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# Albert E. S. Smythe

Albert Ernest Stafford Smythe (27 December 1861 – 6 October 1947) was an Irish-born Canadian journalist, poet, and leader in the theosophy movement in Canada who founded the Toronto Theosophical Society. He was the father of sportsman and businessman Conn Smythe, who owned the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team from 1927 to 1980.

## Life and career

Smythe was born in Gracehill, County Antrim, in Ireland on 27 December 1861 to a poor Protestant family. His parents were Stafford Smythe and Leonora Cary. Smythe was largely self-taught and read widely. At school he won prizes in geology, botany, and physics.
When he was eighteen Smythe lost all his belongings in a shipwreck while attempting to travel to New York. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, and on the ship there met the Irish theosophist William Quan Judge. After some time in Chicago, he spent 1887 to 1889 in Scotland. He emigrated to Canada that year and married Mary Adelaide Constantine on board the ship there and moved to Toronto in September 1889 as an agent for the Portland Cement Company, with whom he was employed for about five years.
During his journalism career Smythe worked for the Toronto Globe and Toronto Star, and later edited the Hamilton Herald (from 1928) and The Toronto World.
In 1891 Smythe published his first book of poetry, Poems Grave and Gay, and founded the Toronto Theosophical Society that 16 February and served as its first president. He was the Society's primary leader for the next forty years. He worked unpaid for the theosophical publications The Lamp and Canadian Theosophist.
In an article in the Canadian Theosophist in 1928 Smythe criticized the antisemitic and anti-Catholic writings in The Chalice by Brother XII, the English mystic Edward Arthur Wilson who had become influential in Canadian theosophist circles.
According to Greg Gatenby Smythe was "one of the best known newspaper men in Canada, and serious critics would call him one of the best poets in the nation". His writing was influenced by the Celtic Revival of such writers as fellow theosophists W. B. Yeats and George William Russell; he corresponded with Russell, as well as with Emma Goldman, and associated with radical thinkers and writers.
Smythe died 6 October 1947 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario.

## Personal life

Smythe had two children with his first wife Mary Adelaide Constantine: Mary (1891–1903) and Conn (1895–1980). The couple had little in common: Smythe was a teetotaller and spiritual seeker, while his wife was a fun-loving alcoholic whose drinking left Smythe with most of the child-rearing duties and drove her to an early death in 1906. The daughter Mary died of a thyroid disorder in 1903. In c. 1912–13 Smythe remarried to Jane Henderson, a Presbyterian also from Ireland, with whom he had a daughter, Moira.
# Afro-Continental Airways

Afro-Continental Airways (ACA) was a subsidiary of Air Trans Africa, formed by Jack Malloch to operate a service between Salisbury, Rhodesia and Windhoek, South West Africa, and Malawi with a Lockheed L1049G Super Constellation (registration VP-WAW) acquired from Varig Brazilian Airlines.
After a relatively short time, operations ceased and the aircraft was grounded to become a club-house at Charles Prince Airport, Mount Hampden, near Salisbury, Rhodesia. The aircraft was reportedly broken up in the 1990s.
# 2014 Rugby League European Championship C

In 2014 the Rugby League European Federation announced a new European Championship structure in which the European Bowl would be renamed as the European Championship C. The competition this year saw 3 teams taking part with the Czech Republic being joined by Malta and Greece. The winners were Greece.

## Results

| Team | Played | Won | Drew | Lost | For | Against | Difference | Points |
| Greece | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 34 | +66 | 4 |
| Malta | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 40 | +12 | 2 |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 102 | -78 | 0 |
Source:
* 28 June 2014
| Malta | 18–32 | Greece |
| Tries: Wills, Attard (2) Conv: Keep (3) | (Report) | Tries: Kanellopoulos, Constantinou, Giorgas-Spanos, Bosmos, Korkidas Conv: Sue-Tin (6) |
* FC Melita, Pembroke
* 12 July 2014
| Czech Republic | 8–34 | Malta |
| Tries: Suchopár Conv: Petr Šedina (2) | (Report) | Tries: Muscat (3), Briffa (2), Mizzi Conv: Keep (4), Parker (1) |
* Havlichkuv, Brod
* 11 October 2014
| Greece | 68–16 | Czech Republic |
| Tries: Meads (6), Korkidas, Syti, Kannellopoulos, Arfaras, Sell, Bosmas Conv: Sue-Tin (7), Meads (2), Bosmos (1) | (Report) | Tries: Sedina, Kristof, Caslavka Conv: Kucera (2) |
* Athens
# 1878 college football season

