Example sentences of "and [pron] wife jane " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT the annual meeting of St. Francis Church , Headley Down , parishioners welcomed the arrival during the year of the Rev. Bruce Nicole and his wife Jane . |
| 2 | Will was very friendly with the landlord John Davenant and his wife Jane . |
| 3 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 4 | , Sir Edward Thomas Ffrench , second baronet ( 1789–1855 ) , mathematician and landowner , was born in Dublin 26 March 1789 , the eldest of three sons ( there were no daughters ) of General Gonville Bromhead ( created first baronet in 1806 ) of Thurlby , Lincolnshire , and his wife Jane , daughter of Sir Charles Ffrench , baronet . |
| 5 | , Edward Leicester ( 1881–1929 ) , surgeon-captain , was born 23 November 1881 at Sion Hill , St Vincent , Windward Islands , West Indies , the second of seven children and only son of Edward Leycester Atkinson , then an accountant at the Colonial Bank , Kingstown , St Vincent , and his wife Jane Anne Hazell . |
| 6 | , Sir William ( c. 1506–1544 ) , borderer , was born in or before 1506 , the eldest son of Sir Edward Musgrave of Hartley near Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland and of Edenhall near Penrith in Cumberland , and his wife Jane , daughter of Sir Christopher Ward . |
| 7 | , Sir John ( 1860–1933 ) , librarian , was born in Pontnewynydd , Monmouthshire , 12 May 1860 , the younger son and second of four children of Henry Ballinger of Whitchurch , Herefordshire , metallurgical engineer , and his wife Jane Williams of Llanrumney . |
| 8 | , ( Arthur Annesley ) Ronald ( 1886–1926 ) , novelist , was born 17 January 1886 in London , the second of the three sons and the four children of ( Sir ) Joseph Thomas Firbank of London , railway contractor and later Unionist MP for East Hull , and his wife Jane Harriette , daughter of James Perkins Garrett , rector of Kellistown , county Carlow , Ireland . |
| 9 | , Charles ( 1792–1867 ) , architect , was born 17 May 1792 in Cullompton , Devon , the son of John Fowler of Cullompton and his wife Jane . |
| 10 | , Sir Ellis Hovell ( 1874–1953 ) , archaeologist and palaeographer , was born in Weston , Hampshire , 16 July 1874 , the third in the family of two sons and a daughter of the Revd George William Walter Minns , vicar of Weston , and his wife Jane Porter Boggs . |
| 11 | , Sir Edward ( ante 1495–1544 ) , courtier and patron of reform , was the eldest in the family of three sons and two daughters of John Baynton of Bromham , Wiltshire , and his wife Jane , daughter of Thomas Diggs of Kent . |
| 12 | , James ( 1740–1803 ) , diarist , was born 27 June 1740 at The Parsonage , Ansford , Somerset , the sixth child in the family of four sons ( one of whom died in childhood ) and three daughters of the Revd Samuel Woodforde , rector of Ansford and vicar of neighbouring Castle Cary , and his wife Jane Collins . |
| 13 | , Evelyn ( 1869–1955 ) , writer and campaigner for women 's suffrage and for peace , was born in London 4 August 1869 , the ninth child and third daughter of the ten children ( one of whom died in infancy ) of ( John ) James Sharp , slate merchant of London , and his wife Jane , daughter of Joseph Bloyd , lead merchant of London . |
| 14 | , John Christian ( 1756–1828 ) , agriculturist and parliamentarian , was born 12 July 1756 at Ewanrigg , Dearham , Cumberland , the eldest to survive infancy of the sons of John Christian of Ewanrigg and his wife Jane , eldest daughter of Eldred Curwen of Workington Hall . |
| 15 | MP and landowner of Whitehaven , and his wife Jane , daughter of Woolley Leigh of Addington , Surrey . |
