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...married Miss Annie Pitcairn of Glasgow in 1891 (died 1909) and had two sons and two daughters. Both sons were killed in the War to the inconsolable grief of the ex-Premier, whose physical sufferings, long endured, were thereby considerably aggravated. Both daughters are still living to mourn their father: Lady Sykes, wife of Major General Sir Frederick Sykes, Controller General of Civil Aviation; Miss Catherine Law, who so admirably stood hostess for her father during his short tenure of office at No. 10 Downing Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: He Had No Enemies | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

...Princeton team which will debate against Yale has been finally chosen, and is made up of W. E. Hope '01, R. S. Steen '01 and A. J. Byles '03. A. S. Weston '00, F. Frost '01, R. F. Pitcairn '01 and J. G. Sims '02 constitute the substitute team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/27/1901 | See Source »

...interested: Homans '92, Wood '92, Wheeler '95, Holly '95, Flint '95, of the foot ball eleven; H. G. Murray '93, Burleigh '92, Alfred Riggs '92, F. Riggs and J. Riggs '94, P. F. Leach '92, E. E. Grant '93, McKenzie '94, Kirtland '93, Randolph '93; Bathgate '94, and Pitcairn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crew at Princeton. | 3/15/1892 | See Source »

...house was standing when on April 19, 1775, Lord Percy marched up North Avenue with reinforcements for Pitcairn who was retreating from Concord. Within a stone's throw stood the Holmes house in which the poet was born and which was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Law School building. The doors and window sashes are the same that were originally put into the house, and in the transom over the door are five lights of old English bull's eye glass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Ancient Landmark. | 5/9/1888 | See Source »

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