Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good-grade Britishers know, the owner "of Elveden Hall is the luxury-loving Viscount Elveden, first Earl of Iveagh. At 78 he is one of the most notable British exponents of la chasse de luxe. His huntsmen-guests are dined wherever they chance to find themselves at mealtimes, with the aid of an especially built traveling kitchen. Throughout his almost limitless estates there are scattered more than a sufficient number of hunting lodges, at which opulent shelter...
...found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...
They recalled that to the name of Rufus Daniel Isaacs he added the style of Baron, Viscount and Earl, during the War. And though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying...
...TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1892 to 1916) - Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K. G.-Stokes ($10, 2 vols...
...Victoria Station he was met by the King, the Queen, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Mary, Viscount Lascelles and the Duchess of York. Behind them waited Premier Baldwin and most of his Cabinet, the Lord Mayor of London and many another...