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In November 1914, Paget founded the Massage and Electrical Outpatient Clinic, in premises at 55 Portland Place, London, loaned by Lady Alexander Paget. For the duration of the First World War the clinic treated an average of 200 wounded officers and soldiers per day. [5]
Both Lord and Lady Holland were great admirers of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1815, Holland commissioned a bronze bust of him from the sculptor Antonio Canova, which was placed in the garden at Holland House. [2] [13] After Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena in 1815, Lady Holland sent him supplies of food and hundreds of books.
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
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When she was three months old, she was found by a physician called Dr. Séguin, who arranged for her to be adopted by Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron Holland, and his wife, the former Lady Mary Augusta Coventry. [4] Lord and Lady Holland had no biological children of their own, having gone through two stillbirths [1] and one short-lived child. Lady ...
In 1641, as Lord Brackley, he married Lady Elizabeth Cavendish (1626–1663), a daughter of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his first wife Elizabeth Basset. Lord and Lady Bridgewater's children included: John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater (9 November 1646–19 March 1701)
Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay (née Jones-Loyd), Baroness Wantage (30 June 1837 – 9 August 1920), was a British art collector and benefactor.. She was the sole heiress to the fortune of her parents Harriet Wright and Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone, who gave her Lockinge House near Wantage as a wedding present when she married Robert Loyd-Lindsay in 1858.
The son of the current Duke of Northumberland has the courtesy title of Earl Percy, and is addressed and referred to as "Lord Percy".. If a peer of one of the top three ranks of the peerage (a duke, a marquess or an earl) has more than one title, his eldest son – himself not a peer – may use one of his father's lesser titles "by courtesy".