Word: viceroy
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...Viceroy is, however, by no means a mere political heir who ascended his appointed throne last week. Since 1910, when he was 29, he has been consistently returned to the House of Commons as a Conservative; and following the War he began to serve in high official capacities. In 1921 he was made Parliamentary UnderSecretary for the Colonies; in 1922 President of the Board of Education; and, with the advent of the Baldwin Conservative Government, Minister of Agriculture, which he resigned to take the viceroy ship...
...betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name of the King." For five years he will...
...Viceregal Court. In all but name, the splendors of Imperial Delhi eclipse those of London as the blazing Indian sun outshines the often sickly orb which rises and sets over England. At the durbars of the Viceroy attend Princes whose antiquity of lineage combined with wealth exceeds that of any other class of mortals. As the crown jewels of George V outshine those of other Occidental monarchs, so are they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold...
Before the new Viceroy many another potentate must bow: the Maharaja of Mysore, known as the most progressive of Indian rulers; the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, better known as "Mr. A."; the Maharaja of Patiala, whose habit it is to attend European social functions literally swathed in pearls. . . . All these sovereigns, by a sublime irony, are now under the benevolent tutelage of a gentleman who was known until a month ago merely as the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood...
...Viceroy. As the son and heir of the aged Viscount Halifax (87-year-old Groom of the Bedchamber to Edward of Wales), Mr. E. F. L. Wood has need of his interim title "Lord Irwin" only during his viceroyship** or until his father dies. His choice as Viceroy is regarded as felicitous in the extreme, because his grandfather, the first Viscount Halifax, was raised to that estate for his success (as "Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles...