Marie Rambert
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Dame Marie Rambert DBE was a Polish-born English dancer and pedagogue who exerted great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher.
Rambert in 1959
Blue plaque, 19 Campden Hill Gardens, London
Ashley Dukes
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Ashley Dukes was an English playwright, critic and theatre manager. He was the husband of ballet dancer Dame Marie Rambert and grandfather to poet Aidan Andrew Dun.
Marie Rambert
…of physicist Johannes Figulla (father-in-law of German writer Christoph Hein and grandfather of German writer Jakob Hein). Rambert met her husband Ashley Dukes, a soldier on leave, at a dinner party in 1917. In Rambert's autobiography she says "after four days of personal meetings, and seven months of…
Dukes in 1949