ENGLISH MILLIONAIRES.

Evening Star, Issue 3120, 18 February 1873, Page 3

ENGLISH MILLIONAIRES.

The Spectator publishes a Hat, compiled from the files of the Illustrated London News, of almost every fortune—with the exception, it mentions, of the late Mr Brassey—exceeding a quarter of a million personalty, which has been transferred by death within the past ten years t Mr John Cattley, Shabden Park, Chipstead, L 250,000 ; Mr H. T. Hope, Deepdene, Surrey, L 300,000; Mr Richard (ireen, shipowner, Black wall, L 350,000 ; Mr fj, tJoyd, Combe House, Croydon, LOOtyOOO ; Mr W. Hobson, Harley street, Cavendish square, L 300,600 ; the Marquis of Lausdowne, L 350.000; Mr Joshua Field, Park orescent, Portland place, L 250.000; Mr J. C. Schreiber, Henhurst, Kent, L 350.000; Mr S. G. Smith, Sacomb Park, Herts, L5O0,COO; Mr H. Parnell, Isleworth, hfSSQ,OuO } MrH. Huth, Harley street, 'L500,000 j Mr J. R. Oppenbeim, London, L 250.000; the Duke of Cleveland, ' 80b,(K)D; Sir R. P. Glyn, intestate, L600,G00 ; Mr A. Saltmarshe, Billhill, Berks, L 300.000; Mr James Maxse, Upper Grosvenor street, L 300,000 Rev J. Arkwright, Mark Hall, Essex, L 400,000 ; W, Brown, Richmond hill, Liverpool, LDOO.OdO; Mr T. TL Maudslay, of' Lambeth, L 250,000 ; Mr Samuel Brooks, banker, Manchester, L2h0,000 ; Mr' John Hayne, Glocester square, Hyde Park, Kershaw, M.P.," ; Mr George South Lambeth, £<23,0,000; Mr Hudson Gurney J Keswick, Norfolk, and St. James, LI, 100,000; Mr % Bates, formerly of Boston, United State*. lately of Bishopsgate street, LfioQ,ooi&; Dqke of Newcastle, L2h0,000; Mr R. Burrow, Ringwpod Hall, Derbyshire, 1500,000; Duke of .'nrtbumberland, LSOO,OU(T| ; Sfr Samuel Ounard, L 350.000 ; VI rW. G. Prescott, Threadpeedle street, banker, 1-360,000 1 Marchioness of Londonderry, L 400.000; Mr Richard tan, L 2,800,000; Mr C, Earneß, laleworth, brewer, LfiSQ,QQO j Mr Pantiq Balli, Connaught plftce, LdOQtOOO; Mr F. Williams, Laughqrn hill, Worcester, L 400.000 ; Mr R. L. Cleave. Summerfield Home, Warwickshire, L 300,000 j Sir B, Hey wood, Manchester and London, L4QO,OUO j Rev. Canon Moore, L25Q.00Q i Mr B. Wh eler Mills, hanker, L 250.000; Mr G. R. Elkington, Birmingham, electro-plater, L 350,000; Mr W. H. Lambton, Chesham-place, L 500.00 0' Mr F. D. Geldsmid, M.P., L4OO.OOWi Mr R. Gardner, Cbassly, Manchester, L 35 ,000; DflU Pedro Oon?ales, de Candatno, Lima. L890,0Q0 J Mr j. Ashbury, Manchester and London, L 400,000; Mr T, J. Eyre, Bath, L850.0C0; Mr Peter Arkwright, Willersloy, L 800.000; Mr W. H, Qoschen, merchant, 1.500,000 j Mr T. A. Gibbs, Lancaster Gate, L 400.000) Humphrey P. Mildmay, Shorehftm place, Sevenoaks, L 400,000) Godfrey Arkwright, Sutton B<srsdMe, Derbyshire, 1.300,000.; Mr •). Q. Abbot, Newcastle, iron’ and brass founder, LdOO.OOO ; Mr’W. H. Sparrow, Penn, Staffordshire, Ironmaster, &0., LOGO,000; Mr Alexander Cunningham, L 600.000; Mr Charles Hardy, Chilham Castle, Kent, L 500,000; Mr Hoilingworth Maguire, Lo m bar d, af ve et , v L4Ou,OOO; Dowager-Countess of Jersey, L3UO, 00 ; Mr John Gott, Armley House, 'Yorkshire, LSSoOdO - Mr R. 1 Curteis Pomfret, Rye, Sussex, 1300,000; Mr W. H. Whitbread, SdUthill, Bedfordshire, L 250,000; Mr W. Crawshay, Caversham Oxon, L2,(>00,000,; Duk? pi Northumberland, LSSOjOQfti Lor<i Aveland, 1400,000; Mr John lewis, London afad Pans, merchant, L 500,000 ; James Aspipall Turner, lateM.P. for Manchester, L 300,000 ; Mr John A pies, Clevelands, Lyme Regis, Devon. ( 5,0",000; Mr Joseph Strakpr, Howell, Northumberland, L25K000 ; Mr John Vickers. Victoria Distillery, L350.Q0 ! } Mr Peter Pantia Ralh, merchant, L 500.000 j Mr tons! Eyres

