"Vera Lynn Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (; born 20 March 1917), widely known as ""the Forces' Sweetheart"", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. During the war she toured Egypt, India, and Burma as part of ENSA, giving outdoor concerts for the troops. The songs most associated with her are ""We'll Meet Again"", ""The White Cliffs of Dover"", ""A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"" and ""There'll Always Be an England"". She remained popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the UK"
"charts. She has devoted much time and energy to charity work connected with ex-servicemen, disabled children, and breast cancer. She is held in great affection by veterans of the Second World War to this day and in 2000 was named the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th century. Vera Margaret Welch was born in East Ham, Newham, on 20 March 1917, to parents Bertram Samuel Welch (1883–1955) and Annie Martin (c. 1889–1961), who had married in 1913. She began performing publicly at the age of seven and adopted her maternal grandmother's maiden name, Margaret Lynn, as her"
"Elisabeth Welch Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. Her best-known songs were ""Stormy Weather"", ""Love for Sale"" and ""Far Away in Shanty Town"". She was American-born, but was based in Britain for most of her career. Welch was born in Englewood, New Jersey, where her father was chief gardener of an estate. Her father was of indigenous American and African American ancestry; her mother was of Scottish and Irish descent. Welch was brought up in a Baptist-Christian family, and began her singing in a church choir."
"died on August 6, 1925 at the age of 29 in Olyphant, Pennsylvania. After her death she was buried in Olyphant's St. Patrick's Cemetery, under a monument that reads:Loretta Perfectus WalshApril 22, 1896–August 6, 1925Woman and PatriotFirst of those enrolled in the United States Naval ServiceWorld War 1917–1919Her comrades dedicate this monumentto keep alive forevermemories of the sacrifice and devotion of womanhood In memory of Walsh and her bold actions on March 21, 1917, the official history program of the Department of the Navy, the Naval Historical Center, identifies March 21, 1917 as a date in American naval history. There"
"Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington Vera Florence Annie Woodhouse, Lady Terrington (née Bousher; 11 January 1889 – 19 May 1973) was a British Liberal Party politician, and one of the first women Members of Parliament (MP). She was born Vera Florence Annie Bousher, the second daughter of Henry George Bousher a druggist's assistant, and Anne Elizabeth Koster. She married firstly in 1907 Guy Ivo Sebright who died in 1912. In 1918 she married Harold Woodhouse, 2nd Baron Terrington, whom she divorced in 1926. Finally she married Max Lensveld in 1949. She joined the Liberal party and took an active interest in"
"Kay Walsh Kathleen ""Kay"" Walsh (15 November 1911 – 16 April 2005) was an English actress and dancer. Her film career prospered after she met her future husband film director David Lean, with whom she worked on prestige productions such as ""In Which We Serve"" and ""Great Expectations"". She also worked successfully with Alec Guinness. She was born in Chelsea, London, but was raised in Pimlico by her grandmother. She began her career as a dancer in West End music halls, and at the age of 17 she began going out with Pownoll Pellew (later 9th Viscount Exmouth), and they"
"Elizabeth Welsh Elizabeth Welsh (3 March 1843- 13 February 1921) was a classicist and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Elizabeth Welsh was born in 1843 in County Down, Ireland to John Welsh and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell. She was the eldest of their four daughters. Elizabeth was educated first at home, then at various private schools and by the vicar of her parish, who taught her Latin and Greek. In 1872 she went up to Girton College, Cambridge to study Classics. After completing the Tripos in 1875, she taught at Manchester High School, before returning to Girton in 1876 as"
"Vera Leigh Vera Leigh (17 March 1903 – 6 July 1944) was a British heroine of World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive. Leigh was a member of the SOE's Donkeyman circuit and Inventor sub-circuit in occupied France during World War II until arrested by the Gestapo. She was subsequently executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Vera Leigh was born Vera Glass on 17 March 1903 in Leeds, England. She had been abandoned as a baby and adopted while still an infant by H. Eugene Leigh, a well-known American racehorse trainer with an English wife, who renamed"
"radio programme ""Desert Island Discs"", on February 26, 1952 and November 18, 1990; her latter appearance is now part of the programme's online archive. Elisabeth Welch Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. Her best-known songs were ""Stormy Weather"", ""Love for Sale"" and ""Far Away in Shanty Town"". She was American-born, but was based in Britain for most of her career. Welch was born in Englewood, New Jersey, where her father was chief gardener of an estate. Her father was of indigenous American and African American ancestry;"
"and continued her travels, ultimately visiting over 80 countries and six continents, and driving over 500,000 miles all in Fords. The first female to drive around the world was achieved by Aloha Wanderwell (USA/Canada) who traveled the world in a Ford Model T, starting and ending in Nice, France, between 29 December 1922 and January 1927. Aloha traveled as driver, translator and film maker for the Wanderwell Expeditions, a round-the-world motoring tour led by Walter ""Cap"" Wanderwell (Poland). Idris Galcia Welsh was born on 13 October 1906 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Margaret Headley and Robert Welsh. In 1909, her mother"
"Vera Scarth-Johnson Vera Scarth-Johnson, (1912 – 19 May 1999), was a noted botanist and botanical illustrator who is also remembered for her continual efforts to teach others to treasure the flora and environment of Australia and, in particular, the botanically rich region of Cooktown and the Endeavour River Valley, on Cape York Peninsula, in far northern Queensland. Vera Scarth-Johnson, OAM was born in 1912 in Morley, near Leeds, Yorkshire England. She attended school very near the birthplace of James Cook. She was sent to finishing school in Paris, where she found little of interest except the garden. An avid gardener"
"Vera Laughton Mathews Dame Elvira Sibyl Marie Mathews, (née Laughton; 25 September 1888 — 25 September 1959) was one of the first officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and served from just after the inception of the WRNS in 1918 until it was disbanded in late 1919 and served as Director of the re-founded WRNS from 1939 until 1946. She was born in Hammersmith, London and died in Ashley Gardens, London. In 1918 she held the rank of Principal Officer (equivalent to a Royal Navy Lieutenant-Commander) and was initially the Unit Officer of the WRNS Training Depot at"
"Wendy F. Walsh Wendy Felicité Walsh (9 April 1915 – 3 March 2014) was an artist born in Cumbria who lived and worked in Ireland and was a prolific botanical illustrator. She was born Wendy Felicité Storey in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria in 1915. She was educated at home by a governess until she was 14; she painted from the age of six. She was not permitted to attend art school, but studied privately under the animal painters Cecil Aldin and Arminell Morshead. During the second world war she worked as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) field nurse. During that time she"
"The Centre was built to provide a home for the Young Wales Association (YWA), which later became the London Welsh Association and is now the London Welsh Trust. The Young Wales Association was founded on 21 October 1920 at the Portman Rooms, Baker Street, when more than 400 members of the London Welsh community attended a meeting presided over by Margaret Lloyd George (who became the YWA’s first President). The YWA was founded partly as a tribute to the dead of the First World War but mainly as a meeting place for young Welsh migrants. It was registered as a"
"María Elena Walsh María Elena Walsh (1 February 1930 – 10 January 2011) was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, playwright, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children, who has been considered a ""living legend, cultural hero (and) crest of nearly every childhood"". María Elena Walsh was born in Villa Sarmiento, Ramos Mejía, Greater Buenos Aires, to an English railway worker of Irish descent, who played the piano and an Argentine woman of Andalusian descent. As a child, she lived in a big house, where she greatly enjoyed reading and listening to music in a cultural"
"Zeph Gladstone Zephyrine Frances ""Zeph"" Gladstone (20 September 1937 - 28 October 2002) was an English television actress, from Norwood in south London. She was best known for her role as the ""tart with a heart"" hairdresser Vera Downend on the soap opera ""Crossroads"", a role she played from 1970 to 1977. Gladstone started her television career in ""ITV Play of the Week"" in 1964. She moved on to a permanent part on the series ""Dixon of Dock Green"", but it is her role on ""Crossroads"" that was most enduring. Gladstone started on the series in June 1970, playing an"
"Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was a British writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight. Her mother, Julia Prinsep Jackson, celebrated as a Pre-Raphaelite artist's model, had three children from her first marriage; her father, Leslie Stephen, a notable man of letters, had one previous daughter; their marriage produced another four children, including the modernist"
"the West London Chess Club, and later honorary secretary of the British Chess Federation. In 1944 Britain was nearing its sixth year in World War II, and 38-year-old Vera, who was widowed the previous year, still held the title of women's world champion. On 27 June she, her sister Olga, and their mother were killed in a V-1 flying bomb attack which destroyed their home at 47 Gauden Road in the Clapham area of South London. All three were cremated at the Streatham Park Crematorium on 4 July 1944. The trophy for the winning team in the Women's Chess Olympiad"
"Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (8 June 1912 – 26 January 2004) was one of the foremost British abstract artists, a member of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, known as Willie, was born in St Andrews, Fife, on 8 June 1912. As a child she showed very early signs of creative ability. Determining while at school that she wanted to be an artist, she set her sights on Edinburgh College of Art where, after some dispute with her father, she enrolled in 1931, and after periods of illness, from which she graduated with her diploma in 1937."
