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  • Recipes for the small cakes first appeared in the early 1900s, following the departure from Australia's northeastern shores of the British peer, Baron Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie -- Lord Lamington for short (after the Scottish town from which he hailed).

    Lamingtons Joanna Savill 2009

  • Mr. Symons does acknowledge the Lord Lamington connection, but adds a further theory: That "the name refers to a 'lamina' of golden apricot jam filling, used to provide moisture to leftover cake."

    Lamingtons Joanna Savill 2009

  • ‘Abdu’l-Bahá undertook to insure His security; on the measures independently taken whereby Lord Curzon and others in the British Cabinet were advised as to the critical situation at Haifa; on the prompt intervention of Lord Lamington, who immediately wrote to the Foreign

    God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • Malabar Point at the end of the drive, the extreme end of the island upon which Bombay is built, is the government house, the residence of the Lord Lamington, who represents King Edward VII. in this beautiful city.

    Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880

  • Roland Corbet, Lord Lamington, Sir Richard and Lady Stapley, Sir Michael

    God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

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