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Died. John Charles de la Poer Beresford, seventh Marquess of Waterford, 33; accidentally (shotgun); in Portlaw, County Waterford, Irish Free State. Legend held that a curse of violent deaths had been put on seven generations of his family; the third Marquess died of a fall in the hunting field; the fifth shot himself; the sixth drowned...
When some poer unfortunate had the brilliant inspiration the other day to refer to a rare rhododendron as a magnificent hydrangeas, diplomatic relations were instantly severed...
...first marriage), Helene Violette de Talleyrand (Anna's daughter by her second marriage): Anna Eleanor Marie Raymonde de Castellane, Pauline Beatrix Yvonne Helene Flourida de Castellane (Anna's grandchildren); Francoise Florence de Montenach, Rolande Dorothy de Graffenried de Villiers (grandchildren of Frank Gould): Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford O'Brien, Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (children of George's daughter, Vivien, Lady Decies): not to mention several dozen others of less distinguished names such as Anthony J. Drexel III, Caroline de Peyster Wainright, Gioia Bishop (various other grandchildren of George...
Died. Lady Helen Vivien Decies, 39, daughter and heiress of the late George Jay Gould, wife of John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Boer War veteran; of jaundice and heart attack; in London...
This and the increased taxes of all sorts provided in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's Budget (TIME, April 21), stirred to wrath and protest the Englishman who married Miss Helen Vivien Gould (daughter of Jay) and her millions: John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, fifth Baron Decies, D. S. O., lately of the 7th Hussars, onetime Chief Press Censor for Ireland...