An advertisement in "The Guardian" led Rowling to move to Porto, Portugal, to teach English as a foreign language. She taught at night and began writing in the day while listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. After 18 months in Porto, she met Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar and found they shared an interest in Jane Austen. They married on 16 October 1992 and their child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes (named after Jessica Mitford), was born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal. Rowling had previously suffered a miscarriage. The couple separated on 17 November 1993. Biographers have suggested that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage, which was later confirmed by Rowling herself, and by her first husband, who, in an article for "The Sun" in June 2020, said he had slapped her and did not regret it.
Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood
J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling | Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood
Yes -She married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in 1992 but they separated. Then she married Neil Murray a Scottish doctor in 2001 Initially to Jorge Aranes and later to Neil Murray. Yes, she married on 16 October 1992. Yes, with Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes
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Her debut novel was written between approximately June 1990 and some time in 1995.
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A British writer and philanthropist.
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Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Science technician Anne and Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer Peter James Rowling.
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An advertisement in "The Guardian" led Rowling to move to Porto, Portugal, to teach English as a foreign language. She taught at night and began writing in the day while listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. After 18 months in Porto, she met Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar and found they shared an interest in Jane Austen. They married on 16 October 1992 and their child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes (named after Jessica Mitford), was born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal. Rowling had previously suffered a miscarriage. The couple separated on 17 November 1993. Biographers have suggested that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage, which was later confirmed by Rowling herself, and by her first husband, who, in an article for "The Sun" in June 2020, said he had slapped her and did not regret it.
J. K. Rowling | Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood
On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray (born 30 June 1971), a Scottish doctor, in a private ceremony at her home, Killiechassie House, in Scotland. Their son, David Gordon Rowling Murray, was born on 24 March 2003. Shortly after Rowling began writing "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", she ceased working on the novel to care for David in his early infancy. Rowling is a friend of Sarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, whom she met when they collaborated on a charitable project. When Sarah Brown's son Fraser was born in 2003, Rowling was one of the first to visit her in hospital.
J. K. Rowling | Remarriage and family
The United Kingdom's domestic abuse commissioner Nicole Jacobs formally advised "The Sun" that it was unacceptable "to repeat and magnify the voice of someone who openly admits to violence against a partner". In December 1993, Rowling and her then infant daughter moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, to be near Rowling's sister with three chapters of what would become "Harry Potter" in her suitcase. Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling saw herself as a failure. Her marriage had failed, and she was jobless with a dependent child, but she described her failure as liberating and allowing her to focus on writing.
J. K. Rowling | Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood
She wrote in many cafés, especially Nicolson's Café (owned by her brother-in-law), and the Elephant House, wherever she could get Jessica to fall asleep. In a 2001 BBC interview, Rowling denied the rumour that she wrote in local cafés to escape from her unheated flat, pointing out that it had heating. Rowling stated that she wrote in cafés because coffee was available without her breaking the flow of writing, and that taking her baby out for a walk helped her to fall asleep.
J. K. Rowling | Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood
Joanne Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, the daughter of science technician Anne (née Volant) and Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer Peter James Rowling. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. One of Rowling's maternal great-grandfathers, Dugald Campbell, was a Scottish man from Lamlash. Her mother's French paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the War Cross for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during World War I. Rowling originally believed Volant had won the Legion of Honour during the war, as she said when she received it herself in 2009.
J. K. Rowling | Birth and family
Rowling married Glen Reeves in 1951. The couple lost their second child when she was five months old in 1957; another daughter, Kim, committed suicide at the age of 18. Rowling was a practising Anglican.
Bill Rowling | Personal life
Rowling's youngest child, daughter Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray, to whom she dedicated "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", was born on 23 January 2005. In October 2012, a "New Yorker" magazine article stated that the Rowling family lived in a seventeenth-century Edinburgh house, concealed at the front by tall conifer hedges. Prior to October 2012, Rowling lived near the author Ian Rankin, who later said she was quiet and introspective, and that she seemed in her element with children. , the family resides in Scotland.
J. K. Rowling | Remarriage and family
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage, her name was Joanne Rowling. Her publishers asked that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating the possibility of the target audience of young boys not wanting to read a book written by a woman. As she had no middle name, she chose "K" (for Kathleen) as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. She calls herself Jo. Following her remarriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry, she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling and her entry in "Who's Who" lists her name also as Joanne Kathleen Rowling.
J. K. Rowling | Name
He is married to Terry Hennersdorf Rowling, they have two children, and live in Dallas, Texas. They met when they were both studying for bachelor's degrees in business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Rowling | Personal life
During this period, Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression and contemplated suicide. Her illness inspired the characters known as Dementors, soul-sucking creatures introduced in the third book. Rowling signed up for welfare benefits, describing her economic status as being "poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless." Rowling was left in despair after her estranged husband arrived in Scotland, seeking both her and their daughter. She obtained an Order of Restraint, and Arantes returned to Portugal, with Rowling filing for divorce in August 1994. She began a teacher training course in August 1995 at the Moray House School of Education, at Edinburgh University, after completing her first novel while living on state benefits.
J. K. Rowling | Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood
Jeni Puckle was first married at a young age to Ted Draper, one of her teachers at Wimbledon School of Art. The marriage allowed her to leave the family home but was later dissolved after Puckle began an affair with Riccono. Draper agreed to fake an assignation at a hotel in Brighton in order to allow a divorce. Later she was seen about town with the entrepreneur James Hanson. In 1962, she married the Shell oil heir and publisher Tony Samuel at Chelsea Register Office. The couple divided their time between London and her husband's family home of Arndilly House in Scotland but Samuel was inclined to be irascible and they divorced in 1965.
Beth Rogan | Marriages and children
She married Pat Rowley in Neasden in 1960, in St. Catherine's Church. They had two children, Keith (born in June 1961) and Alison (born in December 1962). In 1977 she divorced and remarried Michael Roe in 1979, (who had 4 children). She has five grandchildren and 5 step-grandchildren.
Judy Grinham | Personal life
H. Jessop at Cheltenham. He declared that he had never ceased to love her, and asked her to marry him. Edith replied that she had already accepted the proposal of George Field, the brother of one of her closest school friends. But Edith said she had agreed to marry Field only because she felt "on the shelf" and had begun to doubt that Tolkien still cared for her. She explained that, because of Tolkien's letter, everything had changed.
J. R. R. Tolkien | Courtship and marriage
In September 1926, Priestley married Jane Wyndham-Lewis (ex-wife of the one-time 'Beachcomber' columnist D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, no relation to the artist Wyndham Lewis); they had two daughters (including music therapist Mary Priestley, conceived while Jane was still married to D. B. Wyndham-Lewis) and one son. During the Second World War, Jane ran several residential nurseries for evacuated mothers and their children, many of whom had come from poor districts.
J. B. Priestley | Married life
He first married Joan Lynette Rees, daughter of Edgar Rees, of Lwyneithin, Llanelly, Wales, on 6 June 1942; they had a son, Henry, and a daughter, Alexandra Winifred Mary (born 3 September 1947), but divorced in 1952. Five years later, he married, secondly, Agnes Kathleen Susan Anne Gluck, daughter of Miklos Gluck (of Budapest), on 31 May 1957. He married, thirdly, on 20 November 1975, and, lastly, to Sheila, daughter of John Douglas, on 15 February 1992.
Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld | Marriages
He married Katherine Page, daughter of John Page of Wembley, Middlesex, a Master in Chancery and one of the first governors of Harrow School, and by her had three sons and three daughters, including:
Richard Brownlow | Marriage
In 1907, she married Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile (died 1956), secretary of the British Museum from 1926 to 1940, and they had a daughter followed by two sons.
Katharine Esdaile | Personal life
Sackler married three times. His first wife was Glasgow-born Muriel Lazarus (1917–2009); they had three children before divorcing, Ilene Sackler Lefcourt (b. 1948 m. Gerald B. Lefcourt), Kathe A. Sackler, M.D. (married to Susan Shack Sackler), and Robert Mortimer Sackler (predeceased). His second wife was Gertraud "Geri" Wimmer; they had two children before divorcing, Mortimer David Alfons Sackler, and Samantha Sophia Sackler Hunt. In 1980, he married his third wife, Theresa Elizabeth Rowling (b. 1949), from Staffordshire, England who was formerly a teacher at the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion convent in London's Notting Hill Gate. In 2011, Rowling became Dame Theresa Sackler for her work as philanthropist.
Mortimer Sackler | Personal life
In 1961, the then Judith Pace married Martin Gardiner Bernal, a British scholar of modern Chinese political history who also wrote the controversial "Black Athena"; Together, they had one daughter and twin sons. They later divorced. From 1973 to 1987, she was married to John Montfort Dunn, a British political theorist, before they too divorced. In 1987, she married Robert Plomin, an American psychologist.
Judith Dunn | Personal life
Following his divorce in 1962, he married, on 4 August 1965 in Lancaster, Elma Askham, an artist and lecturer, daughter of William Marsh Askham.
Harry Thubron | Life
In 1926, she married Theodore Peter Dunham Luling (an artist known as "Peter Luling"), with whom she had three daughters: Rosemary Haughton (theologian and writer), Virginia Luling (anthropologist) and Elizabeth Dooley (actress).
Sylvia Thompson | Personal life
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village of Winterbourne when Rowling was four. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories which she frequently read to her sister. Aged nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great-aunt gave her a copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, "Hons and Rebels." Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling read all of her books. Rowling has said that her teenage years were unhappy. Her home life was complicated by her mother's diagnosis with multiple sclerosis and a strained relationship with her father, with whom she is not on speaking terms.
J. K. Rowling | Childhood
degree in 1921. After graduating, she married John Spanogle, and in late 1922 they had a daughter. They divorced in 1930.
Lella Warren | Biography
They married in January 1946 after a six-week courtship. They had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Susan. After leaving the RAF, Eric Dowling worked for British Aerospace at Filton, Bristol. Agnes Dowling died in 1997.
Eric Dowling | Family
Katharine met her future husband, Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), a barrister and the eldest son of H. H. Asquith, in the summer of 1901 at Mells. Subsequent vacations with the Horners in Austria (1903), Venice (1904) and Ireland (1905) and a shared love of poetry brought the two closer together. Raymond wrote her: "You know how I would like to give you the whole world, if it were mine, and the sun and moon and all the stars." Marriage, however, was not possible due to her parent's desire that Katharine see "a little more of the world and a few more potential husbands," and Raymond's inability to support a wife on his earnings from the law.
Katharine Asquith | Marriage
In 1957, Helmond married George N. Martin. After their divorce in 1962, she married her second husband, David Christian; they remained married until her death, residing in Los Angeles, New York City, Long Island and London. She and her husband had a history as students of Zen.
Katherine Helmond | Personal life
The photo which was taken by a photographer using a long-range lens, was then published in a "Sunday Express" article featuring Rowling's family life and motherhood. The judgement was overturned in David's favour in May 2008. Rowling particularly dislikes the British tabloid the "Daily Mail", which has conducted several interviews with her estranged ex-husband. As one journalist noted, "Harry's Uncle Vernon is a grotesque philistine of violent tendencies and remarkably little brain. It is not difficult to guess which newspaper Rowling gives him to read [in "Goblet of Fire"]." In 2014, she successfully sued the "Mail" for libel over an article about her time as a single mother.
J. K. Rowling | Press
But she got married eventually, to Jørn Øvsttveiten. They had two children, Ingebjørg, who lived to adulthood, and Olav, who died in his youth.
Anne Godlid | Introduction
Reynolds joked that he married Katharine to get his money back. Their marriage was very happy, and Reynolds wrote to Katharine saying he was very glad he waited so long to marry. Katharine Reynolds urged her husband to shorten employees' work hours and provide a lunchroom, schools and nursery services for them. The Reynolds' children were:
R. J. Reynolds | Family and personal life
Harrison married Evelyn Harrison, whom he included in a cartoon he drew of the Hydra Club in 1950. They divorced in 1951, and Evelyn married the science fiction writer Lester del Rey shortly afterwards. Harrison married Joan Merkler Harrison in 1954. Their marriage lasted until her death of cancer in 2002. They had two children, Todd (born in 1955) and Moira (born in 1959), to whom he dedicated his novel "Make Room! Make Room!".
