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unusual facts about Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne



Cascapédia River

Several Governors General of Canada, including The Marquess of Lansdowne and Lord Stanley, had summer homes along this river.

Catherine Fitzmaurice

The January 2010 issue of American Theatre magazine (published by the Theatre Communications Group) calls Fitzmaurice one of "the great lions of the field of voice work in the U.S." and one of the "visionary innovators in the craft" of voice training for actors.

Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne

In 2001, Lord Lansdowne was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, shortly after retiring as a member of the Prince's Council of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Cherhill

Near the village is the Lansdowne Monument, or Cherhill Monument, a 125-foot stone obelisk erected in 1845 by the Third Marquis of Lansdowne in honour of his ancestor Sir William Petty.

David Barbour

Sir David Miller Barbour (1841–1928) was a senior administrator in India, Finance Member of the Indian Viceroy's Council under Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, writer on monetary issues, and Irish loyalist.

David Dawnay

In 1926 Dawnay married Lady Katharine Nora de la Poer Beresford, daughter of Henry de la Poer Beresford, 6th Marquess of Waterford and Lady Beatrix Frances Petty-FitzMaurice; they had two daughters and two sons.

Dudley Knight

He was a Master teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, which is based on the teachings of Catherine Fitzmaurice.

East Africa Protectorate

In the carrying out of this policy of colonisation a dispute arose between Sir Charles Eliot, then Commissioner of British East Africa and Lord Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary.

Francis Thomas-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry

Others took a more jaundiced view: Horace Walpole called Kerry " a simple young Irish peer that has married an elderly Irishwoman who was divorced on his account and wasted a vast estate on the idlest ostentation."

He had no children and the title became an additional title of the Marquess of Lansdowne, descendants of his uncle John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne.

Geashill

An Anglo-Norman settlement was built here between 1185 and 1204 by the first Baron of Offaly, Gerald Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, an ancestor of the Earls of Kildare.

George Fitzmaurice

Rumors of other Fitzmaurice films in Gosfilmofond include 1920s Idols of Clay (with Mae Murray) and Three Live Ghosts with Norman Kerry, Anna Q. Nilsson Cyril Chadwick and Edmund Goulding.

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845 – 1927), British politician and Irish peer, Governor-General of Canada

In Our Heads

Pitchfork Media's Larry Fitzmaurice regarded In Our Heads as Hot Chip's "most playful and colorful record yet, an album-length manifestation of that 'sounds of the studio' game that cut straight through the middle of 'Shake a Fist'."

James FitzMaurice FitzGerald

FitzMaurice was son of Maurice Fitzjohn a Totane, brother of the 12th Earl of Desmond, and Julia O'Mulryan of County Tipperary, making him nephew of James FitzGerald, Earl of Desmond and cousin of Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond.

Kingdom of Desmond

Most prominent of the Norman families in the area were the FitzGeralds (Earls of Desmond), FitzMaurices, Barrys, Barretts, and Roches.

Lady Sophia Topley

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

Lansdowne Monument

The Lansdowne Monument, also known as Cherhill Monument, near Cherhill in Wiltshire is a 38 metre (125 foot) stone obelisk erected by Third Marquis of Lansdowne to the designs of Sir Charles Barry to commemorate his ancestor, Sir William Petty in 1845.

Laurence O'Neill

He was elected to the Irish Free State Seanad Éireann at a by-election on 20 June 1929 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice.

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Other Board members: Hugh Bullock, James Cane, Philip Carne, Kay Ellen Consolver, Kevin Fitzmaurice, Paul Gismondi, Anthony Gordon-Lennox, Patricia Hodge, Paterson Joseph, Victoria Legge-Bourke LVO, Timothy Oakley, Mark Schnebli, Sue Stapely, Richard Szpiro, Thomas Vaughan.

Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne

Lady Lansdowne was a daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.

Michael John Fitzmaurice

Fitzmaurice joined the Army from his birth city of Jamestown, North Dakota, and by March 23, 1971 was serving as a Specialist Four in Troop D, 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

During a firefight on that day, in Khe Sanh, Republic of Vietnam, Fitzmaurice smothered the blast of an enemy-thrown explosive charge with his flak vest and body to protect other soldiers.

Patrick Fitzmaurice

Patrick Fitzmaurice, seventeenth Lord Kerry and Baron Lixnaw (1551?–1600), was the son and heir of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 16th Baron Kerry.

Sara Fitzmaurice

Fitzmaurice and her team launched the Philip Johnson Glass House as a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; helped to grow Performa to become one of the U.S.'s most important visual art performance biennials; provides strategic public relations to the Sharjah Art Foundation in the UAE; and, has represented galleries including Gagosian, Sean Kelly, and Lehmann Maupin.

Fitzmaurice has spearheaded campaigns for clients including Art Basel, for which Fitzmaurice conceived the museum trustee group outreach program, the first of its kind for an art fair, and the 2001 launch of Art Basel in Miami Beach, for which she served as a lead U.S.-based strategist.

Self-help book

Many celebrities have marketed self-help books including Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlie Fitzmaurice, Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra and Cher.

Thomas FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney

Their fourth son, Alexander Temple FitzMaurice, became a Groom of the Bedchamber in 1867 and later served in the Yeomanry Cavalry.

William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry

In 1738, he married Lady Gertrude Lambart, daughter of Richard Lambart, 4th Earl of Cavan, and had a son, Francis Thomas-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry (1740–1818), and a daughter Anna Maria, who married Maurice FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Kerry.


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