-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 19th of October 2022 10:31:59 PM
Santa said
09:16 AM Oct 20, 2022
Your right, thought she may have proven a little more difficult.
Daisy was a controversial figure, at one time married to Harry Morant, there are also claims she was a bigamist, she certainly seemed to enjoy the company of men.
Early life
Daisy Bates was born Margaret Dwyer in County Tipperary in 1859, when it was under British rule. Her mother, Bridget (née Hunt), died of tuberculosis in 1862 when the girl was three. Her widowed father, James Edward O'Dwyer, married Mary Dillon in 1864 and died en route to the United States, planning to send for his daughter after he got settled. Dwyer was raised in Roscrea by relatives, and educated at the National School in that town.
Emigration and life in Australia
In November 1882, Dwyerwho by then had changed her first name to Daisy Mayemigrated to Australia aboard the RMS Almora as part of a Queensland government-assisted immigration scheme. Dwyer said that she left Ireland for "health reasons", which was repeated by some sources, but biographer Julia Blackburn discovered that after getting her first job as a governess in Dublin at age 18, there was a scandal, presumably sexual in nature, which resulted in the young man of the house taking his own life.[citation needed] This story has never been verified, but if true, could have spurred Dwyer to leave Ireland and reinvent her history, setting a pattern for the rest of her life.[3] It was not until long after her death that facts about her early life emerged,[4] and even recent biographers disagree in their accounts of her life and work.[5]
Dwyer settled first at Townsville, Queensland, purportedly staying first at the home of the Bishop of North Queensland. Later she stayed with family friends who had migrated earlier. On the later stage of her journey, Dwyer encountered Ernest C. Baglehole and James C. Hann, amongst others.[citation needed] Both Baglehole and Hann had boarded at Batavia bound for Australia. She may have been introduced to the bishop through Hann. His father William Hann had donated £1000 for the construction of St James Church of England, a few years before Bishop Stanton had arrived at Townsville.
Dwyer subsequently found employment as a governess on Fanning Downs Station. She married poet and horseman Breaker Morant (Harry Morant aka Edwin Murrant) on 13 March 1884 in Charters Towers; the union lasted only a short time. Dwyer reputedly threw Morant out because he failed to pay for the wedding and stole some livestock.[6] The marriage was not legal, as Morant was under age (he said he was twenty-one, but was only nineteen).[7][8][page needed] They were never divorced. Morant biographer Nick Bleszynski suggests that Dwyer played a more important role in Morant's life than has been previously thought, and that she persuaded him to change his name from Edwin Murrant to Harry Harbord Morant.[citation needed]
After separating from Morant, Dwyer moved to New South Wales. She said that she became engaged to Philip Gipps (the son of a former governor) but he died before they could marry; no records support this assertion. Biographer Bob Reece calls this story 'nonsense', as Gipps died in February 1884, before Dwyer married Morant.[9]
She met and became involved with John (Jack) Bates, and they married on 17 February 1885. Like Morant, he was a bushman and drover. Their only child, Arnold Hamilton Bates, was born on 26 August 1886 in Bathurst, New South Wales.
Bates also married Ernest Baglehole that year on 10 June 1885.[8][page needed] They had met on her immigration voyage.[citation needed] They married at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Newtown, Sydney.[8][page needed] He was recorded as a seaman, but he was the son of a wealthy London family. He had become a ship's officer after completing an apprenticeship, and this might have been his attraction for Dwyer.[citation needed] Some biographers speculate that Arnold's biological father was Ernest Baglehole, not Bates.[8][page needed] The polygamous nature of Bates's marriages was kept secret during her lifetime.
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Sheba said
10:45 PM Oct 20, 2022
Thanks Santa.
This is a very easy one. .
Santa said
07:30 AM Oct 21, 2022
Morning Sheba, yep, easy for me, the incomparable Paul Newman.
Sheba said
12:02 AM Oct 23, 2022
You couldn't be more right Santa. Who are we looking for now?
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Santa said
09:19 AM Oct 23, 2022
Thanks Sheba, Newman was one of the greats, always enjoyed his movies.
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 26th of October 2022 01:49:34 AM
Santa said
08:48 AM Oct 26, 2022
Sheba wrote:
Chill Wills.
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 26th of October 2022 01:49:34 AM
Good guess Sheba, no, not Chill Wills.