Harry Harrison (writer) | Marriages
On November 16, 1968, Hunnicutt married British actor David Hemmings, with whom she had a son, the actor Nolan Hemmings; they divorced in 1975. Hunnicutt married journalist Simon Jenkins in 1978. The couple lived in Primrose Hill, London, where they raised their son Edward. Jenkins was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year honours. The couple divorced in 2009.
Gayle Hunnicutt | Marriage and family
After attending the Friends School Saffron Walden, she studied English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a scholar of medieval literature, with whom she had three sons, Richard, Michael and Colin. After a brief period in London, in 1957 the couple returned to Oxford, where they stayed until moving to Bristol in 1976. According to her autobiography, Jones decided she was an atheist when she was a child.
Diana Wynne Jones | Early life and marriage
In 1961, she married playwright John Spurling; they have three children (Amy, Nathaniel and Gilbert) and six grandchildren.
Hilary Spurling | Personal life
Joan Henley married Bruce Belfrage in 1930 and they had a son, Julian Belfrage, who became an actor's agent. After her divorce from Belfrage, she was married to author Laurence Meynell from 1956 until her death.
Joan Henley | Introduction
Straight obtained a divorce from Dolivet in Reno, Nevada on May 24, 1949. Together they had one child: In 1948, while starring in the Broadway production of "The Heiress", an adaptation of Henry James's "Washington Square", she met Peter Cookson. They married in 1949 and remained married until Cookson's death in 1990. Peter had two children from his previous marriage, Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Jane Coopland (née Cookson). Together, Straight and Cookson had two children:
Beatrice Straight | Personal life
On May 3, 1970, Richard married his wife Janet at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Queens Village, New York.
Richard Cottingham | Marriage and children
Priestley was married three times. Priestley also had a number of affairs, including a serious relationship with the actress Peggy Ashcroft. Writing in 1972, Priestley described himself as 'lusty' and as one who has 'enjoyed the physical relations with the sexes … without the feelings of guilt which seems to disturb some of my distinguished colleagues'. In 1921 Priestley married Emily "Pat" Tempest, a music-loving Bradford librarian. Two daughters were born, Barbara (later known as the architect Barbara Wykeham) in 1923 and Sylvia (a designer known as Sylvia Goaman following her marriage to Michael Goaman) in 1924, but in 1925 his wife died of cancer.
J. B. Priestley | Married life
The divorce never happened, which has been suggested as being due to Katharine's diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
Katharine Woolley | Second Husband: Leonard Woolley
Alike in political views and sentiments, they loved each other dearly, but Marett's contract with Oxford stipulated that he must not marry for a certain number of years. Those were up in 1898. He was 32, she 25. In the first decade of the 20th century, they had four children: John Ranulph (1900–1940), Philippa Suzanne (1904–1991), Joya Elizabeth (1905–1979), and Robert Hugh Kirk (1907–1981).
Robert Ranulph Marett | Marriage and family
Ehle married writer Michael Ryan on November 29, 2001, and they have two children.
Jennifer Ehle | Personal life
In 1955, he married Lady June Hay, daughter of George Harley Hay-Drummond, 14th Earl of Kinnoull.
Cranley Onslow | Marriage
Hannen was married twice. Her first husband was the English actor Anthony Quayle (1913–1989) and her second husband was the Welsh actor Clifford Evans (1912–1985), who survived her.
Hermione Hannen | Marriages
Following her departure from Smith she returned home to Princeton, New Jersey, and married George Cole Scott Jr., a stockbroker, in 1934. They had three children together: Marjory Scott Luther, George C. Scott III; and David C. Scott. The marriage ended in divorce after 13 years. Upon her divorce she met and later married Jackson Martindell, publisher of Marquis Who's Who, the company that annually produces "Who's Who in America", in 1948. Together they had a son, Roger, who served on the Princeton Borough Council.
Anne Clark Martindell | Marriages
Sir John married a wealthy heiress, Margery Strangeways daughter of Sir James Strangways of Harlsey in Osmotherley, Yorkshire. She bore him a son and heir, William. Margery was regarded as a widow when he took holy orders. She spent eleven years raising her son before marrying Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles. However, Edward IV reneged on a promise of safe keeping and had her husband beheaded in 1469, less than a year after their marriage.
John Ingleby (bishop) | Family
Radcliffe married firstly, Cecilia, daughter of Thomas Mortimer and Mary Parke. She was a maternal half-sister of Sir John Fastolf and mother of Sir Robert Harling. They are known to have had the following issue: He married secondly, Catherine, daughter of Edward Burnell and Alice Le Strange, they are known to have had the following issue:
John Radcliffe (KG) | Marriage and issue
He married Elizabeth Sydenham (died 1599), daughter of Sir John Sydenham of Brympton d'Evercy, Somerset, by his wife Ursula Brydges, a daughter of Sir Giles Brydges (c. 1462 – 1511) of Coberley, Gloucestershire, and sister of John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos (1492–1557). Her niece Elizabeth Sydenham was the wife of Admiral Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 1596). By his wife he had three sons and nine daughters as follows:
Richard Bampfield | Marriage and children
He was married to Marion Fotheringham Whyte (later known as Lady Norval) (1878-1969).
James Norval | Family
On 26 September 1948, she married her second husband, Eric Kenneth Isaac Hurst (born 1913/14), a barrister who would become her business partner, and the son of Wilfred Hurst, a cotton merchant. They had a daughter together, but were later divorced.
Margery Hurst | Personal life
Ivy was unaware that Julian was not in love with her when she married him, and when she discovered the true nature of her marriage on her wedding night, she became cold to her new husband and froze him out of her bed. Though their marriage was loveless, they did occasionally experience brief bursts of passion, eventually producing four children together — son Ethan in 1975, daughter Fancy in 1980, son Nicholas Foxworth, and daughter Pretty. After the birth of their final child, Ivy kicked Julian out of her bed, and Julian busied himself with other women; Julian did, however, occasionally try to seduce his frigid wife.
Julian Crane | Marriage to Ivy, 1974 - 2001
On 26 July 1938, he married Frances Muriel Smith, a 32 years old widow whose maiden name was Braham, in Broadway, Gloucestershire. They had three children, Michael, Charles William (who died in infancy), and Jane, the last of whom became a British Olympic skier.
Alfred Gissing | Marriage and children
In 1955 Farndale married Margaret Anne Buckingham. They had one son.
Martin Farndale | Family
He married Susan Schilling, a computer scientist who died in 2016.
Harry Coonce | Private life
He married, firstly, Ruth St John Murphy (died 1991), on 24 January 1939. She was the daughter of Albert St John Murphy and Rose Davis, of The Island House, Little Island, County Cork, Ireland. They divorced in 1956. They had no children. He married, secondly, Grete von Freiesleben (11 September 1922 – 16 January 1973), on 7 February 1957. She was the daughter of Colonel Erik Theodor Christian von Freiesleben, of Hjortekaer, Kongens Lyngby, Copenhagen, Ch Kings's Adj's Staff to His Majesty The King of Denmark. They had three children and seven grandchildren: He married, thirdly, Susan Winifred Denham, daughter of Cyril Henry Charles Denham, of Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, on 3 February 1975.
Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford | Marriage and children
He married Cecily Bulstrode, a daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire and widow of Sir Alexander Unton of Wadley House in the parish of Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He was therefore the step-father of Sir Edward Unton. By his wife he had children including:
Robert Keilway | Marriage and children
She was twice married. In 1962 she married the Canadian director, Ted Kotcheff with whom she had three children, Aaron, Katrina and Joshua. After their divorce she married again in 1987 to the actor and writer, Christopher Douglas. The marriage ended in divorce in 2008. In the 1990s, she resumed her psychology studies, qualified as a psychotherapist and practised in London and later in Herefordshire until 2017.
Sylvia Kay | Personal life
Hobhouse married architect Harry Graham in 1958. The marriage produced two children – a son, Francis, and daughter, Harriet – before being amicably dissolved. Hobhouse was survived by her children.
Hermione Hobhouse | Personal life
She got married in 1961 while still in drama. Her husband is Sarangan. She has a son and a daughter. Her son is an engineer and her daughter is a physiotherapy doctor.
S. N. Parvathy | Personal life
In 1964, at Chelsea, London, Keppel married her first husband, Desmond Corcoran, an art dealer with whom she had three children, Sibylla, Alexander, and Rosie, but they divorced in 1980. In 1985, she married secondly the comedy scriptwriter Neil Shand. They were separated in 1987.
Judith Keppel | Marriages
After she died, he married Anne G. Osborn, a doctor connected with the University of Utah.
Ronald E. Poelman | Biography
She married accountant Peter J. Colley in September 1999 in Hammersmith; they have one daughter (born 7 June 2005) and a son (born 3 January 2008).
Kitty Ussher | Personal life
They were divorced in 1888. There was one child from this union, a daughter, Margaret Maude. Harry married (2ndly) Hilda Frances E Clark, daughter of the Rev Professor William Robinson Clark, in 1899. She died in 1924. In 1927 Harry married the actress Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle, better known by her stage name, Elaine Inescourt.
Harry de Windt | Introduction
Elton was married to Anne Frances Tilney, daughter of Robert Tilney, on 18 September 1958. They had four children (all of whom are entitled to the style "The Honourable" as children of a peer): Following a divorce in 1979, on 24 August 1979 Elton married Susan Richenda Gurney (born 1937), daughter of Hugh Gurney and a granddaughter of Lancelot Carnegie. There are no children of this marriage. Richenda Elton is a current Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth II.
Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton | Marriages and children
He married Kamala Antoinette Maisie "Claudia" Perera.
J. G. Balthazar | Family
In 1945, he married Muriel Gedling, a schoolteacher; they had a son, Peter, and daughter, Catherine Ann
John Fieldsend | Family
Temple married Patricia Ann Riley on July 30, 1949. They had met while in college, and she worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and as personal secretary for Rod Serling. The Temples had no children, and Mrs. Temple died in Rancho Mirage, California on April 22, 2014.
Herbert R. Temple Jr. | Personal
In the early 1950s Kneale met fellow BBC screenwriter Judith Kerr, a Jewish refugee, in the BBC canteen. They married on 8 May 1954 and had two children; Matthew, who later became a successful novelist, and Tacy, an actress and later a special effects designer who worked on the popular "Harry Potter" series of films. Kerr became a successful children's writer, with the "Mog" series of books and "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit", which was based on her own experiences of fleeing Nazi Germany in her youth. Kneale worked with Kerr on an adaptation of "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" in the 1970s, but the eventual makers of the film version disregarded their script.
Nigel Kneale | Family
On June 28, 1947, she married Nicholas Meredith Turner (born October 28, 1915 - died March 8, 2010) at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York; both were devout Roman Catholics. The ceremony was performed by Cardinal Francis Spellman. The union, Dragonette's only marriage, was childless but happy, and lasted until her death.
Jessica Dragonette | Marriage
Hawkes was the daughter of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins. She met Christopher Hawkes, her senior, on a dig during her studies at Cambridge, and married him when she was 22. Their only son, Nicholas, was born in 1937. A wartime affair with the poet Walter Turner was followed by a post-war romance with J. B. Priestley, whom she married in 1953 after both had divorced. Hawkes and Priestley remained physically, emotionally and intellectually close until their deaths.
Jacquetta Hawkes | Personal life
He was married with two children.
August C. Krey | Biography
In 1949 Wykeham married Barbara Priestley; they had two sons and one daughter.
Peter Wykeham | Family
Minney married Edith Anne Murielle Fox in 1918. In 1933, he was living at "Little Walcott", on Bishops Avenue in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London; they later they lived at Lawford House, Manningtree in Essex. They had two children, Primrose and Robin Paul. The first marriage was dissolved and he married Hetty (née Bolsom), becoming stepfather of Penelope Janet Chisholm. They lived in Hook House, Cousley Wood, Wadhurst, Sussex, and Bewl Water reservoir came close to the house when it was filled in 1975. He was a member of the Savage Club.
R. J. Minney | Personal life
Johnson and her first husband Neil were divorced in 1949. In 1950, she married her second husband, the novelist C. P. Snow (later Baron Snow). Their son Philip was born in 1952.
