Word: marquess
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...Shropshire landowner and onetime chairman of the Mid land Bank, but also nephew of Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen ("Kick") up and married Ormsby-Gore's first cousin, the Marquess of Hartington. The marquess was killed in World War II and Kathleen in a 1948 airplane crash, but the friendship between Jack and David endured...
Britain's most aristocratic kingmaker is Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 67, fifth Marquess of Salisbury. Lean, bony-faced, speaking with a slight Edwardian lisp, Salisbury has roamed the inner chambers of power for three decades. At his urging, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest against Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini and Hitler. Salisbury was a strong proponent of Eden's ill-fated intervention in Suez. In 1957 Salisbury resigned from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government because he thought that Britain had gotten "too soft" in dealing with the rebellion in Cyprus...
...also one who "has been too clever by half." Macleod's trouble, Salisbury suggested with lordly disdain, might lie in his fondness for bridge, a pastime at which he earned his living for two years as a bridge expert on the London Sunday Times. He understood, said the marquess - rather like a man searching for a kind word to say about cannibalism - that "it's not considered immoral, or even bad form, to outwit one's opponents at bridge." The "completely outwitted" white settlers could only conclude that "it was the nationalist African leaders whom the Colonial...
...Africa, give him the right to speak about affairs." (Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, is named after his grandfather.) Hailsham went on: "My lords, we cannot all have great possessions, but we can all be proud of our personal honor. It was that which I thought the noble marquess was seeking to take away from my right honorable friend...
Lady Diana has a curious way of making real people seem like Waugh characters,* as she does in the cinematic glimpse of life in the Viceregal Lodge at Simla, where the "brontosaurian" viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, maintained a dur-barlike protocol in the last days of the British raj. The edge was taken off the formality by the sight of His Excellency sidling about the vast building clutching his "catty" (catapult) for shooting crows on the rooftop...