North Kingstown, Rhode Island
North Kingstown is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States, and is part of the Providence metropolitan area. The population was 27,732 in the 2020 census. North Kingstown is home to the birthplace of American portraitist Gilbert Stuart, who was born in the village of Saunderstown. Within the town is Quonset Point, location of the former Naval Air Station Quonset Point, known for the invention of the Quonset hut, as well as the historic village of Wickford.
History.
The area was first settled by Roger Williams and Richard Smith who set up trading posts near Wickford where Smith's Castle is today. The town of Kings Towne was founded in 1674, by the colonial government, and included the present day towns of North Kingstown, South Kingstown, Exeter, and Narragansett. In 1723, Kings Towne was split into two parts, North Kingstown and South Kingstown, with North Kingstown, having the earliest settlements, retaining the 1674 establishment date. In 1742, the town of Exeter was taken from the western part of North Kingstown.
On September 17, 2024, the National Park Service announced that North Kingstown was named a World War II Heritage City.
Geography.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (25.28%) is water. It is bordered on the east by Narragansett Bay.
Demographics.
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As of the 2020 census, there were 27,732 people and 11,338 households in the town. The population density was . There were 12,189 housing units in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 89.59% White, 1.27% African American, 0.57% American Indian/Alaska Native, 1.90% Asian, 1.19% from some other race other races, and 5.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.65% of the population.
There were 11,338 households, out of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.7% were married couples living together, 23.6% had a female householder with no spouse present and 14.2% had a male householder with no spouse present. 11.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 18.4% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 28.1% from 45 to 64, and 21.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years.
The median income for a household in the town was $120,565, and the median income for a family was $144,898. The per capita income for the town was $61,280. About 6.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.1% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.
Transportation.
Wickford Junction is a terminus station on the Providence/Stoughton Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing weekday train service to Providence Station and Boston's South Station. At 63 miles from Boston, it is the most distant station in the MBTA's 135-station commuter-rail network, and the only one in its most expensive fare zone.
RIPTA also services in the town inbound to Providence and outbound to Narragansett or Newport.
North Kingstown is also served by a passenger ferry connecting to the island of Martha's Vineyard.
Education.
North Kingstown School Department is the municipal school district. It operates North Kingstown High School.
Other National Historic Places in North Kingstown.
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Augusto Grace
American politician
Augusto Francisco Grace (born April 9, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who represented the 23rd Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 to 1991 and the Burlington School Committee from 1977 to 1983.
He was born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 and from Boston College Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1984.
He practiced law in Boston until 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he served as the director of professional development for the Massachusetts Highway Department. From 2009 to 2015 he worked in the Talent Management and Professional Development Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation rising to the position of department manager. Since 2015 he has served as the deputy director of education and development at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. He is a former executive director, president, and treasurer of the National Guard Association of Massachusetts and National Guard Executive Directors Association.
Grace was defeated by Republican Marianne Brenton in the 1990 election. He was a candidate for Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1994, but lost in the Democratic Primary to William F. Galvin.
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Bert Grace
Rugby player
Bert Augustus Grace (29 April 1912 — 28 March 1982), also known as Mick Grace, was an Australian retail executive and international rugby union player.
Biography.
Born in Sydney, Grace was the only son of Albert Edward Grace, co-founder of the Grace Bros department store chain.
Grace played rugby during his time at the Cranbrook School and afterwards competed as a centre for Sydney club Eastern Suburbs, winning a premiership in 1931. Following impressive performances for NSW in the 1932 Wallabies trials, Grace won an international call up for the 1933 tour of South Africa, selected to play on the right wing. He featured in five of the first eight tour matches in the lead up to the first Test, but his positional rival Doug McLean was preferred to play against the Springboks. By the end of the trip, Grace had played in ten tour matches, scoring four tries.
After the death of his father in 1938, Grace took over as chairman of Grace Bros. He flew with a Kittyhawk fighter squadron of the RAAF No. 82 Squadron during the war and was promoted to squadron leader. In 1944, Grace was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his war service. He continued to head Grace Bros up until his death in 1982.
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Graça
Graça is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil.
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Graça, Lisbon
Graça (English: "Grace") is a former parish ("freguesia") in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it became part of the parish São Vicente.

Marcelino Manuel da Graça
Founder and first bishop of a predominantly African American denomination, 1919
Marcelino Manuel da Graça (January 25, 1881 or 1884—January 12, 1960), better known as Charles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace, or Daddy Grace, was the founder and first bishop of the predominantly African-American denomination, the United House of Prayer For All People. He was a contemporary of other religious leaders such as Father Divine, Noble Drew Ali, and Ernest Holmes. Many of his followers claimed miraculous acts of faith healing while attending services and others saw his ministry as a sign from God of the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
Origins and family.
Marcelino Manuel da Graça's parents were Manuel (1837–1926) and Gertrude (1847–1933) da Graça. Marcelino da Graça's had five siblings, consisting of one brother, Benventura, and four sisters: Eugenia, Slyvia, Amalia, and Louise. He was born January 25, in Brava in the Cape Verde Islands, then a Portuguese possession off the west coast of Africa. There is no verifiable information to confirm Grace's exact birth year, but most sources either state 1881 or 1884. The family Marcelino's father Manuel da Graça arrived in America at the port of New Bedford, Massachusetts aboard a ship called the "Freeman" in May 1902. It is unclear whether Marcelino was aboard the ship in 1902, but ship manifests show that he visited America in 1903, and in 1904 he came as a cabin passenger aboard the schooner called Luiza.
Marcelino Grace married twice. His first wife was Jane "Jennie" Lomba, a Cape Verdean woman also known as Jennie Lombard. They were married in 1909. They had a daughter, Irene, in 1910 and son, Norman in 1912. Norman died in 1947. Whether they officially divorced was disputed. His second wife was named Angelina (Montano) Grace, a woman of Mexican descent, whom he married in 1932. They had a son, Marcelino, in 1935. They divorced in 1937.
In her book "Daddy Grace", Marie W. Dallam notes that the entire da Graça family were Roman Catholics in their homeland and opened up to different forms of the Christian experience once they immigrated to the United States.
Benventura da Graça would later become a Church of the Nazarene pastor in the U.S. Marcelino, however, was said inside the da Graça family (according to the research done by Dallam) to have always been a "special child". Unlike the conventional ministry of his brother, he went on to establish an independent Christian ministry. After becoming a famous bishop, it was recounted that as a youth he had received a commission to preach directly from God.
