Word: bailiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about to expire and they did well to get everything forehandedly settled. Last week. Buckingham Palace officially announced that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint as Governor General of Canada Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, Knight of the Garter, Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, Governor of Windsor Castle and Personal Aide de Camp to George VI since his accession...
Among the witnesses of this brief ceremony was His Catholic Highness the Archduke Otto, pretender to the Habsburg thrones, Bailiff of the Catholic Order of the Knights of Malta. Otto sat near the Archbishop in the sanctuary, took third place (i.e., preceding the Archbishop and the Cardinal) when the procession left the Cathedral...