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Married. Lord David Cecil, 30, author of The Stricken Deer (biography of Poet William Cowper, which won the English $500 Hawthornden prize in 1930); and Rachel MacCarthy, daughter of Critic Desmond MacCarthy; in London. Lord David is the younger son of the Marquess of Salisbury...
...Herbert's Liberals are considered "orthodox" because they champion Free Trade, the traditional Liberal policy and are supported by such venerable colleagues of the late Lord Asquith as half-blind Viscount Grey of Fallodon and the Marquess of Reading, greatest of Britain's living elder statesmen...
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale, able boxer, was chosen leader of a British expedition to attempt an airplane flight over world's-highest Mt. Everest (29.141 ft.) this month...
...days after this scene Premier Ramsay MacDonald boarded a seaplane at Lossiemouth and flew St. George's Channel to the Marquess of Londonderry's house at Mount Stewart. County Down, Northern Ireland. In Ireland observers leaped to the conclusion that he was there to hold a series of secret meetings with de Valera representatives on the annuities problem. Some added an additional detail: Scot MacDonald's trip to Ireland was at the request of delegates to the Ottawa conference (see p. 12) who are restless for an early solution. All these stories Scot MacDonald went to great...
...Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake with 21 twinkling candles...