Word: byng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, Viscount Byng of Vimy, Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, and, symbolically to the fore of the bier, clad in a greenish-brown Belgian uniform, Baron de Ceynick, Field Marshal of the Belgian Army, special representative of King Albert of the Belgians in whose realm was launched the first British attack...
...decision is taken," said Viscount Byng, "in view of the recent charges made by Lord Rosebery that many peerages are bought with money which finds its way into party funds. ... I am of the opinion that a titular reward ought not to be conditional upon the payment of any at all substantial...
...British Treasury announced last week without comment the significant fact that onetime (1921-26) Governor-General Baron Byng of Canada has refused to pay a so-called "peerage patent fee" demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...
...many know, the British Treasury usually remits the "patent fee" to men so distinguished as World War General Baron Byng of Vimy. For example, the Earls of Oxford and Asquith, Balfour, and Birkenhead all received "remissions" of between ?2,255 ($10,813) and ?330 ($1,603), at the time of their creations. In the case of Viscount Byng, it would seem, someone in His Majesty's Treasury has blundered...
...excluded as "improperly dressed," because he was wearing only ordinary evening clothes, adorned simply with the orders of the Legion of Honor and the Bath. That was not enough. The invitations, by Royal command, called for the full dress uniform to which Lord Byng is entitled by his rank ?a uniform resplendent with scarlet and gold. . . . Court etiquette makes no exceptions. The baron cooled his heels without, while Lady Byng, "properly dressed," dined...