"the top ten programs of the week, starting with the opening show, ""Forked Lightning,"" which was watched by over 18 million people. Joining the cast this season was Joe Gladwin as Wally Batty, Nora Batty's henpecked husband. Series 2 would also mark the final appearance of Blamire, played by Michael Bates, who left at the end of the series due to health problems. The second series was released on DVD in region 2 as a combined box set with series 1 on 2 September 2002. The trio in this series consisted of: Wally Batty (1975, 1976-1987) Miss Probert and Miss"
"his wife, Dorothy (Dot). They had met on a blind date in 1938 and been married only a few weeks when Nicky joined the RAAF. During the war she was told on three occasions that her husband was dead. The couple had two sons, born in 1945 and 1947. Barr's injuries prevented him from returning to a rugby career, and he took up yachting as a sport. He also briefly assisted fellow No. 3 Squadron veteran Bobby Gibbes in an airline venture in New Guinea, before going into business as a company manager and director with civil engineering and pharmaceutical"
"States, she met English businessman William Henry Blatch, Jr., known as ""Harry Blatch"". The two were married in 1882, and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire for twenty years, where Harry was Brewery Manager of Basingstoke brewery, John May & Co. They had two daughters, the second of whom died at age four. Their first daughter, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, continued the family tradition as a suffragist, was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering, and was briefly married to Lee de Forest, before entering a longer second marriage. Harry Blatch died in 1915, after being accidentally electrocuted."
"invention and the new technology of wireless (radio). The couple spent their honeymoon in Europe marketing radio equipment developed by de Forest. However, the couple separated only a year later, due largely to de Forest's insistence that Nora quit her profession and become a conventional housewife. Shortly afterward, in June 1909, Nora gave birth to their daughter, Harriot. In 1909, she began working as an engineer for the Radley Steel Construction Company. She divorced de Forest in 1911. After her divorce, she continued her engineering career, working for the New York Public Service Commission. In 1919, Nora married Morgan Barney,"
"zone between Serbia and Austria. She was even arrested when she was mistaken for a British spy. Ever the activist, Nellie notably covered the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913. Under the headline ""Suffragists Are Men's Superiors"", her parade story accurately predicted that it would be 1920 before women in the United States would be given the right to vote. In 1895, Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. Bly was 31 and Seaman was 73 when they married. Due to her husband's failing health, she retired from journalism and succeeded her husband as head of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co., which"
"Mrs. Batty) until 2008, the year she died from a brain tumour. Shortly after the death of actor Bill Owen on 12 July 1999, coincidentally also Staff's birthday, Staff left the show briefly. She stated in interviews that things just weren't the same since his passing, and her heart wasn't in it any more. She would later return and remain with the show until her death. She began her acting career with touring repertory companies in 1946, changing her name to Katherine Brant. After she married John Staff in 1951, she adopted the surname as her stage name, hence Kathy"
"went to a finishing school in Paris. She first met Michael Rahilly, when he was a medical student in Dublin. Known to him as Nannie, they were engaged, deciding thereafter to move to New York, her fiancé following to be near her. He sold his family business in Co Kerry, before ""up sticks"" to America. They were married on 15 April 1899. Rahilly worked for her father's Brown Mills Company. Their first child came soon after on 14 March 1900, named Bobby. They lived in New York until 1902, before moving back to Ireland. Bobby died in June 1903. But"
"basics, including the ability to recognize what makes a good news story. She died in 1912 and is buried in Decatur Cemetery. Some correspondence related to Battey and her husband forms part of the Robert Battey papers at Emory University. Robert Battey was George Magruder Battey's nephew and ward. Emily Verdery Battey Emily Verdery Battey (November 1826 — November 1912) was an American journalist who was one of the earliest salaried women reporters in the United States. Most of her career was spent in New York. Emily Verdery was born in Belair, near Augusta, Georgia. She married a physician, George"
