Word: marquessate
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...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...
...Duchess of Leinster, onetime chorus girl, wife of the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland, was taken from a London flat to a hospital, suffering from asphyxiation, following a quarrel with one Stanley Williams, once a cook, with whom she had been living. Since 1923 His Grace has been separated from Her Grace...
Balfour Years were: 1878, when he was in at the Treaty of Berlin with Bismarck and Disraeli, as secretary to his maternal uncle the Marquess of Salisbury (then British Foreign Secretary); 1887-91. Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1902-05, Prime Minister, falling when the Conservative-Unionist party split on free-trade v. tariff; 1905-11, Leader of the Conservative Opposition; 1915-16, First Lord of the Admiralty during the Battle of Jutland, after which his cold, minute announcement of British casualties in ships and men almost gave the public an impression of German victory, created a scandal; 1916-19, Foreign...
...public, press or politicians; but when a young Briton makes a brilliant maiden speech before the Oxford Union the whole Empire knows of it next morning, and cases are not few in which such a speech has made the young man's whole career-witness the late Marquess Curzon of Keddleston...
Next day, twinkling-eyed, conciliatory Lord Parmoor made hasty rounds among at least a hundred members of his House, found the Earl of Beauchamp (Liberal Leader in the Lords) anxious to smooth things over, and the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative Leader) in a huff, still repeating that "The duties of the Lords are revisory and cannot be abdicated in the face of threats...