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...long and bitter debate ensued. The Marquess of Salisbury, speaking for His Majesty's Government, earnestly besought Their Lordships not to oppose a bill which Conservative farmers had been promised by Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, himself a landed country squire and rabbit owner...
Henry John Sinclair, oiler, came by the Mauretania. Oiler Sinclair, 21, is also 2nd Baron Pentland, grandson of the Marquess of Aberdeen, not to be confused with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. Like Oilman Sinclair, Oiler Sinclair avoids cricket. Unlike Oilman Sinclair, Oiler Sinclair enjoys crossing the Atlantic in the engine room of a liner. Observed Lord Pentland, democratically: "I found the crew ... a fine lot of men." After lavishing $3.95 upon Manhattan gayeties ($3.85 for a theatre ticket, 10? for subway fare), he returned on the Mauretania to Frognal End, Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.3., London, England...
Died. Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, Marquess of Lincolnshire, 85, Ancient of English Liberalism, Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, successively (1881-85) Captain of the Royal Bodyguard; (1885-90) Governor of New South Wales; (1892-95) Lord Chamberlain of the Household and (1905-11) President of the Board of Agriculture; at High Wycombe, England...
...Order of the Golden Militia (also called the Golden Spur) limited to a world membership of 100 knights. In the U. S. no holder; in Great Britain the Marquess of Bute, lord of more than 117,000 acres...
Should Lord Burghley's father, the 5th Marquess of Exeter, die, the young Justice of the Peace would take his seat in the House of Lords, inherit estates of 27,000 acres, and become both Hereditary Grand Almoner to His Majesty & Custos Rotulorum of the Soke of Peterborough...