Word: marquessate
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...friends nickname him "Bobbety" with cause. His full name is Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil (pronounced Sessil), and he is fifth Marquess of Salisbury, eleventh Baron Cecil of Essendon. By birth and marriage, Lord Salisbury, 59, is a blueblood of bluebloods, related to half the noble families in the British Isles. It is said that "a Cecil never smiles except when another Cecil enters the room...
...look like a slightly astringent edition of a P. G. Wodehouse hero. But behind the prim manner and pained eyebrows lurks a will as strong as Churchill's. Salisbury, says one of his admirers, has the same political acumen as Laborite Herbert Morrison, but with this difference: the marquess has been at the game 450 years longer...
...Museum of Fine Arts. (Stuart did one Washington portrait in 1794, but destroyed it. He felt that Washington's false teeth distorted his face, and Washington refused to remove them while sitting. A second portrait was done on commission from Senator William Bingham, who presented it to the Marquess of Lansdowne...
...life. The club will organize a whole "season" for a debutante, chaperone her in the direction of all the most eligible young men. And every year there is always at least one Monkey who does her alma mater particularly proud. Last season it was Susan Hornby, who married the Marquess of Blandford. This year's champ: Jane McNeill, now the wife of the Earl of Dalkeith...
Last week headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine completed the story. The Marquess of Blandford, it announced, has resigned his commission in the Life Guards. "Wolfenbüttel is no place for a young couple to live," he explained. "Too provincial...