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Married. Lady Isobel Violet Kathleen Manners, 18, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, niece of Actress Lady Diana Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness...
...BULKELEY AND THE PIRATE -edited by B. D. Roberts-Oxford...
...Bulkeley and the Pirate is a condensation of the diary of Mr. William Bulkeley, a Welsh squire of the 18th Century. For 26 years this pugnacious, high-spirited, cranky old landowner kept a day-to-day record of his affairs, with little more to note than the state of his crops, the weather, his many unsuccessful lawsuits, his trips to Dublin, his impatience with the government, his troubles with his irresponsible son. A widower, Mr. Bulkeley had a 20-year-old son and a 21-year-old daughter when he began his diary. Blowing up about debts, lawyers and parsons...
...March 21, 1738, a disquieting influence disrupted the pleasant round of Mr. Bulkeley's dissatisfactions. His daughter Mary, who was apparently not very bright, wrote requesting "speedy consent of her being marryed" to a stranger named Mr. Fortunatus Wright, a brewer from Liverpool. Precisely what happened remains unclear, for Mr. Bulkeley scratched out a long passage in his diary, but "in plain English," states Editor Roberts, "Mr. Wright had seduced Mary Bulkeley." The young couple came to live with the squire, disappeared, returned, left their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great...
...addition to President Lowell, the speakers will include Walter Lippmann '10, author and journalist; T. W. Lamont '02, banker; R. J. Bulkeley '02, United States Senator from Ohio; and C. C. Bolton '05, member of the House of representatives...