Word: fallodon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomat, holder until last week of the post to which Sir Robert Vansittart has been appointed, he has served at the Washington Embassy twice: from 1905 to 1907, as Second Secretary under Sir Henry M. Durand; from 1919 to 1920 as Councilor of the Embassy under Viscount Grey of Fallodon and Sir Auckland Geddes. A more personal tie to the U. S. is the fact that Ambassador Ronald has married two daughters of U. S. citizens. His first wife was Martha Cameron, daughter of onetime Senator J. Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania. The present Lady Lindsay was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, daughter...
Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet...
Died. Viscountess Pamela Grey, 57, since 1922 wife of Viscount Grey of Fallodon, previously sister-in-law of Margot Asquith; at Salisbury, England. John Singer Sargent's portrait of Viscountess Grey & her two sisters has long been famed as The Three Graces...
What would the King say? For everyone knows that it is not really his own speech which the King reads, but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's speech. And everyone knew, last week, that on the previous day the great Liberal peer, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, had ended his long political silence, had risen like a disturbing, provoking ghost, and had bitterly flayed the Conservative British Government for concluding with France the recent and notorious naval and military agreement or Pact (TIME...
Died. Charles Grey, brother & heir to the baronetcy of Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon; from injuries inflicted by a buffalo; in Tanganyika, East Africa. George Grey, another brother of the Viscount, was killed by an African lion...