United House of Prayer.
After leaving his job as a railway cook, Marcelino, using the anglicized version of his name, Charles Manuel (Emmanuel) Grace, began using the title "Bishop". In 1919, he built the first House of Prayer in a tent in West Wareham, Massachusetts at the cost of $39. He later established branches valued at $1000 in Charlotte, North Carolina and Newark, New Jersey. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Bishop Grace traveled America preaching and establishing the United House of Prayer for All People. The Constitution and By-Laws of The United House of Prayer, promulgated in 1929, stated that the purpose of the organization in pertinent part was "to erect and maintain places of worship and assembly where all people may gather prayer and to worship the Almighty God, irrespective of denomination or creed." He traveled extensively throughout the segregated South in the 1920s and 1930s preaching to integrated congregations years before the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s and the religious ecumenical movements which followed.
Faith-healing savior.
For Bishop Grace and his followers the miraculous stories as told of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Bible did not end with their deaths. Grace asserted that such miracles were available again, through him. As "Daddy Grace", the bishop and leader of the United House of Prayer, he was well known and respected by his followers as a faith healer and miracle worker.
Style.
Grace was an early prototype of what is now understood in western culture as the "celebrity preacher". Active during the early and mid-20th century, Grace used attention-getting maneuvers such as wearing loudly colored suits with bold, different-colored piping and shiny buttons, along with glitzy, expensive jewelry and long, unpainted fingernails.
Businesses.
Grace's business acumen was evident in the many properties he acquired, including the Grace Hotel and a $450,000 85-room mansion in Los Angeles, the Manhattan El Dorado apartments valued at $15,000,000 in 1953, 555 Edgecombe Avenue in 1947; businesses he owned such as a hatchery in Havana, Cuba and a Brazilian coffee plantation; and products he sold at his churches like Grace Coffee and Grace Cold Cream beauty products. He was worth $25 million when he died, though the Internal Revenue Service sought $4.5 million in back taxes from his estate.
Legacy and followers.
The most notable organizational outcome of the 41-year ministry of Bishop Grace in the United States of America is the religious denomination known as the United House of Prayer For All People. It had 3,000,000 members in over 350 houses of prayer and 60 cities in 1960. Each successive leader/Bishop of the United House of Prayer for All People continues in the one-man leadership style initiated by Bishop Grace and each successive Bishop is called "Daddy" in turn. This was later shown through his successor Bishop Walter McCullough (1960-1991) who went on to continue Grace’s legacy, for 31 years.
Besides the United House of Prayer for All People, other U.S. denominations also trace their origins to the ministry of Bishop Grace. Prominent among them is the New York City-based "House of the Lord Pentecostal Church on the Mount".
Death.
Bishop Grace died Tuesday, January 12, 1960 in Los Angeles following a heart attack Friday and a stroke on Sunday. His followers were unaware he had been suffering for ten years from a heart condition. His glass-topped bronze coffin was displayed for viewing in Charlotte, Newport News, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Newark and New Bedford. He is buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Joseph Peter Grace Sr.
American businessman and polo player
Joseph Peter Grace Sr. (June 9, 1872 – July 15, 1950) was an American businessman, polo player, and owner of Thoroughbred horses in the sport of steeplechase racing. He was the president of W.R. Grace and Company from 1907-1946.
Early life and career.
Grace was born on June 9, 1872, in Great Neck, New York. He was the son of businessman and two time mayor of New York City, William Russell Grace.
Grace graduated from Columbia University.
A polo player, in 1911 Grace purchased a estate in the Lakeville district of Long Island from Almeric H. Paget, son-in-law of William Collins Whitney. He would acquire a stable of polo ponies as well as thoroughbreds used in point to point steeplechase events.
A devout Roman Catholic, Joseph Grace was a member of the international organization the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Catholic organization that aids the sick and poor through the establishment of hospitals and clinics around the world. He also served as president of Grace Institute, a charity created in 1897 by his father and his uncle, Michael Grace, that provided tuition-free education and training in business and administrative skills to economically disadvantaged women.
Career.
On the death of his father, William R. Grace in 1904, Edward Eyre, the company secretary and a director, was appointed president of W. R. Grace and Company. In 1907, Eyre was made company chairman and Joseph Grace became president. In 1929, Joseph Grace took over as chairman when Edward Eyre retired and Joseph's friend from his college days, D. Stewart Iglehart, was appointed president.
The W. R. Grace company's business centered on operations in Peru and surrounding South American countries. To enhance that, in 1914 Grace established Grace National Bank, a New York City private bank that concentrated on business done in South America. The extent of the W.R. Grace company's trade was such that its founders had formed Grace Shipping Company. In 1929, Joseph Grace concluded a partnership with Pan American World Airways to establish Pan American-Grace Airways, the first air carrier to serve the West Coast of South America.
In 1945, Grace suffered a debilitating stroke and in 1946 both he and D. Stewart Iglehart retired. His son, Joseph Peter Grace Jr., took over management of the company.
Personal life.
In 1908, he married Janet MacDonald, the daughter of Charles B. Macdonald, a major figure in early American golf who built the first 18-hole course in the United States. Together, they were the parents of five children:
His wife died on December 31, 1937, at age fifty-three. Joseph Grace died of a stroke at his home in Great Neck, New York on July 15, 1950.
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Alfred Augustus Grace
NZ teacher, journalist, writer
Alfred Augustus Grace (1867 – 18 March 1942) was a New Zealand teacher, journalist and writer. He was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand on 1867. He wrote literature such as short stories, novels, folklore collections, and other literature that was read in New Zealand, Australia and England. Although he was known in his local communities for his contributions, he achieved nationwide fame for his writing. Grace wrote literature such as short stories and novels. Some of his famous literature was "Maoriland stories, Tales of a dying race," and "The tale of Timber Town". Grace majorly wrote stories that portray Maori cultures. His first major literature was called "Maoriland stories" that was published in 1895"." He continuously wrote fiction until 1914 with "The Tales of timber town" as the last fiction literature that Grace wrote.
He was the son of a church missionary in society church. his father's name was Thomas Samuel Grace and his mother's name was Agnes fearing. Grace married to Amelia Adelaide Harriet Jennings and their marriage produced with four children.
