A RICH NOBLEMAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1043, 7 January 1884, Page 4

A RICH NOBLEMAN.

jtoiti isays I;—“The father jg&ij&BtUte Duke’of- Portland used : to say that he was the wealthiest living iShglish3®ai»/ t ' : fbr though his revenue bjfif’ ,a’s that,, of. more available cash. Ebrid'Derby must surely be in a similar agreeable-ppsiuon to-day. - His income from- land alone is down at, Li 67,000, and he may Jhe indited with at least as much more as will .make bp Laoo,ooo. Merely for bis Irish estates h&a£€££W£d ~Lii) 0,000. Then he has Ls,ooo a year officially. ■ His wife has a jointure from her latehbsband; and he ischMless. Mpreoyer—and this is nif-sfighf matter—he has but one place to keep up, for a mere r such as he . possesses in Kent, is hot to be cotinted where * peeping,, up ’ iis concerned, and Knotwiley is neither an Eaton nor a ferine'* sure; ..but then cattle are admitted .to . graze at a charge per head, so that it is not merely a profitless pleasb re ground; and the gardens naye 'nothing extraordinary. In might live with excephe does not—r down ’ the. prodigious sum oT Libo,oooa. year; a circumperhaps assists him in preserving thah philbsophical state of mind which marks^his discourses., ~, A CblbSs&t b hie ftilf Have in time fI&Vd 4 'Ddbyd 1 . 1 'iW' Ighg.lived) at this do vith it ? In Liverpool they declare that he gives away nothm& t tus. | but then many Livefpiralians ate sore and cenftfiiafdl'bf.what they deem the Lord of - His USkx tffldtiihismoney in horses ; his lii jjobo a year on his meriag&ile; his great grandw. fetherwas a mebty Jji^nter; but the earf ta.res for none of these things. H& qnly hobby is tree-planting. an<| is, npr onp that ultimately earns