The 1878 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton as having been selected national champions.

## Conference and program changes

| Team | Former conference | New conference |
| Brown Bears | Program established | Independent |
| Swarthmore Quakers | Program established | Independent |
# Albert Roßhaupter

Albert Roßhaupter (8 April 1878 – 14 December 1949) was a Bavarian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and editor of several newspapers.

## Biography

Roßhaupter was born in Pillnach as son of a small-scale farmer and basket maker. After visiting the elementary school in Munich, he passed a professional lacquer training. In 1897 he joined the SPD, and worked at the central train garages of Munich from 1899 to 1908. After 1900 he was additional district manager of the free-unionized and social democratic Bavarian train garages and factory workers' association (Bayerischer Eisenbahnwerkstätten und Betriebsarbeiterverband), respectively district manager of the Southern German railway and postal workers' union (Süddeutscher Eisenbahn- und Postpersonalverbund). Thenceforward 1907 until 1933, he was member of the Bavarian parliament. In 1909 he became manager and full-time secretary of the Southern German railway and postal workers' union, and was also editor of the union's organ "Süddeutsche Eisenbahn- und Postpersonal-Zeitung" in Nuremberg until 1912. After 1913 he had several jobs in Augsburg, where he was member of the SPD executive committee of Augsburg until 1914, also community mandatory of the city and editor of the "Schwäbische Volkszeitung" (literally: Swabian people's newspaper) until 1920. After his military service during World War I, he was member of the Bavarian SPD commission. As a member of the provisorily parliament he became minister for military affairs (war minister) under Kurt Eisner on 8 November and held the office until 21 February 1919. From 1920 to 1933 he worked as editor of the "Bayerisches Wochenblatt" (literally: Bavarian weekly paper), organ of the agriculture and forestry worker's union in Augsburg and Olching. As the parliamentary leader of the SPD in the Bavarian parliament, he affirmed the disapproval to the Enabling Act of 1933 of the Nazi party (NSDAP) on 29 April 1933. Due to this he was imprisoned in Fürstenfeldbruck and in the Dachau concentration camp from 1933 to 1934, and a few times afterwards, at last again in Dachau in 1944. After World War II he was a leading member of the SPD-KPD workgroup in Munich, and became the first Bavarian Minister of Labor and Social Care on 28 May 1945. During this period, he was also deputy of Minister-President Wilhelm Hoegner from 28 September 1945 to 21 December 1946, deputy president of the preparing constitutional commission from 8 March to 24 June 1946 and member of the constitutional convention (Ger: verfassunggebende Landesversammlung) from 30 June to 26 October 1946. On 20 September 1947 Heinrich Krehle followed on the ministry post. From 1948 to 1949 Roßhaupter was member of the Parlamentarischer Rat in Bonn. He died in Nannhofen. The Albert-Rosshaupter-Straße in Munich is named in honor of him.
# Agrilus fisherellus

Agrilus fisherellus is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
# 2014 Södermanland county election

Södermanland County held a county council election on 14 September 2014 across its nine municipalities. This was part of the 2014 Swedish local elections. It was held on the same day as the general and municipal elections.

