HOW THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE RUINED HIMSELF.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1653, 7 June 1879, Page 3

HOW THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE RUINED HIMSELF.

What a career Ihai J tilt terminated by tho death of the duke of .Newcastle at the early age of forty-five ! This holder of a distinguished titlo wai the son of one of the olose college friends of Mr Gladstone, a man honored by the whole country and trusted by his sovereign. The young Duke who is just dead began life under the most brilliant auspices. He was introduced to political life, and everything seemed to promise well, when he suddenly took to the turf, and that ruined him. Independently of some other sources of income, he had an annual rent-roll of •-de73,406, and was the patron of ten livings. In two counties ho possessed thirty-fire thousand acres of land. He married the daughter of Mr Hope, of Deopdene, Surrey, an amiable and accomplished lady, but the experiences through which she must have gone must havo been bitter in tho extreme. At the end of all he died away from her in an inn in London. The Duke's disastrous, and it may be said reckless losses on the turf led to the princely domains of the Pelham-Olin-tons being placed in the hunds of trustees, while the magnificent collections of art treasures in the mansion on Carlton-house terrace, with the exception of some family heirlooms, were publicly disposed of. It is said that in one year the late Duke lost no less a sum than £BO,OOO sterling by betting and honeraoing. Mr Gladstone, out of esteem for the memory of his friend the previous Duke, was the actual business trustee who took in hand the affairs of the unfortunate nobloman, for the sake of seeing what provision could be made for the family.