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Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...
Married. John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 24, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes, second daughter of the Earl & Countess of Granard, granddaughter of the late Ogden Mills, niece of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills; in feudal ceremony at Clonguish Parish Church, Newtown Forbes, Ireland...
...some $7,000,000 and $12,000,000 of his father's fortune-after being "double crossed" by some of his associates in the pit. In 1923 his sister, the Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (another sister, who died in 1906, was the wife of the late great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India) brought suit to have him removed as trustee of the family's estate. She charged mismanagement and incompetency. After eight years' litigation, the suit was decided in Joseph Leiter's favor. Famed were his wine cellars, his race horses. Once...
...Berkeley Square home of Lady Seaforth, hospital benefactress. Because she asked them and because Mrs. Spahlinger was the Countess Charlotte Mary Gandolfi-Hornyold, member of an Italian ducal family which has become more English than Italian, there came to Berkeley Square a distinguished company. It included the Marquess of Crewe, statesman, diplomat, minor poet; Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice; Dr. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter. To them Henry Spahlinger dramatically announced that he was about to place his formula at the disposal of the world, free of charge...
First night's prices, $356,260 for 89 lots, so encouraged agents of the Marquess of Lothian that they considered it likely that he would send to the U. S. for sale a collection of fine furniture and paintings from his two estates, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, and Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. The Marquess is better known to U. S. citizens as Philip Henry Kerr, lecturer and onetime private secretary to David Lloyd George. He was a member of last summer's Round Table Conferences on India. Second cousin to the Duke of Norfolk, he succeeded to his title last...