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unusual facts about Selina, Countess of Huntingdon



Adolph Lewisohn

He donated a significant portion of his art collection to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, including “The Awakening” by Maurice Sterne, "Selina" by Jacob Epstein, and “Eve and the Apple,” by Kaj Neilsen.

Arja Koriseva

It first appears in Eino Leino´s poem Arja and Selinä of 1916; but the Arja in the poem is a boy.

Celia Brayfield

She won a place at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, an academic public school with a literary and political tradition; alumnae include the writers Monica Dickens, Selina Hastings, Flora Fraser; Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman; the actors Emily Mortimer, Jennifer Saunders, Joely Richardson and Rachel Weisz; and the politicians Harriet Harman and Shirley Williams.

Christopher van Wyk

He has written books for neo-literate adults, such as The Murder of Mrs. Mohapi (1995), My Cousin Thabo (1995), Take a Chance (1995), My Name is Selina Mabiletsa (1996), and Sergeant Dlamini Falls in Love (1996), biographies of Sol Plaatje and Oliver Tambo for teenagers, and adaptations of works by Bessie Head, Sol Plaatje, and Can Themba.

Court of Owls

Selina and Spark eventually decide not to steal the Talon daggers that Penguin originally had in his possession and head off to deposit the Talon's body, which they leave at the Bat-Signal, with the Night of the Owls having come to a close.

Eula Valdez

In 2011, she was part of the remake of Mula Sa Puso as her comeback to her home network ABS-CBN where she played Selina Matias a role that brought Award Winning success to character actress Princess Punzalan.

Ezekiel Blomfield

Rev. Dr. Alexander and Selina MacDonald arrived in Rarotonga in May 1836, then Samoa in April 1837 and settled at Safune on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa in August 1837.

Francis Huntingdon

Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon (1729–1789), British peer; son of the 9th Earl of Huntingdon and his wife, Selina

George Grote

His father, another George, married (1793) Selina, daughter of Henry Peckwell (1747–1787), minister of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Westminster, and his wife Bella Blosset (descended from a Huguenot officer Salomon Blosset de Loche who left the Dauphiné on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes), and had one daughter and ten sons, of whom George was the eldest.

Harry Marshall Ward

Dyer persuaded him to spend time researching the biological processes involved in brewing ginger beer, and helped ensure his entry to the Linnaean society, his signature was on a letter to the prime minister of the day H H Asquith recommending a pension should be paid to his widow, Selina after his death.

Henry Peckwell

By her he had a son, Robert Henry, and a daughter, Selina Mary (named after her godmother, the Countess of Huntingdon), who, in 1793, married George Grote, the banker, and became the mother of George Grote and Arthur Grote.

Henry Wylie Norman

On 14 April 1853, at Peshawar in India, Norman married Selina Eliza Davidson (d.1862) by whom he had three daughters.

Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

He later renamed the settlement in honor of Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, England.

Industry and the Eglinton Castle estate

Selina Higgins was born in Glasgow, with parents from Burslem in England, and she lived in the Five Roads area, married to a Mr. John Bannerman, a miner who worked at Ladyha Colliery in the 1930s.

Rainald Knightley, 1st Baron Knightley

Knightley was the son of Sir Charles Knightley, 2nd Baronet of Fawsley, and his wife Selina Mary, daughter of F. L. Hervey.

S.P.I.D.E.R.

Narrowly escaping an ambush by S.P.I.D.E.R. agents, Selina arranges for her contact to leak the base's location to Interpol.

Selina

Selina Chow (born 1945), Hong Kong politician and broadcaster

The Paragon, Bath

It was also known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, as she lived in the attached house from 1707–1791.

The X-Family

It starred George Hu and other members of Wu Hu Jiang, Chen De Xiu and Kirsten Ren, the little sister of Selina from S.H.E.

Thomas Caulker

In the early 1850s Thomas Caulker was sent by his father, Canrah Bah Caulker, King of Bompey (syn: Bumpe), to London, for a Christian education in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion pioneered in the eighteenth century by the evangelical Selina Hastings, and for his health.

Tyldesley Top Chapel

Its first minister was J. Johnson who was ordained at Spa Fields Chapel London by the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.

William Stanhope Badcock

He was married, in 1822, to Selina, daughter of Sir Henry Harpur Crewe of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.

Winifred Selina Sturt Hardinge

Winifred Selina Sturt was the second daughter of Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington, and his first wife Lady Augusta Bingham, who was the first daughter of George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan.


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