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Born. To Lord Ogilvy, 31, heir to the 300-year-old earldom of Airlie, and Lady Ogilvy, 25, the former Virginia Fortune Ryan, daughter of New York Socialite John B. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Banker Otto Kahn, great-granddaughter of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan: their third child, first son; in London...
...established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present" the Queen's prompt offer of an earldom - the customary reward for retiring Prime Ministers. *Last year Macmillan visited his mother's home town, peered through the window of the house where she had lived, gallantly tried eating fried chicken with his fingers, and at the invitation of the pastor read the lesson in the Methodist Church...
After lunch, Mrs. Attlee drove their small Hillman in from their suburban home in Prestwood, and Attlee spent the afternoon clearing his parliamentary office of books and files and lugging them to the car. That night came the announcement that he would accept an earldom...
...days of old, the King's whim formed the country's reward: he gave to favored friends a forest, a few hundred serfs and an earldom. The very titles of prized orders (e.g., Knights of the Garter) reflected the cozy household nature of it all. Last week Queen Elizabeth published her Birthday Honors List, rewarding 2,000 British and Commonwealth subjects, but the choice was largely the concern of her elected ministers, who operate on the principle that what is good for the nation is good for the Queen's list. Only in the arts...
Born. To Lord Ogilvy, 27, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish earldom of Airlie and Lady Ogilvy, 20, the former Virginia Fortune Ryan, daughter of New York Socialite John Barry Ryan: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Doune Mabell. Weight...