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Irishmen, by & large, are poor sailors but excellent admirals. The late Earl Beatty was an Irish admiral. So is Edward VIII's chief naval aide-de-camp, Admiral Sir William ("Ginger") Boyle. Irish Dramatist Lord Dunsany's brother, Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and the principal naval aide-de-camp to George V was an Admiral Kelly...
...would Mayor Epigmenio Guzman be guilty of such a breach of etiquet. Last fortnight the British cruiser Norfolk dropped anchor in Veracruz bearing in her stern cabin none less than the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's America & West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, C. B., D. S. 0., who is in addition the younger brother of Ireland's mystic dramatist Lord Dunsany...
Mayor Epigmenio Guzman neither paid nor received a call, but he knew his duty. To the Norfolk he sent a polite wire expressing his desolation at his inability to chat with the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. Reason: polite Mayor Guzman was in jail charged with murder...
...Admiral's widowed mother, to increase the inheritance legally adopted the names of every visible relative in 1905. Dramatist Dunsany inherited the title and Irish properties, leaving the residuary estate and nomenclature to Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who in 1916 adopted his mother's last three names to inherit the inherited estates...
...Edward Laurence Jr. ("Ned") went to U. S. C., was graduated in 1916. After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great Doheny friend was Warren Bradley Bo vard, 47, comptroller and vice president of U. S. C., son of its President Emeritus. In December 1930, Comptroller Bovard killed himself, left a note: "Goodbye, Blanie [his wife], I am going to look...