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unusual facts about Queen Mary's Dolls' House


How Watson Learned the Trick

Conan Doyle was one of several authors commissioned to provide books for the library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House; others included J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and W. Somerset Maugham.


Alan Deyermond

When Westfield merged with Queen Mary College in 1992, he moved to the Mile End site.

Alan Dickie

Dickie joined the Metropolitan Police and later worked in the Coroner's Office at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent.

Allyn Abbott Young

From 1913 to 1920 he was professor at Cornell University, but war took him to Washington DC in 1917 to direct the Bureau of Statistical Research for the War Trade Board, and to New York in 1918 to head the economics division of a group known as "The Enquiry" under Colonel Edward M. House, the group charged with laying the groundwork for the Paris Peace Conference.

Azzam Tamimi

On 28 February 2012, Tamimi appeared at a pro-Palestinian event at Queen Mary, University of London where the former Liberal Democrat MP Baroness Tonge was also a speaker.

Calderbank

Iron from the Calderbanks works was used to build the Queen Mary cruise liner.

Carlos D. Shelden

He was subsequently re-elected to the 56th and 57th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1903 in the U.S. House.

Charles G. Oakman

In 1952, Oakman defeated Democrat Martha W. Griffiths to be elected as a Republican from Michigan's 17th congressional district to the 83rd Congress, serving from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1955 in the U.S. House.

Connaught Hall, London

It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at constituent colleges and institutions of the University of London, including King's College London, University College London, Queen Mary, the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies and others.

Donald Paige Frary

Frary's expertise on the subject of Eastern Europe caught the attention of the Wilson Administration and he was asked to serve as a secretary to Colonel Edward M. House, President Woodrow Wilson's closest advisor, on the American Commission to Negotiate Peace following the end of World War I.

Frank Hadow

He returned to Wimbledon nearly half a century later to collect a commemorative medal from Queen Mary for being the oldest surviving champion.

Gleadless Valley

The oldest part of the building stands on Saxon foundations and dates from the 13th century, there are claims that it is the second oldest building in Sheffield after Bishops' House.

Harry Pennell

Pennell was promoted to Commander and assigned to HMS Queen Mary in the summer of 1914, and died 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, when the ship was sunk by the German ships SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger.

International Hall, London

It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at institutions such as University College London, King's College London, Queen Mary, School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Economics, and other such constituent colleges of the University of London.

Interstate 710

The second spur heads down S. Harbor Scenic Drive after the interchange to the eastern piers of the Port of Long Beach and the Queen Mary.

J. R. House

House is now fourth all-time behind Maty Mauk (18,932), Maty's older brother Ben Mauk (17,364) and Chris Leak (15,593).

Jake Corman

In early 2008, there was speculation that Corman would make a run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by John E. Peterson; however Corman declined to run.

James Stewart House

James Stewart, Jr., House, Christina, Delaware, listed on the NRHP in New Castle County, Delaware

Jefferson F. Long

Long was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused when the U.S. House declared Samuel F. Gove not entitled to the seat and served from January 16, 1871 to March 3, 1871.

John Downing, Jr., House

Notably, his work with the young Samuel Clemens led to a literary appearance years later: writing under the name of "Mark Twain", Clemens portrayed him in the book Life on the Mississippi.

John H. Gear

He was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House for the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1891.

Jonathan D. C. Turner

Turner was born on 13 May 1958 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, and educated at Rugby School, Cambridge University (1979 BA, 1982 MA), the Université libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen) and Queen Mary College, London (1982).

Justin Winsor

His grandfather's home, the Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House, is now the headquarters of the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society.

Kate Sharpley

At the age of 22, when called to receive her family's medals from Queen Mary (wife of George V) she threw the medals back at her, saying "if you like them so much you can have them".

Lady Constance Gaskell

Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Gaskell née Knox DCVO (21 April 1885 – 29 April 1964) was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937–53 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953–60.

