Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Julian Edward George, now a child of eleven years, sat round-eyed and attentive in a gallery overlooking a huge, oblong, Gothic room. Below, the House of Commons was somberly proceeding to honor the little boy's grandfather, great onetime Prime Minister Asquith (1908-16), the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who had just died...
...other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
...Parliamentary tributes paid, last week, to the late Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, that of James Ramsay MacDonald was perhaps most moving. Speaking as a Laborite who had fought Liberal Prime Minister Asquith, Mr. MacDonald said: "He was the last of what Victorians meant by great parliamentarians-men of leisure and culture, formality and dignity, learning and catholicity. . . . He was a sturdy champion whose mellow mind and rich, sonorous oratory so often lulled our watchful intelligence to sleep. We gave him our applause forgetful of the gulfs that separated us and of all the challenges that would...
Though the Dean of Westminster proposed, last week, that the late Lord Oxford and Asquith should be buried in Westminster Abbey, this project was thwarted by the dead Earl. He had left positive instructions. Therefore his body was quietly removed, last week, from his Berkshire estate to the neighboring little Church of All Saints. With none but members of his immediate family present the service was performed by the Bishop of Oxford. Later the peer who was called "Lord Oxford" by all, including the King, was interred in the little country graveyard of All Saints...