Whose autobiography 'Margrave of the Marshes' was finished by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft?
"Tom Ravenscroft Thomas James Dalglish Ravenscroft (born 6 February 1980), more commonly known as Tom Ravenscroft, is a British radio presenter and disc jockey. He currently hosts a BBC 6 Music show featuring new and unsigned music, and is the son of the late John Peel. Working initially in TV as a production assistant, Ravenscroft also developed as a journalist researching new music. Following the death of his father, John Peel, in 2004, Ravenscroft was involved as researcher with the Channel 4 television documentary ""John Peel's Record Box"" and, with his mother Sheila and other members of the family, in"
"writers. In his later years, he could still recite a great many poems from memory, not least ""The Man from Snowy River"". In his early twenties, he bought a mixed farming property, ""Oakwood"", about 6 miles south of Deniliquin. He volunteered for the First AIF in 1915, but despite his fitness he was not accepted, because he had flat feet and two fingers on his left hand joined by a piece of skin. He married Mary Linus Gain on 12 June 1917 and they had three daughters Mary (known as 'Tib') (dec.), Valda (dec.), and Margaret (dec.) and two sons"
"than is determined by some absolute resource scarcity. He prepared an American edition of Hensleigh Wedgwood's ""Dictionary of English Etymology"" (New York, 1862), to which he made large additions and annotations. He translated Rask's ""Icelandic Grammar"". His second wife, Caroline (Crane) Marsh (1816–1901), whom he married in 1839, published ""Wolfe of the Knoll and other Poems"" (1860), and the ""Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh"" (New York, 1888). This last work was left incomplete, the second volume never having been published. She also translated from the German of Johann C. Biernatzki (1795–1840), ""The Hallig; or the Sheepfold in the"
"at an expense of £6,000, and it was also his custom to pay the rates and taxes for all the electors in the borough. It is said that he only read two works, Burnet's ""History of my own Time"" and Colley Cibber's ""Apology"". When he had perused them throughout, he began them again. He married, in March 1698, Lady Henrietta Churchill, eldest daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Sarah Jennings. She had been born on 20 July 1681, and baptised at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 29 July 1681. On the death of her father, 16 June 1722,"
"as Deputy Chairman of the Trustees of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance and was a Life Governor of the Shrine. He became well known after his retirement for landscape and seascape painting, publishing fourteen books containing his paintings and poems. He married Jennifer Haggard in 1952, and had four daughters and a son. 1. Smyth, Dacre (1979) The bridges of the Yarra: A book of paintings, poetry and prose; with a foreword by Sir John Bloomfield. 2. Smyth, Dacre (1980) The lighthouses of Victoria: A second book of paintings, poetry and prose; with a foreword by Sam Benson. 3. Smyth, Dacre"
"to Henry Lichfield's ""First Set of Madrigals"", 1614 (two pieces, one to the Lady Cheyney and another to the author); and to Browne's ""Britannia's Pastorals"", 1625. He also wrote (20 December 1597) inscriptions for the tombs of Elizabeth, wife of Charles Croft, and of the wife of Thomas Crompton. Brooke married Mary Jacob on 18 December 1619 at the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields by Charing Cross. Formerly married to Sir Robert Jacobe, Solicitor General for Ireland, she continued to be known as 'Lady Jacob' even after her marriage to Brooke. She was the daughter of the merchant William Lynch of"
"Marshalsea. He had little further success in the theatrical world, quarrelling with both Samuel Foote and David Garrick. His own memoirs were printed in London in two editions, coming out in 1760 and 1761. He died somewhere in Europe, presumably to escape creditors, in 1763. On 7 July 1753, at St. Peter's Church, Aungier Street, Dublin, he married Ann Smith and they had three children, including Georgiana Caroline Pitt Pilkington (1757-1838), named after her godmother Countess Cowper, the daughter of Earl Granville, and known as Caroline. Caroline married or lived with several men, including two Americans, the New Jersey loyalist"
"the Authorship of the Three Parts of Henry VI"" (1859), and ""Riverside Shakespeare"" (1883 and 1901): and ""Shakespeare's Scholar"". He also wrote books on subjects, such as '"" and a civil war satire, ""The New Gospel of Peace, According to St. Benjamin"". He was a vice-president of the New Shakespeare Society of London, England and edited a twelve-volume edition of Shakespeare from 1857 to 1865. On October 16, 1850, he was married to Alexina Black Maese (1830–1921), the daughter of Charles Bruton Mease and Sarah Matilda (née Graham) Mease, a Charleston family who was then living in New York. At"
"II. During this time, he served as a pilot, flying fire and lake patrol missions as well as serving as a ground instructor. In 1970, he earned a master's degree in business administration from Drexel University. He married a cigarette girl who was his height, Margaret Marie Raabe (1915–1997). They were married for 50 years until her death in a car accident in 1997, in which he was also injured. Raabe published an autobiography, ""Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick Road"". (). As of 2007, he lived alone at the Penney Retirement Community in Penney"
