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Hace 3 días · Stanley Melbourne Bruce was born on 15 April 1883 in St Kilda, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, and was the youngest of five children. He disliked his given name and throughout his life preferred to be known by his initials "S.M.", even among close friends. His wife called him simply "S".
- World War I
- Melbourne Grammar School
- 1914–1917
25 de abr. de 2024 · Byron began a scandalous relationship with Caroline Lamb, who was married to Lord Melbourne. Caroline was captivated by Byron and sent him some of her pubic hair as a keepsake. Within months, he discarded Caroline while continuing an affair with her 60-year-old mother-in-law.
Hace 2 días · Byron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Byron's paternal grandparents were Vice Admiral John Byron and Sophia Trevanion.
Hace 1 día · The judgement famously found that a “fair and reasonable wage” should be enough to support a wife and three children in “frugal comfort” based on the cost of clothing, food, housing and other essentials. Sounds like Vida’s work. Read more in this International Women’s Day speech by Lord Mayor Sally Capp.
Hace 3 días · Joseph Florey's first wife was Charlotte Ames, with whom he had two daughters, Charlotte, who was born in 1880, and Anne, who was born in 1882. After his wife contracted pulmonary tuberculosis , the family emigrated to South Australia, where it was hoped that the climate would be more congenial.
Hace 3 días · He jobbed and prospered; ran away with a duke's daughter; contrived to reconcile himself with the family (that of Richmond); got his wife made a baroness; was made a lord himself—Baron Holland, of Foxley; was a husband, notwithstanding his jobbing, loving and beloved; was an indulgent father; a gay and social friend—in short, had ...
Hace 6 días · Melbourne, twenty-six years old and two years married to an attractive and strong-willed wife, was possessed of great wealth inherited from his father (a lawyer who had at one time himself been a mortgagee of the property from the Duke of Marlborough).
