"are protected, released or compensated. The Adjusters characters are Daphne Wrayne, a sporting society girl; Sir Hugh Williamson, a noted African explorer; James Treviller, a handsome young nobleman; Martin Everest, a handsome lawyer; and Alan Sylvester, an actor. Pechey married Bijou Sortain Hancock, and was the father of well known television cook Fanny Cradock. His wife’s extravagance and his own susceptibility to gambling left him with sizeable debts. He seems to have tried to avoid the debts by moving around the country. He left Herne Bay in Kent and moved to Swanage in Dorset, then to Bournemouth in Hampshire, where"
"of the building due to the proposed title 'Striptease Artiste' being used on the plaque. Negotiations between English Heritage and the residents' association remain ongoing regarding its text and installation. Phyllis Dixey Phyllis Dixey (10 February 1914 — 2 June 1964) was an English singer, dancer and impresario. Her earlier career was as a singer in variety shows in Britain. During World War II, she joined ENSA and entertained the British forces. She sang, recited and posed in naked tableaux for them, which were very popular. Phyllis Selina Dixey was born in Merton, Surrey. In 1938 she married Jack Tracey."
"Elizabeth Rollins Epperly Elizabeth ‘Betsy' Epperly is a Victorian scholar, author, curator, English professor (from 1976–2006), and former university president (1995–1998) of the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Epperly taught at the University of Prince Edward Island for 22 years where she also served as founding chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and UPEI's fourth (and first female) president. The Epperly Plaza on the UPEI campus is dedicated in her name. Following her retirement she was made Professor Emerita by the university. Epperly was the first student to ever register at the newly created University of Prince Edward Island"
"Peggy Phelan Peggy Phelan (born April 23, 1959) is an American feminist scholar. She is one of the founders of Performance Studies International, the former chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies from 1993 to 1996, Stanford's Theatre and Performance Studies Department (then called the Drama Department) from 2007-2011, and continues as the Ann O’Day Maples Professor of the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, and the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute. Phelan's work is primarily concerned with the investigation of performance as a live event. She argued that the ephemerality of"
"Edith Pechey Edith Pechey (7 October 1845 – 14 April 1908) was one of the first women doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital and was involved in a range of social causes. Mary Edith Pechey was born in Langham, Essex, to William Pechey, a Baptist minister with an MA from Edinburgh University and his wife Sarah (""née"" Rotton), a lawyer's daughter who, unusually for a woman of her generation, had studied Greek. After being educated by her father, Edith"
"Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis McAlpin Schlafly (; ; August 15, 1924 – September 5, 2016) was an American constitutional lawyer and conservative political activist. She held staunchly conservative social and political views, supported antifeminism, opposed abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her book, ""A Choice Not an Echo"" (1964), a polemic against Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller, sold more than three million copies. Schlafly co-authored books on national defense and was critical of arms control agreements with the Soviet Union (1917–91). In 1972, Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum, a conservative political interest group,"
"the most recognizable and influential voices for conservative women today, as she has started many conservative political trends such as the continual critique of mainstream liberalism. As a conservative, Phyllis Schlafly argued that the female gender is actually privileged, and that women have ""the most rights and rewards, and the fewest duties."" She advocates for women to embrace their, according to her, biological nature, and to stay out of politics and the workplace. She continually argues against feminists and claims that they actually take away rights from women. She thus led the opposition against the Equal Rights Amendment, and successfully"
"Phyllis Marion Gotch Phyllis Marian Gotch (1882–1963), also known as Phyllis Maureen Gotch and in later life as Marquise de Verdières, was the only child of Newlyn-based artists, Caroline Burland Yates and Thomas Cooper Gotch. She featured in several of her father's paintings, one of the most famous being ""The Child Enthroned"". She later became a singer, a published author and campaigned for community issues in Newlyn. After the death of her first husband in 1918 she married Andre, Marquis de Verdières. Following their divorce in 1935 she married her cousin once removed, Jocelyn Bodilly, who became Chief Justice in"
