American painter, interior designer and furniture designer. He was born in New York and married Meta Kemble, with whom he traveled extensively in British India.
Wife of Lockwood de Forest, née Meta Kemble.
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche was born on February 10, 1796, in London, England.
He was an English geologist, paleontologist, and author. In 1810, he entered the Royal Military College at Great Marlowe where his artistic talent of sketching was cultivated and later used in his geological work. In 1817, he joined the Geological Society of London and became an avid fossil collector and illustrator. He served as its president from 1848 to 1849. In 1835, he became the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He was the first president of the Paleontographical Society. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Geological Museum and the Royal School of Mines in London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819 and knighted in 1848. His “Geological Manual” (1831), “Researches in Theoretical Geology” (1834), and “How to Observe in Geology” (1835) are important contributions to geological literature.
In 1817, he married Letitia Whyte (1801–1844). He died on April 13, 1855, in London, England.
Journalist and politician Pierre Boucher de la Bruère, who often signed himself simply “Boucher de la Bruère,” was a descendant of the founder and seigneur of Boucherville, Pierre Boucher. He was also a grandson of the seigneur of Montarville, René Boucher de la Bruère. In 1846 he began classical studies at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, then studied law 1857-1858 at Université Laval in Quebec City. He was called to the bar and began practising law in 1860. He shocked his family in 1861 by marrying Victorine Leclere, the daughter of a Saint-Hyacinthe notary who had been superintendent of police in Montreal and some years before had arrested and imprisoned Pierre’s father, a member of the rebellious liberal Patriotes group. Nevertheless, the marriage was a success and Victorine gave birth to 18 children, of whom 12 survived infancy. Pierre took on the job of editing the Saint-Hyacinthe newspaper, the Courrier, and his politics, which had reflected his father’s, began to lean toward the right. The newspaper supported George-Étienne Cartier’s Conservative party and its plans for confederation and for alliance with the clergy. He was a protonary for the town from 1870 to 1875, but returned to his editor’s job in 1875, a responsibility he kept for the next 20 years. He became the owner of the newspaper in 1877 and the following year became a partner in the local law firm of Tellier, De la Bruère et Beauchemin. He participated in community affairs, promoting beet farming and encouraging the dairy and cheese industry; he also founded the École des Arts et Dessins Industriels in 1874 and was president of the Industrial Dairy Society of the Province of Quebec from 1882 to 1889. He also played a role in the establishment of a local dairy school in 1892.
During much of this period he was also active politically, with a particular interest in education. In 1877 he was appointed to Quebec’s Legislative Council for the division of Rougemont; in 1882 he was elevated to speaker, and in 1895 he became superintendent of education under the provincial Department of Public Instruction, a post he held until a year before his death. As well, he chaired the Council of Public Instruction and the Catholic Committee. He did not particularly involve himself in the 1897-1898 controversy over whether to give the ministry of education authority over the school system; it was clear, however, from a pamphlet he wrote in 1904, “Éducation et Constitution,” that he was in favor of provincial rights in educational matters. He also had a particular interest in the creation of normal schools for girls. A school in Montreal is named École Boucher de la Bruère; the library in Boucherville is named after his second son, Montarville, director of the Public Archives of Canada in Montreal.
Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl de la Warr, was born on June 20, 1900, in Battle, England.
He was a British politician. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1915, when his father, Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl de la Warr, was killed in the First World War, he succeeded to the title as 9th Earl de la Warr. In 1921, De La Warr became the first hereditary peer to join the Labour Party, and, in 1924, he was one of the youngest ministers appointed Lord-in-Waiting in the first Labour government. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Under-Secretary of State for War from 1929 to 1930, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1930 to 1931, and as a Lord-in-Waiting from 1929 to 1931. In 1938, he became President of the Board of Education, a post he kept until 1940 when he became First Commissioner of Works. He was a Member of the House of Lords from 1921 until January 1976. Apart from his career in national politics, De La Warr was Mayor of Bexhill-on-Sea (1932-1934) and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Sussex. In 1956, he was made a Knight Grand Cross, the Order of the British Empire.
In 1929, he married Diana Helena Leigh (1896–1966), and in 1968, he remarried Sylvia Margaret, Countess of Kilmuir Harrison (1903–1992). He died on March 28, 1976, in London, England.
