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  2. John Ruskin - Wikipedia

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    John Ruskin. John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Ruskin was heavily engaged by the work of Viollet-le-Duc ...

  3. Effie Gray - Wikipedia

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    Effie Gray. Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (née Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and writer who was married to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously married the art critic John Ruskin, but she left him with the marriage never having been consummated; it was subsequently ...

  4. Octavia Hill - Wikipedia

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    Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912 [1]) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family of radical thinkers and reformers with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in ...

  5. Bowerswell - Wikipedia

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    Bowerswell (formerly known as Whistlecroft) [1] is an early-19th-century house on Bowerswell Road, Kinnoull, Scotland. It is a Grade B listed building and was the childhood home of Effie Gray; she and John Ruskin were married there in 1848. After World War II, the house and surrounding grounds were purchased by Perth Council as a "living" war ...

  6. Rose La Touche - Wikipedia

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    Background. Rose was born to John "The Master" La Touche (1814–1904), of a Huguenot family which had settled in Ireland and ran a bank, and his wife Maria La Touche, the only child of the Dowager Countess of Desart, County Kilkenny. The family lived in Harristown House, Co. Kildare. [1]

  7. Nardwuar - Wikipedia

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    Nardwuar was born John Ruskin in Vancouver in 1968. He is Jewish. [11] His father, Vernon, was an engineer [12] and his mother Olga Ruskin (née Bruchovsky) [13] was a local journalist, high school history teacher and historian. She published a history of Vancouver historical figure John "Gassy Jack" Deighton. His mother exposed him to local ...

  8. File:John Ruskin's grave, and family plot - geograph.org.uk ...

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  9. Amid development, nostalgic drive-in remains popular - AOL

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    Decades later, the Ruskin Family Drive-In is a cornerstone of the Ruskin community. John's wife, Karen, keeps the theatre running day-to-day. "Drive-ins are disappearing.

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