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Finally, last week, the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, 79, onetime Prime Minister (1894-95), valedicted by reactionaries as "the last Victorian," paused on the brink of the grave (TIME, Feb. 15) to incorporate. His thousands of acres (reputedly he is one of the richest landowners in the United Kingdom) were dubbed The Rosebery Estates, Ltd. Capital stock was issued at a pound a share to a total value of ?362,500 ($1,762,000), half common, half preferred...
Henry Fielding is as different from Samuel Richardson as "Tom Jones" is from "Pamela". Fielding was the son of Lieutenant Edmund Fielding a descendant of the Earl of Desmond. In this connection there is a rather interesting anecdote. The Earl of Desmond belonged to a branch of the Denbigh family which until lately was supposed to be related to the Hapsburgs. To this claim is to be attributed the famous passage in Gibagg's "Autobiography," which predicts for "Tom Jones" "that esquisite picture of human manners"--a diuturnity exceeding of the House of Austria...
...Earl's wife, Margot Asquith, she of the sharp features and biting tongue, could not control her emotions, sobbed. At last, as numerous members of the audience began to weep, that iron-hearted Liberal, Viscount Grey of Fallodon drew forth his handkerchief and wiped his eyes...
...fall from the Premiership (1922). The two uniting against the tariff proposals of Premier Stanley Baldwin threw the Liberal party behind the first and only Labor Government of Britain (1924) and caused the fall of this cabinet by withdrawing Liberal support later in the same year. He was created Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1925) thus becoming leader of the Liberals in the House of Peers and leaving Mr. Lloyd George undisputed Liberal leader in the House of Commons...
...soon learns for himself. He achieves a tremendous success, Despite the courtly, portentous Earl of Ockleford, whose dignity as leader of the Lords is offended by Andy's failure to consult him about Sam's peerage; despite domineering Tom Hogarth, Minister of Munitions; despite gloomy Hasper Clews of the Exchequer, and bitterly disdainful military at the War office. He really accomplishes very little at his ministry beyond somewhat quelling Anglophobia in the French press, dispelling fear of pacifism at home, and tendering a magnificent banquet to an invasion of officious overseas journalists. But he charms the journalists into...