## Results

The number of seats remained at 71. The Social Democrats won the most seats at 23, a drop of four from 2010.
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | ± |
| | Social Democrats | 59,241 | 33.3 | 23 | -4 |
| | Moderates | 34,498 | 19.3 | 14 | -4 |
| | Vård för pengarna | 20,243 | 11.4 | 8 | +8 |
| | Sweden Democrats | 19,150 | 10.8 | 8 | +4 |
| | Green Party | 10,401 | 5.9 | 4 | -2 |
| | Left Party | 9,992 | 5.6 | 4 | 0 |
| | Centre Party | 8,266 | 4.7 | 4 | 0 |
| | People's Party | 8,255 | 4.7 | 3 | -2 |
| | Christian Democrats | 6,478 | 3.6 | 3 | 0 |
| | Others | 1,226 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 3,382 | | | |
| Total | Total | 181,132 | 100 | 71 | 0 |
| Source: val.se ||||||

## Municipal results

Vård för pengarna becoming the largest party in Nyköping marked the first time the Social Democrats had not topped a poll in either the city of Nyköping or the post-1970's municipality for more than a century. The nine municipalities were divided into four separate constituencies based on geography, in which Eskilstuna was a unitary constituency.
| Location | Turnout | Share | Votes | S | M | VåfP | SD | MP | V | C | FP | KD | Other |
| Eskilstuna | 82.9 | 34.3 | 60,993 | 35.7 | 20.4 | 4.2 | 13.9 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 0.7 |
| Flen | 82.2 | 5.7 | 10,217 | 36.3 | 16.4 | 6.9 | 14.1 | 4.4 | 6.2 | 8.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 0.6 |
| Gnesta | 84.2 | 3.8 | 6,825 | 29.9 | 21.4 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 6.8 | 8.2 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Katrineholm | 83.4 | 11.9 | 21,227 | 42.2 | 14.9 | 6.3 | 9.5 | 6.3 | 4.8 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 3.3 | 0.6 |
| Nyköping | 85.5 | 20.1 | 35,725 | 27.1 | 15.3 | 30.5 | 6.6 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 0.7 |
| Oxelösund | 82.6 | 4.3 | 7,561 | 34.3 | 12.7 | 27.9 | 6.9 | 3.7 | 8.1 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.7 |
| Strängnäs | 84.3 | 12.1 | 21,482 | 28.1 | 28.6 | 2.8 | 10.9 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 4.9 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 0.7 |
| Trosa | 86.4 | 4.4 | 7,902 | 26.1 | 29.6 | 12.4 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 0.7 |
| Vingåker | 85.9 | 3.3 | 5,818 | 41.4 | 14.6 | 6.2 | 15.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 5.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 0.6 |
| Total | 82.9 | 100.0 | 177,750 | 33.3 | 19.4 | 11.4 | 10.8 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 0.5 |
| Source: val.se ||||||||||||||
# 1889 West Carmarthenshire by-election

The 1889 West Carmarthenshire by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of West Carmarthenshire in Wales on 17 July 1889. The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal MP, W. R. H. Powell.

## Candidates

The Liberals had won the seat comfortably in 1885, with Powell heavily defeating the former Conservative member for Carmarthenshire, Viscount Emlyn. The party moved quickly to choose a new candidate and there was a strong feeling that the new candidate should be a nonconformist. Their choice fell upon John Lloyd Morgan, son of William Morgan, former principal of the Presbyterian College at Carmarthen, who was chosen unanimously following a selection conference at Carmarthen.
There was no certainty that the Conservatives would contest the seat, and an editorial in the Liberal-inclined Carmarthen newspaper, the Welshman, expressed the view that unless the former member, Lord Emlyn, could be induced to come forward, the party's prospects were poor. Emlyn declined, and the Conservative choice, fell upon Hugh Williams-Drummond, a member of another prominent Carmarthenshire family.
Thus, within a couple of weeks, both the Liberal and Conservative parties had chosen candidates who were of a similar age and who were both fighting their first parliamentary campaign. John Lloyd Morgan, the Liberal candidate, was thought to have an advantage over his Conservative opponent, Hugh Williams-Drummond, in that he was known to the electorate, having spoken for the former member at the previous election.

