Word: boer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lady Helen Vivien Decies, 39, daughter and heiress of the late George Jay Gould, wife of John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Boer War veteran; of jaundice and heart attack; in London...
...appointment to India was the question of who should succeed him as Governor General in Canada. Once more the press was ready with a plethora of names. For the time being it seemed unlikely that Canada would follow Australia, insist on a native Governor. Strangest suggestion was the converted Boer, onetime South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Most likely: either the Duke of York (it is known that King George is anxious for the duke to have administrative training as a possible heir to the throne) or Queen Mary's brother the Earl of Athlone, about...
...dikes and walls, wild animals would never come into contact with cattle. Similar reservations are already in existence in other African states. The largest is Kruger National Park, five million acres stretching from Johannesburg east to Portuguese East Africa. The building of roads in British territory since the Boer War has made hunting from the back seat of an automobile too easy, has made it imperative that the Earl of Onslow, president of England's Society for Preserving the Fauna of the Empire set aside territories where hunters may not shoot. Belgium's largest reservation is Albert Park...
...Other Doyle works: The Great Boer War; The Coming of the Fairies; History of Spiritualism...
...utterly fed up with England was Englishman Robinson that his will contains a further, ingenious clause: if any hitch prevents German veterans from accepting his money, it is to go to Dutch veterans of the Boer War against England, and the cash in this event will be handled by General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts, famed Boer-turned-Briton...