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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Henry Engaged | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...Sotheby's, famed London auctioneers, was sold Robinson Crusoe's gun for $937. The arm belonged to Alexander Selkirk, upon whose adventures (from 1704-1709) Defoe based the story of Robinson Crusoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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