Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, it was announced that the Earl of Dalpeith, 28, a much-rumored favorite of Princess Margaret, would marry pretty Jane McNeill, daughter of a Hong Kong barrister...
...battle. In 1641 Charles I made John Scrymgeour Viscount Dudhope, a title that was to descend to "his heirs male lawfully begotten . . . whom failing his heirs male whatsoever." But when the third Viscount Dudhope (pronounced Duddop) died leaving no immediate heirs, the Dudhope lands were ruthlessly grabbed by the Earl of Lauderdale, crony of the profligate Charles II and High Sheriff of Edinburgh. The earl, a man of violent temper, bullied a court of sessions into upholding his seizure; then, because there was a distant cousin to whom the Dudhope title was due, he destroyed the Scrymgeour family archives...
...month ago the claim reached its final court, the Committee of Privileges in the House of Lords. Last week seven peers, sitting round a table in lounge suits, delivered their verdict: Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn was, in fact and in law, Viscount Dudhope, Lord Scrymgeour. The Earl of Lauderdale, commented Lord Normand, glowering backwards three centuries, had shown the "grossest and most unscrupulous covetness." On his estate at Birkhill. Fifeshire, the tall, kilted fourth (or 13th, no one was quite sure which) Viscount Dudhope sounded disconsolate: "You know, nobody in the family really wanted to be a peer...
Died. Edward Henry Scudamore Stanhope, 63, twelfth Earl of Chesterfield, who in 1935 succeeded to the title bestowed in 1628 by Charles I; of cardiac asthma; in London. The family name "Chesterfield" survives in the English language, associated with an overcoat, a sofa and an elegant manner. Best known of the Chesterfields: the fourth earl, Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), famed for his letters...
...February to NATO's forces, refused point-blank to take orders from an Italian. The Greeks still resent Italy's jackal invasion of their land in 1940; the sturdy Turks just do not admire Italian soldiering. Britain's Mediterranean fleet, under the command of Vice Admiral Earl Mountbatten, proved equally stuffy about taking orders from Carney himself. It remained proudly aloof from the whole European command setup...