Armley, Leeds, L 1,200,000 ; Mr S. R. Fydell, Morcott Hall, Uppingham, L 250.000; Mr H. Houldsworth, Glasgow, L 400,000; Mr J. Josiah Ollivant, Bowdon, Cheshire, foldsmith, L 250,000 ; Mr T. Bridges, Elner, 'elsham, Surrey, L 600,000; Marquis of Salisbury, L 300.000; Sir B. L, Guinness, the great Dublin brewer, LI, 100,000; Earl of Abergavenny, L 300.000; Earl of Normaaton, L 700.000; Mr Robert Oliverson, Lloyds, L 300.000; Mr E, Majoribanks, senior partner, Coutts and Co,, L 600,000 ; Mr W. For, Proctor, L 260.000; Don Cristobal de Murietta, K.G.C., Spanish Order of Charles UL, L 600,000; Lord Ashburton, L 250,000 ; Mr George Barker, of Standlake, Berks, L 250 000; Mr J. Stainforth Beckett, Deputy-Lieutenant, West Biding, Yorkshire, L 300.000; Miss Sarah Waller, Bromley, Kent, L 350.000 ; Mr Joseph Crossley, Bromlield, Halifax, L 900,000; Mr Charles Bell, M.P., City, L 300.000; Mr G. R. Smith, Lombard street, L 300,000; Lord Leconfield, L 250.000 ; Mr Anaelmo de Arroyava, Princes gate, L 330,0 0 ; Mr W. Cook, Roydon Hall, Kent, L 600.000 ; Sir E. Cunard, L3O >,OOO in Englaud, also property in North America Provinces; Mr Samuel Scott, Cavendish square, LI,400,000; Mr Peter Maze, Portland place, L 350.000; Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Lord Broughton, L 250.000; Mr W. Stevenson Davidson, banker, St. James’sstreet, L 400.000; Mr J. Rendle, South Ella, dull, L 250,000; Mr Robert Gosling, Fleet street, L 700.000; Mr E. Giles, Stock Exchange, L 250,000 ; Mr W. H. Forman, Pippbrook House, Dorking, LI,000,000; Mr J. Matthew, Burford Lodge, Boxhill, L 350,000; Mr W. Edgar, Piccadilly, L 300.000 ; Mr Peabody, L 400.000; Marquis of Westminster, L8U0.000; Mr J. A. Wigan, Clare House, East Mailing, Kent, L 300,000; Lord Foley, L 250.000; Mr James Mackillop, Grosvenor square, L 250,000; Don Gregorio de Meiry Feran, L 500,000; Mr Thomas Kielden, Wellfield, Crumpsell, LI, 300,000 ; Mr Thomas Parr, Gruppenball, Hayes, L 500,000; Mr F. Steiner, Lancaster, L 300,000; Lord Derby, L 250.000; Mr H. Warner, Loughborough, Leicester, L 250.000; Mr Joseph Gibbins, Houndshill, Worcester, L 300.000; Mr J. Robinson, Springbank, Chesterfield, L 300.000; Sir E. Antrobus, L3U0,000 ; Mr B. Wilson, Rigmaden Park, Westmoreland, L 350,000 ; Sir W. Williams, TreguL'ow, Cornwall, L 300,000; Mr W. 8. Burnside, Nottingham, L 250,000; Mr James Du Pre, Wilton Park, L 250,000 ; Mr W. Thornton West, r'oynder’s road, Clapham Park, L 500.000; Mr John Brocklehursfc, Macclesfield, L 800,000; Miss E. Atherton, Kersall Cell, L 400,000; Mr Thomas Thornton, Brixton, L 900.000; MrR. Harvey Green way, Devon, L 350.000; Mr Christopher Wilson, L 250.000; Mr T. Brocklehursfc, The Fence, Macclesfield, Chester, L 600,000; Lord Hotham, L 500.000; Right Hon. H. W. Cavendish Scott Bentinck, Lord U. Bentinck, L 500,' 00; Mr B. Bacon Williams, Crown court, L 600,000; Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, 1.1,800,000; Mrs S. Gould, Mordon House, North Corry, Somerset, L 250,000; Mrs Augusta Ivers Mary Dixon, L 400,000; the Rev. J. Williams, Tring Park, Herts, L 500,000; Marquis of Hertford, L 500.000; Sir Oswald Mosiy, Rollestop Hall, Staffordshire, L 350.000; Mr Giles Loder, Clarendon place, Hyde Park gardens, L 3,000,000 $ Mr T. G. Gosling, Portland place, 13,00,000$ Sir R, Murchison, L2oO,OUO; My LA. 1. Smyth, Cumberland terrace, Hyde Park, L400,0l»0; Mr Alfred Reyner, cottonspinner, Manchester, L 330,000 ; Mr C. Buxton, M. P., L 250,000; Mr S. D. D. Castillo, Chateau of Conde, L 600.000; Mr James Foster, Walthamstow, L 300,000 ; Mr Jatr\e 9 Lewis, Greeubank, Oldham, LSUO t OpO; Mr J. Pease, formerly M. P„ LSpO.OOO ; Mr J. Gillot, Edgbaston, L 26,0,000,; Lord Lonsdale, L 720.000; Mr Henry Harris, Longwood, Bingley, Yorkshire, L 350,000; Mr R, Dykes, Kilmorie House, Torquay, L 250,000.; Mr D. Cave, Cleve Hill, Gloucestershire, J. Mr J. Kerr, merchant anc| shipowner, Greenock, 1333,000 • Mt R. B, Byrne, Brabant court apd Ppilppt lane, MOO,000; Mr J. Manchester, L 250,000; Mr W. Mqir, merchant, Liverpool, L 250.000; Sir F. Crossley, M.P., L 800.000; Duke of Bedford, L 600,000; Mr J. Peel, M. P., L 300,000; Mr A. Worthington, Whitchurch, Salop 1.250,000; Mr E. Walker, Lincoln's* inn, L 500,000.

