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Madelyn Dunham. Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham ( / ˈdʌnəm / DUN-əm; October 26, 1922 [1] – November 2, 2008) was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment.
Sir William Stanley Baker (28 February 1928 – 28 June 1976) was a Welsh actor and film producer. Known for his rugged appearance and intense, grounded screen persona, he was one of the top British male film stars of the late 1950s, and later a producer. [1] Born into a coal mining family in Glamorgan, Baker began his acting career in the West ...
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, portrait by Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661), Tabley House, Knutsford, Cheshire. Stanley was a man of deep religious feeling and of great nobility of character. In July 1649, following the execution of Charles I, he refused with scorn the terms offered him by Henry Ireton. On 12 January 1650, he was made a ...
Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English actor, comedian, singer and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout ...
Levi Stanley was the son of Owen Stanley (1794 – 21 February 1860) and Harriet Worden (1793 – 30 August 1857), who were heads of the family before him and his wife. Levi had a brother named Benjamin, who settled down in New England. Benjamin was disowned by his father, and was said to have had a curse out on him and the next generations ...
Spencer family. The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, started on Saturday 6 September 1997 at 9:08 am in London, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey started tolling to signal the departure of the cortège from Kensington Palace. The coffin was carried from the palace on a gun carriage by riders of the King's Troop and escorted by ...
E. Stanley Jones. Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973) was an American Methodist Christian missionary, theologian, and author. He is remembered for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India. His seminal work, The Christ of the Indian Road ( ISBN 0-687-06377-9 ), sold more than a million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925.
Indiana University at Indianapolis. Academic work. Institutions. Purdue University. Charles Stanley Ross is an American literary scholar, academic, and author. He is a Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and a former Director of Comparative Literature Program at Purdue University. [1] Ross's work focuses on British literature.