Resultado da Busca
Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, Lady Houston, DBE (née Radmall; 8 April 1857 – 29 December 1936) was a British philanthropist, fascist sympathizer, political activist and suffragist. [1] Beginning in 1933, she published the Saturday Review , [1] which was best known for its attacks on what the paper labelled the "unpatriotic" National ...
1 de out. de 2021 · Although she has been regarded as an aviation pioneer, only a handful of people know about Dame Fanny Lucy Houston. In fact, without Lady Houston, the Battle of Britain might have been entirely different. Here is the little-known story of how Lucy Houston saved the Spitfire from becoming obsolete.
Name variations: Lady Houston; Dame Fanny Houston. Born Fanny Lucy Radmall in 1858 (some sources cite 1857) in Camberwell, southeast of London (at the time of her death, the Times placed her birth in St. Margarets, Twickenham); died on December 29, 1936; married Theodore Brinckman (a future baronet), in 1883 (divorced 1895); married George ...
Lady Lucy Houston, proprietor of the weekly Saturday Review, was watching Mosley’s progress carefully. Now in her late seventies and one of England’s richest women, she had dedicated her last years to the support and promotion of Britain and the Empire.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Columnists. Second World War: How former chorus girl who foresaw war in 1931 helped win the Battle of Britain – Susan Morrison. In the early 1930s, Lucy, Lady Houston, realised air power...
No attempt could be made without substantial funding, so in September 1932 Clydesdale visited Lucy, Lady Houston at Kinrara (her estate in Scotland) to ask her to fund the expedition.
26 de abr. de 2017 · Lucy, Lady Houston: Philanthropist, Activist, and Aviation Pioneer - Aviation Oil Outlet. By Aviation Oil Outlet on Apr 26th 2017. If not for Poppy Houston, the Battle of Britain might have ended very differently. Fanny Lucy Radmall was born on April 8, 1857, to Thomas Radmall, a woolen warehouseman and draper, and Maria Isabella Clark.
