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...strong tide of super-taxation in the British Isles has long been breaking up the great estates and driving limpet peers to incorporate them selves. Last week the Earl of Derby (Darbi) sold large property holdings in Liverpool and nearby Bootle and in Kirkdale and Walton to one Philip E. Hill, London financier, for about $8,500,000. The Earl, however, still retains his famed country seat at Knowlsey, also nearby...
...racing; the sign of Gemini; a Poem by Witter Bynner; a businesslike forecast by Edward Streeter; a drawing by C.D. Batchelor; some Praise of Circuses by Earl Chapin May; a Portrait in Words by Gertrude Stein; and a sketch by Janet Smalley...
...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...
...earl is the great-grandson of that Lord Elgin who found the "Elgin" marbles scattered over the Acropolis at Athens. He picked them up and carried them to England. The present earl, who lives at Dunfermline, Scotland, where Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born, is an honorary colonel of the City of Edinburgh and, more importantly, chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. That institution (endowment £2,000,000) is the analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus Cambridge, Marquis of Cambridge, Earl of Eltham, Viscount Northallerton, eldest brother of Queen Mary of the British Commonwealth of Nations, following an operation for duodenal ulcer; near Shrewsbury. Died. Albert Champion, 49, president of the A-C spark plug Company...