• Mary, Lady Abney (née Gunston; 1676 – 12 January 1750) inherited the Manor of Stoke Newington in 1701 from her brother. The property lies about five miles...
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    historic parkland originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney, Dr. Isaac Watts and the neighbouring Hartopp family. In 1840 it became...
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  • Derek Abney (born 1980), American footballer Don Abney (1923–2000), American jazz pianist Larry Abney (born 1977), American basketball player Mary Abney (1676–1750)...
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    1700, Abney married Mary Gunston, who was surprisingly independent. It was Mary Abney who gave his name to Abney Park in Stoke Newington. Abney had a...
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  • Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun (3 July 1919 – 1 November 2002), was a Scottish countess in her own right, and a member of...
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  • Nina Chanel Abney is an American artist, based in New York. She was born in Harvey, Illinois. She is an African American contemporary artist and painter...
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    neighbours Sir Thomas Abney and Lady Mary. He eventually lived for a total of 36 years in the Abney household, most of the time at Abney House, their second...
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    Angel. Mediæval Bæbes also appeared on the Friday at the Abney Public Hall. Lady Mary Abney (1676–1750), inherited the manor and commissioned the first...
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  • May 1880 for Charles Frederick Abney-Hastings. Born Charles Frederick Clifton, he was the widower of Edith Mary Abney-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun...
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    William de Wiveleslie Abney KCB FRS FRSE (24 July 1843 – 3 December 1920) was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer. Abney was born in Derby,...
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    Philip Joseph Mary Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Arundel (7 September 1879 – 8 July 1902). Lady Flora Paulyna Hetty Barbara Abney-Hastings was...
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    Abney Park Chapel, is a Grade II Listed chapel, designed by William Hosking and built by John Jay that is situated in Europe's first wholly nondenominational...
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  • Huddleston Abney-Hastings (later Campbell of Loudoun, 1920–1981), married (1) Edgar Wakefield, (2) Arthur Hubble Lady Iona Mary Huddleston Abney-Hastings...
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    Abney Park is a steampunk band based in Seattle. The band is named after an iconic gothic cemetery, the Abney Park Cemetery in London where Robert Brown...
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    Abney Park is in Stoke Newington, London, England. It is a 13-hectare (32-acre) park dating from just before 1700, named after Lady Abney, the wife of...
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  • died without issue Paulyn Abney-Hastings, second son of Edith, succeeded his childless brother Charles Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun...
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    mid eighteenth century the village was owned by Elizabeth Abney, daughter of Lady Mary Abney; and her detailed local survey map has survived to this day...
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  • The Abney Park Temple Lodges are gatehouses to Abney Park Cemetery designed by William Hosking, to Abney Park in the London Borough of Hackney. The lodges...
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    (South Africa). The next day, Christie left for her sister's residence at Abney Hall, Cheadle, where she was sequestered "in guarded hall, gates locked...
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    Abney Hall is a Victorian house surrounded by a park in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, (grid reference SJ85958923) built in 1847. It is a Grade...
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  • John (1680?–1762), with whom the baronetcy became extinct, assisted Lady Mary Abney in erecting a monument over Watts's remains in Bunhill Fields. He had...
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    equal right in the female line descended in 1911 to the Earl of Loudoun (Abney-Hastings) and Lord Grey de Ruthyn (Clifton). Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey...
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    and appreciation in the landscape of Abney Park that "spoke to them" of the memory of Isaac Watts and Lady Mary Abney. The promoters hoped that the burial...
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    burial reform: Abney Park Cemetery. Sensitively preserving the existing early eighteenth century parkland laid out by Lady Mary Abney and Isaac Watts...
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    meeting house was built in Stoke Newington about 1700, near the house of Mary Abney, who had inherited the manor. Later that century the village became known...
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  • Marvin L. Abney (born November 10, 1949, in Texarkana, Texas) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives...
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  • London. The dwelling was known as Abney House, and was surrounded by parkland of the same name laid out by Lady Mary Abney and Dr Isaac Watts. One side of...
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    mansions shared parkland, which was laid out by the lady of the manor, Lady Mary Abney, and her companion, Dr Isaac Watts, when they lived there in the early...
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    parents' home, Manor Lodge, close to his paternal grandparents' estate of Abney Hall, Cheadle. He was christened in Torquay that autumn, during the first...
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  • Now". He was the seventh child born to Robert DeBarge Sr. and Etterlene Abney DeBarge. Like all of his siblings, he was born and raised on the East Side...
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