Word: marquessate
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Lord President of the Council and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords: The Marquess Ciirzon of Kedleston...
Lord Privy Seal: The Marquess of Salisbury...
Curzon. The Most Honorable, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, etc., received, in the eyes of many, a most satisfactory post-that of the Lord President of the Council. Fears were entertained that he might be reappointed Foreign Secretary; and rightly enough, for as Disraeli felt about Lord John Russell, Nihil tetigit quod non perturbavit*. But, as The Westminster Gazette said: "Lord Curzon could not have returned to the Foreign Office. His role is to speak fraternally with foreign kings; and there are so few left that it is as well to lay him aside in purple and fine linen...
...certain whether he is not in peril this very night," said Marquess Curzon...
George Henry, third Marquess of Conygham, is dead, aged 57. He was equerry to the Queen and a lieutenant-general in the army...