Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gist of His Lordship's report was that "It would be dangerous to leave the Monarchy as the only hereditary element in the Constitution...
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and possessed of an immense curly grey beard, His Lordship has the high Salisbury forehead for which his father was famed. Long rector of Hatfield. Herts, seat of the Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church...
Having served the British police to the best of his ability, His Lordship Viscount Byng of Vimy published a report a month and a half ago that crimes of violence were increasing alarmingly, and retired (TIME, Oct. 5). Last week Scotland Yard had a new police chief. Following the British tradition, the appointment was given to a man who had no previous police experience whatever, Hugh Montague, Baron Trenchard...
...Clans gathered at Glamis last week. Campbells, Rosses, Ferguses, MacDonalds, MacNeills and the rest all sent delegations to attend the 50th wedding anniversary of His Lordship Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kingshorne. For over 250 of its 800 years, Glamis Castle has been the property of the Bowes-Lyon family. Here by tradition Macbeth did murder Duncan (and sleep). Here Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married King George's son, the Duke of York (TIME, May 5, 1923). Here their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke...
...long black cigar and big buttonhole flowers, announced last week that his financial condition "has become one of considerable difficulty." What with taxes, farm problems and an accident in one of his Cumberland mines which reduced that part of his income from $600,000 to $10,000 yearly, his Lordship said he must lease the shooting at Lowther Castle. Worse, he must sell nearly all his racehorses, for a generation among Britain's finest. Also last week, the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (grave Elvina Hinds of Alabama) went into bankruptcy in London...