Word: marquisate
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In the present generation of Cecils there are four brothers: the fourth Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the Privy Council in the Baldwin Cabinet; Lord William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter; Lord Hugh Cecil, noted Parliamentarian; Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of the Crown in many capacities, whose chief fame rests...
Lord Robert Cecil, 59 years of age, is the third son of the third Marquis of Salisbury, and belongs to a family which has been consistently and unobtrusively distinguished since the days of Edward VI, when William Cecil, afterward Lord Burghley, became one of the King's Secretaries of...
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.