He undertook the majority of his education in England, where he moved in 1875. when he moved back to New Zealand, he worked as a teacher. however, he still wrote literature in his free time before he gathered seven of the short stories and make Maoriland stories. He had been to London and worked with Chatto & Windus to published his literature there. the name of the literature was "Tales of a Dying Race" in 1901. in New Zealand, Grace collaborated with Gordon & Gutch to published a couple of works such as "Folktales of maori" in 1907, "Atareta, the Belle of the Kainga" in 1908, "Hone Tiki Dialogues" in 1910, and "The Tale of Timber Town" in 1914. After 1914, Grace never published fiction literature again and died on 18 March 1942.
Alfred Augustus Grace was mentioned and cited in some other literatures such as in "Henry Lawson Among Maoris" in I section, "Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914" in Primary Texts and Secondary Sources sections
Background.
Alfred Augustus Grace was the son of Thomas Samuel Grace who was church missionary in society church and Agnes Fearon. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand in May 1867 and he is the youngest of 12 siblings. His brother Thomas continues his father's missionary work, his brother William become a scholar of Maori, and his brother Lawrence was an interpreter. He lived in Taupo region but had forced to leave due to the outbreak of war soon after he was born. He travelled to England in 1875 with his parent and got a scholarship at St John's College, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. In 1887, he returned to New Zealand and lived in Nelson which was where his family lived at that time. When he was in Nelson, Grace become a teacher while writing articles and short stories in the spare time. On 30 December 1890, he married Amelia Adelaide Harriet Jennings at christ church in Nelson and their marriage produced with four children. He was predeceased by one of his daughters in 1922. His wife died in 1938 and he died 4 years later on 18 March 1942.
Life and career.
When Grace move to Nelson, he was working as a teacher. Furthermore, Grace also a member of Maoriland School of Writing that was famous from 1896 until 1915. Grace had held a noticeable part in his local area such as a member of the committee of the Nelson branch of the Navy League, master of the Lodge Victory of Freemasons, and Nelson city council member. Moreover, he also joined H Battery, New Zealand Regiment of Field Artillery Volunteers in 1902 which then attained the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Canterbury Field Artillery Brigade before his retirement in 1917. Furthermore, in a short period of time, he was also a secretary for the state control league of New Zealand.
However, Grace was recognised across the country as a journalist and writer as his short stories, folklore collections, novels, and other literature were read in New Zealand, England and Australia. In the journalistic and writing world Grace also known as Artemidorus because Grace used this name in some of his books. Many of Grace's works tell a story of an attractive people that were meant to be failed due to the unavoidable expansion of civilisation. Moreover, Those stories usually portrayed in nostalgic vibes and many of his literature talked about Maori cultures with which he was fascinated. Grace's fascination toward Maori cultures came from his family background as his family has close ties with the Maori culture as two of his brothers married women from the Maori tribe and his father's interest in Maori cultures. One of the other reason why he picked this new Zealander culture as the main background in his stories other than his fascination for it was because, at that time, the main topic of debate was the New Zealand independence from Britain and it was supported by the majority of new Zealanders. Thus, due to this, Grace began to visualise a literature that would be unique to New Zealand in which then he picked Maori life and culture as it was something that differentiated new Zealand from England and Australia.
He produced short stories and articles for Australian periodicals including "New Zealand illustrated Magazine", "The Bulletin", and "The Triad" and subsequently published literature for himself. He wrote short stories such as "Maoriland Stories" in 1895 and "Tales of a Dying Race" in 1901, novels like "The Tale of Timber Town" in 1914, and substantial historical and topical works such as "New Zealand in the next great war" in 1894.
In the early part of his writing career, while he was a teacher, he wrote some stories which were published in New Zealand and Australian periodicals. in 1895, Grace selected seven of his stories and made one of his early books which was called "Maoriland Stories". When it was published, the book received good feedback which established Grace as a writer in New Zealand.
Later on, Grace secured a firm in London called Chatto & Windus as the publisher of his second short stories which is "Tales of a Dying Race." In London, the book sold well. The Auckland Free Lance thought that "His stories possess that warmth of colour and feeling which is sometimes considered to be too strong for the constitution of young persons of our nationality".
As his popularity increase, Grace's writing began a literary trend amongst his contemporary New Zealand writers. Furthermore, "New Zealand Free Lance" magazine also reviewed his writing style and said "Very few in New Zealand can express the humorous and whimsical side of the Maori character so aptly and so pleasantly". In 1914, after he published his last novel he did not write any other Maori culture-based stories and Grace did not write works of fiction anymore. However, he still practiced journalism as he published a history of Nelson Country council and wrote a guidebook about Nelson and its district.
Published literature.
"Maoriland stories" (1895).
"Maoriland Stories" was first published in 1895. This literature was printed by A. G. Betts. From 1895 until 2011, this book was published seven times. This was Grace's first mayor publication. This book consists of seven short stories that Grace wrote. Four of the stories are about settlers and the other three is about Maori and Maori-pakeha/ European relations. One of the stories on this book named "The King’s Ngerengere". It was inspired by Grace own experience as in 1884, Grace and his family was visited by Patara Te Tuhi and the Maori King, Tawhiao which causes a scandal among neighbours due to their arrival.
"Tales of a dying race" (1901).
"Tales of a Dying Race" was firstly published in 1901 and was published 5 times after that. The publisher of "Tales of a Dying Race" is Chatto & Windus. Tales of a dying race consist of twenty eight tales. The four of the stories are Maori tales and the other twenty-four are not Maori tales but stories that talked about an interaction between people such as Maoris, missionaries, merchants and settlers. Tales of a dying race received review from British critics, which described it as "a  purposeful  book, full  of  subtle  meaning  and  tender sentiment  ...and  great  insight  into  the  manners  and  customs  of  our  semi-savage dependents".
"Folk tales of the Maori" (1907).
"Folktales of the Maori" was firstly published in 1907 and fifteen editions have been published since 1097 until 2010. This literature was published in Wellington and the publisher of this literature was Gordon & Gotch. This book consists of tales that were collected by grace's Maori friend named Karepa Te Whetu of Ngāti Koata and then it was translated by Grace.
" Atareta, the belle of the kainga" (1908).
The first edition of "Atareta, the Belle of the Kainga" was published in 1908. This literature was published in Wellington and the publisher of this literature was Gordon & Gotch. Since then and until 1998, 9 editions of this novel were published. This book was mention in "Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’" which was located in  Alfred Grace, 1867-1942 section. Furthermore, "Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914" also mentions this novel in the Primary Texts section and also in "The New Zealand Novel 1860-1965" on The Maori Again section. This novel is a melodramatic romance with early colonialism as the time frame. Theme of love, sex, and clash of pagan and Christian culture.