"act upon his own initiative."" He was killed in action, aged 49, at Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 12 November 1914 whilst commanding the 1st (Guards) Brigade. He is the highest-ranking officer inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, commemorating those with no known grave. His VC is in the Lord Ashcroft VC Gallery in the Imperial War Museum, London. On 20 April 1898, at the Citadel Church, Cairo, he married Violet Spencer-Churchill (13 June 1864 – 22 December 1941), daughter of Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill and a granddaughter of the sixth Duke of Marlborough. The couple had two children:"
"authored a book about his chosen home, entitled ""A History of the Parish of Llanfyllin from 1861 to 1915"" He married Isabella Hargreaves, the only daughter of John Hargreaves of Spring Bank, Lancaster, on 20 July 1876 at Tarporley. They had a number of children including John Percy, who attended Rugby and New College, Oxford, October, 1898 but died in 1900 in his early twenties; William Marshall Dugdale (13 January 1881 to 13 November 1952), who after being in the Learning Land Agency, 1899–1901. served in the South African War of 1901–02, in the Imperial Yeomanry, leaving as a Captain"
"in 1944 and applied to join the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot, but was turned down on the grounds of poor eyesight and was never in combat. After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and English at Brasenose College, Oxford from where he graduated in 1949. He met Ruth Jezierski and married her in 1949. The couple had two daughters. In 2002, four weeks after the death of his wife, Murry died, of a broken heart according to his daughters, as reported by his longtime friend and fellow writer, Christopher Priest. His first novel, the autobiographical ""The Golden Valley"", was"
"program. He was married to retired officer Colonel Marjorie Gariepy with four children, twelve grandchildren and a growing number of great-grand children. He died on Saturday, April 3, 2010. He received the Order of the Founder in July 2007 - the highest honor that can be conferred by The Salvation Army Today, he is better known for his many publications; he is the author of more than 29 books and contributor to more than 50 works, ranging from devotional works to biography and history. One of his best known titles includes ""100 Portraits of Christ"". This work has been produced"
"South Africa. He published a number of books on theology and politics. In 1868 he married Alice Marsh of Wigan and they had two sons and a daughter. One of Harwood’s sons was Harold Marsh Harwood (1874–1959) who followed into the family cotton business but was also a playwright and theatre manager. Alice died in 1894 and Harwood was remarried in 1904 to Ellen Hopkinson, the daughter of the Vice Chancellor of Manchester University. Daughter Georgina Harwood (1905–2006) married Christopher Francis Battiscombe, OBE, FSA, Lt-Col. of the Grenadier Guards. She was the biographer of Queen Alexandra, John Keble, Mrs Gladstone,"
"published by Time-Life. The recordings were narrated by Charles Collingwood, with March and his wife Florence Eldridge performing dramatic readings from historical documents and literature. Following surgery for prostate cancer in 1970, it seemed his career was over, yet he managed to give one last performance in ""The Iceman Cometh"" (1973), as the complicated Irish saloon keeper, Harry Hope. March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death in 1975, and they had two adopted children. He died from prostate cancer, at age 77, in Los Angeles, California: he was buried at his estate in New Milford,"
"Himalayan exploration. He settled with his wife, Anne B. Murray (née Clark), in Argyll. His autobiography, ""The Evidence of Things Not Seen,"" was completed on his death by his wife Anne, who also contributed some of her poetry. The title was that of one of final chapters of ""Mountaineering in Scotland"" where Murray quoted a passage from the KJV translation of the New Testament which states that ""faith is the evidence of things not seen"" (Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 1). It won the Grand Prize of the Banff Mountain Book Festival (2002). A quotation by Murray is"
"Thompson lived in Above Town between 1928 and 1940, writing ""Lark Rise"" and ""Over to Candleford"" during this time. The books were later combined into a single volume with ""Candleford Green"" and published as ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". She is buried at Longcross Cemetery. The stage and film actress Rachel Kempson (1910–2003) was born in Dartmouth. She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin, and published her autobiography, ""Life Among the Redgraves"", in 1988. Gordon Onslow Ford (1912–2003), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College. Sir John Harvey Jones (1924-2008),"
"author of ""American Diplomatic Questions"", and ""The Cruise of the Tomas Barrera"", in 1916, based on his expedition to Cuba in 1914. In 1903, he married Angelica Schuyler Crosby (1872–1907) of New York in Jefferson County, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Harriet (née Van Rensselaer) Crosby and John Schuyler Crosby, the 5th Governor of the Montana Territory, and the paternal granddaughter of Clarkson F. Crosby and Angelica (née Schuyler) Crosby (a relative of U.S. Senator and noted Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler), and the great grandson of William Floyd, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence."
