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Down a new little street in the ancient village of Thorpe-le-Soken walked the Lady Byng, last week, with a silver key in her right hand...
This behavior, extraordinary on the part of the wife of Britain's greatest living War hero. Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-le-Soken, showed how striking an effect has been wrought upon Lady Byng by the fact that she very recently inherited some ?750,000 ($3,650,000) upon the death of a Greek uncle. (TIME...
...once honored name of Scotland Yard. The national hero who consented to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, last week, is the great "General Lord Byng of Vimy Ridge," or, less colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...
House to the Parliament Buildings, dashed a sleigh, preceded by a troop of lancers, lances erect, pennants snapping in the wind-General Julian H. G. Byng, Baron of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., M. V. O., Governor-General of Canada, was on his way to open the fourth session of Canada's 14th Dominion Parliament. As in the Parliament at Westminster (TIME, Dec. 22), the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was despatched to summon His Majesty's faithful Com mons to the Senate, there to hear His Majesty...