"Hone Tiki dialogues" (1910).
"Hone Tiki Dialogue" was introduced in New Zealand and Australia and published in 1910. This literature was published in Wellington and the publisher of this literature was Gordon & Gotch. It was published 7 more editions until 1999. "Hone tiki dialogues" have twelve drafts and it was set in Wellington. In it, there is an unnamed narrator who records the conversation with a Maori person named Hone tiki. The usage of the Māori English  Hone was a notable feature for this Dialogue which was rendered by phonetically.
"The tale of Timber Town" (1914).
"The Tale of Timber Town" was firstly published in 1914 and there were another 5 editions that were published from then until 2009. This literature was published in Wellington and the publisher of this literature was Gordon & Gotch. This literature is Grace's longest literature and this story background is located in Nelson. The genre of this story is a melodramatic romance with the story of the 1866 Maungatapu murders which talk about the three brutally murdered men that were carrying gold to Nelson for goldfield as inspiration. This book is a murder story which talks about a hero called Jack Scarlett who involved with a European New Zealander, a Jewish woman, and a Maori maiden.
Cited and mentioned.
Cited in.
"Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914" which in Introduction: Colonialism and Embarrassment, 3. Henry Lawson's Aesthetic Crisis, 5. Katherine Mansfield: A Modernist in Maoriland and Index sections.
"The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]" in Nelson Corporation Military section.
"The New Zealand Novel 1860-1965" in The Maori Again, Bread and Butter, and Index of New Zealand Authors sections.
"Henry Lawson Among Maoris" in I section.
"Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’" in the Introduction section.
"Letters and Art in New Zealand" in 5 — The Nineties section.
Mentioned in.
"Henry Lawson Among Maoris" in 7 Lawson's Aesthetic Crisis section.
"Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’" in Alfred Grace, 1867–1942 section.
"Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914" in Primary Texts and Secondary Sources sections.
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Joe Grace (baseball)
American baseball player (1914-1969)
Joseph LaVerne Grace (January 5, 1914 – September 18, 1969) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators over six seasons between and . Grace batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as tall and .
Born in Gorham, Illinois, Grace entered pro ball in 1935. He joined the Browns in September 1938 after three seasons with the Class A1 Memphis Chicks. After three partial seasons with St. Louis, he spent the entire campaign with the Browns and batted .309 with 112 hits. Called to World War II military service after that season, he served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945. Upon returning to baseball, he spent two more full seasons in the majors, appearing in 125 games in in a season split between the Browns and Senators, then in 78 contests for Washington in 1947. His minor league career continued in the top-level Pacific Coast League in 1953. He briefly managed in the Chicago Cubs' farm system with the 1966 Duluth-Superior Dukes.
In the majors, Grace posted a .283 batting average (442 for 1,561) with 76 doubles, 18 triples, 20 home runs and 172 RBI in 484 games played.
Grace died in an automobile accident on September 18, 1969, at the age of 55 in Murphysboro, Illinois.
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Jack Grace
Irish Gaelic footballer
Jack Grace (8 February 1884 – 9 March 1915) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler. His championship career as a dual player with the Dublin senior teams spanned twelve seasons from 1901 until 1912.
Born in Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, Grace was one of eleven children born to Nicholas and Kate Grace (née Keoghan). Raised on the family farm, Grace was educated locally before moving to Dublin in his teens to take up a position in the drapery trade with Todd, Burns & Co.
After moving to Dublin, Grace joined the Kickhams club where he played both hurling and Gaelic football. He won four successive county football championship medals between 1904 and 1907, while he also won a county hurling championship medal with the club in 1908.
Grace was just eighteen-years-old when he made his debut on the inter-county scene as a member of the Dublin senior football team in the delayed 1901 championship. Over the course of the next decade, he won five All-Ireland medals, beginning with back-to-back wins in 1901 and 1902, followed by three successive championships between 1906 and 1908. He also won six Leinster medals. As a hurler, Grace was a three-time Leinster medal winner.
Grace's brothers - Pierce and Dick - also had All-Ireland success in both codes with Kilkenny and Dublin. Between them, the three Grace brothers had a total of 15 All-Ireland medals.
Grace died from pneumonia on 9 March 1915.
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Grace Grace
Australian politician
Ignazia Graziella "Grace" Grace (née Farfaglia) (born 12 August 1958) is an Australian politician and unionist from the state of Queensland. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the seat of McConnel and its predecessor seat, Brisbane Central, for all but two years since 2007.
Grace was a cabinet minister in the Palaszczuk and Miles Labor Governments from 2015 to 2024. She was also General Secretary of the Queensland Council of Unions from 2000 to 2007.
Early life.
Grace was born in Brisbane in 1958. She is the daughter of Italian migrants Salvatore and Concetta Farfaglia, who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s. Her father arrived first and cut cane in north Queensland to pay for her mother's fare to come over from Sicily. Grace attended All Hallows School in Fortitude Valley.
Grace's father Salvatore suffered a serious workplace injury at a tannery that rendered him unable to work, which inspired her later involvement in the union movement. She had a career as an official in several unions and served as an industrial relations advisor to the Keating government. Grace was elected as the first female General Secretary of the Queensland Council of Unions in 2000 and served in that role until 2007.
She married Michael Grace in 1985 and has one child.
Political career.
Grace was first elected to the State Parliament at the 2007 Brisbane Central state by-election following the resignation of Premier Peter Beattie. Grace was re-elected in 2009 but lost the seat to the Liberal National Party's Robert Cavallucci in 2012. She won back the seat of Brisbane Central at the 2015 state election. After the seat was renamed McConnel, she was re-elected again in 2017, 2020 and 2024.
Member for Brisbane Central & McConnel (2007–2012, 2015–).
Grace was a notable supporter of the Bligh Government's decision to legislate civil partnerships for same-sex couples in Queensland, and voted to reinstate them in 2015 after civil partnerships were ended by the Newman LNP Government. New Farm and Fortitude Valley, the main centres for Brisbane's LGBTIQ+ community, are both in her electorate and she has built close ties with gay rights organisations.
