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...salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King George and in the earl's house Carol II was styled officially a "guest of King Edward VIII," the explanation being offered that other foreign kings & queens were occupying all available suites in Buckingham Palace...
Born-To John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 25, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Eileen Beatrice Forbes Crichton-Stuart, second daughter of the Earl of Granard, niece of Ogden Livingston Mills; twin sons; in London. The elder is heir to one of Britain's biggest hereditary estates...
Married. John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 24, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes, second daughter of the Earl & Countess of Granard, granddaughter of the late Ogden Mills, niece of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills; in feudal ceremony at Clonguish Parish Church, Newtown Forbes, Ireland...
...elder Ogden's three children, Gladys married Banker Henry Carnegie Phipps. When the eighth Earl of Granard took Beatrice to wife in 1909, the New York Times gave the story front-page display. Ogden Jr. went to Harvard and upon his graduation (1904), much to the surprise of his family, took a law course at Cambridge. Even more surprised was his family when he began to practice his profession in New York. When he went into Republican ward politics in New York City, his kin threw up their hands in social horror. Later he explained: "I was possessed...
...Houghton, to Chandler Parsons Anderson Jr., 27, onetime secretary to Ambassador Houghton, son of Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...