Viscount Slim, of Yarralumla in the Capital Territory of Australia and of Bishopston in the City and County of Bristol, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1960 for Field Marshal Sir William Slim upon the end of his term as Governor-General of Australia. As of 2012 the title is held by his son, the second Viscount, who succeeded in 1970. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999, and sits as a cross-bencher.
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“Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)
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hurl herself at his feet,
or utter the word “Stay!”
But as that fool began to go
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