"(1887), ""The Resurrection of the Dead"" (1890), ""The Ascension and Heavenly Priesthood of our Lord,"" and his presidential address on the ""Aims of the Scottish Church Society"" (1892), were all productions of his ripened powers. Besides these he contributed many articles to periodicals. His last article was a notice ""In Memoriam"" of Dr. Hort, which appeared in the ""Expository Times"" (1893). In 1859 he married Annie Mary Moir, the daughter of David Macbeth Moir. They had several children. His daughter Agnes Milligan married Godfrey Carey. His son Oswald Milligan became a church historian. He left unfinished a work on the"
"unfinished at his death. The plates by Joseph Smit and Joseph Wolf were later reused in Philip Sclater and Oldfield Thomas's ""The Book of Antelopes"" (1894-1900). He was a magistrate, deputy lieutenant and Sheriff of Fermanagh. He married Alice Sophia, daughter of Sir Alan Edward Bellingham, 3rd Baronet, in 1864. After their marriage they settled at a villa in Pau, France, where they had at least six children. The youngest was Alan - later Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. Brooke died of pneumonia in Pau in November 1891, aged 48, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest"
"of textbooks, the last being 1956's """"So Great Thy Sea"""". He was appointed as Managing Director of the Fisheries Development Corporation of South Africa in 1952 the position he remained in until his retirement in 1960. On retirement he went to live in Knysna, he remained an actively interested in all fisheries matters up until his death in 1983, following the developments and growth of the South African fishing industry and the resource research that he had helped to develop through its difficult early years. He married Marjorie Leibrandt in 1922. He was a Fellow of the American Association for"
"at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, later acting as Lord High Steward at her funeral on 1 August 1587. He is known as the author of ""The Lord Marquess Idleness"", a remarkable and most ingenious acrostic of six Latin verses. It was published in 1586 and 1587. Between 20 June 1544 and 10 February 1547/1548 he married Anne or Agnes Howard, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham and his first wife, Katherine Broughton and had issue: The marriage was not a happy one, and the couple were only reconciled, on one occasion, by Elizabeth I's"
"in 1928. Marks wrote 19 additional books, primarily novels. Late in his career, he took a post teaching English and literature at the University of Connecticut at Waterbury. Marks married Margaret Ellen Gates in California on December 17, 1927. He moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1930, and resided there until he died, on December 27, 1956, survived by his wife and daughter Sally Jean Marks. In 1962, Marks' widow (then remarried to Bernard Barton), donated his papers to Yale University where they are held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Sally Marks became a scholar of international"
"the Goldsmiths' Company in 1979. He was the literary executor of Sir Alan Lascelles. Despite the sensitive nature of their contents, he managed to secure permission for Sir Alan's wartime diaries to be published. ""King's Counsellor"" was launched in 2006, a few weeks before his death. He married his wife, Virginia, in 1949, the widow of John Metcalfe Polk. She was the daughter of the banker Robert Henry Brand, 1st Baron Brand and Phyllis Langhorne, a sister of Nancy Astor. His wife died in 1995. He died in London, survived by their two sons and a stepson. A second stepson"
"1686 to the office of Attorney General to Queen Mary of Modena. The Glorious Revolution stopped his advancement, and he retired to his estate of Rougham in Suffolk and increased his fortune by marrying the daughter of Sir Robert Gayer. He died at Rougham on 1 March 1734, leaving a family from whom the Norths of Rougham were descended. He collected books, and was constantly occupied in writing, but he is best known for his ""Lives of the Norths"", published after his death, together with his own autobiography (edition in Bohn's Standard Library, 1890, by Augustus Jessopp), an authority for"
