Word: bessboroughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious, kept the name of the man he had ''advised" George V to appoint Governor General a dead secret. Last week this darkest of horses romped home a winner, sorely vexed Canadian sweepstakers. Darkest horse: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough...
...family long in the service of Britain's'Royal family, and George V, after having had to appoint a "native" whom he had never seen Governor General of Australia (TIME, Dec. 15), has been most eager to send a British blue-blood to Canada. Lady Bessborough is French, the daughter of the late Baron Jean de Neutlize, and so arc many Canadians more or less French...