Word: sandhurst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, son of famed Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan, grandnephew of Lord (Horatius at the Bridge) Macaulay, brother of Historian George...
...Twenty-Five.....................................Twenty English.........................................Scottish Sportsman.......................................Sportswoman "Best Princely Dancer In England"..............."Most Beautiful daughter of a Scottish Duke" Career: Eton; Sandhurst; Royal Rifles;..........Often hostess at the Duke's four seats: Thirteenth Hussars; Tenth Hussars;..............Dalkeith House, Dalkeith; Bowhill, Selkirk; cornerstones; inspections, etc., etc., etc......Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill; Boughton House, .................................................Kettering, Northants Old Family.......................................Older* Family...
...child of the King and Queen, and their third son. He was born on March 31, 1900. Unlike his elder brothers, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, he is not well known to the public, having been fully occupied with his military vocation since he entered Sandhurst, England's principal military academy. Only on rare occasions during the past few years has he attended any public function in an official capacity...