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Downing however, was destined to be the most distinguished member of his class. Having gone to England after his graduation he was knighted in 1660, and made a baronet in 1663. These marks of distinction were the results of his valuable work in Scotland and his services as the Ambassador to the Netherlands under Cromwell and Charles II and Member of Parliament. Dying in 1684, George Downing has left numerous collections of poems and letters, which are flavored not only by his own characteristics but also by the atmosphere of the times in which he lived...
...Treasure Room one may see the Latin poem written by Downing at the time of his marriage, "In Nuptias Blri were Honoratifsimi Georgil Downing... Campo exploratoris Generaliffimi." Equally interesting is the tract, "Reply of Sir George Downing Knight and Baronet Extraordinary from His Majesty of Great Britain to the Remarks of the Deputies of the Estates General upon his Memorial of December 20, 1664, Old Stile." This was printed in London "Anno...
...dabbling last week in the by-electoral campaign to return her husband, Oswald Mosely, son of Sir Oswald Mosely, Fifth Baronet, to the Commons as a Laborite...
Engaged. W. Maretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer of Paris, granddaughter of Isaac Singer, the original sewing machine potentate; to Sir Reginald Leeds, Baronet, of "Red Roofs," Cheltenham, England...
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is a man of 69, with upright carriage and snapping eye, such as become a veteran who has campaigned in Zululand, Ashanti, Matabeleland, at Mafeking, in the Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...