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David Lloyd George early made him a personal friend, golfed with him every week, saw that he was knighted in 1909, made a baronet in 1918, finally raised to the peerage. Publisher Riddell's brazen career in yellow-journalism was blandly overlooked when War was declared. He was appointed liaison officer between the Government and the Press and for four years kept the relationship as amicable as military censorship would permit. The Versailles Conference found him the affable go-between of the British signatories and the Press. A newsman at heart, Lord Riddell was disappointed when Clemenceau truculently refused...
Died. Sir Cecil Chubb, First Baronet of Stonehenge, 58; of heart disease; in London. He purchased Stonehenge, England's famed megalithic monument, for $50,000 in 1915, later presented it to his country...
...friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed into weak self-pity. When his brother decided to reside in England permanently, Stephen managed to join him again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought "Shipmates," the country seat of Sir Nigel Fearless, a bankrupt baronet, who promptly proceeded to drown himself as a family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance. When Maxwell tried...
...month droned the account of Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget's "most extrawd'nry" experience in that bathroom and his clever solution of the mystery, which he promptly reported to Nature. Few men in England could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed...
...society to limit production of foodstuffs throughout the British Empire with the announced goal of raising and pegging prices 25% above present levels. Chairman of E. F. Co-Op. is that most composite Empire peer, Trevor Grant of Grant, Baron Strathspey, who was born in New Zealand, is a Baronet of Nova Scotia, lives in Scotland...