Word: westmeath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With British pluck. Lord Nugent fought back. Fluttering his credentials in a TV interview, he explained that he was in Debrett's and Burke's but listed under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal...
...race-track trick of betting a few bob on all the Irish horses in England's Grand National steeplechase almost broke the books at Aintree when a loo-to-g shot named Quare Times, running under the colors of Mrs. William Welman of Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, romped home in the mud by 12 lengths. Another Irish horse, Carey's Cottage (20-1), came in third...
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