Word: vicount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vicount Haldane, Scottish jurist, statesman, philosopher and educator, onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor: "Nobody takes the work of this House seriously (wagging a finger at the Marquess of Salisbury* Leader of the House of Lords). It is looked upon as a terrible fatality if we must continue debate after it is time for dinner...
...Vicount Grey in his younger days was a tennis player of no mean repute. In 1896 he lifted the M. C. C. and Queen's Club tennis prize. His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond...
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