Word: lothian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jabbering excitedly, delegates to the Third Indian Round Table Conference (TIME, Nov. 28) told His Majesty's Government last week that the "Lothian Plan" simply will...
...charges and resignation might have been ignored last week, had not the Cabinet's orthodox Liberal pontiff, Sir Herbert Samuel, simultaneously resigned as Home Secretary, together with nine other Government Liberals. These ranged from stuffy Sir Archibald Sinclair who resigned as Secretary of State for Scotland, to brilliant Lord Lothian (the onetime Philip Kerr) who as Under-Secretary of State for India has been the Cabinet's brains in that quarter. (So indispensable was Lord Lothian found to be at the India Office last week that he was persuaded to continue his work informally, though resigned...
Last week Brother Tikytt's psalter appeared in Manhattan as a principal item in an auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. Not in two decades, it was claimed, had such an important sale of manuscripts and incunabula occurred...
First night's prices, $356,260 for 89 lots, so encouraged agents of the Marquess of Lothian that they considered it likely that he would send to the U. S. for sale a collection of fine furniture and paintings from his two estates, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, and Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. The Marquess is better known to U. S. citizens as Philip Henry Kerr, lecturer and onetime private secretary to David Lloyd George. He was a member of last summer's Round Table Conferences on India. Second cousin to the Duke of Norfolk, he succeeded to his title last...
Second night of the sale, devoted to minor items, was interrupted by the disposal of one major item of Americana which came, not from the Lothian library, but from that of George Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam. of Milton, Peterborough, England. Addressed "to the KINGS most excellent majesty," this musty sheaf of papers has had a career so interesting that most U. S. collectors value it second only to the Declaration of Independence.* Written in a neat spidery hand which is almost certainly that of John Dickenson of Pennsylvania, it was the final petition to George III by the American Colonies...