(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.
Marquis
Definition:
(n.) A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: MCT via Getty Images With Marquis in the lead, striding forward holding a ski stick, we marched up the hill.
(2) The Marquis de Sade and Casanova used it to avoid venereal diseases (VDs).
(3) But he was far from comic as the splenetic Marquis of Queensberry, hounding Oscar Wilde to prison over his son's liaison with the homosexual playwright, in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960).
(4) Marquis, a philosopher, employs a comparison of harms analysis and concludes that the rights of the postnatal child not to risk permanent, substantial, preventable injury overrides the pregnant woman's right not to be confined involuntarily.
(5) Water is about to reach houses in the coastal villages of Soubise and Marquis.
(6) Marquis believes the copper workings to be central to understanding the ruins.
(7) Shoing off the new co-op gameplay it had two players running through the streets of paris, taking out soldiers, before starting a riot that ends in a marquis being beheaded.
(8) The levels of free carnitine were measured through the enzyme-colorimetry method of Marquis and Fritz.
(9) Then at the Angel Ball, a glittering fundraiser for G&P held at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel on 30 November, Rich for the first time bought a table from Denise.
(10) There is going to be great competition and I’m really looking forward to it.” Elsewhere, another British gold medal winner on 2012’s Super Saturday, and also the European and Commonwealth champion, Greg Rutherford, hopes to recapture his best long jump form against a field that includes Marquis Dendy, who jumped a wind-assisted 8.68m this year, plus the improving Briton Dan Bramble.
(11) Bamiyan seems emblematic of the way international aid has treated Afghanistan,” says Philippe Marquis, former head of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (Dafa).
(12) Presented at the ongoing Black Hat Asia 2014 conference in Singapore, Shane Huntley and Morgan Marquis-Boire's research shows that journalists are "massively over-represented" among the targets of state-sponsored hackers.
(13) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
(14) That was straight out of the 1750 classic A Character in King Charles the Second, by George Savile, the Marquis of Halifax.
(15) But Marquis could see order where I could not, and instantly identified the different sites and speculated on what they were once used for.
(16) Arguing from the position that prerandomization in clinical trials must be either unsuccessful or unethical, Marquis analyzes prerandomized single-arm consent and multiple-arm consent designs and compares them to each other and to conventional randomized designs.
(17) Schaffner introduces four articles on clinical trials (by F. Gifford, J.B. Kadane, L. Kopelman, and D. Marquis) by providing an historical and methodological context within which to interpret them.
(18) Plasma L-carnitine concentrations have been measured by a spectrophotometrical method according to Marquis and Fritz's technique and subsequently modified by Pearson and Seccombe.
(19) So does "sadism", for that matter, but the Marquis de Sade had been dead for 72 years.
(20) The 1995 season saw the fiscally challenged club unable to hold on to core players such as Walker, Wetteland, Marquis Grissom and Ken Hill – frustrated fans gave up on the organisation with many never going back.