Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galloper" who tamed wild Irishmen, to scathing "F. E.," master of acrid but urbane debate in both Houses of Parliament, to Great Britain's youngest Lord Chancellor, to the great and frankly snobbish Earl of Birkenhead whose aristocracy was that of "first class brains," came last week a strangely gentle Death...
...Author. Rt. Hon. the Earl of Birkenhead, P.C., G.C.S.I, D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., onetime (1922) High Steward of Oxford University, Rector of Aberdeen University (1926) and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), has often lacked money but never self-possession. As all England knows he was born Frederick Edwin Smith and his first title was "Galloper," which friends and others still apply. Eloquence and legal brilliance carried him to the highest honor of the Law, thence to politics. Both Liberals and Conservatives respected his abilities but mistrusted his policies, as did all England. Chronic indebtedness finally compelled his retirement...
...made Baron Irwin a peer and then sent him to India as Viceroy? None other than the late Conservative Government (1924-29) in which the Earl of Birkenhead was Secretary of State for India. Last week Conservative papers called their Viceroy a "silly dreamer," accused him of having gone pinko-Socialist to please Scot MacDonald...
...London next October will be "free"?that is, will not be compelled to work out a solution in terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...
...religion. Short, stout, bright-eyed, he has a short-clipped mustache, a high voice, coughs apologetically as he talks. In a vote on "Britain's best brains" tabulated last week by The Spectator, Mr. Wells ranked sixth, preceded (in order) by George Bernard Shaw, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Birkenhead, Winston Churchill, Dean Inge. He has written more than 50 books. Some of them: Tono Bungay, The History of Mr. Polly, The Wife of Sir Isaac Barman, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Tales of Space and Time, Anticipations, New Worlds for Old, God the Invisible King...