Frances de la Tour of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010). Other television roles include Emma Porlock in the Dennis Potter serial "Cold Lazarus" (1996), Headmistress Margaret Baron in BBC sitcom "Big School" and Violet Crosby in the sitcom "Vicious". De la Tour was born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour (1909–1982). The name was also spelt De Lautour, and it was in this form that her birth was registered in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the third quarter of 1944. She has French, Greek, and Irish ancestry. She was educated at
Pierre Le Blond de La Tour was one of a group of four "voyers de la ville" sent to lay out New Orleans. He arrived in Louisiana in December 1720. De la Tour was appointed engineer-in-chief of the colony, and later lieutenant general, second-in-command to Governor Bienville. At some point prior to 1721, De la Tour was made a Chevalier de St. Louis. After a rise in the Mississippi River left the embryonic New Orleans settlement flooded and brought construction to a halt in 1719, the Company of the Indies relocated its headquarters–against the wishes of Governor Bienville–from New Orleans to New Biloxi. De la Tour