Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscount Gladstone, 73, lively son of the late famed Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, continued last week to make unbridled use of the adjective "foul," as the libel suit brought against him by Captain Peter Wright (TIME, Feb. 7) continued. Originally Viscount Gladstone merely declared: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow!" referring to aspersions cast upon Prime Minister Gladstone in Captain Wright's book: Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, July 26). But last week, when Viscount Gladstone took the stand, he delivered himself as follows: "Captain Wright made a foul and loathsome charge against my father...
...Captain Wright perused this letter from Viscount Gladstone, son of the great "Mr. Gladstone," another letter from Viscount Gladstone was delivered to the Secretary of the exclusive Bath Club, to which both Captain Wright and Lord Gladstone belonged. "Mr. Wright is a foul fellow!" ran this second letter; and as a result Captain Wright was dropped from the Bath Club...
...Viscount Henry Palmerston...
Irate, Captain Wright sued the Club, and recovered $625 damages "for loss of club amenities, and injury to his reputation." Said Justice Horridge, in awarding damages: "Captain Wright is justified in thinking that in calling him 'a liar, a coward and a fool,' Viscount Gladstone employed the language of the pantry rather than that of the House of Lords...
Americans who read this exchange of compliments in the press pictured Viscount Gladstone as a young pup, for all his peerage, a loud and foul-mouthed lord. Had Captain Wright rested content with $625 damages, he and his charges against the late Prime Minister would have seemed vindicated. But Captain Wright, having drawn blood, or rather golden damages, tried for more. He brought suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone, who happens not to be "a young pup," is aged...