DUKE OF ALBANY 



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DUKERIES 



he entered Parliament as Unionist 

 M.P. for Plymouth, lost his seat in 

 1906, but in 1910 was returned for 

 Exeter. In 1915 he was made 

 attorney-general to the prince of 

 Wales, and early in the Great War 

 he acted as chairman of two royal 

 commissions appointed in con- 

 nexion therewith. In May, 1916, 

 Duke occupied the chief-secretary- 

 ship of Ireland, vacated by Birrell 

 after the outbreak of rebellion in 

 Dublin, and retained the post 

 until 1918, when he was appointed 

 a judge of the court of appeal, and 

 knighted. In Oct., 1919, he suc- 

 ceeded Lord Sterndale as president 

 of the Probate, Divorce, and Ad- 

 miralty Division, and in 1925 was 

 created a peer, taking the title of 

 Lord Merrivale 



Duke of Albany. British armed 

 boarding steamer. She belonged 

 to the L. & Y. and L. & N. W. rly. 

 companies, and had a tonnage of 

 1,997. She was torpedoed by aGer- 

 man submarine, Aug. 24, 1916. 



Duke of Cornwall's Light In- 

 fantry. English regiment. Origi- 

 nally of two battalions,the old32nd, 

 and the old 46th 

 Foot, it was 

 raised in 1702 

 and served as Ma- 

 rines in the de- 

 fence of Gibraltar, 

 1704-5. It took 

 part in the battles 

 f Dettingen and 

 Fontenoy, the 

 conquest of Canada (1760), the 

 capture of Copenhagen (1807), the 

 Peninsular War, the Waterloo 

 Campaign, the second Sikh War, 

 and the Crimean War. A great 

 episode in the regiment's record 

 was its defence of Lucknow during 

 the Indian Mutiny. Later it took 

 part in the Egyptian Campaign 

 (1882), the Nile Expedition (1884), 

 and the Burma and Tirah expedi- 

 tions. In the S. African War the 

 regiment was commanded by Sir 

 Horace Smith-Dorrien. The nick- 

 names, Red Feathers and Murray's 

 Bucks, are popularly associated 

 with the regiment. The former 

 dates from the American War, 

 when the old 46th, after surprising 

 the Americans at Brandywine, 

 stained the feathers of their head- 

 gear red in order that they might 

 be more easily identified by the 

 enemy. The latter commemorate? 

 a colonel of the regiment. 



In the Great War the first batta- ' 

 lion went to France in 1914, and 

 was brigaded with Sir Charles Fer- 

 gusson's Fifth Division, especially 

 distinguishing itself on the Aisne 

 and at Ypres. The second battalion 

 was in China at the outbreak of 

 war, but was sent to France and 

 rendered fine service at St. Eloi and 



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Neuve Chapelle (1915). The regi- 

 ment was commended by Sir 

 Douglas Haig for gallant fighting at 

 Guillemont and Ginchy in the 

 battle of the Somme (1916). To 

 commemorate its part in the war it 

 was decided to erect a statue of 

 Cornish tin at Bodmin, represent- 



) Duke of York's School. For- 

 merly known as the Royal Military 

 Asylum, this school, for the sons 

 of British soldiers, founded at 

 Chelsea, London, by Frederick, 

 duke of York, in 1801-3, was 

 transferred to Dover in 1909. A 

 similar establishment in Dublin is 



ing a soldier in fighting kit going called the Royal Hibernian School. 

 " over the top," with at the base At Dover and Dublin about 920 

 shields, one for each battalion, 

 briefly recording their respective 

 war services. The regimental depot 

 is at Bodmin. 

 Duke of Edinburgh. Ship of a 



of British cruisers built in 

 1906. They are two in number, the 





Duke of Edinburgh. British cruiser, sister ship of the 

 Black Prince, built in 1906 



Cribb, Sovthsra 



Duke of Edinburgh and the Black 

 Prince. The Duke of Edinburgh is 

 480 ft. long, 73 ft. in beam, has a 

 normal displacement of 13,550 tons, 

 and has engines of 23,000 h.p. 

 giving a speed of 23 knots. Her 

 main armament is six 9'2-in. guns, 

 four 6-in. guns, with strong 

 batteries of lighter weapons, and 

 three torpedo tubes. She has an 

 armoured belt tapering from 6 ins. 

 to 3 ins. in thickness, with 7-in. 

 plating on barbettes and a pro- 

 tective deck. The Duke of Edin- 

 burgh assisted Indian troops in 

 capturing Turkish forts at the S. 

 end of the Red Sea, Nov. 15, 1914. 

 Of this class the Black Prince was 

 lost in the battle of Jutland, 

 1916, as the result of an explosion 

 while attacking 

 i n Arbuthnot's 

 squadron. She 

 displaced 13,550 

 tons and carried 

 six 9'2-in. guns. 

 See Cruiser. 



Duke of York 

 Islands. Group 

 of islands for- 

 merly part of the 

 Bismarck Archi- 

 pelago(g.t;.). They 

 were captured by 

 a n Australian 

 force from the 

 Germans, Sept., 

 1914. 



boys are maintained and educated 

 between the ages of 9 and 14. The 

 Queen Victoria School for the sons 

 of Scottish soldiers and sailors at 

 Dunblane maintains 275 boys. To 

 commemorate the old boys of the 

 Duke of York's Royal Military 

 School who fell in 

 the Great War a 

 library and reading 

 room are to be 

 built at G us ton 

 (Dover). 



Duke of York's 

 Theatre. London 

 theatre, in St. 

 Martin's Lane, 

 W.C., designed by 

 Walter Emden and 

 originally known as 

 the Trafalgar 

 Square Theatre. 

 In it Ibsen's The 

 Master Builder was 

 produced in 1893. 

 It was reopened 

 and renamed the Duke of York's in 

 1895, and was associated with many 

 of Sir James Barrie's plays. 



Dukeries. District in the N.W. 

 of Nottinghamshire. It covers an 

 area about 100 sq. m. and stretches 

 from just N. of Mansfield to 

 Worksop. It is usually entered 

 from Edwinstone, where the G.C. 

 Rly. crosses the district. Oiler- 

 ton is another centre. Including 

 the remains of Sherwood Forest, it 

 has some fine woodland scenery. 



Coal mines have been opened 

 in the southern part of the dis- 

 trict. The name is due to the 

 fact that in the 18th century four 

 dukes resided here. At Welbeck 

 Abbey was the duke of Port- 

 land : at Clumber the duke of 



, Nottinghamshire. The Duke's Drive, show- 

 ing some of the trees for which this district is famous 



