Word: earldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of the Dominion of India, got the royal nod from his cousin, George VI, on his selection of titles to go with his new earldom (TIME, Aug. 25). Henceforth, it was announced in London, he will be known as Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey of Romsey...
Clement Attlee had another paper to read. There would be a new Viceroy in India for the 15-month period of Britain's withdrawal. Bluntly dismissed (but rewarded with an earldom) was taciturn Field Marshal Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, the one-eyed soldier who did not always see eye-to-eye with his Labor Government bosses in London, or with Indian leaders. In his place would be handsome, 46-year-old "Dickie" Mountbatten (Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma), second cousin of King George...
Divorced. Lord Ashley, 46, heir to the Earldom of Shaftesbury; by his second Lady,* the former Mile. Françoise Soulier, 36; after ten years of marriage, two children; in London...
...grateful nation, which thought Emma Hamilton's rank little better than a whore's, took him at his word. To a respectable brother, the Rev. William Nelson, went an earldom, a 3,000-acre estate, Trafalgar, in Wiltshire and a pension of ?5,000 yearly to be paid to his heirs forever. To Emma went nothing; she died ten years later, a raddled and penniless old woman, in France...
...brother Edward will continue to collect while they live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort of the Nelson family motto: "Let him wear the palm who has deserved...