"Megan Lloyd George Lady Megan Arvon Lloyd George, (22 April 1902 – 14 May 1966), born Megan Arvon George, was a Welsh politician, who became the first female Member of Parliament (MP) for a Welsh constituency. She also served as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, before later becoming a Labour MP. In 2016, she was named as one of ""the 50 greatest Welsh men and women of all time"". She was the youngest child of David Lloyd George and his wife, Margaret, being born in 1902 in Criccieth, Caernarfonshire. Her name at birth was registered as ""Megan Arvon George"","
"Megan Lloyd George Lady Megan Arvon Lloyd George, (22 April 1902 – 14 May 1966), born Megan Arvon George, was a Welsh politician, who became the first female Member of Parliament (MP) for a Welsh constituency. She also served as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, before later becoming a Labour MP. In 2016, she was named as one of ""the 50 greatest Welsh men and women of all time"". She was the youngest child of David Lloyd George and his wife, Margaret, being born in 1902 in Criccieth, Caernarfonshire. Her name at birth was registered as ""Megan Arvon George"","
"Sterling Prize for Miniatures) and the California Society of Miniature Painters in 1937. A portrait by Welch of Rosina Cox Boardman, in watercolor on ivory and dating to around 1940, is currently owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two miniature portraits in the same medium, a ""Portrait of a Lady"" from the first half of the 1910s and a portrait of ""Mrs. S. Keith Evans"" from around 1911. Mabel Rose Welch Mabel Rose Welch (March 26, 1871 – January 1, 1959) was an American painter of portrait miniatures. Born in New Haven, Connecticut,"
"5 June 1939 at Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple. The couple had two sons, Irving Russell (1941-) and Ira Michael (1947-). In the fall of 1979, she remarried to David Raitblat, a Toronto Symphony Orchestra board member at the time and previously a construction company owner. She turned 100 in March 2017. Reva Gerstein Reva Appleby Gerstein, (born 27 March 1917 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian psychologist and educator. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1996. A pioneer in Canadian mental health, she helped establish the Hincks Treatment Centre for adolescents,"
"Vera Rich Vera Rich (born Faith Elizabeth Rich, 24 April 1936, London – 20 December 2009, London) was a British poet, journalist, historian, and translator from Belarusian and Ukrainian. Born in London, she studied at St Hilda's College of the University of Oxford and Bedford College, London. In 1959, her poetry attracted the attention of the editors of John O'London's Weekly and the following year her first collection of verse, ""Outlines"", was privately produced and received favourable reviews, selling out within six months. Her translations of the works of Taras Shevchenko, commissioned for the century of his death (1961), received"
"Vera Cuningham Vera Cuningham (also known as Vera Cunningham) (6 November 1897 – 3 May 1955) was a British artist. Cuningham modeled for and had relationships with fellow artists Bernard Meninsky and Matthew Smith. She lived and exhibited her works in London and Paris, where she fled with Smith at the beginning of their affair. Some of her works are in public collections in England. Vera Irene Walpole Martin Cuningham was born in 1897 at Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire to Scottish parents. Cuningham attended Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she studied painting. In 1922, she began exhibiting her work"
"deaths, painted a poignant watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London. Vera Leigh Vera Leigh (17 March 1903 – 6 July 1944) was a British heroine of World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive. Leigh was a member of the SOE's Donkeyman circuit and Inventor sub-circuit in occupied France during World War II until arrested by the Gestapo. She was subsequently executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Vera Leigh was born Vera Glass on 17 March 1903 in Leeds, England. She had been abandoned as a baby and adopted"