Ten pet sons, therefore, have have expired in Great Britain \yiyhip the decade leaving more than a pffibbn, fifty three leaving more than a half million, and a hundred and sixtyone leaving more than a quarter of a million sterling. These fortunes are exclusive altogether of fortunes still more numerous and vast invested in land, and are, for reasons which we will explain, very copsidcrably understated, bsh fn extent and number, are understated in extent ; -epautie the official appraisers are bound, when estimating the value of a business, to be extremely lenient, and concerns really ip*, destructible, or at all events safe for a generation, are taxed as if they worth only two or three years’ ppychaae. This is perfectly just, \>.v£A U( >e although Mr Bass’s browpry, or’ Baron Kothschild’s bank, or the Timm newspaper may be worth fifty years’ purchase to theirowners, yet other breweries, banks, and news i tapers may be worth pu\y if.wo> or three, and the same rule pips* m fairness be applied to all. the value of brains ijn any great business is so larg* a portion of its capital that a rigid estimate is impossible—suppose for that in 1860 one of the Gurneys had heep p splendid financier—or would ip pp number of instances ipyhlYP Pelage so, grass that succession dptfes \vouldbp suppressed by popufpr tain pther descriptions of personalty—for example, libraries—is pauqlly lenient, an estimate of auction valpc rather than of real value, and th,e totals, _ therefore, may be accepted ps well within the mark. The number, moreover, is po, indication as to the number of such, fortunes ip existence. Men have been aqcpmplpfcing since history began, but the epple of accumulation has varied exceedingly from age to age, We have no space for the inquiry just now, but we think we could pvpvq that no private individual in ur day* net even the late Baron Jam s Rothschild, ever possessed such a fortuneestimating it by the quantity of wheat it would buy—ps oue or two of the Roman nobles, while just before the disvery of America great fortunes were in apparent amount ridiculously small. Th«*re Is strong evidence to prove that Chqrlea Y* R bankers, tbe Fuggers, whose YjepHffi pmde them princes with sovereign rights—their heir is defying Bavaria at this minute to expel him as a Jesuit because he is a mediatised prince—never had more than a quarter of a million, while in 1750 scarcely any Englishman could have produced half a million, perhaps not one. The new scale, under which a man with less million is, among rich mqp. quite, ppoy, and meu cau be twenty millions, has oply be?|* ip force twenty years, and most of paw millionaires have not had tiffi'e to die'. We expect, should we be able to repeat this record ten years hence, to find it enormously enlarged, both in scale and number, venturing to predict that it will contain at least hundred fortunes exceeding a million sterling, the figure which we may in W2 accept as the lowest at which p mercantile or financial graudee could begin to think that he should by and by be almost a prosperous man. If account should then, under soipe, npw law, include the landed ft wiR bp swollen out of all English is so certain as this—that no map in England can become wealthy without p»rt of his wealth going tp the owners of the soil, and especially to three individuals—the Marqqfa of Westminster, the Duke of apd Loyd Portuuan. With qll these allowances, the list wo have given is still a curious and almost startling proof of the wealth which is accumulating in these islands, and which, if it does not tempt conquest—think what a British indemnity would be !—may carry us through long seasops of eeriowq calamity. The well-known

names in that list are as few as the plums in a poor man’s cake. There are men in- the city, no doubt, bankers, and loan dealers, and brokers, men whose interest it is to know the millionaire peerage, who can recognise every name, and can tell you how the money was made, but to the mass of our readers the majority will be as unknown as the lady who this week allowed a fortune of a quarter of a million to be forfeited to tbe Grown. Seven in ten of them will be known only to a locality, two in ten only to a family circle, and one in ten may be called absolutely unknown. There is one in particular about whom almost any group of educated men would affirm that bis very name was impossible, and could not exist. Very few of them outside the peerage were in any way conspicuous or suspected by the general public of being more than ordinarily wealthy. They lived quietly, occupied themselves in supervising some large business, and let their fortunes grow. In quiet streets in London and the great cities, especially of the North, there are hundreds of such men, “rich beyond the dreams of avarice,” but leading quiet, unostentatious lives, making no boast of their wealth, spending or saving it as it seems good to them, but in neither case demanding from the community the kind of recognition and deference which on the Continent is accorded to exceptional riches.