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Hobsbawm, Eric
Hobsbawm's British and German-Jewish parents died when he was 12 and 14 years old, in central Europe, and he was then raised by relatives. He came to England after Hitler came to power, and... [more]
Hura, Maata Te Reo
Hura was one of seven children of Te Urumanaao Ngapaki and Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana at Orokeinui, Waipu block. Until she was 14 she was the tamaiti whangai of elderly relatives named Wiremu... [more]
Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
Jackson's parents were poor. His father and sister died of typhoid fever in 1826. His mother remarried in 1830 but her husband disliked her children and little Thomas was sent to live with ... [more]
Kean, Edmund
Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edmund Kean, who committed suicide when he was... [more]
Lakhaji Tamachi Jadeja Sahib (under India - Princely States: 3)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
Leleiohoku, William Pitt Kalaho'olewa II (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
The history of the royal dynasties of Hawai'i has been as tangled as that of many others. Until the early 19th century each island was ruled by its own dynasty, but Kamehameha the Great (17... [more]
Leonowens, Anna
Leonowens was born Anna Harriette Crawford in Wales. Her father was in the army and her parents went to India when she was six, leaving her in Britain with a relative who ran a girls' schoo... [more]
Lloyd, Ellis
Lloyd's parents died when he was nine and he was then raised by relatives. As an adult he worked for several South Wales newspapers, but the success of three novels he wrote during this ... [more]
McAuley, Catherine
McAuley was born to a happy, devout, wealthy Catholic family but her father died when she was seven. Her mother moved the three children from their country mansion to Dublin and converted t... [more]
McCarthy, Mary Therese
McCarthy was born in Seattle and orphaned when she was six. She was raised by relatives who abused her, before being taken from them by sympathetic grandparents. She had an unhappy childhoo... [more]
