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Frank Ongley Daryall, of the University of Reading, has been prominent in Rugby football, swimming, and hockey, as well as being the first president of the Students Representative Council, and dramatic critic for his university magazine. Andrew Haddon, of the University of Edinburgh, is a member of the University Boat Club, has served as President of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and takes an active interest in national as well as university politics. John Ramage, the third member of the triple-university team, has been influential in the undergraduate life of the London School of Economics and Political Science, serving...
...second visiting debater is Andrew Haddon of the University of Edinburgh. Haddon is 23 years old and was born at Howick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He is a grand-nephew of J. B. Selkirk, one of the best known of Scotland's minor poets, while his father is Lieutenant Colonel Haddon, a lawyer by profession, and a soldier by virtue of a lifelong connection with the Volunteer and Territorial Armies...
...Haddon entered the Edinburgh Academy in 1916 at the age of 12 to prepare for Edinburgh University. Sir Walter Scott was one of the founders of the Academy, and Robert Louis Stevenson studied there, as well as Sir James Clerk-Maxwell, Andrew Lang, Lord Haldane, and Lord Finlay, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Haddon played Rugby football while at the Academy, won several class and special prizes, and in his last year was head of his house. In 1922 he entered the University of Edinburgh as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree, which he received...
...fairest daughter. A slip of a woman in her early thirties, colored in delicate pastel, she sustains the fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed her hair and eloped with Sir John Manners 400 years ago, making a speech to her relatives which Diana paraphrased in 1919 after finding and nursing...
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall...