(n.) The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(2) The prince's spokesman, asked about the effect of the judge's ruling, gave a different reason to the duchy for the estate not paying corporation tax.
(3) "In modern times, neither the Queen nor the Prince of Wales has refused to consent to any bill affecting Crown, Duchy of Lancaster or Duchy of Cornwall interests, unless advised to do so by ministers," the palace said.
(4) Alas, Charles could not, any more than his great Uncle Edward VIII in 1936 , take the salary with him on emigration; the duchy is public property.
(5) "Duchy Originals products have always been firm favourites with our customers, and we now have the opportunity to develop the range into the definitive premium, sustainable British food brand."
(6) The Duchy's revised proposal stated that it would build no homes if the council did not accept the reduced figure.
(7) They started producing Liz Cox bags from a Duchy of Cornwall stone barn overlooking a cow field, selling to a network of hundreds of shops.
(8) Any change to the duchy's tax status threatens to reduce the annual surplus paid to the prince for his private and official spending.
(9) But will they sell Duchy Originals at the concession stand?
(10) The title and property of the Duchy of Cornwall were created in 1337 by Edward III, and were given by royal charter to his son, the Prince of Wales also known as the Black Prince.
(11) Andrews explained: "Granted that these proposed changes ... will apply to construction contracts entered into by or on behalf of the Duchy of Cornwall, we should be very grateful to receive the consent of the Prince of Wales."
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Herbal tinctures by Duchy Originals, the Prince of Wales’s company.
(13) Bills in parliament that would affect the sovereign's private interests (or the royal prerogative) require the Queen's consent; by extension, therefore, bills that would affect the duchy also require consent, and since the Prince of Wales administers the duchy he also performs the function of considering and granting relevant requests for consent.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Guardian reporter Rupert Neate attempts to track down the staff of Arteva Europe The new revelations will step up the pressure on Juncker who, in his former role as prime minister of Luxembourg, pointedly praised Luxembourg’s tax policies, something that attracted Skype to the Grand Duchy.
(15) "The whole point about the duchy is that it is set up specifically, and indeed is required by law, to maintain its capital, to roll over and maintain its capital and to invest in the future so as to generate income for the future.
(16) It was hard not to think of a world of Duchy Original buildings nurtured in the flowerbeds of Highgrove and fed with organic concepts and craftsmanship.
(17) The Prince of Wales's most senior official is to defend the tax status of his £763m Duchy of Cornwall hereditary estate before the Commons public accounts committee, which has already scrutinised the tax affairs of Starbucks, Google and Amazon.
(18) The test case involved a local environmental campaigner, Michael Bruton, who was concerned about the duchy leasing waters for farming Pacific oysters in the Lower Fal and Helford intertidal area in Cornwall.
(19) Prince Charles relies on duchy profits to fund his lifestyle and work, and last year received £18m in profits from the estate.
(20) So far, homes for 1,200 residents have been built on 101 hectares (250 acres) of Duchy of Cornwall land.
Marquess
Definition:
(n.) A marquis.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is survived by his wife, the Duchess of Devonshire, his son, the Marquess of Hartington, who becomes the 12th duke, and his two daughters.
(2) Coming soon … Esio Trot (BBC1) - Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench will star in the Roald Dahl classic, co-scripted by Richard Curtis Cloud Lab (BBC2) - scientists in the world's largest airship will attempt to predict a hurricane high above the US Prey (ITV) - Life on Mars star John Simm plays a detective constable forced to go on the run to clear his name Babylon (Channel 4) - a police comedy drama from director Danny Boyle and Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong Evidence (Channel 5) - the crime series is its first homegrown drama in eight years, made by Paul Marquess of Footballers' Wives and The Bill fame The Kumars (Sky 1) - Sanjeev Bhaskar's spoof chatshow is back, seven years after it was axed by BBC1 House of Cards 2 (Netflix) - the $100m remake of the BBC drama, which received multiple Emmy nominations, now has a second series in production
(3) "The Marquess of Queensberry's son, and you know it was the Marquess of Queensberry who invented the rules of boxing.
(4) Instead, he blames every appalling tantrum from his golden boy on the boy's violent father, the Marquess of Queensberry.
(5) In Rich, Famous and Homeless the Marquess of Blandford absconded to a hotel; like Withnail, he realised he had come on holiday by mistake.
(6) The great gallery was built by Sir Richard Wallace between 1872 and 1875 as part of an extension of Hertford House, required to accommodate a collection built up largely by the fourth marquess of Hertford.
(7) Some grandees have accused the newspaper editor Pedro Ramírez of El Mundo of being behind the change, which benefited his partner, the designer Agatha Ruíz de la Prada, who contested the title of Marquess of Castell dos Rius.
(8) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
(9) He was the best heavyweight boxer there had ever been since the Marquess of Queensberry set down his rules in 1867, undeniably the best since Kid Cain KO’ed Sugar Ray Abel.
(10) "I planted that copper beech in 1980," says the Marquess of Blandford, pointing at a copper beech.
(11) A few rich men sit in the Commons, including Archie Norman, the former chairman of Asda supermarkets, and Michael Ancram, heir to the Marquess of Lothian, while the billionaire Lord Sainsbury of Turville (below) is Minister for Science.
(12) That is hardly surprising since his father was Lord David Cecil, Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University, and Jonathan's grandfather was the 4th Marquess of Salisbury.
(13) Known as Fionnloch (White Lake) in Irish, the name “Delphi” was coined by the Marquess of Sligo, a pal of Byron, who owned the land here.
(14) Helped by drawings of the hang that the house's owner, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, had found in Walpole's desk, the paintings have been put back in rooms as they were.
(15) Frank Goldsmith served as Conservative MP for Stowmarket from 1910-18, while Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, sat as Unionist MP for County Down from 1931-45.