Pamela Hansford Johnson | Life
It was also there that he met and married his first wife, Sali Thompson. They would have five children together: John, Susan, Diane, and twins Kathleen and Kevin.
J. P. McCarthy | Early life
Rank married Nell, and they had two daughters, Shelagh (who was married first to Fred Packard who lived in Hollywood, and then to Robin Cowen) and Ursula (born 1920). When he died in March 1972, aged 83, his barony became extinct.
J. Arthur Rank | Family
She has been married four times. She married Richard Harris in 1957, with whom she had three sons (Damian Harris, Jared Harris, and Jamie Harris). They divorced in 1969. Sir Rex Harrison was her second husband from 1971 to 1975. He had two sons (Noel Harrison and Carey Harrison) from two previous marriages. Rees-Williams wed Peter Michael Aitken in 1980 and divorced him in 1985. He has two sons from a prior relationship (James and Jason Aitken), and is the cousin of her current husband, Jonathan Aitken, whom she married on 25 June 2003. Jonathan already had three daughters and one son, (Alexandra Aitken, Victoria Aitken, Petrina Khashoggi, and William Aitken).
Elizabeth Rees-Williams | Marriages and children
He had married in 1921 Edith Alice Smith, with whom he had two children, Barbara and John Stanley. They were to remain married until his death in 1980.
Harry Hemley Plaskett | Family
In July 1940 she married Sir Charles Birkin, after which she retired from acting in film. Sir Charles and she had three children; Jennifer, Amanda and John, the current baronet.
Janet Ramsay Johnson | Introduction
Blondell was married three times, first to cinematographer George Barnes in a private wedding ceremony on January 4, 1933, at the First Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, Arizona. They had one child, Norman Scott Barnes, who became an accomplished producer, director, and television executive known as Norman Powell. Joan and George divorced in 1936. On September 19, 1936, she married her second husband Dick Powell, an actor, director, and singer. They had a daughter, Ellen Powell, who became a studio hair stylist, and Powell adopted her son by her previous marriage under the name Norman Scott Powell. Blondell and Powell were divorced on July 14, 1944.
Joan Blondell | Personal life
She married Arthur Twining Hadley II, a Lieutenant in a Tank destroyer battalion, and the grandson of Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, on March 2, 1944. After the birth of her son, Arthur Twining Hadley III, in February 1945, her 18-month marriage ended in divorce in 1947. Hadley obtained employment in public relations, first working for cartoonist Al Capp and was described in a 1950 article in "Look" magazine as "the chic, high-level, in-the-know, celebrity-surrounded career girl that millions of young women dream of becoming in New York." She later was publicity director for "The Howdy Doody Show".
Leila Hadley | Marriages and divorces
Faulks married Bridget Marigold Bodley (d. 1963) in 1940; they had two sons and a daughter. In 1967, Faulks remarried to Elizabeth Parham, widow of the Rt Rev Arthur Parham, MC, Bishop of Reading. She died in 1982.
Neville Faulks | Family
In 1951 he was married to Kirsten Brummerstedt-Hansen, and they had three sons.
J. S. A. Spreull | Family
They would be together until his death in 2018 though never married.
Sally Rowley | Life
Page was first married to Frederick M. Tritschler, with whom she had a son. They divorced in October 20, 1939. On August 17, 1942, Page married Count Aldo Solìto de Solis, a pianist and composer. In 1943, they had twins, Marina Francesca and Lucchino Giovanni. By this marriage the actress acquired the title Countess Solìto de Solis.
Gale Page | Personal life
In 1925, Kemble married Harriet May Tindle, who died two years before their 50th wedding anniversary. He was a devout Christian. In 1978, he married Martha Chadbourne Kettelle, his Radcliffe College fiancée from graduate student days.
Edwin C. Kemble | Personal
He married firstly Mary Halloran of Cloyne in 1845; she died in 1901. In the year of his retirement he remarried Florence Henrietta Gore, widow of Edward Croker. He had no children. James Joyce remarks in "Ulysses" that his second marriage at the age of 85 infuriated his nephew, who had been waiting patiently for years to inherit his money.
Hedges Eyre Chatterton | Biography
It has been noted in some places that he married a Mary Bainbridge, but there is very little corroborative evidence for this.
