Word: earldom
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Titles for Sale. To stay there, Lloyd George showered his supporters with promises and promotions. His aides peddled peerages to all wealthy bidders, and the Tory treasurer, an undisclosed bankrupt who was later to be rewarded with an earldom, secretly diverted to Lloyd George's own political slush fund a vast sum that the Conservatives had raised from their supporters. To appease all segments of both parties, Lloyd George by turns advocated peace in Europe and war in the Middle East; he urged rapprochement with Soviet Russia and vowed uncompromising hostility to the Bolsheviks; he paid lip service...
...months after he had called off his country's invasion of Suez, Sir Anthony Eden resigned as Prime Minister, leaving a nation divided at home, humiliated abroad, gravely weakened in its alliances. Sick and saddened. Eden declined the earldom that goes, by long tradition, to departing Prime Ministers. Unlike Sir Winston Churchill, who refused a dukedom rather than forgo his lifelong passion for the House of Commons. Eden felt that he was too weakened by a major abdominal ailment even to make a nominal showing in the House of Lords...
...Retiring to his country house in pastoral Wilthsare he buried himself in his memors* and, say intimates, began to feel that thereby he deepened his insight on many issues (but not, his memoirs suggest, on Suez). Hankering for a platform again, Eden, now 64, last week finally accepted his earldom from Queen Elizabeth...
Diehard romantics declare that Eden's earldom has a far more intriguing explanation. Recalling that handsome, 30-year-old Nicholas Eden, Sir Anthony's son-about-town, has frequently been seen with Princess Alexandra of late, they insist that Father took the title to bolster young Eden's prospect of a royal marriage...
...safe" Lanarkshire seat in the 1945 Labor landslide election. In his 31 years in politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary (accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938 and riding with him behind Hitler and Mussolini through cheering Nazi crowds). After succeeding to the earldom in 1951 and taking his seat in the House of Lords he served as Scottish Secretary and later as Commonwealth Secretary and leader of the House of Lords...