Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Majesty's daughter, Princess Mary. Last week her husband Viscount Lascelles opened the British Photographic Exhibition at Bradford pungently and profanely thus...
...extremely modest means of Viscount Byng of Vimy, famed War hero and now Commissioner of Police at Scotland Yard (TIME, July 16), were augmented last week when some ?750,000 ($3,650,000) was left to Viscountess Byng by her late, eccentric, oleaginous Greek uncle, M. Pandeli Ralli...
...poor was Baron Byng when he was created Viscount (1926) that he sensationally refused to pay the "peerage patent fee" of ?1,000 customarily demanded for "registering" a patent of nobility. After a delay of 18 months the fee was waived and Baron became Viscount without charge...
Married. Capt. the Viscount Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 23, fourth Viscount of Lahore and King's Newton, Derbyshire, Aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Canada since 1926; to Margot Fleming, granddaughter of the late Sir Sanford Fleming, famed Canadian-Pacific railroad engineer & publicist; in Ottawa, Canada...
...discovered that the grave of Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane's funeral in London to protest. He explained that he was a spiritualist, said Lord Haldane was not dead, that he had a message for him. The man has been arrested...