Later as an MP and minister in the Palaszczuk Government she supported further reforms including legalising same-sex adoptions; equalisation of the age of consent in Queensland; a Queensland Government apology to people convicted of homosexual offences before homosexuality was legalised in 1990 and passing legislation to allow for those historic convictions to be expunged; a ban on gay conversion therapies; and passing legislation to modernise birth certificates to better recognise trans and gender-diverse Queenslanders, including allowing people to have their gender accurately documented without undergoing sexual reassignment surgery.
Following a commitment made by Grace and the Labor Party at the 2015 state election public sexual health services were restored at Biala, Brisbane's only free sexual health clinic. Biala's funding and staffing has been significantly cut by the Newman LNP Government in 2013.
Grace campaigned in the 2015 state election to prevent the sale of Fortitude Valley State School after it was closed in 2013 by the Newman Government and earmarked for private property development. As Education Minister she opened a new school, Fortitude Valley State Secondary College, on the site in 2020. This was the first inner-city Brisbane school to be built in over 50 years and the first vertical school in Queensland.
In 2016, Grace supported a campaign which succeeded in restored public access to the riverfront boardwalk at Mactaggarts Place in Teneriffe after a fence was erected by body corporate of private apartment building Mactaggarts Place.
Grace advocated for the $31.5 million redevelopment of Ballymore Stadium that was completed in 2023. This established the National Rugby Training Centre as the new national headquarters of the Australian national women's rugby union team, and a new training base for the Queensland Reds.
In conscience votes, Grace supported the "Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018," which decriminalised abortion in Queensland, and the "Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021", which legalised voluntary assisted dying.
Palaszczuk Government (2015–2023).
In 2015 Grace was elected Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly until being appointed as a cabinet minister in the Palaszczuk Government. In December 2015, following a cabinet reshuffle she was sworn in as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Minister for Racing and Minister for Multicultural Affairs.
During the government's second term (2017–2020) Grace was made Minister for Education and Minister for Industrial Relations. Following the 2020 state election, she maintained these roles and was made Minister for Racing for a second time.
Industrial Relations.
Grace has served continuously as Minister for Industrial Relations since December 2015 and passed significant legislative reforms that made Queensland the first Australian State to establish a scheme to licence the labour-hire industry in 2017; make industrial manslaughter an offence in 2017; make wage-theft a criminal offence; and to introduce entitlements for Queensland public sector workers to 10 days paid domestic and family violence leave in 2016 and 10 days reproductive health leave in 2024.
Grace also reformed Queensland's trading hours arrangements in 2017, by reducing 99 different trading-hour zones to four core trading hours areas to provide better certainty for workers and businesses; and established Easter Sunday and Christmas Eve after 6PM as public holidays in Queensland.
In 2018 Grace was the first minister in the country to advocate for a national ban on the use, supply, importation, and manufacture of engineered stone to protect workers from silica and dust diseases. All Australian jurisdictions agreed to a national ban in December 2023.
Education.
As Education Minister, Grace oversaw the Cooler Cleaner Schools Program that air-conditioned every classroom, library and staff room in Queensland state schools, and placed almost 200,000 solar panels on roof tops of over 900 state schools by 2022, which contributed 61.4 megawatts towards Queensland's renewable energy target.
Grace announced that Queensland children would have access to free kindergarten in sessional kindergartens and long day care services for 15 hours per week, 40 weeks per year, from 2024.
In 2023 Grace announced a $35 million investment to provide vending machines with free period products to any Queensland state school that wanted one.
Miles Government (2023–2024).
Following the succession of Premier Steven Miles, Grace became Minister for State Development and Infrastructure, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Racing in the Miles Government on 18 December 2023.
Olympics.
As State Development Minister, Grace has responsibility for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games. In December 2023 the Miles Government commissioned an independent review into Games venue infrastructure, led by former Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk. The Review made 30 recommendations, including a proposal to build 'greenfield' 55,000-seat stadium in Victoria Park in Brisbane with an estimated $3.4 billion cost. The Miles Government accepted 27 of the Review's recommendations in March 2024, but it rejected the proposal to build a stadium in Victoria Park. Grace said of the proposal: "Victoria Park is highly-valued by the community, and we have no plans to spend billions of dollars to encroach into that green space."
Opposition.
The Miles Government was defeated at the 2024 state election and Labor became the Opposition. Grace was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Trade, Industrial Relations, Olympic and Paralympic Games and Racing.
Awards and honours.
Grace was awarded the Knight of the Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic by the Consul of Italy in 2021.
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William Russell Grace
84th and 86th mayor of New York City (1832–1904)
William Russell Grace (May 10, 1832 – March 21, 1904) was an American politician, the first Roman Catholic mayor of New York City, and the founder of W. R. Grace and Company.
Early life.
Grace was born in Ireland in Riverstown near the Cove of Cork to James Grace and Eleanor May Russell (née Ellen) while the family was away from home, and raised on Grace property at Ballylinan in Queens (now Laois) County near the town of Athy. He was a member of a prominent and well-to-do family who lived for a period at Brooklawn House on Love Lane (now Donore Avenue). In 1846, Grace sailed for New York against the wishes of his father, and worked as a printer's devil and a shoemaker's helper before returning to Ireland in 1848. For a period he attended Belvedere College before again leaving school.
His nephew, Cecil Grace, attempted a crossing of the English Channel in December 1910 in an airplane, flying from Dover to Calais. However, in coming back he became disoriented and over Dover flew northeast over the Goodwin Sands toward the North Sea and was lost.
Career.
William and his father, James Grace, traveled to Callao, Peru, in 1851, seeking to establish an Irish agricultural community. James returned home but William remained, where he began work with the firm of John Bryce and Co., as a ship chandler.
In 1854, the company was renamed Bryce, Grace & Company, in 1865, to Grace Brothers & Co., and then W. R. Grace and Company.
Reform politics.
Opposing the famous Tammany Hall, Grace was elected as the first Irish American Catholic mayor of New York City in 1880. He conducted a reform administration attacking police scandals, patronage and organized vice; reduced the tax rate, and broke up the Louisiana Lottery. Defeated in the following election, he was re-elected in 1884 on an Independent ticket but lost again the following time. During his second term, Grace received the Statue of Liberty as a gift from France.
Philanthropy.
Grace was a renowned philanthropist and humanitarian, at one point contributing a quarter of the aid delivered to Ireland aboard the steamship "Constellation" during the Irish Famine of 1879. In 1897, he and his brother, Michael, founded the Grace Institute for the education of women, especially immigrants.
Personal life.
