Word: highworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick George ("Peckham") Banbury, First Baron Banbury of Southam, 85, famed old parliamentary curmudgeon; at Highworth, Wiltshire, England. A Tory diehard, who boasted that his home was illuminated only by candles, he blocked admittance of peeresses to the House of Lords lest the body "lose dignity to secure efficiency...
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