James Rewcastle | Marriage
Park was married twice. Her first husband was James Monahan, whom she wed in 1965 and with whom she had one child. As the dance critic of "The Guardian" newspaper in London, he had admired her since early in her career. After their divorce in 1970, she married Sidney Bloch and was widowed upon his death in 2000.
Merle Park | Personal life
In 1920, she married screenwriter Jules Furthman. They had a son, Jules Jr., born in 1921. In 1922, she retired from her acting career.
Sybil Seely | Family
She married her first husband, Sherman William Plaskett, when she was a teenager. He died just seven months after their wedding when he contracted Spanish influenza. Her second husband was publicist Harry Wilson; they were married from 1920 until 1924. She married stage actor Ross Wilson Forrester on September 22, 1936.
Marion Aye | Personal life
They had one son, Roger. She married for a second time in 1937, to Wolf Halpern, the son of Dr George Halpern of Jerusalem, who was killed in WWII. After the death of her brother, the computer scientist Christopher Strachey, she moved to a small house in Jericho, Oxford in 1975. She took up writing and was interested in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Barbara Strachey | Introduction
Her sister Margery, who was starting to have delusional thoughts, had also considered Hugh Popham as a suitable husband. Brooke was invited to the wedding, but declined, although later he sent the couple two Gwen Raverat woodcuts as a wedding present.
Brynhild Olivier | Marriage (1912–1935)
Hedley married Anna Susan Fellowes in 1894 at Gibraltar Cathedral. Her father, James Fellowes, was a Colonel in the Royal Engineers who had worked at the Ordnance Survey and played for Kent County Cricket Club in the 1870s. The couple had three daughters: Rosalind who married Henry Frank Heywood, Kathleen and Christian Elizabeth Ann who married Cecil De Sauzmerez, of Sausmarez Manor in Guernsey.
Coote Hedley | Family
He married twice. In 1925 he married Beda Winifred Phoebe Ramsay. She was hospitalised due to mental illness in 1937. The marriage was dissolved in 1948, and Beda died in Glasgow in 1962. Hirst remarried the following year, to Kathleen (Kay) Jenny Harrison. He had no children by either marriage.
Edmund Hirst | Family
On 17 October 1934, he married Barbara Hastings (1908–1989), a writer of children's books and the daughter of Sir Patrick Gardiner Hastings; they had one child, Arabella, in 1943.
Nicolas Bentley | Marriage
In 1846 Potter married Mary, daughter of Samuel Ashton of Gee Cross, Hyde. They had four sons and one daughter, of whom, the third and fourth sons, Arthur and Richard, and the daughter Edith survived their father. Mrs. Potter died at Cannes in 1885, and Potter, in 1887, married Helena, daughter of John Hicks of Bodmin, who survived him.
Thomas Bayley Potter | Family
On December 22, 1940, she married Jon Yong Chang Yu, a writer and journalist who wrote editorials for the "Young China" newspaper. They had two sons, Alon and Joal.
Alice Fong Yu | Marriage and family
Randle was married to Elizabeth Harrison (d. 2004) and had son Peter and three daughters, Susan, Sally, and Rosalind.
Philip Randle | Personal life
Henley married her husband, Frank Farrar, whom she had met at the University of South Dakota, on June 5, 1953, at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he was stationed in the U.S. Army at the time. They had five children, Jeanne, Sally, Robert, Mary and Anne.
Patricia Farrar | Personal life
When Jones was nine and a half years old, she moved in with the Beaumont family because she was to be wed to one of their sons, Sapcott Beaumont. When she was thirteen, Beaumont's father died; this event caused the marriage arrangements between the couple to dissolve. She moved back home and two years later married Arthur Jones, heir to Viscount Ranelagh at the age of 15 and she became known as Katherine Jones. It was common for noble women to get married at a younger age, but normally women of this time would not get married until their twenties.
Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh | Early life and marriage
Bedingfeld married Katherine (d.1581), the daughter of Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham, Norfolk and Amy Brewes, daughter and co-heiress of William de Brewse, of Wenham Hall, Suffolk, and Stinton Hall in Norfolk.
Henry Bedingfeld | Marriage