On September 11, 1859, William was married to Lillius Gilchrist (1839–1922), the daughter of George W. Gilchrist, a prominent ship builder of Thomaston, Maine, and Mary Jane (née Smalley) Gilchrest. Together, William and Lillius had eleven children, including:
Grace died on March 21, 1904, at his residence, 31 East 79th Street, in New York City. His funeral was held at the Church of St. Francis Xavier on West 16th Street and he was buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn. Grace Avenue in the Bronx, NY is named in his honor. His estate was valued at $25,000,000.
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Patrick Grace (politician)
Australian politician
Patrick Raphael Grace (31 October 1900 – 6 January 1975) was an Australian politician.
Born in Corowa to farmer John Grace and Jane Elizabeth Maher, he was educated at Yanco Public School and worked on his father's farm as a roadmaker, opening as a stock and station agent in 1920. On 15 October 1930 he married Eileen Clayton, with whom he had three children. He was secretary of the Yanco branch of the Labor Party, and also entered a partnership with a butchery. In 1952 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council. In 1959 he was expelled from the party for opposing the bill to abolish the Legislative Council; he was subsequently a member of the Independent Labor Group. Grace left the Council in 1964; he died in 1975 at Yanco.
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Willie Grace
American baseball player
William Grace (June 30, 1917 – November 18, 2006) was an American Negro league baseball outfielder and pitcher. He played from 1943 to 1948 with the Cleveland Buckeyes. He also played for the Erie Sailors of the Middle Atlantic League in 1951.
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Joe Grace (Australian footballer)
Australian rules footballer
Joseph Patrick Grace (9 October 1878 – 5 September 1919) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy.
Family.
The son of Thomas Grace, and Julia Grace, née O'Callaghan, Joseph Patrick Grace was born in Richmond, Victoria on 9 October 1878. He was the brother of Fitzroy footballers Jim Grace and Mick Grace.
He married Annie Jane Smith (1879-1951) in 1905. She later remarried, becoming Mrs. Joseph McCormick. She died at Manly, New South Wales on 16 April 1951.
Death.
Employed as an insurance agent, he died in Perth Hospital on 5 September 1919.
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References.
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim, "The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.)", Bas Publishing, (Melbourne, Victoria), 2014. .

Grace, Mississippi
Grace is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. It is located several miles northeast of Mayersville.
Grace has a post office with the ZIP code 38745.
It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census which listed a population of 77.
History.
Grace is located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. In 1910, Grace was home to five general stores, a grocery store, a blacksmith, and a drug store.
Grace Mounds, which are listed on the Mississippi Mound Trail, are located near Grace.
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Climate.
The climate in this area is characterized by relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Grace is the best has a Humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
Education.
Most of Grace is in the South Delta School District (which operates South Delta High School) while some is in the Western Line School District.
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Conor Grace
Irish basketball player (born 1982)
Conor Thomas Grace (born 31 January 1982) is an Irish former professional basketball player. He previously played for the Irish national team.
Grace was born in Dublin, Ireland.
Grace played rugby in high school, as well as soccer, tennis and track, in addition to basketball. At 14 years old, then 6'4", he caught the eye of Irish under-18 basketball coach, John O'Connor, at a camp. This led to him hooking up with UCD Marian to further his development. He later moved to the United States and joined an AAU program. After playing in a tournament in Las Vegas, Grace drew interest from Southern Utah University but they didn't have space to offer a scholarship. He instead went to a prep school in Maine, Bridgton Academy, and committed to Davidson College for the 2001–02 season, a Division I college basketball program. In 109 games for the Wildcats over four seasons, Grace averaged 6.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.
As a professional, Grace has played in Italy, France, Finland, Sweden, Greece, the Netherlands, Malaysia, and his home country of Ireland in the Premier League. In 2015–16, he earned Premier League All-Star Third Pick honours while playing for Templeogue, despite undergoing season-ending finger surgery in January 2016.
Grace is the son of Tom and Anne Grace, and has two sisters, Louise and Caroline. He got his athletic genes from his father, who played rugby for the Irish national team and the British Lions.
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Grace, Carroll County, Missouri
Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri
Grace is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
History.
A post office called Grace was established in 1893, and remained in operation until 1902. The community was named after a nearby church.
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Thomas Grace (bishop of Sacramento)
Irish-born prelate
Thomas Grace (August 2, 1841 – December 27, 1921) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento in California from 1896 to his death in 1921.
Biography.
Early life.
Thomas Grace was born on August 2, 1841, in Wexford, Ireland. He was educated at St Peter's College, Wexford and All Hallows Missionary College, Dublin.
Priesthood.
Grace was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Dublin in Dublin on June 24, 1876. After his ordination, Grace travelled to California. He served as pastor of several churches in Eureka, California, Carson City, Nevada, and Marysville, California. Grace dedicated St. Mary of the Lake Church in Nevada on the Feast of the Assumption, 1881. Eventually, Grace became the pastor of the pro-cathedral, Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church, whose land was donated by the first governor of California, Peter Burnett.
Bishop of Sacramento.
On February 27, 1896, Pope Leo XIII appointed Grace bishop of the Sacramento Diocese. He was consecrated on June 16, 1896, by Archbishop Patrick Riordan.
Grace dedicated St. Patrick Church in Scotia, California, on March 28, 1905, and St. Joseph Catholic Church in Redding, California, on April 30, 1905. On October 30, 1906, he was given the property deed in Red Bluff, California, with the provision that it remain as a hospital for the Sisters of Mercy. On June 22, 1919, Grace dedicated St. Gall Catholic Church in Gardnerville, Nevada.
Grace helped launch the diocesan newspaper, "The Catholic Herald", with a message endorsing its scope and usefulness to the diocese on March 14, 1908.
Death and legacy.
Patrick Grace died in Sacramento on December 27, 1921. Grace Day Home in Sacramento was named for him.
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Ijeoma Grace Agu
Nigerian actress
Ijeoma Grace Agu is a Nigerian actress. She hails from the South - Eastern part of Nigeria and was born to Igbo Parents She received a best supporting actress nomination at the 12th Africa Movie Academy Awards. She also won most promising actress at the 2014 Best of Nollywood Awards. In 2007, she made her first screen appearance in "Eldorado" TV series. She was also part of the cultural group at 2012 London Olympic Games.
Early life and education.
Agu is the first of her parents' five children. According to a report in "Pulse Nigeria", she was raised in Benin City, the capital city of Edo State, south-south Nigeria and Lagos State, southeast Nigeria. She had her first degree in biochemistry from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in 2007.
