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...Anglesey. Wales, Lady Megan Lloyd-George, left-leaning Liberal daughter of a famed Liberal father, lost the parliamentary seat she had held for 22 years. But her brother, Gwilym Lloyd-George, styling himself a Liberal Conservative, got elected. ¶ In Colne Valley, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, right-leaning Liberal daughter of another Prime Minister, Asquith, and a friend for whom Churchill himself had campaigned, went down to defeat...
...quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even as a child of four, Henry displayed that heavy jowl and petulant mouth which Holbein the Younger was later to immortalize on canvas. FRANKLIN M. WRIGHT Ithaca...
Died. The Marchioness of Anglesey, 63, artist daughter of the Duke of Rutland, who more than a generation ago so charmed the Court of Edward VII that Queen Alexandra called her "the most beautiful girl in the Kingdom"; in London...
...Dozed through a torpid week during which Miss Megan Lloyd George?large daughter of small David?was selected by the Liberal party machine to stand for election to Parliament in the constituency of Anglesey, called "The Mother of Wales...
Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman...