Asthall — Asthal, or Asthall, is a village and civil parish in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about six miles west of Witney. The village is on the River Windrush, and had a population of 282 according to the 2001 census.Notable… … Wikipedia
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire — The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire The Duchess poses at Chatsworth in 1952. Photograph by Norman Parkinson/Sygma/CORBIS. Born March 31, 1920 (1920 03 31 … Wikipedia
Diana Mitford — Diana Mitford, The Hon. Lady Mosley Born 17 June 1910(1910 06 17) Belgravia, Westminster, England Died … Wikipedia
Mitford family — The Mitford family The Mitford family is a minor aristocratic English family that traces its origins in Northumberland back to the time of the Norman conquest. In the Middle Ages they had been Border Reivers based in Redesdale. The main family… … Wikipedia
Nancy Mitford — Born 28 November 1904(1904 11 28) London, England Died 30 June 1973(1973 06 30) (aged 68) Versailles, France … Wikipedia
Jessica Mitford — Born September 11, 1917(1917 09 11) Gloucestershire, England, UK Died July 22, 1996(1996 07 22) (aged 78) Oakland, California, United States Cause of … Wikipedia
Purbeck Marble — is a fossiliferous limestone quarried in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south east Dorset, England.It is one of many kinds of Purbeck Limestone, deposited in the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous periods.Purbeck Marble is not a metamorphic… … Wikipedia
Stone sculpture — is the result of forming 3 dimensional visually interesting objects from stone.Carving stone into sculpture is an activity older than civilization itself. Prehistoric sculptures were usually human forms, such as the Venus of Willendorf and the… … Wikipedia
David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale — David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, (13 March 1878 – 17 March 1958), was an English landowner and was the father of the Mitford sisters, in whose various novels and memoirs he is depicted. Contents 1 Ancestry 2 Biography… … Wikipedia
Jon Edgar — is a British artist born in West Sussex in 1968, the grandson of British cartoonist Brian White. He studied at both Exeter University and University of London before attending the former Frink School of Figurative Sculpture for two years from… … Wikipedia
