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Because he ran away from his family to become a circus acrobat in Switzerland and a cowboy in the U. S. before his father died and an earldom descended heavily upon him, Lord Lonsdale gives a party to circus folk once a year. Last week he attended one given to the bandy-legged members of a U. S. rodeo troupe now touring England. Cables flashed and the Empire was shocked when His Grace, at the climax of hilarity, boasted: "I remember Denver when it was only one shack. When I first saw Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, there was only...
...Chief of the British Delegation to the Washington Conference, at which he fell in with Charles Evans Hughes' aspirations for disarmament, diverted the U. S. from any possibility of constructing a greater navy than Britannia's, and went home to receive the Garter and his Earldom...
...Author. Bertrand Russell is heir presumptive to an earldom, but he shares with his famed sister-in-law? the honor of making people forget his title and remember his work. He is known for books on mathematics, philosophy, sociology, education. He formerly held a fellowship at Cambridge, but was deprived of it during the War for his writings against conscription, for which he was for a time imprisoned. He says of himself: "I like the sea, logic, theology, heraldry, the first two because they are inhuman, the others because they are absurd...
...birthday honors list. Elevated to peerages were onetime First Lord of the Admiralty William C. Bridgeman, Col. Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Sir Robert Sanders, Sir William Tyrell, Newspaper Owner Sir William Ewert Berry. The Order of Merit was conferred upon Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Novelist-Dramatist John Galsworthy. An earldom was granted to Viscount Inch-cape of Strathnaver (shipping...
Married. Ruth Brady, daughter of the late famed Manhattan financier James Cox Brady; and the Hon. Michael Scott, heir presumptive to the earldom of Eldon; in Bernardsville...