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...family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose, 11, son of the Earl of Rosebery; Lady Byng, widow of onetime Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, World War I hero of Vimy Ridge. Said Lady Byng of the bombing of the British village in which she had lived: "It was a bit wearying...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy, 72, Wartime hero of Vimy Ridge and Cambrai, onetime (1921-26) Governor General of Canada; of heart failure following an emergency abdominal operation; at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England...
...police force in which the British public has lost confidence is that associated with the once honored name of Scotland Yard. The national hero who consented to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, last week, is the great "General Lord Byng of Vimy Ridge," or, less colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...
...into. 3) That important ports on the St. Lawrence River and on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards are to be equipped "to enable them to meet all requirements of modern navigation." 4) That a measure would be introduced to enable the Dominion Government to control ocean freight rates. Julian Hedworth George Byng, only surviving son of the second Earl of Strafford, was born a little more than 62 years ago. At the age of 21, he joined the Royal Hussars, saw service in the Sudan, in the South African War, the Great War, became successively Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel...
...next day saw him in Ottawa, capital of the Dominion of Canada. At Government House, His Excellency General the Right Honorable Julian Hedworth George, Baron Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada, en- tertained the British Heir Apparent at dinner. The Baron spent the night at Government House, left the following day for Montreal...
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