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Americans. On 29 November 1890, he married Frances Helene Forbes Beckwith (d. 28 April 1909), the daughter of Nelson M. Beckwith, at St George's, Hanover Square. She died of pneumonia at Stoneleigh in 1909. He married Marie Campbell (d. 13 March 1949) on 2 October
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32:(30 July 1855 – 16 May 1938) was a British peer and
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