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...American Continentals in the New Jersey campaign, later rose to become a lieutenant general and commander of Quebec. But as an artist Davies was almost unknown until a portfolio of his watercolors turned up in 1953 m England, in the Earl of Derby's old library at Knowsley Hall. The New York Public Library bought the U.S. scenes, and Canada's National Gallery snatched up the Canadian watercolors at bargain prices...
Having decided last spring that Knowsley Hall, the old family seat, would have to pay its own way, the Earl of Derby cheerfully counted up $22,000 in public admissions over the summer to the 400-year-old showplace in Lancashire (Price scale: "adults, 50?; children, 25?). "Next year," promised Lord Derby, "I shall reduce the charge for children...
...Rome nearer to Berlin to achieve a "Feeling of Security." "Mr. Smith." Obviously this week the Western Pact of Adolf Hitler's dreams and schemes was not yet in the bag, but Ambassador von Ribbentrop received the significant British honor of being invited to a house party at Knowsley Hall by the Earl of Derby, great & good friend of King George V & Queen Mary, not hitherto rated pro-German and in British Government circles one of the most influential aristocrats in the Kingdom. Derby took the course of advising British editors that his entertaining of von Ribbentrop...
...teakwood and cream enamel Royal Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat...
...limerick was developed and popularized by Edward Lear 80 or 90 years ago. He was a young artist of 20 who had just published some colored plates of the rarer Psittacidae (parrots). The 13th Earl of Derby went up to London thereupon and lured Lear to go down to Knowsley to draw Derby's private menagerie. While there, he wrote some poems for the delectation of his patron's young grandson, the 15th Earl (to be). These included the first limericks of record and were published a few years later as the Book of Nonsense...
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