Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ranks in the peerage are graduated as follows: duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron. There are approximately 28 dukes, 42 marquises, 230 earls, 103 viscounts, 484 barons in the peerage at present, not including the 27 women who hold titles in their own right...
...Cornwall, 1337, but this has always been a royal title. Originally all peers were supposed to be equal. The senior peer of the peerage is Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 15 years of age, who, by virtue of his rank, carries the extra titles of Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England. The dukedom dates from...
...Earl of Northesk: "One of my uncles, when interviewed in London by the Chicago Tribune concerning my marriage to Jessica Brown, former Follies girl, said: 'I am afraid it is only too true...
Married. Miss Jessica Brown, 23, former Follies dancer, to David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, 21, eleventh Earl of Northesk, at Chicago...
...private office of the Clerk of Cook County (Chicago), the Earl of Northesk obtained a license to marry Jessica Brown, formerly of the Follies. The special correspondent of The New York Times quoted the Earl as having said: "Oh, I say, can't this be done with a bit of decent quietness, don't you know ?" This is an excellent example of stupid and slovenly reporting. The Earl does not talk that way; the special correspondent of the Times made the Earl say what he (the correspondent) thought an Englishman would...