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See also:SERRES, OLIVIA (1772-1834) , an See also:English impostor, who claimed the See also:title of Princess See also:Olive of See also:Cumberland, was See also:born at See also:Warwick on the 3rd of See also:April 1772. She was the daughter of See also:Robert See also:Wilmot, a See also:house-painter in that See also:town, who subsequently moved to See also:London. In 1791 she married her See also:drawing-See also:master, See also:John See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Serres (1759-1825), marine painter to See also:George III., but in 1804 separated from him. She then devoted herself to See also:painting and literature, producing a novel, some poems and a memoir of her See also:uncle, the Rev. Dr Wilmot, in which she endeavoured to prove that he was the author of the Letters of See also:Junius. In 1817, in a See also:petition to George III., she put forward a claim to be the natural daughter of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Frederick, See also:duke of Cumberland, the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:brother, and in 182o, after the See also:death of George III., claimed to be the duke's legitimate daughter. In a memorial to George IV. she assumed the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland, placed the royal arms on her See also:carriage and dressed her servants in the royal liveries. Her See also:story represented that her See also:mother was the issue of a See also:secret See also:marriage between Dr Wilmot and the princess See also:Poniatowski, See also:sister of See also:Stanislaus, king of See also:Poland, and that she had married the duke of Cumberland in 1767 at the London house of a nobleman. She herself, ten days after her See also:birth, was, she alleged, taken from her mother, and substituted for the still-born See also:child of Robert Wilmot. Mrs Serres's claim was supported by documents, and she See also:bore sufficient resemblance to her alleged See also:father to be able to impose on the numerous class of persons to whom any See also:item of so-called secret See also:history is attractive. In 1823 See also:Sir Robert See also:Peel, then See also:Home Secretary, speaking in See also:parliament, declared her claims unfounded, and her See also:husband, who had never given her pretensions any support, expressly denied his belief in them in his will. Mrs Serres died on the 21st of See also:November 1834, leaving two daughters. The eldest, who married Antony Ryves, a portrait painter, upheld her mother's claims and styled herself Princess Lavinia of Cumberland. In 1866 she took her See also:case into See also:court, producing all the documents on which her mother had relied, but the See also:jury, without waiting to hear the conclusion of the reply for the See also:crown, unanimously declared the signatures to be forgeries. Mrs Serres's pretensions were probably the result of an absurd vanity. Between 1807 and 1815 she had managed to make the acquaintance of some members of the Royal See also:family, and from this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time onwards seems to have been obsessed with the See also:idea of raising herelf, at all See also:costs, to their social level. The See also:tale once invented, she brooded so continuously over it that she probably ended by believing it herself.
See W. J. Thorns, Hannah See also:Light See also:foot, and Dr Wilmot's See also:Polish Princess (London, 1867) ; Princess of Cumberland's Statement to the English Nation; See also:Annual See also:Register (1866), Case of Ryves v. the See also:Attorney-See also:General.
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