Sheba said
09:48 PM Oct 26, 2022
Ok. I'll go back to my original thought. Rock Hudson ?
Santa said
11:28 PM Oct 26, 2022
Sheba wrote:
Ok. I'll go back to my original thought. Rock Hudson ?
Not Rock Hudson Sheba.
This actor was multilingual.
Sheba said
11:38 PM Oct 28, 2022
English by Birth ?
Sheba said
11:53 PM Oct 28, 2022
Paul Muni ?
Santa said
09:12 AM Oct 29, 2022
Sheba wrote:
Paul Muni ?
Morning Sheba.
Not Paul Muni; yes, he was English born, also served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
Big Gorilla said
09:31 AM Oct 29, 2022
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE FRSA was a British actor, filmmaker and writer.
Santa said
10:55 AM Oct 29, 2022
Big Gorilla wrote:
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE FRSA was a British actor, filmmaker and writer.
Morning BG.
Yes, your correct, Peter Ustinov.
Sir Peter Alexander UstinovCBEFRSA (born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov/(j)ustnf/; 16 April 1921 28 March 2004) was a British actor, filmmaker and writer. As an internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. An intellectual and diplomat, he held various academic posts and served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and president of the World Federalist Movement.
Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards during his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and BAFTA Awards for acting, and a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed a unique cultural versatility which frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov.
In 2003, Durham University changed the name of its Graduate Society to Ustinov College in honour of the significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death.
Ardal O'Hanlon it is.You've been watchin "Death in Paradise" !!
Ardal O'Hanlon is an Irish comedian, actor, and author. He played Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted, George Sunday/Thermoman in My Hero, and DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise . His novel The Talk of the Town was published in 1998.
Yes, Gundog, correct. It is Leonard Teale. My strongest memories of his acting was for the TV show Homicide, though I know he did much other entertainment work.
Over to you for someone else.
A short bio for Leonard
Leonard George Thiele AO, professionally Leonard Teale, was a well-known Australian actor of radio, television and film and radio announcer, presenter and narrator known for his resonant baritone voice.
My strongest memories of Leonard are for his role in the TV show Homicide. Though I know that he did many different other things in his life in the entertainment industry.
Over to you for someone else.
A bio for Leonard:
Leonard George Thiele AO, professionally Leonard Teale, was a well-known Australian actor of radio, television and film and radio announcer, presenter and narrator known for his resonant baritone voice.
Sorry Sandy. This guy was Scottish born.
Morning BG.
Don't recognize him from the image, however given your very generous clues I suspect it may be Alexander Graham Bell.
Hi Santa. Yes it is. Over to you.
Scottish-American scientist and inventor known for the telephone (18471922)
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. Wikipedia
Thanks Ken.
Not sure how this one will go, perhaps a bit obscure.
Daisy Bates .
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 19th of October 2022 10:31:59 PM
Your right, thought she may have proven a little more difficult.
Daisy was a controversial figure, at one time married to Harry Morant, there are also claims she was a bigamist, she certainly seemed to enjoy the company of men.
Early life
Daisy Bates was born Margaret Dwyer in County Tipperary in 1859, when it was under British rule. Her mother, Bridget (née Hunt), died of tuberculosis in 1862 when the girl was three. Her widowed father, James Edward O'Dwyer, married Mary Dillon in 1864 and died en route to the United States, planning to send for his daughter after he got settled. Dwyer was raised in Roscrea by relatives, and educated at the National School in that town.
Emigration and life in Australia
In November 1882, Dwyerwho by then had changed her first name to Daisy Mayemigrated to Australia aboard the RMS Almora as part of a Queensland government-assisted immigration scheme. Dwyer said that she left Ireland for "health reasons", which was repeated by some sources, but biographer Julia Blackburn discovered that after getting her first job as a governess in Dublin at age 18, there was a scandal, presumably sexual in nature, which resulted in the young man of the house taking his own life.[citation needed] This story has never been verified, but if true, could have spurred Dwyer to leave Ireland and reinvent her history, setting a pattern for the rest of her life.[3] It was not until long after her death that facts about her early life emerged,[4] and even recent biographers disagree in their accounts of her life and work.[5]
Dwyer settled first at Townsville, Queensland, purportedly staying first at the home of the Bishop of North Queensland. Later she stayed with family friends who had migrated earlier. On the later stage of her journey, Dwyer encountered Ernest C. Baglehole and James C. Hann, amongst others.[citation needed] Both Baglehole and Hann had boarded at Batavia bound for Australia. She may have been introduced to the bishop through Hann. His father William Hann had donated £1000 for the construction of St James Church of England, a few years before Bishop Stanton had arrived at Townsville.
