When Adrienne Cecile Rich was born on 16 May 1929, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, her father, Arnold Rice Rich, was 36 and her mother, Helen Elizabeth Jones, was 30. She married Alfred Haskell Conrad on 26 June 1953, in Massachusetts, United States. She died on 27 March 2012, in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States, at the age of 82.
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1924–1970 Male
1929–2012 Female
1893–1968 Male
1898–2000 Female
1929–2012 Female
English: nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich, wealthy’, a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to ancient Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’.
English: from the Middle English personal name Rich, a pet form of any of the post-Conquest names beginning in Rich-, such as Richer and especially Richard . Compare Rick .
English: either a topographic name from Middle English riche(Old English ric) ‘stream’, signifying one who lived beside a stream, as at Glynde Reach (Sussex), or perhaps a habitational name from the (now lost) village of Riche (Lincolnshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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