"400 members of the London Welsh community. Margaret Lloyd George subsequently became its President (1921–22). The Young Wales Association, which afterwards became the London Welsh Trust, runs the London Welsh Centre on Gray's Inn Road, London, which she opened on 29 November 1930. She served on Criccieth Urban District Council from 1919 until her death, including three years as its chairman, was the first female Justice of the Peace in Caernarfonshire, and was president of the Women's Liberal Federation of North and South Wales. She died at her home in Criccieth, Wales on 20 January 1941 after a period of"
"experienced hairdresser setting up a salon business in the Crossroads Motel. Despite a rough veneer and bad choices, Gladstone's character, Vera Downend, was essentially a ""positive"" character and developed favourable fan reaction. Gladstone was signed to a contract, which she kept until her departure in October 1977. Gladstone's most famous role would also be her last on television. She died in London in 2002 at the age of 65. Zeph Gladstone Zephyrine Frances ""Zeph"" Gladstone (20 September 1937 - 28 October 2002) was an English television actress, from Norwood in south London. She was best known for her role as"
"Vera Shlakman Vera Shlakman (July 15, 1909 – November 5, 2017) was a 20th-century American professor of Economics and Marxism and author of a 1935 book on women factory workers. She was best known in 1952 for her firing by Queens College for refusing to testify to the McCarran Committee whether she was a card-carrying Communist, as well as for apology and restitution she received in 1982. Vera Shlakman was born on July 15, 1909, in Montreal, Canada. Her parents, Louis Shlakman (tailor, garment foreman) and Lena Hendler, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. They named their children for revolutionary"
"Cuningham died in the arms of Matthew Smith. A retrospective of her work was held in 1985 by the Barbican Art Gallery. Vera Cuningham Vera Cuningham (also known as Vera Cunningham) (6 November 1897 – 3 May 1955) was a British artist. Cuningham modeled for and had relationships with fellow artists Bernard Meninsky and Matthew Smith. She lived and exhibited her works in London and Paris, where she fled with Smith at the beginning of their affair. Some of her works are in public collections in England. Vera Irene Walpole Martin Cuningham was born in 1897 at Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire"
"Veruschka von Lehndorff Countess Vera von Lehndorff-Steinort (German: Vera Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort; born 14 May 1939), also known as Veruschka von Lehndorff, is a German model, actress, and artist who was popular during the 1960s. She is known professionally as Veruschka. Veruschka was born Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort on 14 May 1939, in Königsberg, East Prussia, now known as Kaliningrad, Russia. She has three sisters: Marie Eleanore ""Nona"" (b. 1937, married Jan van Haeften and Wolf-Siegfried Wagner (b. 1943), son of Wieland Wagner and great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner), Gabriele (b. 1942, married Armin, Edler Herr und Freiherr"
"in 1956. This marriage also ended in divorce. She lived in retirement in London. She died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, aged 93, from multiple burns, following an accident. Kay Walsh Kathleen ""Kay"" Walsh (15 November 1911 – 16 April 2005) was an English actress and dancer. Her film career prospered after she met her future husband film director David Lean, with whom she worked on prestige productions such as ""In Which We Serve"" and ""Great Expectations"". She also worked successfully with Alec Guinness. She was born in Chelsea, London, but was raised in Pimlico by her grandmother. She"
"Vera Menchik was born in Moscow in 1906. Her sister Olga Menchik was born in 1907. When she was nine years old her father gave her a chess set and taught her how to play. When she was 15 her school club organised a chess tournament and she came second. After the Revolution her father lost a mill he owned and eventually also the big house where the family lived. The marriage broke down; her father returned to Bohemia, and in the autumn of 1921 Olga and her daughters went to Hastings, England, to live with Olga's mother. As Vera"