Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Alfred Douglas, a son of the late Marquis of Queensberry, was held in bail at the Bow Street Court, London, on a charge of having maliciously and unlawfully published a defamatory libel on the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.
Married. Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, 41, to Lady Louise Mountbatten, daughter of the late Marquis of Milford Haven, second cousin of King George of England, by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, in the Chapel Royal, London. By his first wife...
The Chancellorship of Oxford is an honorary post, now held by the Marquis Curzon. The Vice Chancellor is selected for a period of years from among the heads of the various colleges. He is the chief disciplinary officer, is really a super-military police of the Oxford lanes.
Mrs. Adolph Bernard Spreckels, wife of one of the sugar-gas-transit-charity dispensers of San Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating...
Directorate. General Primo Rivera as President constituted the National Directorate as follows: Generals Adolfo Espasno, Luis Navarro, Luis Hermoso, Dalmacio Rodriguez, Antonio Mayenda, Gomez Jordana, Ruiz Portal, Mario Muslera, Admiral Marquis Mavoz.