Pryde 5 (Updated)

Continuing on, I decided to investigate the Pride wiki page and I came across:

• Thomas Pride (died 23 October 1658), Parliamentarian general 

• Thomas Pride (23 July 1864 – 16 February 1919), English cricketer

• Thomas Pride ((29 March 1835 – 16 July 1893), English soldier

There were "three Thomas'" in the list, butt the second is no doubt our man.  His birthday, July 23, is also the day that my mother passed away last year.  At the bottom of the Pride wiki page, I discover the name Pryde.  It contains a cryptic English/French combination: "pry of/from" and/or "pry down/off", note the various etymology and translation

• de Latin ... separation in space, meaning "down from, off, away from," 
• de (French):  preposition de, often meaning from or of, 
• pry (v.1)  c. 1300, from prien "to peer in,"  "inquisitive person"
• pry (v.2) "raise by force," 1823, from "instrument for prying, crowbar;" 

 On the Pryde wiki page, one stood out:

• Mabel Pryde (1871–1918), Scots-born English artist

Another cryptic communication re "May belle (pretty) pry the...".   I should mention that my name is May.  Note from her wiki page:

• Mabel Pryde (12 February 1871 – July 1918)

Note from the wiki page of her husband:

• Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson (5 February 1872 – 16 May 1949)

Note his date of death and this excerpt from my previous post:

• Megan Fox  (born May 16, 1986) actor

Megan Fox stands out due to her birthday being the same as Rob MacGregor...

Note from the wiki pages of other notable persons mentioned on Mabel's wiki page:

• Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) 

• Christopher "Kit" David George Nicholson^[1] (16 December 1904 – 28 July 1948) 
• Robert Scott Lauder ( 25 June 1803 – 21 April 1869) 
• Sir Hubert von Herkomer (26 May 1849 – 31 March 1914) 

Mabel's wiki page gives an account of her death:

In July 1918 Pryde died from influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic^[5]

The 1918 flu wiki page informs that the flu came to be known as the "Spanish flu":

To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States;^[13][14]but papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII),^[15] creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit^[16]—thus the pandemic's nickname Spanish flu

Note from King Alfonso's wiki page:

Alfonso XIII (Alfonso León ...17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941)

Two other notable persons are mentioned, one who died from the flu and the other survived:

• Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (7 July 1848 – 16 January 1919)
• Haile Selassie I (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) 

Again July 23 crops up... and July 27 had cropped up in my previous post:

• Maya Rudolph as Leslie  (born July 27, 1972)

Note this next excerpt from the flu's wiki page:

On 16 September 2008, the body of British politician and diplomat Sir Mark Sykes was exhumed

Note the surname "Sykes"... meaningful to me personally as you can see on reading my August 19, 2010 post from my Toumai blog: Psyched out Car Accident!! Update.  Note from Sykes wiki page:

Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes (16 March 1879 – 16 February 1919)