## Result

1889 West Carmarthenshire by-election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | John Lloyd Morgan | 4,252 | 62.7 | −5.9 |
| | Conservative | Hugh Henry John Williams-Drummond | 2,533 | 37.3 | +5.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,719 | 25.4 | −11.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 6,785 | 72.3 | +11.1 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 9,379 | | |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | -5.9 | |
# 2006 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo – Doubles

Giulia Casoni and Mariya Koryttseva were the defending champions, but none competed this year. Casoni retired from professional tennis during this season, after struggling with a knee injury.
Janette Husárová and Michaëlla Krajicek won the title by defeating qualifiers Alice Canepa and Giulia Gabba 6–0, 6–0 in the final.
This tournament saw an unusual event, as all seeded pairs were eliminated in the first round.

## Seeds

* Eleni Daniilidou / Jasmin Wöhr (first round)
* Yuliana Fedak / Anastasiya Yakimova (first round)
* Maret Ani / Roberta Vinci (first round)
* Lourdes Domínguez Lino / Stéphanie Foretz (first round)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

### Draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | E Daniilidou J Wöhr | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| LL | E Cabeza Candela L Pous Tió | 6 | 6 | | LL | E Cabeza Candela L Pous Tió | 6 | 3 | 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| | Z Gubacsi V Sassi | 3 | 6 | 0 | | MJ Martínez Sánchez A Parra Santonja | 4 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | MJ Martínez Sánchez A Parra Santonja | 6 | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | MJ Martínez Sánchez A Parra Santonja | 3 | 5 | | | | | |
| 3 | M Ani R Vinci | 5 | 6$^3$ | | | | | | | | J Husárová M Krajicek | 6 | 7 | | | | | |
| | J Husárová M Krajicek | 7 | 7$^7$ | | | J Husárová M Krajicek | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Müller J Schruff | 6$^4$ | 3 | | | Ad Serra Zanetti An Serra Zanetti | 0$^r$ | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Ad Serra Zanetti An Serra Zanetti | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | J Husárová M Krajicek | 6 | 6 |
| | E Bychkova G Navrátilová | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | Q | A Canepa G Gabba | 0 | 0 |
| | S Errani K Knapp | 5 | 2 | | | E Bychkova G Navrátilová | 6$^0$ | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Q | A Canepa G Gabba | 3 | 6 | 6 | Q | A Canepa G Gabba | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | L Domínguez Lino S Foretz | 6 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | Q | A Canepa G Gabba | 7 | 2 | 6 | | | | |
| | K Jans A Rosolska | 7 | 3 | 6 | | | | | | | K Jans A Rosolska | 5 | 6 | 2 | | | | |
| WC | M Chakhnashvili S Disderi | 5 | 6 | 0 | | K Jans A Rosolska | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | T Garbin R Oprandi | 6 | 6 | | | T Garbin R Oprandi | 2 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | Y Fedak A Yakimova | 2 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
# Alessandra Basso

Alessandra Basso (born 14 March 1967 in Treviso) is an Italian lawyer and politician who was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2019.
# Zhang Changyun

Zhang Changyun (born 9 April 1964) is a Chinese cross-country skier. She competed in the women's 10 kilometres at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
# Agrilus floridanus

Agrilus floridanus is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.
# 2015 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team

