Word: hertford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young clergyman of scholarly and social graces, educated at Yale and at the patrician Magdalen College, Oxford. The young headmaster of the cathedral's choir school, Rev. William Dudley Foulkes Hughes, an especial protege of Bishop Manning's, also is an Oxford man, but he attended the quite plebeian Hertford College there. Nevertheless, as bishop's friend, Mr. Hughes was able to irritate Dean's Assistant Bernardin. At last Mr. Bernardin could stand no more and resigned, preferring charges against Mr. Hughes...
...Hertford Youth Survives Blast of Air That Nearly Tore His Insides...
Irvin Nixon, the 15-year-old Hertford youth, victim of a ghastly practical joke which nearly cost him his life, was released from the Elizabeth City Hospital Sunday morning. Young Nixon was brought to the hospital last week in a frightful condition from the effects of a blast of air from a powerful air compressor injected into his interior by a playmate. The nozzle of the air hose was thrust into the posterior of the youth and the air blast literally blew the contents of his bowels up and through his mouth and nostrils. He was brought to the hospital...
General Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour appeared before the Committee to prove his claim to the duchy of Somerset, disputed by Lord Hertford. The case has been hanging fire since 1923, when the 15th Duke died, and hinged upon the validity of a marriage contracted by Colonel Francis Seymour and Leonora Hudson...
Along comes Lord Hertford to say that John Hudson did not die in 1786, but merely deserted his ship, returned to London where he died in 1791. Thus the descendants of the Seymour-Hudson union were bastards. Unfortunately for Hertford, he could not prove his story and the Committee accordingly allowed the claim of General Seymour, who became 16th Duke of Somerset; the first was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew, Edward...