Word: claude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knight of the Thistle is the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Claud George Bowes-Lyon, a descendant of Scottish kings far more ancient in lineage than is Britain's Royal House. The Earl, pious and as Scotch as the Thistle itself, is at pains to uphold the motto of his House: In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust...
...Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...
Encompassed by a certain block on Bruton Street, Mayfair, stand The Coach and Horses (a public house), the business establishments of a tailor, corsetiere, photographer, beautifier, decorator, and the residence of Claud George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore...
...aged 94. He had lived during the reigns of Charles X and Louis Philippe, through the Second Republic, the regime of Louis Napoleon, through the first 52 years of the Third Republic. He was born at Foix in the Ariege, on November 14, 1828, was the son of Louis Claud de Saulces de Freycinet, celebrated navigator and savant, and belonged to an old Protestant family of Dauphiny?one of the most illustrious in France...