Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accompanied by his daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, Viscount Birkenhead was due to reach Manhattan on board the Mauretania. They were scheduled to leave immediately for Williamstown where Lord Birkenhead will deliver his lecture to the Institute of Politics ( TIME, Aug. 20). He will also address the American Bar Association at Minneapolis on Developments...
England possesses another Curzon, equally notorious, but in a different way. Captain Francis Richard Henry Penn, Viscount Curzon, is no relation of the Foreign Minister. He is the son and heir...
...August 24 Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Viscount Birkenhead and ex-Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, will lecture to the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass. on Some World Problems Left by the Great War. Later he will address the American Bar Association at Minneapolis...
...Lords as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. This is the highest legal post obtainable in the Empire and superior to that of the Lord Chief Justice. After the fall of the Lloyd George Ministry last year Lord Birkenhead was forced to vacate the Woolsack in favor of Viscount Cave. Since then he has been "kicking his heels'' and, is rumored pining to return to office. In 1901, Lord Birkenhead married Margaret Eleanor, a daughter of the Rev. Furneau, don of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has one son and two daughters by this union...
...ranks in the peerage are graduated as follows: duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron. There are approximately 28 dukes, 42 marquises, 230 earls, 103 viscounts, 484 barons in the peerage at present, not including the 27 women who hold titles in their own right...