The daughter of the landlord of The Swan public house at Walton-on-Thames. The composer Jerome Kern stopped at the pub while on a Thames river trip and fell in love with her. They married in Walton on the 25th October 1910, and she returned to America with him.
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Eva Leale
Poet. Born Idaho, USA. Had a close relationship with Hilda Doolittle whom he met at university. She followed him to London and with others they developed the Imagism poetry movement. Pound wa...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Brother of Andrew Gilbert who also died in the attack. Timothy Paul Gilbert was born in 1966. He was marr...
American statesman. South Carolina planter and slave owner. 1783 negotiator for the Treaty of Paris.
Flight Lieutenant, 71 Eagle Squadron, Administrative or Special Duties Officer, American