Leon Patillo

For years, Patillo pastored the Rock House Church on the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach, California but since retired the ministry in late 2009 in favor for traveling and leading seminars across the country.

Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

She was educated at Roedean (where she was head girl), Heidelberg University, Queen Mary, University of London and the Polytechnic of Central London, and worked as a statistician and market research manager, including a spell with Shell-Mex and BP, before entering Parliament as MP for Wallasey, Merseyside, succeeding the former Cabinet minister Ernest Marples.

Malaudh

Sardar Badan Singh was an invitee to the Delhi Coronation Durbar held in December 1911 to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India and received Delhi Durbar Medal 1911.

Martha Griffiths

In 1954, Griffiths was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 17th congressional district to the 84th Congress and was subsequently re-elected to the nine following Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955 to December 31, 1974 in the U.S. House.

Michael Scriven

Scriven's work in education has influenced the work of many scholars, including that of Robert E. Stake, Ernest R. House, and Gene V Glass.

Pirates' House

The Pirates' House was built on a plot of land located on the east side of James Oglethorpe's original plan of the city of Savannah.

Lee H. Adams is the founder of The Mystery Café located in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis.

Plamil Foods

The first annual general meeting was held on 6 October 1956 at Friends' House in Euston Road, London.

Poirot Investigates

The ships that feature in "The Million Dollar Bond Robbery" are changed from the Olympia and the Gigantic to the Queen Mary and the Berengaria.

Port Disney

It was also to have incorporated the RMS Queen Mary and Spruce Goose, which Disney acquired as a result of acquiring the Wrather company in 1989.

Queen Mary

Maria of Montferrat (1192–1212), queen regnant of Jerusalem, daughter of Isabella I of Jerusalem and Conrad of Montferrat and mother of Isabella II of Jerusalem

Queen Mary's Grammar School

Prof Martin Ennals, Ariel F. Sallows Professor of Human Rights in 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Secretary-General from 1968-80 of Amnesty International, and younger brother of David

Regent Street

The work was delayed by the Great War and it was not until 1927 that the completion was celebrated, with King George V and Queen Mary driving in state along its length.

Reuben Smeed

He obtained a degree in mathematics and PhD in aeronautical engineering from Queen Mary's College before entering academia as a teacher of mathematics.

Roland Dobbs

After radar research for the Admiralty, 1943-6, he was a research student at University College London, 1946-9 and lecturer in Physics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1949-58.

Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya

One tree with a significant history is the Cannonball Tree planted by King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary in 1901.

Shared historical authority

Dennis Severs House is a historic townhouse in London (18 Folgate St.) that was restored by Dennis Severs.

St Paul's Cross

The first sermon preached here after Catholic Queen Mary's accession (by Bishop Bourne) provoked a riot - a dagger was thrown at Bourne (but missed him, sticking in one of the side posts) and he had to be rushed to safety in St Paul's School.

United States House Committee on Commerce

The United States House Committee on Commerce was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1819 until 1892; it was established when the previous Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, which has existed since 1795, was split into two different committees.

United States House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures

The United States House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1795 until 1819, when the two initially related subjects were split into the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Manufactures.

United States House Committee on Public Works

The United States House Committee on Public Works was a U.S. House committee, established in 1947 by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, that had jurisdiction over infrastructure within the United States.

William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy

Mountjoy married firstly, about Easter 1497, Elizabeth Say, the daughter and coheir of Sir William Say of Essenden, Hertfordshire, by whom he had a daughter, Gertrude Blount, who married, on 25 October 1519, Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, and was a lady in waiting to Queen Mary.

William Parkyns

After the death of Queen Mary in 1695 Parkyns associated with Sir George Barclay, Robert Charnock, Captain George Porter, "Scum" Goodman, and others, in their plan to kidnap or to assassinate William.

Withdrawn Canadian banknotes

The note was coloured an appropriate royal purple; both the King & his consort Queen Mary were featured, with Windsor Castle appearing on the back.


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