Alexandra churchill age
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Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from [Alexandra] Princess [of Wales, later Queen Alexandra] to Lady Randolph Churchill. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1886 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/52
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This class of papers was acquired by WSC at various times either by inheritance or gift and has been arranged in groups according to the presumed original owner: Lady Randolph Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill; John S Churchill; W Bernau of Lloyds Bank and others.The major groups may be broken into sub-series by correspondents and the papers thereafter are arranged chronologically (e.g. Lady Randolph Churchill's letters from WSC are mainly found at CHAR 28/13-28).The series includes a number of letters from WSC himself. Some of the Lord Randolph Churchill papers may have been acquired for WSC's biography of his father but they have been placed in this class because of the impossibility of making a sure distinction. Similarly there are a number of original
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Lady Randolph Churchill
American-born British socialite (1854–1921)
Jeanette "Jennie" Spencer-Churchill[1]CI RRC DStJ (née Jerome; 9 January 1854[2] – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill,[a] was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill.
Early life
Jennie[b] Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854,[3] the second of four daughters (one died in childhood) of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa (always called Clara[4]), daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner. Jerome's father was of Huguenot extraction, his forebears having emigrated to America from the Isle of Wight in 1710.[5] Hall family lore insists that Jennie had Iroquois ancestry through her maternal grandmother;[6] however, there is no research or evidence to corroborate this.[7]
She was raised in Brooklyn,[c]Paris, and N
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Mr. Dominic Berner (University of Durham) from Loughborough Grammar School, England
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Mr. Oliver Paulin (University of Manchester) from United World College, Thailand
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Mr. Ross Stokley (University of Nottingham Trent) from Australasia Tennis Aces, Hong Kong
Senior School House Mistress (Keller House)
Mrs. Gillian Nightingale (University of Sheffield) from Loughborough High School, England
Senior School House Mistress (Gellhorn House)
Ms. Naina Nightingale (University of Reading) from Holland Park School, England
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Mr. Rob Powell (Wadham College, University of Oxford) from The King David High School, Manchester, England
Senior School Day House Mistress (Wu House)
Mrs. Lee Collins (University of Sydney) from New Cairo British International School, Egypt
Senior School Day House Mistress (Anderson House)
Ms. Swati Ray (University of Delhi) from French International
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