Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public has lost confidence is that associated with the 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...
Thus did a seven-year-stickler for tradition speak amuck, at last, shattering a precedent which was established when Speaker Charles Shaw Lefevre was created Viscount Eversley by Queen Victoria in 1857.* Perhaps only once before has John Henry Whitley broken with tradition. In 1921 he was the first Briton ever to take the Speaker's Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker...
...Northumberland?". . . "Who's for Rothermere?" Thus the cries, last fortnight, of partisans of two potent peers, goliaths of British journalism, engaged in a battle to the death. It was Northumberland v. Rothermere, 8th Duke v. ist Viscount, a Percy v. a Harmsworth, the ultraconservative London Morning Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity...
Spoke for the book in lofty, compelling periods that great Anglican Lord Hugh Cecil, now esteemed the leading orator in the House of Commons, and brother of famed League of Nations Exponent Viscount Cecil of Chelmwood. At greatest length Lord Hugh traced the practice of reservation from earliest, primitive Christian times, and concluded that, as practiced by Anglicans, it retains its primitive purity unsullied by Popery...
...extremely simple presentation ceremony took place, last week, over a luncheon table at the U. S. Embassy. Present were Prime Minister General Baron Giichi Tanaka, and moon-faced Viscount Shibusawa, "The Morgan of Japan...