Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darling of British dowagers last week, because he had set an example to King Edward and become engaged to the right sort of girl, was England's Most Eligible Bachelor No. 2, the Duke of Norfolk. As Burke's Peerage says, "The Ducal and illustrious Howards stand, next to the Blood Royal, at the head of the Peerage of England." Last week 28-year old Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Premier Duke, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, momentarily put out of mind his beauteous and horsy fiancee, the Hon. Lavinia...
...right to carry the King's golden spurs was refused to Lord Hastings' father by the Court of Claims of the Duke of Norfolk's father at the time of the Coronation of George V. The Hastings family have chafed at this ever since (25 years), and last week they were out in full force to press their claim with two hours of judicial argument backed up by a diagram three feet square. To the visibly great satisfaction of the House of Hastings, the Court of Claims finally decided that Lord Hastings is one of three peers...
Engaged. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, England's premier duke and earl, 28; and the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 21, daughter of the 3rd Baron Belper...
Lehigh Valley, Norfolk & Western, Central of New Jersey are among other roads that have switchbacks...
Died. Arthur Chase Needles, 69, since 1924 president of Norfolk & Western Railway; of bronchial asthma; in Roanoke...