Dwyer subsequently found employment as a governess on Fanning Downs Station. She married poet and horseman Breaker Morant (Harry Morant aka Edwin Murrant) on 13 March 1884 in Charters Towers; the union lasted only a short time. Dwyer reputedly threw Morant out because he failed to pay for the wedding and stole some livestock.[6] The marriage was not legal, as Morant was under age (he said he was twenty-one, but was only nineteen).[7][8][page needed] They were never divorced. Morant biographer Nick Bleszynski suggests that Dwyer played a more important role in Morant's life than has been previously thought, and that she persuaded him to change his name from Edwin Murrant to Harry Harbord Morant.[citation needed]
After separating from Morant, Dwyer moved to New South Wales. She said that she became engaged to Philip Gipps (the son of a former governor) but he died before they could marry; no records support this assertion. Biographer Bob Reece calls this story 'nonsense', as Gipps died in February 1884, before Dwyer married Morant.[9]
She met and became involved with John (Jack) Bates, and they married on 17 February 1885. Like Morant, he was a bushman and drover. Their only child, Arnold Hamilton Bates, was born on 26 August 1886 in Bathurst, New South Wales.
Bates also married Ernest Baglehole that year on 10 June 1885.[8][page needed] They had met on her immigration voyage.[citation needed] They married at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Newtown, Sydney.[8][page needed] He was recorded as a seaman, but he was the son of a wealthy London family. He had become a ship's officer after completing an apprenticeship, and this might have been his attraction for Dwyer.[citation needed] Some biographers speculate that Arnold's biological father was Ernest Baglehole, not Bates.[8][page needed] The polygamous nature of Bates's marriages was kept secret during her lifetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(author)
-- Edited by Santa on Thursday 20th of October 2022 09:51:03 AM
Thanks Santa.
This is a very easy one.
.
Morning Sheba, yep, easy for me, the incomparable Paul Newman.
You couldn't be more right Santa. Who are we looking for now?
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Thanks Sheba, Newman was one of the greats, always enjoyed his movies.
This one shouldn't present many problems.
Is he a young Ben Mendelsohn?
Not Ben Mendelsohn Sandy.
Clue time! he was an actor, one of the greats.
Chill Wills.
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 26th of October 2022 01:49:34 AM
Good guess Sheba, no, not Chill Wills.
Ok. I'll go back to my original thought. Rock Hudson ?
Not Rock Hudson Sheba.
This actor was multilingual.
English by Birth ?
Paul Muni ?
Morning Sheba.
Not Paul Muni; yes, he was English born, also served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE FRSA was a British actor, filmmaker and writer.
Morning BG.
Yes, your correct, Peter Ustinov.
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE FRSA (born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov /(j)ustnf/; 16 April 1921 28 March 2004) was a British actor, filmmaker and writer. As an internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. An intellectual and diplomat, he held various academic posts and served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and president of the World Federalist Movement.
Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards during his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and BAFTA Awards for acting, and a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed a unique cultural versatility which frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov.
In 2003, Durham University changed the name of its Graduate Society to Ustinov College in honour of the significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov
Hi Santa it was a hard one but I knew the face. Try this one:
Ardal O'Hanlon it is.You've been watchin "Death in Paradise" !!
Ardal O'Hanlon is an Irish comedian, actor, and author. He played Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted, George Sunday/Thermoman in My Hero, and DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise . His novel The Talk of the Town was published in 1998.
Yes, BG. "Death in Pardise" is regularly on our TV.
So, who is this bloke?
Leonard Teale
Yes, Gundog, correct. It is Leonard Teale. My strongest memories of his acting was for the TV show Homicide, though I know he did much other entertainment work.
Over to you for someone else.
A short bio for Leonard
Yes Gundog correct. It is Leonard Teale.
My strongest memories of Leonard are for his role in the TV show Homicide. Though I know that he did many different other things in his life in the entertainment industry.
Over to you for someone else.
A bio for Leonard:
Who is this