Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alan Ian Percy, Eighth Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, stoutly voiced the attitude of the landed peerage, saying: "The House of Lords is the last line of defense against the forces of anarchy and chaos. ... It would be folly to leave the Constitution of the House of Lords indefensible...
Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, 55, twice a baron, twice an earl, divorced husband of onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, owner of estates totaling 19,685 acres, exhibited last week toward the proposed reforms an attitude of flippancy...
Reprovingly replied Earl Selborne, a director of Lloyd's Bank: "By far the most potent reason why many of the noble Lords do not attend the House is they can no longer afford to come to London very often. They gave all they had to the country during the War and they are now suffering the burden of taxation...
...large and distinguished governing body of Oxford University voted last week, 229 to 164, to limit the number of women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...
History. In 1800, the Earl of Elgin set forth to make drawings, models, paintings of the Athenian ruins which testify to the immortality of Periclean Greece and the work of Phidias. Greece then was under Ottoman dominion. Being a Christian, Lord Elgin found himself obstructed at every turn. His artist companions were forbidden approach to the ruins, let alone entrance. Later Great Britain's arms prevailed over France, and Egypt (hitherto under French dominion) was dealt to Turkey. So enthusiastic waxed the Ottomans over this token of good will, that Lord Elgin was told to go ahead and make...