• Diana Villiers is a fictional character in the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. Described as beautiful, mercurial, and entirely unreliable...
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  • Diana Mary Villiers Negroponte (born August 14, 1947) is an American trade lawyer, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...
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  • Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and the long pursuit of his beloved Diana Villiers. Maturin was played by Paul Bettany in the 2003 film Master and Commander:...
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  • Look up villiers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Villiers may refer to: Villiers, Indre, in the Indre département Villiers, Vienne, in the Vienne département...
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  • Napoleonic Wars. The plot begins with the marriage of Dr Maturin and Diana Villiers. Soon after, Captain Aubrey takes HMS Worcester on blockade duty around...
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  • Maturin and Diana Villiers speed to England on a mail packet that is chased for the papers in Maturin's hands, and possibly for Diana herself. The papers...
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  • Negroponte (16th century), Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period Diana Villiers Negroponte (born 1947), American trade lawyer John Negroponte (born...
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  • Maturin to propose to Diana Villiers is dismissed by Maturin in Post Captain, and he misses the moment (later said also by Villiers in HMS Surprise). She...
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    judoka Diana Villiers Negroponte (born 1947), American lawyer and academic Diana Vincent (born 1958), American jewelry designer and businesswoman Diana Vishneva...
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  • Sophia Williams, the eldest of three daughters, while Maturin pursues Diana Villiers, Sophia's cousin. Jack wants to marry Sophia, but they delay making...
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  • trade with China is interrupted by the present war. Maturin encounters Diana Villiers, still the mistress of Harry Johnson. He is a wealthy American slave...
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  • Much younger half-brother to Jack and a midshipman in the Royal Navy. Diana Villiers: Wife of Stephen and mother of their daughter; their household rents...
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  • when he sees Diana Villiers, who has returned to Bombay ahead of her companion, the wealthy merchant Richard Canning. Stephen and Diana agree to visit...
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  • Christopher Francis Villiers (born 7 September 1960) is an English actor, screenwriter and producer. Villiers was born in London, the son of Royal Air...
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  • children. Diana Villiers: Cousin to Sophia, wife of Stephen and mother of their daughter. Brigid Maturin: Infant daughter of Maturin and his wife, Diana Villiers...
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  • proceeds to the home of Colonel Villiers, a relative of Diana's late husband with whom she is now staying, where he and Diana are happily reunited. See also...
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  • frequently frustrating romantic pursuit of the beautiful but unreliable Diana Villiers. He uses several addictive substances, including laudanum and coca leaves...
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  • honesty in others is getting him cheated at cards. Stephen learns that Diana Villiers has returned from America, unmarried, but when he calls upon her he...
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    the public. Villiers was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, on 20 August 1592, the second son of the minor gentleman Sir George Villiers (1550–1606) from...
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  • Navy. Brigid Maturin: Daughter of Stephen Maturin and his late wife Diana Villiers. Padeen Colman: Maturin's Irish servant, now part of his household on...
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  • about it. Mrs Williams: Mother of Sophia and her two married sisters. Diana Villiers: Wife of Stephen Maturin, not at home in London when he returns. Gedymin...
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  • Scottish National Party MSP Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour Party Leader Diana Villiers Negroponte, trade lawyer and academic Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent...
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  • Hyde Villiers, MC (14 August 1912 – 22 January 1992) was a British businessman and chairman of British Steel Corporation from 1976 till 1980. Villiers was...
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  • series so exceptional" noting the absence of book characters such as Diana Villiers and Sophie Aubrey as significant omissions in the film along with the...
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  • Aubrey is a changed man. Maturin travels to Sweden to speak to his wife Diana Villiers. Aubrey agrees to meet him there for the return voyage. In Stockholm...
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    around HER face." In Patrick O'Brian's novel Post Captain (1972), Diana Villiers' mentally troubled cousin, Edward Lowndes, upon learning that Doctor...
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  • another ship. Brigid Maturin – Stephen's daughter by his late wife, Diana Villiers. Christine Wood – Widow and an expert naturalist and anatomist; she...
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  • Constitution. He heals from a serious wound in Boston. He, Maturin and Diana Villiers escape aboard HMS Shannon, which defeats USS Chesapeake in Boston Harbor...
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    physician and spy Stephen Maturin lived on Half Moon Street with his wife Diana Villiers at the start of The Ionian Mission. "Half Moon Street, W1." in Christopher...
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  • Jane Diana Dawson in 1974. They had two children: George Edward Laurence Villiers, 8th Earl of Clarendon (born 1976) Lady Sarah Katherine Jane Villiers (born...
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