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Balcon, Jill b. January 3, 1925 d. July 18, 2009
Actress. She was the mother of Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis and acclaimed documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis. Born Jill Angela Henriette Balcon in Westminster, London, England, she was the daughter of movie producer Michael Balcon (1896-1977) who served as the director and chief of production for the Ealing Studios. She was educated at Roedean School in Brighton. With aspirations of becoming an actress, she would broaden her studies at the Central School...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
St Michael's Churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset, England
Day-Lewis, Cecil b. April 27, 1904 d. May 22, 1972
British Poet Laureate. He asked to buried as close to Thomas Hardy as possible, and his wife was able to arrange for him to be interred at the end of the row of Hardy family graves.
St Michael's Churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset, England
Hardy, Emma Lavinia b. 1873 d. 1912
First wife of Thomas Hardy.
St Michael's Churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset, England
Hardy, Florence Emily b. January 12, 1879 d. October 17, 1912
Second wife, and biographer, of Thomas Hardy.
St Michael's Churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset, England
Hardy, Jemima b. 1813 d. 1904
Mother of Thomas Hardy. Parents of Thomas Hardy, the novelist and poet. Behind their tomb can be seen that of their son (and his wives), and beyond that the tomb of their grandchildren.
St Michael's Churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset, England
Hardy, Thomas [heart only] b. June 2, 1840 d. January 11, 1928
Author. Thomas Hardy was born in Higher Brockhampton, Dorset, England, to Thomas and Jemima Hardy, the eldest of four children. His mother encouraged his love of knowledge and learning, and his father, a stonemason, passed on his love of architecture and music. As a result, the younger Thomas played the fiddle in the church choir. Hardy incorporated his village's scenery, local customs and traditions, as well as the liturgy of the Anglican Church, into his novels. (His village became the...[Read More] (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
St Michael's Churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset, England
Rumbold, Lady. Pauline Laetitia b. February 6, 1927 d. December 6, 2008
Actress, Poet, Socialite. A noted beauty and performer in her youth, she was later a respected author. Born to wealth and privilege, she was raised initially on a Wiltshire estate though her aristocratic father David Tennant allowed the too-attractive-for-her-own-good Pauline to rub elbows with many noted personalities of the day at his Soho nightspot, The Gargoyle Club. Her actress mother Hermione Baddeley apparently delighted in demeaning her but she still followed her onto the stage, making...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
St Michael's Churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset, England

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