Word: penrhyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abruptly dismissed from the service by Lord Weir, president of the Air Council. People, and Hon. Violet Blanche particularly, wanted to know why. She refused to accept any other government post until her name had been cleared. She comes of potent family: her brother is Lord Penrhyn and she is related to Viscounts Falmouth and Portman, Sir W. E. Cuthbert-Quilter and Dudley M'Garel-Hogg, Lord Magheramorne. There were editorials in the newspapers and an investigation by the House of Lords Select Committee. Nothing came of it except a brief statement from the Attorney General in the House...
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