The 2015 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team represented Northwest Missouri State University as a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) during the 2015 NCAA Division II football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Adam Dorrel, the team finished the regular season with an undefeated 11–0 record. They won their fifth NCAA Division II Football Championship with a win over Shepherd in the NCAA Division II Championship Game by a score of 34–7. The Bearcats played their home games at Bearcat Stadium in Maryville, Missouri, which has been the Bearcat's home stadium since 1917.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 3 | 7:00 p.m. | at Nebraska–Kearney | No. 7 | Ron & Carol Cope StadiumKearney, NE | | W 31–0 | 7,853 |
| September 10 | 7:00 p.m. | Missouri Southern | No. 4 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO | | W 48–7 | 7,111 |
| September 19 | 1:30 p.m. | at Central Missouri | No. 3 | Audrey J. Walton StadiumWarrensburg, MO | | W 49–14 | 9,973 |
| September 26 | 2:37 p.m. | Central Oklahoma | No. 3 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO | MIAA | W 23–16 | 7,847 |
| October 3 | 1:00 p.m. | at Northeastern State | No. 3 | Doc Wadley StadiumTahlequah, OK | | W 59–7 | 1,593 |
| October 10 | 1:00 p.m. | Lindenwood | No. 3 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO | | W 69–0 | 6,954 |
| October 17 | 2:37 p.m. | at No. 22 Pittsburg State | No. 3 | Carnie Smith StadiumPittsburg, KS (rivalry) | MIAA | W 31–14 | 10,189 |
| October 24 | 2:00 p.m. | Fort Hays State | No. 3 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO | | W 45–24 | 9,082 |
| October 31 | 1:00 p.m. | at Missouri Western | No. 2 | Spratt StadiumSt. Joseph, MO (rivalry) | | W 24–10 | 6,955 |
| November 7 | 6:00 p.m. | No. 14 Emporia State | No. 2 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO | ASN | W 44–10 | 6,542 |
| November 14 | 1:00 p.m. | at Washburn | No. 1 | Yager StadiumTopeka, KS | | W 49–13 | 5,403 |
| November 28 | 1:00 p.m. | No. 11 Humboldt State* | No. 1 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO (NCAA Division II Second Round) | | W 54–7 | 4,160 |
| December 5 | 1:00 p.m. | No. 18 Emporia State* | No. 1 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO (NCAA Division II Quarterfinal) | | W 38–17 | 5,155 |
| December 12 | 2:30 p.m. | No. 7 West Georgia* | No. 1 | Bearcat StadiumMaryville, MO (NCAA Division II Semifinal) | ESPN3 | W 38–23 | 5,522 |
| December 19 | 3:00 p.m. | vs. No. 5 Shepherd* | No. 1 | Sporting ParkKansas City, KS (NCAA Division II Championship) | ESPN2 | W 34–7 | 16,181 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from American Football Coaches Association Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Central time |||||||||
# 1926 in Iceland

The following lists events that happened in 1926 in Iceland.

## Incumbents

* Monarch - Kristján X
* Prime Minister – Jón Magnússon, Magnús Guðmundsson, Jón Þorláksson

## Events

* 1 July – The Icelandic Coast Guard formally founded
* 1 July – Icelandic parliamentary election, 1926
* 8 July – Cabinet of Jón Þorláksson formed
* 1926 Úrvalsdeild

## Births

* 28 March – Ingvar Gíslason, politician
* 18 April – Indriði G. Þorsteinsson, writer (d. 2000)
* 7 November – Ólafur Hannesson, footballer
* 11 November – Torfi Bryngeirsson, athlete (d. 1995).

## Deaths

* 23 June – Jón Magnússon, politician (b. 1859).
* 2 July – Kristján Jónsson, politician (b. 1852).
# 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles

The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Grosseto, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini on 14 and 15 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Yekaterina Kostetskaya Russia |
| Silver | Zuzana Hejnová Czech Republic |
| Bronze | Sherene Pinnock Jamaica |

## Results
### Final

15 July
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Yekaterina Kostetskaya | Russia | 55.55 |
| | Zuzana Hejnová | Czech Republic | 57.44 |
| | Sherene Pinnock | Jamaica | 57.54 |
| 4 | Nicole Leach | United States | 57.56 |
| 5 | He Yu | China | 58.11 |
| 6 | Tatyana Azarova | Kazakhstan | 58.41 |
| 7 | Irina Obedina | Russia | 58.63 |
| 8 | Angela Moroșanu | Romania | 63.10 |

