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...peerage (John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies). is therefore a "Lady," but not a "Right Honorable." Nor can she call herself "Lady Elizabeth," nor "Elizabeth, Lady," titles proper only to the daughter of an earl or better or the widowed mother of a baron or married baronet, or the widow of a knight...
...Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, hero of Cape Matapan—a baronet...
Richard Dyer-Bennet got into Burke's by being related to a British baronet, Sir John Dyer. He got into lute-playing less simply. Although born in England, he had a U.S. mother, chose to become a U.S. citizen on his 21st birthday, went to the University of California. There he met a voice teacher who remodeled his youthful tenor and told him of a great Swedish minstrel named Sven Scholander. When Dyer-Bennet inherited $500, he hotfooted to Sweden, learned the Swedish lute and some balladeering tricks. He was just in time: within a year, Scholander...
About 50 years ago Sir "Jock" Broughton [TIME, March 24] and I were boys together. Though not wholly together since he was the son of a baronet and I only the son of his father's gamekeeper. Many times subsequently I might have wanted to exchange places with Jock. But now he is charged with murder and I do not even want to kill anyone, except, of course, the mad dogs of Berlin...
...knights of the realm and one baronet-Sir Arthur Salter, Sir Percy Noble, Sir Archibald Sinclair-personified this hope...