His parents were John Emerich Henry Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton and 10th Baronet of Aldenham, and Daphne Strutt, the daughter of the 4th Baron Rayleigh, who converted to Catholicism after ...

Lord Acton (aka, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) The good Lord was attacking the morality, or lack thereof, of medieval Popes in a letter to an archbishop of the Church of England.

Birth, brains and beauty are seldom combined at such a high level as they were in the case of Daphne, Lady Acton. Born Daphne Strutt in 1911, she was the daughter of the fourth Baron Rayleigh ...

The thoughts of the educated Englishman of 1853 and of 1928 on the Harvard of each year have a certain piquance of their own, as they spring from the minds of Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton ...

After coming out as a debutante, Daphne Strutt became engaged to be married to the 3rd Baron Acton, grandson of the liberal Catholic historian best known for his dictum that "power tends to ...

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