Word: mcgrigor
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness Strathcona in October 1922 gave $500,000 to Sir James McGrigor in a futile effort to save his banking from failure, presumably because Sir James' father had paid the Baroness' father's passage to Canada when he set out to seek his fortune. Starting as a Hudson's Bay Co. (see p. 29) apprentice, Baron Strathcona...
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