"had a secret affair with David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty and married him on 22 May 1901 ten days after her divorce from Tree was made public. The couple had two children: David, born in Malta on 22 February 1905; and Peter, born on 2 April 1910. According to Robert K. Massie, Beatty was a poor mother, abandoning her son Ronald from her first marriage; she also left the children of her second marriage with her husband while she went on a gambling trip to Monte Carlo in 1912. Peter had birth complications that affected his eyesight and muscle control"
"he was killed on 14 November 1945 in bad weather while flying a North American Mustang fighter between two UK airfields. Diana vowed never to marry again. For 30 years she was the mistress of a married man, Whitney Straight, also a pilot and a pre-war champion racing driver, like her father. In 1947, the couple had a son: Barney Barnato Walker. Diana never asked Straight to leave his wife; she said: ""I was perfectly content. I had my own identity."" Shortly after her record-breaking flight in 1963, Diana was found to have cancer, and subsequently had three operations. She"
"in which she took a IVth in 1929. It was at Oxford that she met Christopher Bailey, an electronics and computer engineer, whom she was to marry in 1929. During the 1930s, Nott was a social worker and psychologist in the East End of London, an experience which would inspire her first novel, ""Mile End"" (1938), which is set in the area. Bailey's work took the couple to the Netherlands, from which they escaped when the German army invaded in 1940. During the war, Nott and Bailey lived in Bournemouth, and afterwards they moved to Sweden. Their marriage was dissolved"
"of the limelight, Grant sent her on a trip abroad to England surrounded by trusted chaperones. In England, Nellie was received by Queen Victoria and she attended many garden parties. On the voyage home she met her future husband Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris (pronounced Sar-tress) [August 1, 1851 – February 3, 1893], an Englishman of ""minor gentry"", and potential heir to his family's fortune. Sartoris's mother was Adelaide Kemble, a former opera singer, and sister of the famous actress Fanny Kemble. Sartoris's father was a member of Parliament and served as a British European court minister. Grant had initially opposed"
"marriage called him one of the most carefully dressed men in New York. Seaman's loved ones were suspicious, sure that she had married him for his money. One magazine even wondered if it was an example of her ""stunt reporting"" in which Nellie would pretend to be married and then write about it. After their marriage, they resided in his home on West 37th Street in New York City. In 1896, they traveled to Europe, returning to New York in 1899 to take care of problems with his business. On February 6, 1904, Robert was struck by a horse and"
"Patricia Batty Shaw Patricia Batty Shaw, CBE (born Patricia Heckels, 1928–2004) was a chairwoman of the United Kingdom's National Federation of Women's Institutes. Patricia Heckels was born at Epsom, Surrey, England, on 18 November 1928. Her father was a general practitioner and medical officer to the Derby horse race. She was educated at Wimbledon High School, and trained as a medical social worker (almoner) at Southampton University. She then worked at Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. She married Anthony Batty Shaw, a consultant physician, in 1954 and took his double-barrelled surname. They later lived in Norwich, then nearby Barford,"
"Robert Seaman Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly). Born in Catskill, Greene County, New York to William and Ellen Seaman, Robert made his fortune in the wholesale grocery business and in 1869 started the Ironclad Manufacturing Company, manufacturing cans for shipping milk on trains, riveted boilers, tanks, and “The Most Durable Enameled Kitchen Ware Made.” In March 1895, Robert met journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran at a dinner party and on April 5, 1895 married her. An article announcing their"
"""Scientific American"" and ""Electrical World"". In 1881 he married Ada Mae Buchannan and they had nine children, two of whom died in infancy. Six of Nathan's seven children did not bear descendants. The seventh child, son Oliver (RayJack), married Priscilla Alden who had three children—two daughters and Nathan's only grandson, Keith Stubblefield, who became a television and recording personality under the professional name of Troy Cory. Initially he supported himself and his family by farming on a plot of family land. (This land was later acquired to become part of the campus of Murray State University.) From 1907 to 1911,"
"and her sister Irene both attended a finishing school in New York City. There Nancy met her first husband, socialite Robert Gould Shaw II, a first cousin of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first unit in the Union Army to be composed of African Americans. They married in New York City on 27 October 1897, when she was 18. The marriage was unhappy. Shaw's friends said Nancy became puritanical and rigid after marriage; her friends said that Shaw was an abusive alcoholic. During their four-year marriage, they had one son, Robert Gould Shaw III"