"1970, and awarded ""'Ridder of the Most Excellent Order of the Golden Ark""' by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Phyllis Barclay-Smith Ida Phyllis Barclay-Smith (18 May 1902 – 2 January 1980) was a British ornithologist. She was editor of the ""Avicultural Magazine"", and built up the International Council of Bird Preservation. In 1958 she became the first woman to receive an MBE for work in conservation, and was made CBE for 1970. Phyllis was the second of three daughters of Edward Barclay-Smith and his wife Ida Mary. Edward was a professor of anatomy at Cambridge University. She studied at Blackheath"
"Phyllis Blakeley Phyllis Ruth Blakeley, (2 August 1922 – 25 October 1986) was a Canadian historian, biographer and archivist. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Blakeley received a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Bachelor of Education degree, and a Master of Arts degree from Dalhousie University. In 1945, she became a research assistant at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. She became Assistant Archivist in 1959 and Associate Archivist in 1977. In 1982, she was appointed as the Provincial Archivist for Nova Scotia and was the first woman to hold that position. She retired in 1985. Her publications include ""Glimpses of"
"daughter of Pechey-Phipson's student friend Isabel Thorne. She died from cancer while in a diabetic coma on 14 April 1908 at her home in Folkestone, Kent. Her husband set up a scholarship at the London School of Medicine for Women in Edith's name which was granted regularly up to 1948. In India, her name continued until 1964 at the Pechey-Phipson Sanatorium for Women and Children at Nasik, Maharashtra. Edith Pechey Edith Pechey (7 October 1845 – 14 April 1908) was one of the first women doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than"
"couple married on August 28, 2016. Aytes has partnered with DonorSee, a charitable giving platform that allows donations directly to specific needs, and provides raw video of how the money changed someone's life. Aytes has supported building a well in rural Malawi, Africa. Rochelle Aytes Rochelle Aytes (born May 17, 1976) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as April Malloy on ABC drama series ""Mistresses"" (2013-16). Aytes also starred in the auto-biography story film of TLC such as """" as Perri ""Pebbles"" Reid, short-lived series ""Drive"", ""The Forgotten"" (2009–10), Criminal Minds and ""Work"
"Phyllis Dixey Phyllis Dixey (10 February 1914 — 2 June 1964) was an English singer, dancer and impresario. Her earlier career was as a singer in variety shows in Britain. During World War II, she joined ENSA and entertained the British forces. She sang, recited and posed in naked tableaux for them, which were very popular. Phyllis Selina Dixey was born in Merton, Surrey. In 1938 she married Jack Tracey. In 1942 she formed her own company of girls and rented the Whitehall Theatre in London to put on a review called ""The Whitehall Follies"". This was the first striptease"
"in tomatoes. The Department of Agriculture asked her to identify the agents of disease in tomatoes and sugar beets so that recommendations could be made on how to control the agents. According to nephew Paul Clinch, in a brief biosketch by consulting company Accenture, generations of students referred to Clinch by the respectful nickname ""Auntie Phyll."" Phyllis Clinch Phyllis E. M. Clinch (12 September 1901 – 19 October 1984) was an Irish botanist most recognised for her work in the field of plant viruses. Clinch attained her undergraduate degree from University College Dublin in 1923 with a first class honours"
"Phyllis Barclay-Smith Ida Phyllis Barclay-Smith (18 May 1902 – 2 January 1980) was a British ornithologist. She was editor of the ""Avicultural Magazine"", and built up the International Council of Bird Preservation. In 1958 she became the first woman to receive an MBE for work in conservation, and was made CBE for 1970. Phyllis was the second of three daughters of Edward Barclay-Smith and his wife Ida Mary. Edward was a professor of anatomy at Cambridge University. She studied at Blackheath high school and King's College, London and joined as an assistant secretary to the Royal Society for the Protection"
"up the Medical Women's Federation of England and in 1882 was elected president. George A. Kittredge, an American businessman in Bombay had started a fund, ""medical women for India"", that intended to bring women doctors from England to work in India where male doctors were not allowed to attend to women. Kittredge was in search of suitable doctors and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson suggested that Pechey might be interested and wrote to her on the idea of working at Bombay (now Mumbai) and be senior medical officer of the Cama Hospital for Women and Children there. Kittredge subsequently met Pechey in"
"you Peggy Joyce & you go and get yourself hog tied to a dance hall dame"" (Bud Clarke). Peggy Hopkins Joyce (May 26, 1893 – June 12, 1957) was an American actress, artist model and dancer. In addition to her performing career, Joyce was known for her numerous engagements, six marriages to wealthy men, subsequent divorces, scandalous affairs, her collection of diamonds and furs and her generally lavish lifestyle. There's a reference to Cagney (""The Public Enemy"", 1931) and grapefruit - Bud (Preston Foster) to girl in the street ""why don't you let me sit across from ya, and squirt"
"completed her PhD in English Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London in 1978. Elizabeth Rollins Epperly Elizabeth ‘Betsy' Epperly is a Victorian scholar, author, curator, English professor (from 1976–2006), and former university president (1995–1998) of the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Epperly taught at the University of Prince Edward Island for 22 years where she also served as founding chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and UPEI's fourth (and first female) president. The Epperly Plaza on the UPEI campus is dedicated in her name. Following her retirement she was made Professor Emerita by the university. Epperly was the"
"Phyllis Coley Phyllis Dewing Coley is a Biology professor currently teaching at the University of Utah. In 1996 she received the University’s Distinguished Research Award. She has been a research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 1995. In 1974, she completed her B.A. at Hampshire College. Her M.A. and doctorate were completed at the University of Chicago by studying resource availability theory, including the effects of leaf age and plant life history patterns on herbivory, and patterns of plant defenses. Throughout her academic career, Dr. Coley has received multiple honors and awards. She received the National Science Foundation"
"Raquel Cassidy Raquel Josephine Dominic Cassidy (born 22 January 1968) is an English actress. Born to a Spanish mother and an English father, she was the third child and only daughter born to the couple. Born and brought up in Fleet, Hampshire, she was educated at Farnborough Hill Convent, and then Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied modern languages and then biological anthropology. She later pursued a PhD in biological anthropology, but she abandoned it to pursue a career in acting. Cassidy is best known for her 2013–2015 television role as rehabilitated thief and ladies maid Phyllis Baxter in ""Downton"
"at the same time as campaigning for wider social reform; she also campaigned against child marriage. She often gave lectures on education and training for women and was involved with the Alexandra Native Girls' Educational Institution. Various prestigious institutions invited her to be the first woman member, including the senate of the University of Bombay and the Royal Asiatic Society. Soon after arriving in India, she joined several of the learned societies in Bombay. She became a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bombay Edith Pechey had met Herbert Musgrave Phipson (1849–1936), a reformer, wine merchant and a founding"
"'table irises' and provided the first description of the class. She introduced at least five new cultivars of intermediate bearded irises and at least 60 of tall bearded irises. She served for a time as the director of the Horticultural Society of New York. She also lectured around the country on horticultural topics and contributed to gardening magazines. She died February 23, 1965. In 1940, Peckham became the third person to be awarded the AIS Gold Medal, and she remains one of only a dozen people ever to have received the society's highest honor. She also received the Gold Medal"
"helped establish the International Wildfowl Research Bureau, and helped in raising awareness on insecticide risks. She also helped in rallying support for the establishment of the Cousin Island reserve in the Seychelles. She died in 1980 at the Whittington Hospital, Islington, London after going into a coma following a severe stroke that she suffered on Christmas 1979. She was cremated. Phyllis earned the nickname of ""the dragon"", a name also shared by her aunt Etta Lemon. Among her works were translations of books from French and German. She was made MBE in 1958 for her services to conservation, CBE for"
"Phyllis Richmond Phyllis Allen Richmond (1921–6 October 1997) was a historian of science and librarian recognized for her work in classification and cataloging. Her dissertation ""Americans and the Germ Theory of Disease"" was a leading theory of history of medicine for nearly 40 years and she later published seminal work in classification theory. Richmond was born in Boston and grew up in Rochester, NY. She studied at Western Reserve University where she received a bachelor's degree in history in 1942. At the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences she was curator of history from 1943 to 1945 and 1946 to"
"Phyllis Ross Phyllis Gregory Ross, (1903 – April 18, 1988) was a Canadian economist, civil servant, the first woman Chancellor of the University of British Columbia and in the Commonwealth of Nations, and the mother of the 17th Prime Minister of Canada, John Turner. Though elsewhere listed as Phyllis Gregory, born in Rossland, British Columbia, in 1903, the 1911 census of the Dominion of Canada, shows her as Phillis [sic] Marie Gregory born in British Columbia in June 1894 [sic] aged 6 (meaning that 1894 is probably a census-taker's error for 1904). Her parents were mining company hoist operator, James"
