Word: marquess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London...
Engaged. Lord Sholto George Douglas, third son of the late famed fistic arbiter, John Sholto Douglas, eighth marquess of Queensberry; to Mrs. Mendelssohn Pickles, mother of famed Australian airplane test pilot Sydney Pickles...
...Followed the Marquess of Salisbury into the lobbies in a body, leaving the filibusterers to address empty benches for an hour and a half...
Married. The divorced wife of the Marquess of Queensberry,* formerly Irene Richards of the Gaiety Theatre, London, to Sir James Hamet Dunn of London; in Paris. Died. George M. Stadelman, 52, President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Vice President of the Rubber Association of America, pioneer U. S. rubber manufacturer, onetime carriage tire salesman; at Akron, Ohio, suddenly, possibly as result of a shock sustained when thugs not long ago forced Mr. and Mrs. Stadelman to aid them in ransacking the Stadelman home...
...Grandson of Sir John Sholto Douglas, eighth Marquess of Queensberry, founder of the Amateur Athletic Club (London) and formulator of the formal rules of fisticuffs. Sir John, too, had domestic difficulties: divorced by his first wife, his second marriage annulled. It was Sir John who publicly denounced Poet Oscar Wilde's homosexual practices; Sir John who arose, at Alfred Lord Tennyson's play, Promise of May, and denounced the "imaginary freethinker" portrayed as "an abominable caricature." Sir John died...