"starring in dozens of dramas including a Max Afford husband-and-wife detective series ""Greyface"" as ""Jeffery"" and ""Elizabeth Blackburn"". It was around this time that she was given the nickname ""Nessie"". In 1940 she married actor John Tate and their son Nick Tate was born in 1942. In 1941 they commenced as a husband-and-wife team for the Macquarie network, where they were known as the ""sweethearts of radio"", playing romantic leads on the Lux Theatre, the premier drama show in the days when radio was king, and the dark-haired imperious Neva was one of the three ""Queens of Radio"" (with Lyndall"
"""Nora"" (McAuliff) and Patrick H. Guilfoyle, an insurance agent. She met Richard J. Daley at a local ball game. Her brother, Floyd, who was a friend of Daley's, introduced the couple. Their first date was attending a Chicago White Sox game. Daley was a graduate of Saint Mary High School and was a secretary at a local paint company. After a six-year-long courtship, during which her future husband finished law school, they married on June 17, 1936. The Daley's lived in a modest brick bungalow at 3536 South Lowe Street, close to where both had grown up. They had three"
"removed Nora Barlow and her husband Alan. Sophie married the entomologist Mark Pryor in 1940; they had four children. Emily (1942–2008), William (born 1945), Lucy (born 1948) and Nelly (born 1952), who married the film director/farmer Philip Trevelyan. Mark and Sophie Pryor were involved in a road traffic accident in 1967, in which she was relatively unharmed but which left him with brain damage in a persistent vegetative state for almost three years until his death in 1970, aged 51. She also had to deal with her son William's heroin addiction. She subsequently remarried Henry Charles Horton Gurney OBE (1913–1997,"
"Cilley, of Deerfield, New Hampshire. He had two children by the first marriage, five by the second, and six by the third. Nathaniel Bouton Nathaniel Bouton (June 20, 1799 – June 6, 1878) was an American minister and historian. Bouton, the youngest of fourteen children of William and Sarah (Benedict) Bouton, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, June 20, 1799. At the age of 14 he was bound out as an apprentice in a printing office in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and three years later purchased the balance of his time in order to obtain an education for the ministry. He graduated from"
"in Louisville, Kentucky in 1897 to Robert Sims Strader and his wife, Bird O'Shockeny. Her parents divorced in 1902, and Mona and her brother were raised in Lexington, Kentucky, by their paternal grandmother. Through their mother, Patricia Strader, Mona was the great-aunt to automobile racers David ""Salt"" Walther and George ""Skipp"" Walther III. In 1917, she married Henry J. Schlesinger, a man 18 years her senior who owned Fairland Farm in Lexington where her father was a professional trainer, and moved to Milwaukee where he had an iron and coke business. During the marriage, Mona bore a son, Robert Henry,"
"marriage. By the end of 1903, she had begun an affair with Alfred George Curphey, who would also later be involved with the wife of George Vivian, 4th Baron Vivian. Mellon and Nora eventually reconciled, and in 1907 she gave birth to a son, Paul. The reconciliation proved short-lived, as Nora took up with Curphey again in 1908 and requested a divorce the following year. In order to avoid a public scandal, Andrew reluctantly agreed to a separation in 1909. Seeking to hold divorce proceedings privately before a judge rather than publicly before a jury, in 1911 Mellon convinced the"
"Betts Died Sept 15, 1811, aged 72 years. Also his wife Gloriannah, died March 16, 1815, aged 68 years."" Azor Betts Azor Betts (September 13, 1740 – September 14, 1809) was an English doctor who began his practice in the Province of New York before the American Revolutionary War. His staunch defense of smallpox inoculation and support of the Loyalist cause led to his arrest and eventual departure to Canada. Azor Betts was born on September 13, 1740 in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Nathan Betts and Mary Belden. He married Gloriana Purdy in 1765 in Rye, New York, and"
"1981. She died in June 2004. Her husband and daughter survived her. Patricia Batty Shaw Patricia Batty Shaw, CBE (born Patricia Heckels, 1928–2004) was a chairwoman of the United Kingdom's National Federation of Women's Institutes. Patricia Heckels was born at Epsom, Surrey, England, on 18 November 1928. Her father was a general practitioner and medical officer to the Derby horse race. She was educated at Wimbledon High School, and trained as a medical social worker (almoner) at Southampton University. She then worked at Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. She married Anthony Batty Shaw, a consultant physician, in 1954 and"
