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unusual facts about maid-of-honour



2011 Green Soccer Bowl

Nigeria Football Federation's media officer Ademola Olajire stated that the competition will be held in honour of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Andrew Olle

The Andrew Olle Media Lecture is an annual lecture held by the ABC in his honour.

Andries Treurnicht

The far-right Western Goals Institute organized his London visit, and the Conservative Monday Club held a dinner in his honour, at which at least one British Conservative Party MP, Tim Janman, was present.

Anna Pavlovna of Russia

The genus of trees Paulownia was coined by a Dutch botanist named Siebold to honour Anna Pavlovna.

Archer brothers

In 1853, Charles and William Archer were the first Europeans to discover the Fitzroy River, which they named in honour of Sir Charles FitzRoy, Governor of the Colony of New South Wales.

Baskerville House

A sculpture of the Baskerville typeface, Industry and Genius, in honour of John Baskerville stands outside the main entrance to Baskerville House in Centenary Square.

Biotite

Biotite was named by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847 in honour of the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot, who, in 1816, researched the optical properties of mica, discovering many unique properties.

Bletchingly Stakes

The race was first held in 1992 and is named in honour of the former champion racehorse and sire Vain.

Bob Brettle

A silver belt, given to him by his patrons to honour his achievements, and made in Birmingham, was featured on the television programme Antiques Roadshow, while in the possession of one of his descendants.

Bonnie Dundee

Bonnie Dundee is the of title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.

Canadian Museum of Nature

The newly renovated museum re-opened again on 22 May 2010, and the lantern structure was christened the "Queens' Lantern" in honour of both Elizabeth II, who visited the building on her 2010 royal tour, and Queen Victoria.

Cape Cleveland, Queensland

Cook gave no reason for the name, but it is possible it was in honour of John Clevland, a former Secretary to the British Admiralty.

Cathcart Challenge Cup

The event was established in 1938, and it was named in honour of Frederick Cathcart, the clerk of the course and chairman at Cheltenham from 1908 to 1934.

Charles Thackrah

A building was opened in his honour and given his name at the University of Leeds in around 2007.

Coldharbour Lane

Markus Schulz named his own recording label "Coldharbour Recordings" in honour of the time when he lived in a flat in Coldharbour Lane.

Ctenocheloides

It was described in 2010, and named in honour of the British natural history broadcaster David Attenborough.

Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon Marché

The piece was first published in Le Figaro musical in April 1893, along with the Couplets du capitaine des pompiers (in honour of Colonel Constant, the head of the fire brigade the night of the fire at the Opéra-Comique on 25 May 1887) by André Wormser.

E. J. H. Corner

Among the many plant species named in his honour are Anisophyllea corneri, Calamus corneri, Bulbophyllum corneri, and Platyscapa corneri.

Franca Arena

She was offered the Order of the British Empire for services to migrants, but refused the honour; in 1980 she accepted the Order of Australia for services to ethnic groups.

Frederick Ernest Osborne

In 1961, The Calgary Board of Education decided to honour by building a junior-high school in the (then) new North-West Calgary community of Varsity, the medium-sized school was opened in 1967, and today is expanded to serve the communities of Hawkwood and Tuscany.

Galway International Oyster Festival

Guests of Honour at this event have included television presenter Gay Byrne, retired Taoiseach Charles Haughey, international snooker player, Ken Doherty and chefs Clodagh McKenna, Richard Corrigan and Martin Shanahan.

George Harrison Dunbar

The George Dunbar Bridge which crosses the Rideau River near Carleton University in Ottawa was named in his honour.

Glenmalure Park

When the Cunningham family took over the club in the 1930s, the stadium was named Glenmalure Park in honour of the Cunningham's ancestral home in the Glenmalure valley in the Wicklow Mountains.

History of Milford Haven

He spoke glowingly during a banquet held in his honour, commenting on the number of whaleships sent to the Southern Oceans, Milford's status as a primary seaport on the west coast of Britain, and culminated in comparing the harbour with that of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka as to be the two best he had ever seen.

Imre Nagy

During the time when the Communist leadership of Hungary would not permit his death to be commemorated, or permit access to his burial place, a cenotaph in his honour was erected in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Jiliya

The Title of the rulers "Tazim Naresh Maharaja Shri" (The Great Hon'ble King) is derived from the Urdu word Tazeem (Tazim) meaning Respect or Honour, which describes their special position as a Dual Tazimi Thikana in the Princely State of Jodhpur whom the Jodhpur Maharaja receives in Darbar by rising from throne, taking steps, and hugging, and are exempted from appearance in Courts of Law in Civil Cases; and Naresh meaning "King" or "Maharaja" or "Raja".

Lei Feng

Born in Wangcheng, Hunan (near the town of Leifeng, Changsha, Hunan, named in his honour), Lei was orphaned at an early age.

Margherita, Assam

From historical records, it is not quite clear whether the directors of that company renamed the place as a lasting tribute to that Italian engineer or was it Paganini himself, out of patriotism, christened the place in honour of Queen Margherita, the reigning Queen Consort of Italy.

Mount Barney National Park

The first known climb to the summit of Mt Barney by a European was completed in 1828 by Captain Patrick Logan, by one of the hardest and spectacular ridges on the mountain, named in his honour.

Mount Macdonald

The original name of the peak was Mount Carroll, but was renamed to honour the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald.

Names of Istanbul

It was conferred to it by the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193–211) in honour of his son Antoninus, the later Emperor Caracalla.

Nathan Burke

It was also notable for the fact that the coaching panel of Richmond that day included fellow St Kilda teammates Danny Frawley and Stewart Loewe, who stayed on the ground in honour of Burke following his parade lap (with Alex Lloyd's "Amazing" played at the ground).

Nek'af uzhas, nek'af at

In the first track, Vhod (Entrance), there is a motif from the Judas Priest's anthem "Breaking the Law", expressively added in honour of the British band's frontman Rob Halford.

Peter Schousboe

Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.

Phyllis Hartnoll

A collection of her poems The maid's song and other poems was published by Macmillan in 1938 and she wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.

Quebec Autoroute 610

In January 2008, A-610 was renamed in honour of Louis Bilodeau, a longtime broadcaster on CHLT-TV.

Queen's Colour Squadron

The unit has mounted the guard at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and The Tower of London on several occasions, and has formed guards of honour for various visiting heads of state at Heathrow Airport, near its former base of RAF Uxbridge and its current base of RAF Northolt.

Ralph de Ashton

In his seventeenth year he was one of the pages of honour to Henry VI, and at the same early age he married Margaret, the heiress of the Bartons of Middleton, and became the founder of the family that held the lordship there until the 18th century, when it passed by the female line to the holders of the Suffield peerage.

Rantsila

General J.A. Sandels was perhaps the most highly respected commander of the Finnish troops, and in honour of him and his noble and highly renowned horse Bijou, an equestrian statue was erected in the center of Rantsila in 1989.

Raoul Nordling

A play area in the 11th Arrondissement, the "Square Raoul Nordling" is named in his honour, as is a street in Neuilly.

Revenge for Honour

"Revenge for Honour" was believed up to the 20th century to have been written by George Chapman, appearing in volumes of his works in the 19th century, but the current consensus appears to favor authorship by Glapthorne since J.H. Walter's article in The Review of English Studies (1937).

Roland Mathias

The Roland Mathias Prize, a literary award, is administered by the Brecknock Society and Museum Friends and is named in his honour.

Santiago Bernabéu Yeste

In his honour FIFA decreed three days of mourning during the tournament.

Sea*a

The four girls were picked by Anisong Diva May'n's manager from Moe Moe Kyun Maid Cafe at the annual Anime Festival Asia (AFA) held in Singapore.

St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston

A memorial to physician and botanist Dr. William Withering, who pioneered the medical use of digitalis (derived from the foxglove), is situated on the south wall of the Lady Chapel, and features carvings of foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae, a plant named in his honour.

Steve Rexe

In an interview with an Ottawa Sun reporter in April 2008, Rexe stated that he considered it an honour to have been the first ever pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins and would have been delighted if the Pens would have invited him to Pittsburgh to drop the first puck when they open their new arena.

Strawberry Fields Festival

Chip Monck, who designed the stage lighting for Woodstock and became the impromptu emcee of that event had planned to emcee Strawberry Fields but the various changes in dates and venues pushed the festival into August and Mr.Monck was bound to honour a previous commitment to work the Rolling Stones European tour at that time.

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

Sir John Henry Lefroy, a pioneer in the study of terrestrial magnetism served as director of the magnetic observatory from 1842 to 1853; In 1960, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Citizenship and Culture erected a Provincial Military Plaque in his honour on the University of Toronto campus.

Vere Johns

In 2012, former Minister of Culture Olivia Grange called for Johns to receive a posthumous honour in recognition of his contribution to Jamaican popular music.

Verena Wagner Lafferentz

In 2003 Verena Wagner Lafferentz attended the International Richard Wagner Congress held in Copenhagen, attending as guest of honour a performance of Die Walküre by the Royal Danish Opera with Queen Margrethe, Prince Henrik, the patron of the Wagner Congress, Wolfgang and Gudrun Wagner, and Birgit Nilsson.


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Alexandra Gallitzin

Vera Vasilchikova (1780 - 1814), maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine who was the first wife of later-Prince Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov.

Sister to Moscow aristocrat and writer Catherine Rostopchin and maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine Vera Vasilchikova, she was the mother of five, including Peter Gallitzin, and the grandmother of the Roman Catholic missionary, Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin who published her writing post-humously.

Alisa Sodoleva

She also played roles such as Monna and Zulma in Giselle and Maid of Honour in the Sleeping Beauty.

Elizabeth Knollys

In the books, she is a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth I and friend to the central character Lady Grace Cavendish.

Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan

At the age of twenty, Françoise-Athénaïs became a maid-of-honour to the king's sister-in-law, Princess Henrietta Anne of England, who was known at court by the traditional honorific of Madame.

Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth

Her children included: Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche, Harriett Lady Dunce, Anne wife of Hon. Robert Brudenell whose son was 6th Earl of Cardigan; Charlotte Lady Maynard, Frances Lady Warren Maid of honour to Queen Charlotte 1761-4, Catherine Countess of Liverpool, Baroness Hawkesbury among others.

Silvia Jato

She began as a model, and took part in Miss Spain in 1989 (being Maid of Honour) and in Miss Europe in 1991 (being Maid of Honour, Miss Photogenic and Miss Sympathy).

The Maid of Honour

John Philip Kemble, an admirer of Massinger's dramas, staged an adaptation of the play called Camiola, or The Maid of Honour, at Drury Lane in 1785.