Personal life.
She is married with a daughter. She describes her dad as being responsible for instilling the confidence of acting into her. According to Agu, her acting career started on stage in Benin at the age of 14. Speaking to "The Nation (Nigeria)" on homosexuality in Nollywood, Agu describes the act as a sin on religious grounds and didn't think its outlaw was an infringement of human rights. However, she commented that they shouldn't be criminalized as its being done in Nigeria, and she would gladly accept the role of a lesbian in a film. She also asserts that she does not support anything that will result in the loss of lives of Nigerians, when asked about the agitation for Biafra and imprisonment of Nnamdi Kanu. She was Married to Daniel Oriahi but ended things with him 10 years later on the grounds of infidelity.
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Richard Grace (judge)
American judge
Richard Grace (November 8, 1868 – February 9, 1929) was an American lawyer and judge who served on the North Dakota Supreme Court from 1918 through 1922.
Early life and education.
Grace was born near Palmyra, Illinois on November 8, 1868. His early education took place in country schools. At the age of fifteen, his education was interrupted for several years following the death of his father. He later studied the preliminary requirements that allowed him to be admitted to Bushnell College near Peoria, Illinois. He attended Bushnell college for three years. Between 1889 and 1893 he studied law at a legal office in Springfield, Illinois while working as a teacher. He moved to Morris, Minnesota in 1893, and studied law at a legal office there while continuing to teach.
Legal and judicial careers.
In 1895, Grace was admitted to the Minnesota Bar. He practiced law in Morris for ten years before moving to Mohall, North Dakota in 1905. In Mohall he practiced law until 1916, when he defeated incumbent judge Evan B. Goss for election to the North Dakota Supreme Court. He assumed his state judgeship at the age of 48. Grace retired as a judge after six years, returning to private practice by opening a legal office in Bismarck, North Dakota. Grace practiced law in Bismarck for two years, before moving to Sioux City, Iowa for a year, after which time he moved to Minot, North Dakota and practiced law there for three years. He then moved back to Mohall, North Dakota, residing there until his death at the age of sixty on February 9, 1929.
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Marie Grace Augustin
Saint Lucian businesswoman and politician
Marie Grace Augustin, OBE (2 June 1897 – 30 March 1996), commonly known as Grace Augustin, was a Saint Lucian businesswoman and politician. After attaining a nursing and midwifery degree, she studied law, but was refused permission to take a bar examination based on her gender. Instead, Augustin became the first woman in Saint Lucia to manage a large estate, becoming a planter. She was the first woman to be nominated as a parliamentarian in St. Lucia and become the first female member of the legislature.
Early life.
Marie Grace Augustin was born on 2 June 1897. She was the seventh child of eleven siblings and grew up on her parents' estate, D’aubayan, in Micoud, Saint Lucia. Active and inquisitive, Augustin was a tomboy who enjoyed swimming and riding horses. After completion of her high school studies in Antigua, Augustin passed her Cambridge exams in July 1912. She went on to further her education, studying to be a nurse and midwife, attaining her certificate in 1918 from Victoria Hospital. Articling as a clerk in her brother Elwin's law firm, Augustin studied law for three years. She would have been the first woman lawyer in the Commonwealth Caribbean when she attempted to take the bar exam in 1923, but she was refused based on the fact that she was a woman.
Career.
Upon the death of her brother, who had been managing her parents’ estate, Augustin took his place become the first woman to manage a plantation in St. Lucia. She implemented many innovative ideas for the time. Travel by horseback to the capital, Castries, was at that time a two-day journey. Augustin reduced travel time to four hours by riding her motorcycle, which she had imported from England. She opened a grocery store for the surrounding community so that they would not have to make the long journey for supplies, as well as establishing a clinic for medical care. Augustin trained local women as staff for the clinic and arranged for a doctor to visit the community twice a week.
Augustin experimented with different crops, growing cacao, coffea, coconut, mangoes. She was the first person to plant coconuts on a large scale, seeing it as a means to expand the copra industry. When refrigerated ships made further diversification possible, Augustin went into banana production, which soon became the predominant crop. When the local banana crop was infected by blight, Augustin chartered a boat and traveled to Guadeloupe to buy disease-resistant plants to rejuvenate banana industry. At various times, she served as director for the Agricultural Credit Fund, the Banana Growers’ Association, the Coconut Growers’ Association, the Copra Manufacturers’ Association and the Sugar Manufacturers’ Association.
In 1948, a disastrous fire wiped out the heart of the capital causing widespread destruction of businesses and property, leaving many homeless and without means of support. Augustin brought displaced carpenters to her estate to teach furniture making to the men in the local community, providing employment and creating an industry for many. In 1951, she was nominated to serve on the Legislative Council, becoming the first woman to serve in the legislature. Augustin made one of the largest contributions from individuals from St. Lucia to support the Princess Alice Appeal for the College of the West Indies in 1955. She was reappointed to serve on the Legislative Council in 1957 and that same year was honored as an officer of the Order of the British Empire, for her public services.
In its time, Augustin's estate was one of the most iconic on the island and had a wide reputation. Local artists, like Sesenne, Dunstan St. Omer and Derek Walcott benefited from her patronage and were frequent guests. Augustin owned an establishment known as "The Hotel" on the road from Micoud to Castries and employed performers to entertain the guests. Her principal entertainer was Sesenne, for whom she also made introductions to other venues.
Death and legacy.
Augustin died on 30 March 1996. Her story has been included in at least two collections of notable St. Lucian women: "Blaze a Fire: Significant Contributions of Caribbean Women" (1988) by Nesha Z. Haniff and "Women in Caribbean Politics" (2011) by Cynthia Barrow-Giles.
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Pat Grace
Australian rules footballer
Martin Norman William "Pat" Grace (28 May 1924 – 17 November 1997) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Grace was recruited from the Howlong Football Club.
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Robson Gracie
Brazilian martial artist (1935–2023)
Carlos Robson Gracie Sr. (; 16 January 1935 – 28 April 2023) was a Brazilian martial artist. The second son of Carlos Gracie, Gracie was a 9th degree red belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, affording him the title of Grandmaster.
Career.
Robson Gracie learned martial arts from his father, Carlos Gracie, and his uncle Helio Gracie. In the 1950s, Robson competed in Vale Tudo competitions. His début mixed martial arts fight was against Artur Emidio in April 1957. During the fight, Gracie submitted his opponent but refused to release him until the referee pulled them apart. Despite his small stature, incidents like this were to characterize Gracie's professional life as a tenacious fighter.
