Word: cavan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Renown steamed toward Australia the Duke's Chief of Staff, the Earl of Cavan, sat down suddenly when the ship gave a lurch and refused to let details of his condition be radioed, though it was known that he took to his berth...
...last child was Prince John, died 1919. ±The new Australian Federal Capital. **Not to be confused with Miss Betty Baldwin, 18, daughter of the Prime Minister. *The Countess of Cavan, and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour...
...female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...Office announced the appointment of General Sir George Francis Milne to be Chief of the Imperial General Staff in succession to General the Earl of Cavan, retiring. The appointment is not effective until February. General Milne is Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command (military district in England) and was toward the end of the War in command of the Salonika Army...
...Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there were still traditional singers and traditional story-tellers gave him a grounding in the speech and thoughts of folk writing. At 18 he was a clerk in a railway office. Before twenty, he was writing plays and verse. Among his friends were W. B. Yeats...