### Heats

14 July

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yekaterina Kostetskaya | Russia | 56.84 | Q |
| 2 | Sherene Pinnock | Jamaica | 58.58 | Q |
| 3 | Miki Sawada | Japan | 59.23 | |
| 4 | Heike Wissing | Germany | 60.20 | |
| 5 | Christina Smith | United States | 60.42 | |
| 6 | Elisa Scardanzan | Italy | 61.52 | |
| 7 | Sareteka Mbango | Togo | 66.07 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Nicole Leach | United States | 57.98 | Q |
| 2 | Tatyana Azarova | Kazakhstan | 58.36 | Q |
| 3 | Irina Obedina | Russia | 58.96 | q |
| 4 | Eva-Maria Erwes | Germany | 60.65 | |
| 5 | Olga Ortega | Spain | 60.92 | |
| 6 | Nikolina Horvat | Croatia | 61.14 | |
| 7 | Jessica Miller | Uruguay | 61.74 | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | He Yu | China | 58.12 | Q |
| 2 | Angela Moroșanu | Romania | 58.30 | Q |
| 3 | Zuzana Hejnová | Czech Republic | 59.08 | q |
| 4 | Doura Jémaa | France | 59.82 | |
| 5 | Faye Harding | United Kingdom | 60.31 | |
| 6 | Sara Petersen | Denmark | 60.60 | |
| 7 | Anastasiya Proshkina | Uzbekistan | 64.33 | |
| 8 | Trishana McGowan | Jamaica | 66.65 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.
* China (1)
* Croatia (1)
* Czech Republic (1)
* Denmark (1)
* France (1)
* Germany (2)
* Italy (1)
* Jamaica (2)
* Japan (1)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Romania (1)
* Russia (2)
* Spain (1)
* Togo (1)
* United Kingdom (1)
* United States (2)
* Uruguay (1)
* Uzbekistan (1)
# Aldrich Mansion

Aldrich Mansion is a late 19th-century property owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence since 1939. It is located by the scenic Narragansett Bay at 836 Warwick Neck Avenue in Warwick, Rhode Island, south of Providence, Rhode Island. Originally called Indian Oaks, and once the Senator Nelson W. Aldrich Estate. The extensive estate was developed in 1899 by Nelson W. Aldrich (1841–1915), a Republican Party politician who dominated state politics of the period. The main estate house is a sprawling stone French Renaissance structure with lavish interior decoration. The estate's surviving outbuildings include a boathouse and a caretaker's house, the latter located across Warwick Neck Avenue from the main estate. Aldrich's heirs sold the property to the Roman Catholic church in 1939, and it was adapted for use as a seminary. The property now known as "The Aldrich Mansion" still belongs to the Diocese of Providence, and is now available as a site for weddings, formal occasions, business conferences, etc. It is also occasionally used for film and television productions.
The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

## Brief history

The estate was originally built and owned by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island and consisted of over 225 acres. The construction of the estate began in 1896 and was completed some 16 years later. In 1901, his daughter, Abby Aldrich, married John D. Rockefeller Jr. at the mansion. In 1939, the Senator's heirs transferred the Aldrich Mansion and 100 acres to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence for approximately $75,000. From 1946 to 1983, Our Lady of Providence Seminary was housed at the Aldrich Mansion. In 1955, a 100,000+ sq. ft. school was built to house the Seminary. When the seminary relocated, Bishop Hendricken High School used the property as its "Senior Campus" for a decade.
The estate is currently set on 72 acres. It consists of the French-inspired mansion, a gatehouse, 10,000 sq. ft. stables, a 7,500 sq. ft. boathouse, a 15,000 sq. ft. seminary chapel, as well as the seminary's classrooms, dormitories, gymnasium, and dining facilities. The seminary was relocated to Providence some years ago. The facilities were also leased to the Overbrook Academy, a Catholic boarding school for girls, for almost 20 years.
It was William Parrish's mansion in the 1998 motion picture Meet Joe Black.

## Usage today

Still owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, the Aldrich Mansion is currently used for wedding receptions, conferences, fund raisers, as well as occasional television and film production work.