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  Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo (10 July 1879 - 25 July 1955), born in Hackney, England, was a daughter of Thomas John Barnardo the founder of the Barnardo's charity for destitute children.
After Liza was born in Rome, Italy, Syrie Wellcome and W. Somerset Maugham married in 1917 in New Jersey, although he was a homosexual and spent much of his time abroad.
Under the name Syrie Maugham she became a well known interior designer from the early 1920s until her death, particularly famous for designing an influential all white room, in contrasting shades of white and other pale colours, with mirrors and contrasting textures.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Thomas John Barnardo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Thomas John Barnardo (1845—1905), English philanthropist, and founder and director of homes for destitute children, was born at Dublin, Ireland, in 1845.
Barnardo died of angina pectoris in London on the 19th of September 1905.
Barnardo was the author of many books dealing with the charitable work to which he devoted his life.
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 William Somerset Maugham
In 1917, in New Jersey, Maugham married his mistress, Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Dr. Thomas Barnardo and former wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.
(She became celebrated as Syrie Maugham, a noted interior decorator who popularized the all-white room in the 1920s.) Divorced in 1928 after a tempestuous marriage that was complicated by Maugham's homosexuality, they had one daughter, Elizabeth Mary Maugham (a.k.a.
In 1947 he instituted the Somerset Maugham Award, still given to this day to the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a work of fiction published in the past year.
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 W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maugham was clearly not exclusively homosexual in his relationships, having an affair with the then married Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Thomas John Barnardo and wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.
In 1915 Syrie had a daughter to Maugham who was later officially named Elizabeth 'Liza' Mary Maugham (1915-1998) and Syrie was then sued for divorce by her husband Henry Wellcome.
Syrie Maugham became a noted interior decorator who popularized the all-white room in the 1920s.
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 Science Fair Projects - Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo
Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo was the daughter of Thomas John Barnardo the founder of the Barnardo's charity for destitute children.
Beverly Nichols wrote a defence of her called A Case of Human Bondage after the divorce.
Under the name Syrie Maugham she became a well known interior designer in the 1930s, particularly famous for designing an all white room, in contrasting shades of white and other pale colours, with mirrors and contrasting textures.
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 Science Fair Projects - William Somerset Maugham
In 1917, in New Jersey, Maugham married his mistress, Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Thomas John Barnardo and former wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.
(She became celebrated as Syrie Maugham, a noted interior decorator who popularized the all-white room in the 1920s.) Divorced in 1928 after a tempestuous marriage that was complicated by Maugham's homosexuality and relationship with Haxton, they had one daughter, Elizabeth Mary Maugham (a.k.a.
In 1947 he instituted the Somerset Maugham Award, still given to this day to the best British writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a work of fiction published in the past year.
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 Articles - Thomas John Barnardo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 — 19 September 1905), English philanthropist, and founder and director of homes for destitute children, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1845.
One of his children, Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, later became a well known interior decorator.
Barnardo died of angina pectoris in London on 19 September 1905.
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 Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo.
Here you will find more informations about Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo.
She was born in Hackney on 10 July 1879.
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 William Somerset Maugham | Outcyclopedia, the free and queer encyclopedia
The Maughams divorced in 1928 after a tempestuous marriage that was complicated by William's gay relationship with his secretary Gerald Haxton.
Maugham and Haxton had first met in 1914 in Flanders, where Maugham was serving as a surgeon and Haxton was an ambulance driver with the Red Cross.
When Haxton was deported from Britain as an undesirable alien, Maugham went to live with him in a villa in France, leaving Syrie and Liza behind.
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