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Died, Edward Marjoribanks, 32, able young Member of Parliament, writer (Life of Sir Edward Marshall-Hall); by his own hand (pistol); in the country home of his stepfather. Secretary of State for War Viscount Hailsham, in Sussex. England. Apparent reason: overwork. He was known to the U. S. in 1922 when, as president of the Oxford Union, he led Oxford debaters against many a potent U. S. college team...
...Duke of Richmond who owns more than a quarter million acres (23 times the acreage of Bermuda). His Grace Charles Henry Gordon- Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (creation in 1675), Earl of March and Due d'Au-bigny (French creation in 1683-84), is a Colonel in the Sussex Yeomanry and the author of A Duke and His Friends. Hi: principal addresses: Goodwood, Chichester; Molecomb, Chichester; Gordon Castle, Fochabers, Banffshire; and Glenfiddich Lodge, Dufftown, Scotland...
...repelled her, had long experimented with plants for cooking and scent blending. An energetic woman, she has written previous books on the herbal art, founded the Society of Herbalists, established Culpeper House in London as herbalist headquarters and salesroom. Mrs. Leyel has a rural home near Bognor, Sussex, where King George convalesced from his chest ailments. At Bognor, it is said, certain of the Grieve-Leyel made their way into the royal dishes if not into the royal medicines...
Married. Lady May Helen Emma Cambridge, 25, niece of Queen Mary of England, daughter of the Earl & Countess of Athlone; and Capt. Henry Abel Smith, 32, of the Royal Horse Guards; in Balcombe, Sussex. Present were Queen Mary, Prince Edward of Wales (once reported engaged to Lady May) and most of the royal family. Among the bridesmaids: Princess Ingrid of Sweden, small Princess "Lilybet" who thus made her début. Lady May wore the lace veil which Queen Mary and the Countess of Athlone had worn, omitted "obey"-first British royal bride...
...society. Shingle-headed, thin, quiet, with deep-set eyes, she is serious-minded but human. Seven years ago she married Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, parson of the local parish. Five years later both were converted to Roman Catholicism; her husband gave up the ministry. They now live in a Sussex oast-house (hop-drying kiln). Other-books: Sussex Gorse, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, Joanna Godden Married, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth...