Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before her marriage, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, third daughter of the Scottish Earl of Strathmore. In 1921 the Duke of York and Princess Mary were entertained at Glamis Castle, the ancestral seat of the Strathmores. Britishers say that the Duke thrice proposed before she accepted him. They were married, as everyone knows, in April...
...Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy; prepared to write the Earl of Reading down as one who has dominated India with tactful potency since...
They recalled that to the name of Rufus Daniel Isaacs he added the style of Baron, Viscount and Earl, during the War. And though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying...
...Arthur James Balfour the present Earl Ralfour...
Michael Scarlett, later the Earl of Dunbury and title character of the new novel, is set in a story of Elizabethan life in London. The tale is racy and dramatic and tells of Scarlett's adventures with Nashe and Marlowe at a great English university and subsequently amid the feuds and brawls which characterized London life at that period...