| 16 | , Edward Gordon ( 1863–1924 ) , bibliographer , was born 16 February 1863 in Liverpool , the youngest of four sons ( there were no daughters ) of Robert Duff , merchant of Prince 's Park , Liverpool , and his wife Jane Gordon . |
| 17 | , Thomas Hayton ( 1861–1933 ) , landscape architect , was born 5 May 1861 in Nether Wyersdale , Lancashire , the second of the four children ( one daughter and three sons ) of John William Mawson , cotton warper , and his wife Jane Hayton . |
| 18 | , Sir John ( 1853–1941 ) , veterinary pioneer , was born 17 June 1853 , the younger son in the family of two sons and two daughters of Andrew McFadyean , tenant farmer , of Barrachan , Wigtownshire , and his wife Jane McKissoch . |
| 19 | , Thomas ( 1737–1802 ) , industrialist , was born 13 May 1737 , the eldest of the five sons ( there were no daughters ) of Owen Williams of Cefn Coch in Llansadwrn in Anglesey , and his wife Jane , daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Hendre Hywel . |
| 20 | , Patrick ( 1820–1895 ) , mechanical engineer , was born in Kilmarnock , Ayrshire , 29 June 1820 , the eldest in the family of five sons and two daughters of the Revd Robert Stirling [ q.v. ] , a Scottish minister and inventor , and his wife Jane , daughter of William Rankine , wine merchant , of Galston . |
| 21 | , Thomas Gwynn ( 1871–1949 ) , poet , scholar , and writer , was born at Gwyndy Uchaf farm , Betws-yn-Rhos , Denbighshire , 10 October 1871 , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of Isaac Jones , farmer , and his wife Jane Roberts . |
| 22 | , James ( 1824–1882 ) , clergyman and lexicographer , was born in 1824 , the son of James Stormonth , fish curer , and his wife Jane Robertson . |
| 23 | , Joseph ( 1844–1926 ) , temperance advocate , was born in Worcester 21 October 1844 , the third in the family of three sons and one daughter who survived infancy ( out of eight children ) of John Malins , master builder and later carpenter of Whittington , near Worcester , and his wife Jane , daughter of James Allen , cheese factor , of Wellington , Shropshire . |
| 24 | , Benjamin ( 1813–1858 ) , architect , was baptized 15 February 1813 in Horsley , Northumberland , the younger son of John Green [ q.v. ] of Newcastle upon Tyne , architect and civil engineer , and his wife Jane Stobart . |
| 25 | Bennet and his wife Jane had two sons and six daughters . |
| 26 | , Hugh Owen ( 1834–1891 ) , orthopaedic surgeon , was born 23 August 1834 in Bodedern , Anglesey , the eldest child in the family of five sons and three daughters of Evan Thomas , a bone-setter , of Liverpool , and his wife Jane Owen . |
| 27 | , John James ( 1811–1883 ) , physicist and physical chemist , was born in 1811 in Edinburgh , the sixth of nine children , at least five of them sons , of George Waterston , a manufacturer of sealing-wax and stationery requisites , of Edinburgh , and his wife Jane Blair of Dunkeld . |
| 28 | , Harry ( 1871–1948 ) , steel metallurgist , was born 18 February 1871 in Sheffield , Yorkshire , the youngest of five sons and the eighth of nine children of John Brearley , steel melter of Sheffield , and his wife Jane Senior , daughter of a blacksmith of Penistone , Yorkshire . |
| 29 | , Robert ( 1863–1917 ) , boxer , was born 26 May 1863 in Helston , Cornwall , the youngest child of the seven sons and five daughters of James Fitzsimmons , of Omagh , county Tyrone , and his wife Jane Strongman of Truro , Cornwall . |
| 30 | , Epiphanius ( 1570– c. 1634 ) , metal engraver , sculptor , tomb-maker , and painter , was born in 1570 , perhaps on the feast of the Epiphany ( 6 January ) , either the ninth or the fourteenth and youngest son of William Evesham , probably a Catholic recusant of Wellington , near Hereford , and his wife Jane , daughter of Alexander Howarth of Burghill . |