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A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881

Baroness Burdett-Coutts is shown in conversation with the younger Lady Diana Huddleston, daughter of William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans.

Aaron Messiah

At this southern French villa, Messiah successfully synthesized the eclectic collections and ideas of Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild into a coherent neoclassical whole.

Adelma Vay

Baroness Adelma Vay or von Vay (also Vay de Vaya), born Countess Adelaide von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (October 20, 1840–May 24, 1925), was a medium and pioneer of spiritualism in Slovenia and Hungary.

Albert Gaspard Grimod

In 1792 Albert married Eleanore, Baroness de Franquemont, (1771-1833) an illegitimate daughter of the reigning Duke of Württemberg by the Italian adventuress Anne Franchi.

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton (11 January 1751 – 12 August 1817) was an Irish suo jure peeress.

Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville

Anne Marguerite, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (born Henriette Anne Marguerite Joséphine Rouillé de Marigny on 10 May 1771 Sancerre - died 14 September 1849 Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre) was a French watercolourist and painter.

Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons

Anne (or Annie as she was more commonly known), Baroness von Würtzburg died June 11, 1894 in Bamberg, Bavaria and was buried in the village graveyard in Mitwitz, Bavaria.

Anthony Christian

In his earlier days Anthony earned his living as a portrait artist, painting among others Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Baroness Olympia de Rothschild, Baroness Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza, Count Guido di Carpegna, Lord Lichfield, Blake Edwards, Julie Christie and Terence Stamp.

Auton

The story also featured in a discussion in the House of Lords, where Baroness Bacon expressed worries about it being too frightening even for older children.

Baron Blitzkrieg

For her part, the Baroness slaughtered several of the descendents of Commander Steel, but was later beaten by Jay Garrick during an unsuccessful attempt to kill young Mike Dugan, son of retired hero Stripesy and stepbrother of Stargirl.

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

He was born in Scheveningen, Netherlands, the son of Heinrich Thyssen (1875–1947) and his first wife, Margit, Baroness Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (1887–1971).

Baroness Wilhelmine of Dörnberg

Wilhelmine was the daughter of the former Prussian vice president and director of the chamber to the royal Ansbach domain, Baron Heinrich Ernst Konrad Friedrich of Dörnberg and his wife Baroness Sophie Wilhelmine of Glauburg.

Belinda Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu

Beaulieu Abbey houses the former Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu's wall hangings which depict the abbey's history.

Betsy von Furstenberg

Though some published sources have described Betsy von Furstenberg as a countess, she is in fact a Freiin (baroness) by birth, according to the last published issue of the Almanach de Gotha.

Bridget de Vere

Elizabeth Norris, Baroness Norris of Rycote (c.1603- c.November 1645), married Edward Wray, Groom of the Bedchamber to King James I of England, by whom she had issue.

Calow

Methodist minister the Rev'd Kathleen Richardson took as her title "Baroness Richardson of Calow", after the village, when she was created a life peer in 1998.

Count Nikolay Adlerberg

In 1855, Nikolay Adlerberg was promoted to the rank of mayor-general and married Amalie Gräfin of Lerchenfeld (1808–1888) (in the first marriage Baroness Amalie von Krüdener).

Counts of Castell

Through the marriage of Count Alexander Castell-Rüdenhausen (1866–928) with Ottilie Baroness von Faber from a well-known family of industrialists the branch of Faber-Castell was created in 1898.

Dorothea Diana of Salm

Wild- and Rhinegravine Diana Dorothea of Salm (25 July 1604 in Criechingen – 19 December 1672 in Wörth) was the daughter of Wild- and Rhinegrave John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen and his wife, Baroness Anna Catherine of Criechingen and Puttigny.

Earl of Cork

He married Elizabeth Clifford, 2nd Baroness Clifford, and in 1644 he was created Baron Clifford of Lanesborough, in the County of York, in the Peerage of England.

Earl of Oxford and Asquith

Raymond Bonham Carter, second son of Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, was a banker and the father of the noted actress Helena Bonham Carter and of Edward Bonham Carter.

Elizabeth Mortimer

Elizabeth Mortimer, Baroness Camoys (12 February 1371 – 20 April 1417) was an English noblewoman, who, as the granddaughter of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, and great-granddaughter of King Edward III, was in the line of succession to the English crown.

Georg de Laval

Born of a Swedish noble family, he married in 1913 baroness Ebba Fleetwood, eldest daughter of district judge, baron Carl Fleetwood, 10th baron of Jälunda, and his first wife countess Hedvig, née Lewenhaupt.

Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff

Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff (maiden name von Friesen auf Roetha, October 6, 1648, Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate – March 6, 1726, Grosshennersdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German Baroque religious poet, an advocate of Pietism and also a supporter of the beginnings of the Moravian Church.

Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne

Petty was a younger son of Sir William Petty and Elizabeth, Baroness Shelburne, daughter of Sir Hardress Waller.

Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

Baroness Finlay is a co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group, which brings together parliamentarians committed to tackling carbon monoxide poisoning.

Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale

Mary Irene Curzon, Baroness Ravensdale, CBE (20 January 1896 – 9 February 1966) was the eldest child of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter, a daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter.

Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon

On 25 June 2004 she was created Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, of Blaisdon in the County of Gloucestershire.

Jennifer Forwood, 11th Baroness Arlington

Baroness Arlington having 'won her fight' per the summary of her House of Lords speech by Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley, she would need to mount a well-founded petition once again to restore the Earldom of Arlington and Viscountcy of Thetford should she wish to do so, as one of the four co-heirs to those titles.

Jób Viczay

He was born in Beled to child of Baron Ádám de Loós and Baroness Erzsébet Perényi de Perény.

Konrad, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen

However, he is the only son by his father's dynastic second wife, Baroness Vera Schäffer von Bernstein (1914–1994).

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway CBE, DStJ (b. 1854, Salford, England, UK – died 4 January 1933, Antibes) was a British suffragist and noblewoman.

Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly

On the same day of her investure as Baroness Offaly, her eldest son, Robert was made Baron Digby.

Login Geiden

Born in Zuidlaren, in the north east of the Netherlands, van Heiden was the second son of Imperial Count Sigismund Pieter Alexander van Heiden, Lord of Reinestein and Laarwoud, Drost of Drenthe, and Baroness Marie Frederique van Reede.

Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust

Lord Nicholls, Lord Hope, Baroness Hale all held that there was a new statutory tort for harassment in the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and it made employers vicariously liable.

Margarete von Wrangell

Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, née Baroness von Wrangell (7 January 1877 in Moscow – 21 March 1932 in Hohenheim) was a Baltic German agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

She was born at the castle of the Catholic Dubský (Dubský von Třebomyslice) noble family in Zdislavice near Kroměříž in Moravia, the daughter of Baron (from 1843: Count) Dubsky and his wife Maria, née Baroness Vockel, who came from a Protestant-Saxon background.

Marquess of Bute

In 1761 Mary was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain in her own right as Baroness Mount Stuart, of Wortley in the County of York, with remainder to the heirs male of her body by her then husband Lord Bute.

Martine Bertereau

Martine Bertereau also known as Baroness de Beausoleil (born c. 1600, France – died after 1642, Vincennes, France) was a pioneering French woman mining engineer and mineralogist who traveled extensively in Europe in search on mineral deposits.

Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey

Martha died in July 1641) and Bertie married secondly, between 1646 and 1653, Bridget Wray, Baroness Norris, daughter of Edward Wray and Elizabeth Norris.

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

He married, in 1939, Baroness Maria Alexandra, the daughter of Baron Heinrich von Puthon, of Schloss Mirabel, Salzburg, and had two sons and two daughters.

Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal

Baroness Scotland was decreed and invested by Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro, as a Dame of Merit with Star of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George in 2003.

Prince Vincent of Denmark

His godparents are his maternal uncle, John Stuart Donaldson, the Prince of Asturias, the Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, Baroness Helle Reedtz-Thott and Caroline Heering.

Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld

Baroness Hélène Ingeborg Sibylla Silfverschiöld (b. Göteborg, 20 September 1968), who was a bridesmaid at the wedding of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden in 1976, and in the same year also for Prince Bertil and Princess Lilian of Sweden, Helene's godmother.

Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market

Baroness Scott was president of the Liberal Democrats between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2010 and was succeeded by Tim Farron.

Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi

Baroness Warsi was the second of five daughters born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1971, to Pakistani immigrants from Bewal, Gujar Khan.

Simon Henry, Count of Lippe

On 15 September 1666, Simon Henry married in The Hague with Baroness Amalia of Dohna-Vianen, Burgravine of Utrecht, heiress of Vianen and Ameide (2 February 1644 in The Hague – 11 March 1700), a daughter of General Christian Albert of Dohna.

Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton

1) Baroness Henriette Luisa Bentinck (b. in London, 1949–2010), the daughter of Baron Adolph Bentinck and Baroness Gabrielle Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon.

Valley of Eagles

This takes him to a rendezvous with a mysterious baroness in Karlstad, with whom Nystrom has been in correspondence.

Vladimir Logothetti

Vladimir settled in Bílovice, his younger brother Zdenko lived with theirin 1861 widowed mother Pauline Countess Logothetti née Baroness Bartenstein (1800–1872) in Březolupy.


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