Gracie lived and taught in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he was the president of the Jiu-Jitsu Federation of Rio de Janeiro.
Political affiliations.
In the 1960s, Gracie served as a bodyguard to Leonel Brizola, the brother-in-law of the then President of Brazil, João Goulart. His political affiliations placed him under the scrutiny of the military regime, following the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. His assistance to the Marxist guerrilla organization Ação Libertadora Nacional led to his arrest, and the arrest of several members of his family, by the Brazilian Secret Service. Gracie's wife, Vera Lucia, made representations to the Brazilian military government to release her husband which resulted in her own arrest; however, she was quickly released.
On 25 October 2018, shortly before the second round of the 2018 Brazilian general election, Robson Gracie handed an honorary black belt to the future President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who has never trained in jiu-jitsu.
Death.
Gracie died in Rio de Janeiro on 28 April 2023, at the age of 88. In November 2023, it was announced that a public landmark in Rio de Janeiro would be named after him to honor his contributions to the city.
Documentary.
On July 6, 2023, it was announced that ESPN Films is producing a documentary series on the Gracie family directed by Chris Fuller and produced by Greg O'Connor and Guy Ritchie.
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Bobby Grace
American attorney (born 1960)
Robert “Bobby” Grace (born September 29, 1960) is an American attorney. He is currently a Deputy District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles, working in the Major Crimes Unit. Grace has successfully prosecuted homicide cases, including those of Chester Turner and the Black Widow Killers.
Community involvement.
Bobby serves on the Board of Directors of the UCLA Black Alumni Association.
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Grace, Laclede County, Missouri
Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri
Grace is an unincorporated community in northern Laclede County, in the Ozarks of south central Missouri. The community is located on Missouri Route D, two miles north of Eldridge and two miles west of Missouri Route 5.
History.
A post office called Grace was established in 1912, and remained in operation until 1928. An early postmaster gave the community the name of his daughter, Grace Devine.
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W. G. Grace
English cricketer (1848–1915)
William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English cricketer who is widely considered one of the sport's all-time greatest players. Always known by his initials as "WG", his first-class career spanned a record-equalling 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908. Test cricket originated during his career, and he represented England in 22 matches from 1880 to 1899. In domestic cricket, he was mostly associated with Gloucestershire, the Gentlemen, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and the United South of England Eleven (USEE).
Right-handed as both batsman and bowler, Grace was an outstanding all-rounder who excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling, and fielding, though it is for his batting that he is most renowned, as he is held to have invented modern batsmanship. He dominated the sport during his career, and his technical innovations and enormous influence have left a lasting legacy. Usually opening the innings, he was particularly admired for his mastery of all strokes, and his level of expertise was said by contemporary reviewers to be unique. He generally captained the teams he played for at all levels because of his skill and tactical acumen. Grace nominally held amateur status as a player, but he was said to have made more money from his cricketing activities than any contemporary professional. He was an extremely competitive player and, though he was one of the most famous men in England, he was also one of the most controversial on account of his gamesmanship and moneymaking.
He came from a cricketing family which included his elder brother Edward ("EM"), and his younger brother Fred. In 1880, they were members of the same England team, the first time three brothers played together in a Test match. Grace took part in other sports—as a young man, he was a champion 440-yard hurdler, and played football for the Wanderers. In later life, he developed enthusiasm for golf, lawn bowls, and curling. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1879.
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Early years.
Family.
Grace was born in Downend, near Bristol, on 18 July 1848 at his parents' home, Downend House, and was baptised at the local church on 8 August. He was called Gilbert in the family circle, except by his mother, who apparently called him Willie, but otherwise, as "WG", he was universally known by his initials. His parents were Henry Mills Grace and Martha ("née" Pocock), who were married in Bristol on Thursday, 3 November 1831 and lived out their lives at Downend, where Henry Grace was the local GP. Downend is near Mangotsfield and, although it is now a suburb of Bristol, it was then a detached village surrounded by countryside, and about four miles from Bristol. Henry and Martha Grace had nine children in all. Biographer Simon Rae commented that this was "the same number as Victoria and Albert—and in every respect they were the typical Victorian family". Grace was the eighth child in the family; he had three older brothers, including Edward (always known as "EM"), and four older sisters. The ninth child was his younger brother Fred, born in 1850.
Education.
Grace was "notoriously unscholarly". His first schooling was with a Miss Trotman in Downend village and then with a Mr Curtis of Winterbourne. He subsequently attended a day school called Ridgway House, run by a Mr Malpas, until he was fourteen. One of his schoolmasters, David Bernard, later married Grace's sister Alice. In 1863, Grace was taken seriously ill with pneumonia and his father removed him from Ridgway House. After this illness, Grace grew rapidly to his full height of 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m). He continued his education at home where one of his tutors was the Reverend John Dann, the Downend parish church curate; like Mr Bernard before him, Mr Dann became Grace's brother-in-law, marrying Blanche Grace in 1869.
Grace never went to university because his father wanted him to pursue a medical career. Nevertheless, Grace received approaches from both Oxford University Cricket Club and Cambridge University Cricket Club. In 1866, when he played a match at Oxford, one of the Oxford players, Edmund Carter, tried to interest him in becoming an undergraduate. Then, in 1868, Grace received overtures from Caius College, Cambridge, which had a long medical tradition. Grace said he would have gone to either Oxford or Cambridge if his father had allowed it. Instead, he enrolled at Bristol Medical School in October 1868, when he was 20.
Grace's entire life, including his cricket and medical careers, is inseparable from his close-knit family background which was strongly influenced by his father, who set great store by qualifications and determination to succeed. Henry, whose medical qualifications were Licenciate of the Society of Apothecaries (LSA) in 1828 and Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) in 1830, passed this purposeful attitude on to each of his five sons. Therefore, like his father and his brothers, Grace chose a professional career in medicine—because of his cricketing commitments, however, he did not complete his qualification as a doctor until 1879, when he was 31 years old.
Development as a cricketer.
Grace began his "Cricketing Reminiscences" (1899) by answering a question he had frequently been asked—"was he born a cricketer"? His answer was in the negative because he believed that "cricketers are made by coaching and practice", though he added that if he was not born a cricketer, he was born "in the atmosphere of cricket". His father and mother were "full of enthusiasm for the game" and it was "a common theme