Word: bessboroughs
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...English sticklers for good form this was a most outrageous Irish bull. Had not His Majesty eventually appointed the 9th Earl of Bessborough to be Governor General of Canada (TIME, Feb. 16)? To brand Bessborough publicly as a second choice, to reveal blandly that the Duke of Abercorn has turned Canada down, preferring to remain Governor of Northern Ireland-"that," sputtered the Liberal London Star last week, "is one of those things which are 'not done.' We cannot recall an indiscretion of parallel magnitude in connection with a command from royalty. ... In Court circles . . . this gross discourtesy...
Ponsonby, the Earl of Bessborough's family name, is pronounced, they reported, "Punsunby...
...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...
Although he has had no experience in Colonial government the Earl of Bessborough has had almost every sort of business experience with the 35 corporations of which he is a director. He is in diamonds, explosives, radio, banking, railroads, life insurance, subways...
...chief job is that of board chairman, since 1921, of the Sao Paulo (Brazil) Railway. Thus he brings to Canada important contacts "down under," may do as much to get the Dominion-Latin American trade as the "Empire Salesman" is doing on his tour (see p. 20). Darkest Horse Bessborough is in diamonds as deputy board chairman (since 1924) of the South African De Beers Consolidated Mines...