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Married. John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, 74, tenth Duke of Marlborough and cousin of the late Sir Winston; and Mrs. Laura Canfield, 56, granddaughter of the eleventh Earl of Wemyss :and March; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in London...
Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
Died. Seymour Wemyss Smith, 35, editor of The Financial Digest; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was famed for his contention that John Hanson, not George Washington, was the first Presi dent of the U. S., that the U. S. was created...
...time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis. Who'd blame a self-respecting Tyrrwhite, Miscalled, for chiding in a spirit Of gentle...
Married. June (Howard-Tripp), British musical comedienne, lately starred on Broadway in Polly (a failure); and John Alan Burns, fourth Baron Inverdyde, 32, of Wemyss Castle, Renfrewshire; in London...