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...that extraordinary event said 75-year-old Sir Henry Walter Gilbey: "I don't think it of much public interest...
Born. To Sir Walter Gilbey, 75, British sportsman; and Lady Gilbey (Marion Broadhead), 39; a son; in London...
Known to every British schoolboy is the mythical Etonian to whom a statue was erected for shooting his father who wore brown boots on Sunday. Sir H. Walter Gilbey, Bart., famed horseman and gin distiller, is a Harrovian, but he too has his principles...
...hunt in the royal forests. Here Queen Victoria used to drive in her barouche, smiling grimly under her swivel-topped black parasol. Here King George takes his genteel canters. Here the morning sun shines on the finest horses, the best cut breeches in Britain. Sportsmen of Sir Walter Gilbey's generation would sooner go to Buckingham Palace in their shirtsleeves than appear in the Row improperly clad. The blood of the old distiller chilled as he saw the world's most aristocratic bridle path encumbered with several persons riding in turtleneck sweaters and bareheaded...
...House Office Building, found an Army locker trunk marked "B. B. Dawson." "E. D. Denison" might easily be altered to "B. B. Dawson," but Congressman Denison in- sisted the trunk was not his. The agents opened it, found 18 bottles of Royal Sprey Whiskey, six bottles of Gilbey's dry gin. When Mr. Denison, a consistent Dry voter in Congress, was indicted; Wets pointed to his case as the kind of thing that made Prohibition hateful to them. Last November Illinois voters retired him from Congress...