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unusual facts about Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester



2HB

The title is an acronym dedication to the film star Humphrey Bogart ("2HB" = "To Humphrey Bogart").

A Proper Dialogue Between A Gentleman and a Husbandman

King John, Sir John Oldcastle, and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester are listed as good men who came to bad ends for opposing the clergy.

Action on Smoking and Health

John Moxham
Duke of Gloucester

Alice Baldwin

(d. 28 September 1526) of Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, by Anne Catesby, daughter of Sir Humphrey Catesby of Whiston, Northamptonshire, but predeceased his father, leaving no issue.

Antigone Plantagenet

Alison Weir, however, believes that both Antigone and her brother, Arthur, may have been the children of Humphrey and his mistress Eleanor Cobham, whom he later married.

Bobby Humphrey

As of 2012, Humphrey is vice president of business development for Bryant Bank in Birmingham, Alabama.

Bride of the Regiment

The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical The Lady in Ermine by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, which had been adapted from the operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.

Campaign for Freedom of Information

The character Sir Arnold Robinson from the hit series Yes Minister accepts the chairmanship of the campaign for freedom of information and in Yes, Prime Minister is regularly seen in this role, more often than not using it to aid Sir Humphrey in leaking material that will damage the government (once he has the assurance that the leaked information is inaccurate).

Clip joint

The film Marked Woman, starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, portrays a clip joint.

Coins of the South African pound

The obverse continued the previous design by T. Humphrey Paget and the reverse the previous designs by George Kruger Gray.

Dorothy Wainwright

When Sir Humphrey and Sir Frank Gordon, the head of the Treasury, tried to trick the cabinet into approving a massive pay rise for the civil service, they submitted a massive report of several hundred pages in order to support their claim — and which the ministers were hardly likely to read through thoroughly.

Elizabeth Plantagenet

Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of Edward I of England, wife of John I, Count of Holland and then of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford

Elstow

Two years after The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539, Elstow green and the Abbey were leased to Edmund Harvey, whose daughter, Isabel, subsequently married Sir Humphrey Radcliffe.

Evan Harris Humphrey

Humphrey would marry Clara Swift, daughter of Major General Eben Swift and sister of Major General Innis P. Swift.

Frederick Whirlpool

Later, after turning down a job offer to join the police, Whirlpool changed his name to Humphrey James and moved to Tasmania.

Hollywood Athletic Club

During its early years as a health club, its membership included Johnny Weissmuller, Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Walt Disney,John Ford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Mary Pickford, Cecil B de Mille, Cornel Wilde, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Frances X. Bushman, Howard Hughes, Joan Crawford and Rudolph Valentino, Mae West, Walt Disney, Buster Crabbe and Pola Negri.

Humphrey Crum-Ewing

Crum-Ewing was born Humphrey Crum, the son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank, Renfrewshire and his wife Jane Maclae, daughter of Walter Ewing Maclae of Cathkin.

Humphrey Fleming Senhouse

His grandfather, Humphrey Senhouse of Netherhall, Cumberland, married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Sir George Fleming, bishop of Carlisle.

Humphrey Francis Humphreys

Humphrey Francis Humphreys CBE (1885–1977) was a physicist, academic and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 1952 to 1953.

Humphrey I de Bohun

Humphrey I de Bohun (died c.1123) was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat, the youngest son of Humphrey with the Beard, who had taken part in the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

Humphrey Lyons

Humphrey Lyons was born at St Austins in the English county of Hampshire in 1802, the ninth of twelve sons of John Lyons of Antigua and St Austin's (1760-1816), and Catherine (1763-1803) (née Walrond), daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado.

Humphrey Mews

Colonel Humphrey Mews (1941-1990) was Deputy Private Secretary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 1986-1988.

Humphrey of Montfort

However, upon Humphrey's death 6 months later, the new king Henry II retook the fiefdom (probably because he considered Humphrey's sons too young to guarantee the defence of Tyre) and granted it to his brother Amalric.

Humphrey Swynnerton

His mother was by Alice Stanley, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stanley of Pipe Ridware and Clifton Campville.

Humphrey with the Beard

At the time of the Conquest Humphrey possessed the honour of Bohun (today comprising two communes, Saint-André-de-Bohon and Saint-Georges-de-Bohon) in western Normandy.

James M. Humphrey

Humphrey was elected as a Democrat to the 39th and 40th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1869.

Jonny Briggs

It revolves around the exploits of a young boy, the eponymous hero (played by Richard Holian), his pet dog, Razzle, and his eccentric family members: Mam (Jane Lowe) and Dad (Leslie Schofield), older sister Rita (Sue Devaney) and older brothers Albert (Tommy Robinson) and Humph (Humphrey) (Jeremy Austin).

