Belgian lawyer, banker and politician. Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium.
Mayor of Brussels (1840-1841).
Minister of Justice (1841-1842).
Belgian lithographer.
Belgian politician. Member of House of Representatives 1831-1848.
Belgian politician.
Van de Weyer served as Belgium’s Prime minister from July 1845 to March 1846. However, he lived for the majority of his life in London (17 Fitzroy Square, 50 Portland Place) and Windsor (New Lodge), and held the office of Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James’s under Queen Victoria, an ambassadorial role. Van de Weyer was close friends with Lord Palmerston. In addition to being a member of the Roxburghe Club, Van de Weyer was a founder member of the Philobiblon Society, the Vice President of the London Library, a Member of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and the Head of the Royal Library of Brussels.
Pierre Henri Laurent said of Van de Weyer: 'His manners, taste, and savoir-faire brought him into the vital center of the intellectual, diplomatic, and financial communities. His home became the meeting place of writers, artists, and scientists’.
Elizabeth Van de Weyer (née Bates) was from Massachusetts and the only daughter Joshua Bates (1788-1864) of Barings Bank. She comforted Queen Victoria following the death of Prince Albert.
American diplomat.
1st and last duchess of Inverness .
Ruth lived with her brother, George Charlewood Turner, at Marlborough school before he moved to Uganda to teach at Makerere College in 1939.
Ralph was the eldest Turner child. On 6 August 1928, he was appointed Rector of the Parish Church in Falmouth.
Sister of Ruth Mallory, wife of George Mallory.
In the beginning of 1913 she passed the Examination for the Cambridge Teaching Diploma just before her last term at St Marys College, Lancaster Gate where she spent a year.
She became Headmistress of the Deaconess High School at Brown's Town, Jamaica.
Hugh Thackeray Turner was born in Foxearth, Essex, the son of Rev. John Richard Turner (a Church of England vicar) and his wife Harriet.
After leaving Newbery Grammar School he was apprenticed to the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. In 1877 Turner began work on his own account. He was also employed by Scott's sons, John Oldrid and George Gilbert junior, becoming the latter's chief assistant.
Turner left Scott's office to become Secretary for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (founded by William Morris in 1877). His job was to investigate, inspect and report on buildings at risk from insensitive restoration. He held the post until 1911.
On 19 July 1888 he married Mary Elizabeth (May) Powell (1854–1907). May became a leading member of the arts and crafts movement in her own right, exhibiting needlework and founding the Women's Guild of Arts with May Morris. The couple had three daughters, the second of whom, Ruth, married George Mallory in July 1914.
In 1898 Turner designed his own home Westbrook in Godalming, which with the assistance of Gertrude Jekyll's assistance was surrounded by a much admired garden.
After a long retirement he died of pyelonephritis on 11 December 1937 in London.
Henry visited Vienna around 1905, and eventually returned to England. He taught at Catford School.