Word: abercorn
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...magnificent, 203.84-grain pear-shaped drop pearl. Over the years, La Peregrina (The Wanderer), as the gem came to be called, passed from Philip II of Spain to his English wife Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), then on to the Bonapartes of France, and to England's Marquess of Abercorn. Last week La Peregrina turned up on the block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, and it was swiftly sold for $37,000. The buyer? Parke-Bernet was not saying, but reporters had an inkling. Less than a year ago, Richard Burton had bought the Krupp diamond...
...Bombay, where he had been hunting tigers, and will shortly return to his real job of collecting wild animals in Kenya. Dr. Matthew T. Mellon, a retired art-history professor who, at 71, is the eldest male in the U.S. branch of the family, stayed with the Duke of Abercorn - which is more than his grandparents ever did. Dr. Mellon has not been in Pittsburgh for years; he has houses in Jamaica, Kitzbuhel and Manhattan...
...Alec are cousins. Both are descended from the interesting-looking great-great-grandmother who is holding him in the picture accompanying the article. This ancestress, whom you left unidentified, was Louisa (1812-1905), daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford and wife of the 1st Duke of Abercorn. If her contemporary, Queen Victoria, can be described as the mother-in-law of European royalty, then the duchess was the mother-in-law of the Establishment. At her death, she left 162 descendants. Today they include, aside from Lady Macmillan and Sir Alec, the Duke of Devonshire, Under Secretary of State...
Married. Group Captain the Hon. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, D.S.O., D.F.C., 36, Member of Parliament, elder son of newspaper publisher Lord Beaverbrook; and Mrs. Jane Lindsay, 26, granddaughter of the Duke of Abercorn, onetime Governor of Northern Ireland; both for the second time; in London...
When last week the Governor of Northern Ireland, the Duke of Abercorn, reprieved all but Thomas Williams, the Dublin reprieve committee was not consoled. Said the committee: "The reprieve of five of the men does not alter the position." Ireland, approving Thomas Williams' purpose, overlooked the law, added his name to its shield of defiance against the British...