"work of its kind—and ""Natural Philosophy for Schools"" (1845); besides other works. He wrote a monograph on ""Hereditary Haemorrhage"". He was the editor of ""Graham's Magazine"" and contributed to the other literary journals of the time, both in prose and in verse. From 1845, he edited ""Leaflets of Memory: An Illuminated Annual"", an annual illustrated collection of short stories and verse, of which eleven volumes are known. Of his poems ""The Gambler's Wife"" (1846), ""Christian Charity"" and ""The Drunkard's Child"" were best known. He was married on December 5, 1827 to Margaretta, daughter of William Abbott of New Jersey, and"
"and the Lizard. He could not afford pen and paper, so he improvised and used blackberry juice for ink and grocery bags for paper. In the 1840s, he married Jane Rule, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. When his second-born daughter, Lucretia, died during Christmas 1855, he produced a moving eulogy. After this a friend found him a more congenial occupation as a Bible-reader or travelling comforter at Falmouth, where he spent the second half of his life. During this period he produced his most important work, the loco-descriptive poem ""A Story of Carn Brea"" (1863). He"
"cementing his status as a religious leader. He delivered over 2,000 sermons in West London, where he served as lead Minister until retiring in 1895. Marks published four volumes of sermons (1851–85) and ""The Law is Light"", a course of lectures on the Mosaic Law (1854). He contributed to a biography of Sir Francis Goldsmid (1879) and to Smith's Bible Dictionary. He served as professor of belles-lettres at Wigan College, Liverpool, and professor of Hebrew at University College London. He and his wife Cecilia Sarah (née Woolf; 15 July 1818 – 19 October 1882) were married on 14 December 1842."
"1926 he married Sylvia Mary Shakerley, daughter of Walter Geoffrey Shakerley, the third Baronet Shakerley, and the following year became a lecturer in history for the Oxford University delegacy for extramural studies, a position he retained until 1936. His marriage was dissolved in 1930. He also served as an advisor at the Bonar Law College at Ashridge. His first book, ""The Spirit of Conservatism"", appeared in 1929 and was written with his former students in mind. In 1929, after cataloguing the Shakerley family library, he was asked by a friend in publishing to produce a new biography of Charles II"
"where he was in command of the Salisbury Plain area until his retirement. In 1973 he retired to Medstead, Hampshire where he and his wife remained until shortly before Gris's death. He wrote his war memoirs, ""In Presence of My Foes: A Memoir of Calais, Colditz, and Wartime Escape Adventures"", first published in 1991 and reprinted in 2004. Both he and his wife, participated actively in local church and community life. Soon after retirement he became the Director of the National Association of Boys Clubs a post he held for 10 years. For some years he was Chairman of the"
"translated ""The Canterbury Tales"" and ""Beowulf"". He penned an autobiography in 1969, and a biography of fellow South African poet Roy Campbell in 1961. Wright also edited a number of publications throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He held the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds (1965–67). Wright was not reticent about his deafness, and his autobiography, ""Deafness: A Personal Account"" (1969), is often used to give hearing people an insight into an experience they might not easily imagine. In 1951, he married Philippa (""Pippa"") Reid (d. 1985); and Oonagh Swift in 1987. Wright lived in Braithwaite, just"
"but he joined the BBC in 1942 and they stationed him, in 1944, in the Mediterranean with the RAF as a war correspondent. His experiences as a war correspondent formed the basis of his book ""All Men are Neighbours"" (1947). He worked at the BBC until 1960, when he resigned and moved to a house overlooking the estuary of the River Kent in Westmoreland, Cumbria, where he stayed for the rest of his life, writing. He was the editor of the ""Concise Encyclopaedia of Archaeology"" (1965). He was married and divorced twice, to Doris Swain (in the 1930s, divorced 1962)"
"contributed letters to ""The Times"" and wrote ""An African Pilot"" and ""The Rule of the Road at Sea"". He was chairman of Isle of Wight magistrates for many years and Deputy Lieutenant. On 7 November 1913, he was appointed a deputy governor of the Isle of Wight. He died on 22 October 1922 and was described by ""The Times"" as ""Doyen of the Navy"". He is buried, together with his wife Caroline, at Carisbrooke (Mountjoy) Cemetery within sight of Carisbrooke Castle. He married Caroline, daughter of Admiral Andrew Drew, in 1861 and was the father of Louisa Mary Adeline de"