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Married. Virginia Fortune Ryan, 19, daughter of U.S. Industrialist John B. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Banker Otto Kahn, great-granddaughter of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Lord Ogilvy, 26, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish Earldom of Airlie (two castles, one lodge, 69,000 acres) and onetime favorite escort of Princess Margaret. Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, four other members of the Royal Family and 800 guests witnessed the most glittering Anglo-American union since the 1895 marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Ninth Duke of Marlborough; in St. Margaret's Church, London...
Announcement of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee's dissolution honors list included an earldom for Viscount Jowitt, the Labor government's Lord Chancellor; a Companionship of Honor for its Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison; a baronage for David Kirkwood, thistly Scottish labor leader; and a knighthood for Dr. Walter Fergusson Hannay, the surgeon who cleared up Attlee's foot eczema and his duodenal ulcer...
...London's High Court to claim that his birth was legitimate. Toby asked to be legally recognized as the elder brother of Eva's second son, Captain William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 46, known as Tom. Tom is recognized as the present heir to the ancient earldom of Fitzwilliam, its $2,000,000 estate and the largest private mansion (365 rooms) in England. Why had Toby waited so long? Neither he nor Tom had a chance for succession until two years ago when the eighth earl was killed in an air crash. The ninth earl...
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...