Word: dukedom
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...titles of the British peerage in descending order of rank: Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Barons. There are 28 British dukedoms of which only four have been created since Wellington was made a Duke in 1814. The last dukedom created was that of Fife, in 1900, now held by H. H. Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, wife of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, uncle of George...
...THREE HOSTAGES?John Buchan* ?Houghton ($2.00). Three were kidnapped?the daughter of the richest man in the world, the heir of the proudest English dukedom, the child of a national hero. Sir Richard Hannay, unraveler of mysteries, is called from his Cotswold cottage to find them. Matching his wits against those of a fascinating villain, he culls clues from the subconscious mind and follows his quarry through a series of extraordinary episodes, finally stalking for a night and a day over the sinister and mist-wrapt Highlands of Scotland. Aside from its indisputable ability to excite, this work contains...
...missing dukedom...
...January Honor List was a disappointing affair. It had been prophesied that the Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, would receive a dukedom, but nothing of the sort occurred...
...have not been so few until the present time. It is allegedly because of the lack of them that King George is about to make his youngest sons, aged 23 and 20 respectively, dukes; more probably, however, it is because it has been customary since 1337, when the first dukedom was created (Cornwall), to confer dukedoms upon the sons of the reigning monarch...