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...already conferred with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. But he was only scouting for Sir Wilfrid Eady's 16-inch, or Treasury mission which arrives this week. Sir Montague Eddy had come along to advise on railroads. And if the knights needed any help, there was the Marquess of Linlithgow, ex-Viceroy of India, now missioning in Argentina for the Midland Bank...
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, heretofore a commoner with a courtesy title (because brother George was a Marquess), became a lord in his own right. George VI made him a viscount on his birthday honors list...
...days in the southeast wing of the viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere Curzon and gentle Halifax. The Raj was finished: scarcely a voice in Britain spoke against independence; scarcely an Indian wanted the British to stay; scarcely a leader in India questioned the sincerity of Britain...
...Kennedy was not embittered; he is not a bitter man. And he had had worse troubles: within two months last year, his eldest son, Joseph Jr., and his son-in-law, the Marquess of Hartington, had both been killed in action. He had tried to take his mind off his troubles; he had bought property in Manhattan and Albany, finally paid $17,000,000 for the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. The antidote did not work. Said Kennedy: "I thought I'd get a kick out of such trading, but I didn...
Died. Lord Alfred Douglas, 74, scholar, sonneteer, son of boxing's famed rules-maker, the late eighth Marquess of Queensberry, whose note denouncing young Alfred's friend, Oscar Wilde, was the cause of Wilde's libel suit and subsequent imprisonment for pederasty; after long illness ; in Lancing, Sussex, England. Lord Alfred spent a lifetime defending and explaining himself and his poet friend (Oscar, Wilde and Myself, Autobiography, Oscar Wilde: a Summing...