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Died. Sir William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 72, nineteenth Baron Sempill and Baronet of Nova Scotia, a Royal Air Force officer and Air Ministry adviser until his retirement in 1941; of a stroke; in Edinburgh, Scotland. His death poses unprecedented problems of succession, since the claimant to the baronetcy is Younger Brother Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, 53, born and raised as a female until 1952, when she legally changed name (from Elizabeth) and sex following hormone treatments...
...curlers; Sir Walter Scott was as stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy...
Three years ago, Standard Telephones & Cables took real responsibility out of the hands of its regular board, which boasted a baronet and a Member of Parliament, and placed it with a six-man "advisory board" whose businessmen members held not a single title among them. Result: the company turned to automation, stepped up its program of research and development, then watched sales increase 50% to $168 million last year and profits skyrocket 350% to more than $7,000,000. Textile Maker Courtaulds, Ltd., replaced its titled chairman and deputy chairman, promoting tough-minded Frank Kearton to managing director, then filled...
...garden of Sir Marmaduke's Elizabethan Mansion all manner of delights transpire. But though Sir Marmaduke, an elderly baronet, may rule the mansion, his neighbors reign over the garden. Everyone, who does not pine after anyone, pines after someone in particular...
...making is a necessary and, from the point of view of those immediately involved, a most delightful thing. But it is not pretty to watch.'' Having got that off his lordship's chest. Arthur Strange Kattendyke David Archibald Gore, 52. the eighth Earl and the tenth Baronet of Arran, stopped watching the telly, polished off the whisky and soda that, he says, lubricates his pen. hitched up his pajamas, and threw another log on the fire...