Word: buccleuch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generations Scotchmen saw salmon swim up and down their rivers, saw small black-barred fish swim down to the sea every fall, scratched their heads without seeing any connection. One day the Duke of Buccleuch's gamekeeper had a suspicion. He caught some of the small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...
Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London...
Last week the Duke of Buccleuch sold...
Well-posted correspondents positively and unanimously affirmed that the engagement of Prince Henry, third son of King George, to Lady Mary Scott, fourth daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, will be announced as soon as a decent interval has succeeded the official termination of mourning for Queen Alexandra, which occurred late in the week. Meanwhile Lady Mary and her royal "fiancé by acclamation" were subjected to the usual ruthless publicity...
...Duke of Marlborough?like the Dukes of Rutland and Buccleuch, the Marquess of Granby and Viscount Novar?transformed his estates into a "private, unlimited company" under the title "Blenheim Estate Co." The Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about...