"feminist Emily Davies, who encouraged her to join the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). Strachey's mother, Jane, was a friend of Millicent Fawcett and was already active in the NUWSS, so it was relatively easy for Pippa to become a committee member, then in 1907 to become secretary of the organisation. One of her first tasks was the organisation of the ""Mud March""; this was deemed so successful, that she thereafter planned all the group's demonstrations. Strachey supported World War I, but was unable to work in field hospitals due to her health. Instead, she worked with her"
"Peggy McIntosh Peggy McIntosh (born November 7, 1934) is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and Senior Research Associate of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for its first twenty-five years. She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, and professional development of teachers. In 1988, she published the article ""White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies"". This analysis, and its shorter version, ""White Privilege:"
"She wrote a syndicated weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. Schlafly's published works include: Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis McAlpin Schlafly (; ; August 15, 1924 – September 5, 2016) was an American constitutional lawyer and conservative political activist. She held staunchly conservative social and political views, supported antifeminism, opposed abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her book, ""A Choice Not an Echo"" (1964), a polemic against Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller, sold more than three million copies. Schlafly co-authored books on national defense and was critical of arms control agreements with the Soviet"
"Phyllis Shand Allfrey Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey (24 October 1908 – February 4, 1986) was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. She is best known for her first novel, ""The Orchid House"" (1953), based on her own early life, which in 1991 was turned into a Channel 4 television miniseries in the United Kingdom. Born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies, in 1908, she was the daughter of Francis Byam Berkeley Shand and Elfreda (née Nicholls), and was baptized Phyllis Byam. Her father's settler family was long established in"
"Peggy Hopkins Joyce Peggy Hopkins Joyce (May 26, 1893 – June 12, 1957) was an American actress, artist's model and dancer. In addition to her performing career, Joyce was known for her flamboyant life, with numerous engagements, six marriages to wealthy men, subsequent divorces, a series of scandalous affairs, a collection of diamonds and furs, and a generally lavish lifestyle. Born Marguerite Upton in 1893 in Berkley, Virginia (now part of Norfolk), she was known as Peggy. Upton left home at the age of 15 with a vaudeville bicyclist. While the two were en route to Denver via train, she"
"Rochelle Aytes Rochelle Aytes (born May 17, 1976) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as April Malloy on ABC drama series ""Mistresses"" (2013-16). Aytes also starred in the auto-biography story film of TLC such as """" as Perri ""Pebbles"" Reid, short-lived series ""Drive"", ""The Forgotten"" (2009–10), Criminal Minds and ""Work It"". In film, Aytes has appeared in ""White Chicks"", ""Madea's Family Reunion"" and ""Trick 'r Treat"". Aytes was born in Harlem, New York, and attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from State University"
"1996, 1997; Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America (James Beard Foundation, 1985). Phyllis Richman Phyllis C. Richman (born Phyllis Chasanow on March 21, 1939) is an American writer and former food critic for the ""Washington Post"" for 23 years, a role that led ""Newsweek"" magazine to name her ""the most feared woman in Washington"". ""Washingtonian"" magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful women in Washington. Richman is also the author of three murder mysteries set in the restaurant world, and many articles written for such publications as ""Gourmet"", ""Bon Appétit"", and ""Food Arts"". She has"
"Phyllis Richman Phyllis C. Richman (born Phyllis Chasanow on March 21, 1939) is an American writer and former food critic for the ""Washington Post"" for 23 years, a role that led ""Newsweek"" magazine to name her ""the most feared woman in Washington"". ""Washingtonian"" magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful women in Washington. Richman is also the author of three murder mysteries set in the restaurant world, and many articles written for such publications as ""Gourmet"", ""Bon Appétit"", and ""Food Arts"". She has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including the ""Diane Rehm Show"", NPR's ""All"