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...“When the big retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Laura Ashley started to do off-shore sourcing in the ’80s and early ’90s, that was the death of a lot of textile companies in the UK,” Woodhouse says....
...Civic order depends on at least some leaders observing Marquess of Queensberry rules. I merely ask whether it could, not should, happen....
...Birley’s father, Mark, before being sold to Richard Caring in 2007 in a deal worth £90m....
...The house was bought by the government for use by The Royal Society, but then sold shortly thereafter to the “Leviathan of Wealth”, the 2nd Marquess of Stafford (later Duke of Sutherland)....
...In 1895, Oscar Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry over the allegation that he solicited other men. His case collapsed, he was jailed for gross indecency, and he died in exile soon after....
...“Lucian Freud: A Life”, compiled by Mark Holborn in collaboration with David Dawson, is published by Phaidon....
...When his father died in 1915 he became Marquess of Londonderry, taking over the family seat of Mount Stewart in County Down....
...“I can’t promise you the Marquess of Queensberry,” quips gangster/impresario McShane of the unlicensed, barely legal prizefight he has offered Harris....
...“Queer British Art 1861-1967”, which marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales, opens on April 5 and runs until October 1 2017....
...(Kasmin gave a “grand dinner-dance at the Savoy” to mark its demise.)...
...Now in his fifties, Cholmondeley inherited Houghton from his father, the sixth marquess....
...This was a dinner to mark a religious festival and the spawn were in there with their cousins — enjoying themselves....
...Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte and Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, are investment managers in rival private equity firms. The two compete, but not on the battlefield....
...But for my money, the rise of the peer-to-peer concept also marks a moment in the literary history of Wall Street....
...The Hörnli hut, the mountain refuge from where Matterhorn climbers set off, has been refurbished and expanded to mark the occasion....
...The animals were more eccentrically celebrated in the Palazzo del Te, designed by the brilliantly inventive architect Giulio Romano in the 1520s for Federico II Gonzaga, the Marquess of Mantua....
...Also Monday, Christie’s stages an evening sale dedicated to the Rolex Cosmograph wristwatch to mark the 50th anniversary of the model....
...The Marquess is also an enthusiastic supporter of the traditional country shows that mark summer in the British countryside. And, naturally, he is proud of the Hatfield House Country Show....
...The third son of the third Marquess of Zetland, Lord Dundas is clearly no rough diamond, but his roots are in Bond Street’s jewellery quarter....
...But at the beginning of the 21st century, is it possible to escape the burden of quotation, of placing our wall decoration in metaphoric or literal quotation marks?...
...What would the Marquess of Bute, Cardinal Newman and all those Victorian converts to RCism have made of the offer?...
...According to pirate legend, he sired countless children: his descendants are said to include the Marquess of Blandford, Humphrey Bogart and Jackie Onassis....
...To the House of Commons to hear Charles, Marquess of Douro, direct descendant of the first Duke of Wellington, inaugurate the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras....
...But the Horizon sale will not go far in helping Lord Black to cover his mounting legal fees, which expert legal auditor John Marquess estimates fall in the region of $70m....
...Steak restaurants serving expensive cuts of meat and good wines with a cash rather than a percentage mark-up are very different businesses from bars serving high-margin cocktails....
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