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SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... late Duke of Westminster two years before leaving the Army, and was afterwards, through his sister becoming the second Duchess of Westminster, in the peculiar position of being the Puke's brother-in-law as well as son-in-law, so that by the Duke's death ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5084 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. W. A. L. FLETCHER

... lent his s -vices to drill the Cambridge boat. His first attempt did not result in a victory, perhaps owing to the fact that in that year Cambridge were almost swamped at the start but last year he coached the Cambridge crew to victory. This year it was ...

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... years ago, and served in the Zulu War, afterwards becoming Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Connauglit more lately he has been associated in the same capacity with the Duke of Cambridge. Lord Downe occupied till about a month ago the pleasant position of commanding ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4636 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS LILIAN MORTON

... reproduced, so faithfully testifies. During the last London season, Miss Moreton had the privilege of singing before the Dukes of York, Cambridge, and Connaught, Princess Henry of Bnttenberg, Princess Christian, and the Duchess of Albany. She is now meditating ...

MEN AND WOMEN

... like his Metropolitan, an old Merchant Taylors' boy. He was born in 1832 and went from Merchant Taylors' to Caius College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1855, he had worked mainly in Plampshire, when, on the formation of the new diocese of Pretoria in 1878, he ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1167 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... little girl in short frocks, has not only gone, but her life is now in ail the circulating libraries. Her brother, the Duke of Cambridge, who was her senior by fourteen years, is still with us, however, and his elder sister, now the aged Duchess of Mecklenburg- ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2218 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE DUKE OF YORK AS A SPORTSMAN: By One Who has Shot Him

... while a little farther off, Six Mile Bottom, the Duke of Cambridge's famous shoot ing near Newmarket, is a favourite shoot at which the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York usually honour the veteran Duke for some partridge shooting. Pro bably some of the ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 562 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

CAVALRY REGIMENTS FOR THE FRONT

... War. It is composed of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars, and the 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers-- better known as the Death or Glory Boys, from their peculiar badge and motto, and, from their attractive ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 540 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

TRANSVÃAL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE.--PART XV

... Torquay or to the hon. secretary, Mrs. Malloek, Cockington-court, Torquay. ron with tho Turf. They were inspected by the Duke of Cambridge, at Colchester, who expressed himself highly pleased with tho scouting evolutions performed in his pre sence. They left ...

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SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... gallantry in South Africa, one of the least-known is that concerning the Duke of Roxburghe, who is serving as a Lieutenant with the Composite Regiment of Household Cavalry. For the young Duke, like his distinguished commander, doesn't advertise, and it was ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 10288 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs