Born as Raine McCorquodale. Mother Barbara Cartland. Worked for the preservation of ancient buildings. Her second, of three, marriages made her stepmother to Diana, soon to be, Princess of Wales.
She died, aged 87 years, on 21 October 2016. Her Wikipedia page and her obituary in The Guardian newspaper give much information about this lady.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Raine, Lady Dartmouth, Countess Spencer
The plaque is a perfectly nice pub plaque but the pub is adorned with many lo...
British antiquary and collector. Curate at St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1851-8. Rector at St Pauls West Hackney 1872. Member the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Linnean Society and the Roy...
Barrister, local politician and Mayor of Hornsey 1908-9. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and published a number of books on historical subjects. In the 1890s the College of Arms, Lond...
The surrender of Japan was announced in Japan (USA, Europe, etc.) on 14 (15) August 1945 and effectively ended WW2. The paperwork was done two weeks later on 2 September. All three dates are someti...
Formed initially as the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, renamed in 1956. From their website: "To celebrate Ottawa’s centenary in 1926, the Society unveiled a memorial to Lieutenant-...
Born Bath, Somerset. Editor and eventually proprietor of the Manchester Guardian. He was a Liberal member of parliament from 1895 to 1905 and embraced the causes of female suffrage and a Jewish nat...
We don't know that the Geoffrey Hubbard we found on Wikipedia is the one named on the plaque but it seems likely, especially since the date of death would tally with a plaque being erected in Janua...
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