Word: guinesses
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Lady Iveagh, daughter-in-law of the late head of the Guiness Brewery, became the seventh woman member* of the present parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...
Died. Edward Cecil Guinness, first Earl of Iveach, 80, owner of the Guiness brewery, "second wealthiest in Great Britain," ($100,000,000); in London...