Word: marquessate
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...Churchill?named for his grandfather Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-95), fiery Conservative orator?was conscious that he was making his first steps along the path to statesmanship. Capitalizing his youth rather than allowing it to be a handicap to him, as did the younger Pitt and the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, young Mr. Churchill is visiting the U. S. on a lecture tour. Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton was his first engagement. There he gave his address "The British Empire and World Progress." Young Mr. Churchill has two other addresses: "Can Youth Be Conservative...
...Robert Schomberg Kerr, Marquess of Lothian: B. Seebohm Rowntree, sociologist, maker of Rowntree's Chocolates...
...swim out from St. Kilda's gravelly landing beach (St. Kilda has no harbor). Left behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor Government had both decided that bleak St. Kilda is unfit for human habitation. Said Lord Ailsa's son, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis...
...mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward in life on St. Kilda (Norman Magnus, present MacLeod of MacLeod, is hale and hearty at 91). The Marquess of Ailsa* bought St. Kilda last year, immediately decided to move the population to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Ayrshire's temperature seldom rises above 60, but to the St. Kildans it will be as Florida...
...Reporters last week could find nothing to connect 7 5-year-old Andrew William Mellon, whose daughter bears the name of Ailsa, with the 83-year-old owner of St. Kilda, but found much to connect Lord Ailsa with the U. S. The Marquess of Ailsa, whose title comes from Ailsa Craig, a precipitous rock at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, is a direct descendant of a Captain Archibald Kennedy, R. N., who inherited an estate near Hoboken, N. J. in 1763, married into New York's Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families, was said to own "more...