Nadezhda Leontievna Ustinova (Надежда Леонтьевна Устинова), née Benois (Бенуа), better known as Nadia Benois (1896–1975[), was a Russian painter of still life and landscape, and stage designer. She lived with her husband at no. 49 Eastleach, Gloucestershire, where he died in 1962. Her father Leon Benois belonged to the Benois family. Nadezhda studied how to be an artist […]
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Peter Bayley Williams (August 1763 – 22 November 1836) was a Welsh Anglican priest and amateur antiquarian. It is also claimed that he led the first rock climb recorded in the United Kingdom He was ordained in 1788 and served in Eastleach Martin (Gloucestershire) Williams was the son of Peter Williams, a Welsh Calvinist Methodist clergyman and […]