Lawrence Hill, Bristol

was held by the Crown until it was granted to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester during the reign

Louis E. Newman

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, and Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Maud Humphrey

Maud Humphrey (March 30, 1868 – 1940) was a suffragette, commercial illustrator and the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.

Muriel Humphrey Brown

Humphrey was appointed as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party by Rudy Perpich, the governor of Minnesota, to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of her husband, and served from January 25, 1978 to November 7, 1978 in the 95th Congress.

Nene Humphrey

Humphrey is the recipient of the Montalvo Artist Fellowship (2012), the Agnes Gund Production Grant for Video (2010), the Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship (2007), the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (1999), the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1986), and the National Endowment for the Arts Artist Grant (1983).

New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments

Votes against conviction: Judges Ward Hunt (Rep.), Lewis B. Woodruff (Rep.), Charles Mason (Rep.), William J. Bacon (Rep.), Thomas W. Clerke and Charles C. Dwight; State Senators Chapman, Banks, Campbell, Hubbard, Humphrey, Kennedy, Mattoon, Morgan, Wicks, Palmer, Parker, Thayer, Van Patten - 19

Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet

Nicholas Tufton was the son of Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet and Christian Browne, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne, Justice of the Common Pleas, by Agnes Hussey, the daughter of John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, by his second wife, Anne Grey.

Nootka Crisis

Its sister ship, the Eleanora, under Humphrey's father, Simon Metcalfe, was nearly captured but escaped.

Onuphrius

His name appears very variously as Onuphrius, Onouphrius, Onofrius; and in different languages as Humphrey (English), Onofre (Portuguese, Spanish), Onofrio (Italian), etc.

Percy Humphrey

A 1951 album, New Orleans Parade, features Humphrey, trombonists Charles "Sunny" Henry and Albert Warner, and saxophonist Emanuel Paul.

Philip Shuttleworth

Philip Shuttleworth was second son of Humphrey Shuttleworth, vicar of Kirkham in Lancashire from 1771 to 1812, and of Preston from 1784 to 1809, an anti-papal writer.

Teddy Brannon

Humphrey "Teddy" Brannon (September 27, 1916, Moultrie, Georgia - February 24, 1989, Newark, New Jersey) was an American jazz and blues pianist.

The Last of the Barons

Other historical figures that appear frequently in the text are Duke of Clarence, Duke of Gloucester (the future King Richard III), Marquess of Montagu, and Lord Hastings.

Thomas Maxfield

He was born in Stafford gaol, one of the younger sons of William Macclesfield of Chesterton and Maer and Aston, Staffordshire; William Macclesfield was a Catholic recusant, condemned to death in 1587 for harbouring priests, one of whom was his brother Humphrey.

Tito Livio Frulovisi

He was employed in the household of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and wrote for him both a poem celebrating the duke's martial exploits, Humfrois, and a biography of Humfrey's late brother, Henry V of England.

Under the Crescent

The story is biographical; it was based on the real life of its lead actress, Ola Humphrey, who in 1911 married Egyptian Prince Ibrahim Hassan, cousin of the Khedive.

White City, Gloucester

The estate was formally opened by the Duke of Gloucester, in a tree-planting ceremony held on 14 July 1928.

William Jennens

The courts allocated William's personal property between his next of kin, Mary, Lady Andover, a granddaughter of Humphrey Jennens’s daughter Ann, and William Lygon, 1st Earl Beauchamp (1747–1816), a grandson of Hester Jennens, and a descendant of Thomas Lygon.

William Pedley

Pedley was born at Stubbing Court, Wingerworth, Derbyshire, the son of Thomas Humphrey Pedley and his wife Mary Gully, daughter of John Gully.

Willie Humphrey

After establishing himself with such New Orleans bands as the Excelsior and George McCullum's band, Humphrey traveled up north, playing with such other New Orleans musicians as Lawrence Duhé, and King Oliver in Chicago (Photos show Humphrey with Duhé's band playing in the stands for the infamous 1919 World Series).

Winnie the Pooh and Friends

Finally Humphrey puts all of the trash in a geyser (known as the Old Fateful) causing it to spill garbage everywhere and finally results with the hapless bear getting to clean up all of the garbage instead of eating his chicken cacciatore.


see also

Mary Slingsby

In Henry VI, Part I, with the Murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, adapted by John Crowne from Shakespeare, and acted in 1681, the part of Queen Margaret was assigned to Lady Slingsby.