Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the ashes of Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy (TIME, March 15) were ceremoniously buried in the chancel of Westminster's blitzed St. Margaret's Church, The House of Commons assembled to "elect" his successor. Actually, the new Speaker had already been selected by the majority Conservative Party, approved by Laborites; it only remained for the House to play through a venerable mumbo jumbo...
Died. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, 73, Speaker of the House of Commons since 1928, Conservative M.P. for 38 years; in London...
Captain the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy was 138th Speaker in a line dating back to 1377; none had died in office since 1789, when Charles Cornwall took the last of the great draughts of porter with which he was "wont to relieve the weariness of his office...
...Speaker, Edward Algernon Fitzroy did not have the political power of U.S. Speakers, but his prestige was greater. Like his U.S. counterparts, he was chosen by the majority party, but his tenure did not, as in the U.S. depend upon that party's staying in power. When he donned the wig he resigned from his party, could look forward to a lifetime job or (if he got too feeble) to a peerage when he retired. Like all good British Speakers-and there have been few bad ones in recent times-Captain Fitzroy had to become a political agnostic, impartially...
...Chief Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, head of the R.A.F.—Knight Grand Cross of the Bath...