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LAURENCE D. M. WEDDERBURN Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland...
...scion of the plain, untitled Scrymgeours was lanky Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, Conservative M.P. for Western Ren few and Under Secretary of State for Scotland. After 2½ centuries of collecting scraps of evidence, the Scrymgeours were now ready to lay claim to the Dudhope viscountcy, but hesitated to do so because Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn did not wish to resign his parliamentary job. In the 1945 Labor landslide, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn lost his seat, and the family presented its case...
...month ago the claim reached its final court, the Committee of Privileges in the House of Lords. Last week seven peers, sitting round a table in lounge suits, delivered their verdict: Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn was, in fact and in law, Viscount Dudhope, Lord Scrymgeour. The Earl of Lauderdale, commented Lord Normand, glowering backwards three centuries, had shown the "grossest and most unscrupulous covetness." On his estate at Birkhill. Fifeshire, the tall, kilted fourth (or 13th, no one was quite sure which) Viscount Dudhope sounded disconsolate: "You know, nobody in the family really wanted to be a peer...
Engagement Broken. Mary Ellery Channing, Boston post-debutante, and David Scrymgeour (pronounced skrimjer) Wedderburn, Royal Scots Guards officer, equerry to the Duke of Gloucester; in London...
...this point Frances May Maddux, with the aplomb of many a speakeasy and night-club experience at her command, and Cinemactress Grace Evans joined the party. So did the Duke's equerry, Lieutenant David Scrymgeour (sometimes pronounced skinner) Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Yankee Celler raised a glass. Yankee Maddux proposed a toast. "To disaster," she chirruped, adding cannily, "if it comes." To disaster they drank. Then, prudently refraining from smashing the glasses, they proceeded to polish off both bottles...