infantry, submarine, and tank positions were still restricted to men.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

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