"and five daughters, one of which was Nora (1873–1954). A liberated woman for the times, she attended the new college that would bring women to Oxford, where she met Marett. Alike in political views and sentiments, they loved each other dearly, but Marett’s contract with Oxford stipulated that he must not marry for a certain number of years. Those were up in 1898. He was 32, she 25. In the first decade of the 20th century they had four children: John Ranulph (1900–1940), Philippa Suzanne (1904–1991), Joya Elizabeth (1905–1979), and Robert Hugh Kirk (1907–1981). He died in Oxford. He succeeded"
"Barbara Bray Barbara Bray (née Jacobs; 24 November 1924 – 25 February 2010) was an English translator and critic. Bray was born to parents with Belgian and Jewish origins in Maida Vale, London. An identical twin (her sister Olive Classe is also a translator), she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read English, with papers in French and Italian and gained a First. She married John Bray, an Australian-born RAF pilot, after the couple graduated from Cambridge, and had two daughters, Francesca and Julia. In 1958, Bray's husband died in an accident in Cyprus. Bray became a script"
"a skeptic too. In 1851, she and her mother left Hackney in London, and moved to Ivy Cottage in Coventry in the Midlands. There, they lived next door to her sister Caroline Bray and her husband Charles Bray. Sara become governess to her nephew, Franks and the Bray's adopted daughter. In 1842, at Rosehill, Bray's house in Coventry, she first Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). They corresponded constantly for the following twelve years. Eliot's endearments including ""Beloved Achates"" to ""Cara Sposa"" indicate their intimacy. Hennel declined to translate the German theologian David Strauss's "" Das Leben Jesu"" and instead agreed"
"Anita Lett Anita Georgina Edith Lett (c 1871– 5 June 1940) was an Irish activist who founded the Irish Countrywomen's Association, originally known as the United Irishwomen. Anita Georgina Edith Studdy was born about 1871 in England to Captain Henry Studdy who was a Captain the Royal Navy. She was married twice. Her first husband was Captain David Longfield Beatty. They were married on 9 January 1899 and later lived in Borodale, County Wexford, Ireland. She was his second wife. They had a son Flight Lieutenant Henry Longfield Beatty, born while they were living in Warwickshire, England on 4 March"
"its reputation has strengthened over time, with many now regarding it as one of his greatest achievements. An omniscient (though possibly unreliable) narrator relates that in 1750s Ireland, the father of Redmond Barry is killed in a duel over a sale of some horses. The widow, disdaining offers of marriage, devotes herself to her only son. Barry becomes infatuated with his older cousin, Nora Brady. Though she charms him during a card game, she later shows interest in a well-off British Army captain, John Quin, much to Barry's dismay. Nora and her family plan to leverage their finances through marriage,"
"Challenge. In July 2010, she announced her engagement to Geno Benshoof, whom she met while working as a teen counselor. The couple were married in the backyard of Benshoof's parents house in White Bear Lake, Minnesota on July 22, 2010. Nora is currently the female lead coach at The Academy: School of Professional Wrestling, a training facility led by fellow WWE alumni Shawn Daivari and Ken Anderson. Holly was honored in a sign of respect by wrestler Beth Phoenix on March 31, 2017, during the latter's Hall of Fame induction, in which Phoenix noted that Holly put her in touch"
"harassed several abolitionists attempting to vote, although they were generally not prevented from doing so. Shelby's leadership in the Missouri–Kansas border war damaged his business ventures and partnership with his stepbrother, Henry Howard Gratz. In December 1855, their new sawmill burned, and evidence suggested the use of an incendiary. The mill was uninsured and losses exceeded $9,000. Gratz returned to Lexington, Kentucky, and Shelby auctioned off the business in February 1860. On July 22, 1857, Shelby married Elizabeth Nancy Shelby (daughter of his first cousin), in a grand steamboat wedding and honeymoon trip to St. Louis. Known as Betty (or"
"songs and comedy with Jack Haley and George Jessel (342 performances Sept 16, 1942 through April 3, 1943). Norman spent much of the war years as a radio singer. She met her future husband, Bruce Kellogg (1910-1967), when they were both performing on a USO circuit. Although he had acted in about 15 films, his full-time occupation was operating his 15,000-acre ranch near Cody, Wyoming. They were married in 1945, and he also became her agent and business manager. She and Kellogg had one child together, a daughter, Pamela, and remained married until his death. Her husband's efforts played a"