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Captain Lawrence Oates Lawrence Edward Grace Oates was born on 17 March 1880 at Putney, London, one of the four children of William and Caroline Oates. He was privately educated after ill health cut short his attendance at Eton College after two years. Oates joined the 3rd West Yorkshire (militia) regiment in 1898 Continue reading 17 March 1880: Birth of Lawrence Oates, British Explorer Samuel Ferguson Samuel Ferguson, poet, antiquarian, barrister and archivist, was born in Belfast on 10 March 1810. He was the youngest of the six children of John and Agnes Ferguson. His father’s family had lived in Ulster since the seventeenth century but their property in county Antrim did not provide them much towards Continue reading 10 March 1810: Birth of Samuel Ferguson, Irish Poet Raymonde de Laroche The “Baroness” Raymonde de Laroche was born on 22 August 1886 as Elise Raymonde Deroche and was the daughter of a plumber. On becoming an actress and singer as a young woman, Elise Deroche took the stage name of Raymonde de Laroche. An interest in engineering and flight led de Continue reading 8 March 1910: The First Woman to Receive a Pilot’s Licence Cuthbert Collingwood Cuthbert Collingwood was born on 26 September 1748 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eighth child of Cuthbert and Milcah Collingwood. He was the eldest of three sons. After a schooling at the Newcastle Free School, Collingwood went to sea on the Shannon at the age of twelve on 28 August 1761. Continue reading 7 March 1810: Death of Cuthbert Collingwood, British Admiral Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Daimler was born in Schorndorf, Württemberg on 17 March 1834. He trained as a gunsmith but had a fascination with engineering from an early age. After studying at the Stuttgart Polytechnic Institute he began a career in engineering. The inventor of the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, Nikolaus A. Otto, employed Daimler Continue reading 6 March 1900: Death of Gottlieb Daimler, German Engineer James Doohan James Montgomery Doohan was born in Vancouver, in the Canadian Province of British Columbia, on 3 March 1920. His parents, William and Sarah, had emigrated from Ireland and had three older children. The family later moved to Ontario where Doohan was educated at the Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School. During Continue reading 3 March 1920: Birth of James Doohan, Canadian Actor Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (or Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen in Polish) was born on 1 March 1810 in the Duchy of Warsaw to a French father and a Polish mother. His father, Nicholas, took work as a tutor to aristocratic families and later became a French teacher at the Warsaw lyceum. Chopin loved Continue reading 1 March 1810: Birth of Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French Composer John Tenniel (Self Portrait) John Tenniel was born in Bayswater, London on 28 February 1820, the third son of John and Eliza Tenniel. The Tenniel family had little money to educate their six children so, after attending primary school, John was taught by his father. Tenniel’s father, a fencing and dancing instructor, taught Continue reading 28 February 1820: Birth of John Tenniel, English Illustrator Roger Mortimer was born at Ludlow on 11 November 1328. At that time the Mortimer family, headed by his grandfather, Roger Mortimer, first earl of March, was the most powerful in England. But, by the time Roger was three, the family’s fortunes had reversed and its future looked bleak. When the first earl was Continue reading 26 February 1360: Death of Roger Mortimer, Second Earl of March |
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