Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognized as the present heir to the ancient earldom of Fitzwilliam, its $2,000,000 estate and the largest private mansion (365 rooms) in England. Why had Toby waited so long? Neither he nor Tom had a chance for succession until two years ago when the eighth earl was killed in an air crash. The ninth earl is 67 and childless, and Toby (if legitimate) is his lawful heir. This week, as their lawyers droned on, Toby and Tom came to court almost identically dressed in bowler hats, stiff collars, maroon ties. Each denied any animosity toward the other...
Died. Edward Agar Horatio Nelson, fifth Earl Nelson, 90, great-great nephew of Britain's Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) and last to get the "perpetual" ?5,000-a-year pension to Nelson's heirs; in London. The Socialist government unilaterally canceled Britannia's promise to the man who made her Mistress of the Seas...
...Honorable John Denzil Fox-Strangways, 42, former Coldstream Guards officer and second son of the Earl of Ilchester, was relaxing in his St. James's Street club, Brooks's, one night last week. Fox-Strangways' after-dinner calm was shattered by an indignant telephone call from another St. James's Street club, White's, of which he is also a member...
...Honorable Hugh Stanley, 24, brother of the Earl of Derby, informed Fox-Strangways that Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, rabid Socialist and ex-coal-miner, was being entertained at White's. Bevan's host was Sir John Slessor, Air Chief Marshal, who had invited the minister in for a drink after a meeting on R.A.F. manpower problems...
Hastings William Sackville Russell, 61, twelfth Duke of Bedford, has an art collection, too. Ever since Holbein painted John Russell, first Earl of Bedford, in 1539, the Russells have been collecting pictures. By the turn of the 20th Century, the walls of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire home of the Russell family, were bulging with more than 500 canvases-one of the best private collections of old masters in England. The present duke has never bought a picture, but last week he had a cure for generations of collecting. With Woburn collapsing from dry rot and taxes, he had just auctioned...