Bracegirdle

Bracegirdle

Bracegirdle is a surname that may refer to:
*Anne Bracegirdle, 18th century English actress
*Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle, Australian naval officer
*Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, an Anglo-Australian, political activist, famous in the Sri Lankan context
*Bracegirdle is the name of a hobbit family


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  • Bracegirdle — This most interesting and unusual surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a metonymic occupational name for a maker of breech girdles, that is a maker of belts for holding up breeches, from the Olde English pre 7th Century, Middle English brec… …   Surnames reference

  • Bracegirdle, Anne — ▪ English actress born c. 1671 died 1748, London, Eng.       actress, one of the earliest on the English stage.       Bracegirdle studied acting with Thomas Betterton (Betterton, Thomas), her guardian, and appeared on the stage as early as six… …   Universalium

  • Mark Anthony Bracegirdle — Lanka Sama Samaja Party Youth Leagues Suriya Mal Movement Bracegirdle Incident 1953 Hartal Personalities Philip Gunawardena Pieter Keuneman Anil Moonesinghe N.M. Perera Edmund Samarakkody Tissa Abeysekara Colvin R de Silva Caroline Anthonypillai… …   Wikipedia

  • Anne Bracegirdle — Portrait d Anne Bracegirdle. Anne Bracegirdle, (née vers 1671 – 12 septembre 1748) était une actrice anglaise. Biographie L enfance d Anne Bracegirdle est mal connue. Sa date de naissance fait l objet de débats, en raison de contradictions dans… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle — Infobox Military Person name= Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle lived= 1881–1970 placeofbirth= Balmain, New South Wales placeofdeath=Sydney caption= nickname= allegiance=Royal Australian Navy serviceyears= 1898 1945 rank= Rear Admiral commands=1st… …   Wikipedia

  • Anne Bracegirdle — Little is known of Bracegirdle s early life. Her precise date of birth is a source of great dispute due to conflicting records of her life. She was baptised in Northampton on November 15 1671, although her tombstone says that she died at the age… …   Wikipedia

  • Anne Bracegirdle — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda La actriz Anne Bracegirdle Anne Bracegirdle (c. 1671 – 12 de septiembre de 1748), fue una actriz inglesa. Se sabe muy poco de los primeros años de la vida de la actriz. La fecha de su nacimiento no está clara debido… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Mrs Bracegirdle's Woodlyn Park Adventure — Mrs. Bracegirdle s Woodlyn Park Adventure is a comedic documentary about a motel park in Waitomo, New Zealand, rated by Lonely Planet as one of the top ten most unusual accommodations in the world. Of the various lodgings visitors can choose,… …   Wikipedia

  • Nick Bracegirdle — Chicane ist ein Musikprojekt aus dem Bereich Trance und Ambient des englischen Musikproduzenten Nick Bracegirdle. Erste Erfolge hatte Chicane 1996 mit der Single Offshore. 1997 folgten die Single Sunstroke, das erste Album (Far from the Maddening …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Bracegirdles —  / Bracegirdle    An important hobbit family of the Shire.    An important and populous family of Shire hobbits, associated with the town or village of Hardbottle. The most famous of them was Lobelia Bracegirdle, who married Otho Sackville… …   J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary

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