Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sympathized with the 6y-year-old Baron Buckmaster of Cheddington, a sponsor of the Liquor Control Bill, when he received a savage tongue-lashing from the 56-year-old Earl of Birkenhead, famed Secretary of State for India...
...noble lord," sneered the sarcastic Earl, "has condemned the present management of public houses in London on the basis of his penetrating observation. . . . I am not interested in the noble lord's personal perambulations of the metropolis. The noble lord happened to be in a neighborhood of wretched public houses, full of disorderly people. Every man chooses his promenade...
...suffused the countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently incurred the public censure of the courts" (TIME...
...Kate Evelyn Merrick, "The Queen of London Nightclub Keepers," who was sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Vexed were her sons-in-law, Baron de Clifford and the 13th Earl of Kinnoull...
...three: Home Secretary Sir William "Jix" Joynson-Hicks; Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead; and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill...