Weddings in History
Lord Byron
1815 Leading Romantic poet Lord Byron (27) marries Anne Isabella Milbanke (22) by special licence, at Seaham Hall in County Durham
David Livingstone
1845 Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (31) weds Mary Moffat
J. J. Thomson
1890 Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget
Ansel Adams
1928 Photographer Ansel Adams (25) weds Virginia Best in Yosemite Valley
Paul Dirac
1937 Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner
- 1940 Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla.
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