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... beautiful skirt-dancer. Lady Cardigan's first 'husband was the famous peer soldier who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Her second was the Count de Lancastre, a Portuguese nobleman descended from John of Gaunt. Lady Cardigan, like so many of the women ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1158 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

IN TOWN AND OUT: The Court Ball

... Club, writes under the name of Oliver Bath, and produced a play called Naughty Nancy. =K= Adeline Countess of Cardigan. A deline Lady Cardigan has arrived at Cowes and is once more settled at Rose Cottage. She is now well advanced in life but retains much ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2513 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Famous Regiments: No. VII.--The 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

... certain independent troops of dragoons in the west country. On July 17, 1685, these were regimented under Colonel the Hon. John Berkeley as the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons, and given a uniform of scarlet with light green facings ...

Published: Wednesday 21 October 1914
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1046 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES: LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; UNOFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME

... Regent Street or Picca dilly by reason of the cripples and people with one arm who sit in the roadway to sing Tipperary. Encore verses to this new song may be purchased by one-armed cripples at Government lyric factories erected for the purpose. Of places ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 792 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PASSING SHOWS: Airs and Graces

... push the other into the lady's arms, until they realise at last that the best way of saving themselves is to save each other by going off as fast as the bargee's barge will carry them. In this W. W. Jacobs-like episode Mr. John Humphries and Miss Gracie Leigh ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

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HERE AND THERE: A G(u)ilded Tea-Party

... , woven with a I central inscription surrounded by the arms of the United States and the Royal Arms of Belgium. An American pillow contained the Eagle and Stars bordered by ears of wheat the arms of Belgian cities, emblems of the Allies, animals, the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2668 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

The Opening of the Ulster Parliament in Belfast: THE FIRST MEETING

... Ulster), and Captain Herbert Dixon The Viceroy of Ireland and his Wife, Viscountess FitzAlan Henry Grattan, the Founder of Grattan's Parliament Henry Grattan was one of the greatest of Irish patriots and orators. It was he who obtained legislative independence ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 550 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

Christmas Shopping: A Happy Christmas

... covered with cretonne for Is. 6d., Ella Wheeler Wilcox calendars from Is., and match boxes and ash trays combined for the arm of a chair for 2s. Then letter weights of alabaster with Italian bronzes mounted on them are 27s. 6d. For Rainy Days. Surely ...

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

... the conductor to stop. Why on earth didn't you stop the 'bus in the first place? he roared. Didn t you see me swing ing my arms and jumping up and down, and waving my umbrella? 'Course I did, replied the conductor blandly. Nobody couldn't help seeing ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1922
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 853 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs