Word: marquessate
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Died, Henry Maurice John Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry, 19, heir to the West England estates and eleven titles of his father, the sixth Marquess of Lansdowne; when he fell in front of a subway train; in London. He made news three years ago when a London bookie retracted (apparently to save him from expulsion from Eton) a story that he had won $200,000 on the races...
London. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquess of Reading, Earl of Iddesleigh urged Government action...
...specially built Westland planes, shipped by boat from England and powered with supercharged Bristol Pegasus radial motors whose propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...
Born-To John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 25, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Eileen Beatrice Forbes Crichton-Stuart, second daughter of the Earl of Granard, niece of Ogden Livingston Mills; twin sons; in London. The elder is heir to one of Britain's biggest hereditary estates...
...been divorced and remarried 30 years before, in 1926 he suddenly asked her to resign from the board of the Home for Children which she had endowed. To this Mrs. Belmont had not only her usual last word, but two last words. A cable from her grandson, the Marquess of Blandford, asked her to stand with George V at the christening of her great-grandson. "Bishop Manning repudiates me and accepts my gift," said she. "But the Archbishop of Canterbury permits me to stand with his monarch at a christening." And when Bishop Manning imprudently asked her for a donation...