Word: marquessate
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...10th Duke of Devonshire, and his stately wife, the Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil. Lady Mary's mother, the Marchioness of Salisbury, thought it wise to come, too. Reluctantly the Duke agreed that he was the one to speak to his headstrong son-&-heir, William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington and a Captain in the Coldstream Guards...
...Marquess, 26, proposed to marry an American, a Boston girl named Kathleen Kennedy. The Marquess had been mentioned as a suitable suitor for the hand of Princess Elizabeth. Kathleen's father was Joseph P. Kennedy, wealthy, Irish and no admirer of the British. He had been a popular U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who had later thrown away his popularity and then some.* What was more, the Kennedys were good Catholics; the Cavendishes have been strenuously Protestant since the 16th Century...
...Duke, the Duchess, the Dowager Duchess and the Marchioness, not to speak of the Kennedys, might have seen it coming. Kathleen had been going with the Marquess since 1938, when Ambassador Joe brought her to London. Paddling about London on a bicycle and working at an American Red Cross Club in Knightsbridge since last summer, Kathleen continued to see the Marquess. Last winter she visited West Derbyshire, when the Marquess tried and failed to win a seat in the House of Commons (TIME, Feb. 28). Apparently, everybody-except the Cavendishes and the Kennedys-understood that Kathleen and the Marquess were...
...farmer, Robert Goodall, also ran. He wanted to know if Lord Hartington could milk a cow. The Marquess replied: "Yes, and I can spread muck [manure]." He thereupon ignored Goodall, challenged White to a muck-spreading contest for a ?5 bet, winnings to the Red Cross. White was too busy making speeches...
...Russian heckler, a Mrs. Barbara Pataleeva, had a habit of rising in meetings to ask if the Marquess had ever done a day's work in his life. He said he'd been in the Army since finishing at Cambridge. Having been in France as a soldier once during this war, he said he expected to go again. That made the voters wonder where he would find the time for both statecraft and fighting, especially since his uncle-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Henry Hunloke, resigned the seat because of the pressure of war duties. They asked...