Word: pakington
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...Colonial Secretaries could keep track of their far-flung charges. A lady at a London banquet in 1852 once asked Colonial Secretary John Pakington where the Virgin Islands were. He is supposed to have replied imperiously: "As far as possible, my dear lady, from the Isle of Man." A President of the Orange Free State in South Africa reported his experience in 1876 with another Colonial Secretary who "unfolded a pocket map and begged that I would point out to him where the Orange Free State...
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