EARL DERBY'S WEALTH.
Writing about the Earl of Derby's wealth, Vanity Fair says :—" His income from land alone is put down at £167,000, and he may be credited with at least as much more as will make np £200,000. Merely for his Irish estate he received £160,000. Then he has £SOOO a year officially." His wife has a jointure from her late husband, and he is childless, Moreover—and this is no slight matter he has but one place to keep up, for a mere villa, such as he possesses in Kent, is not to be counted where ' keeping up' is concerned, and Knowsley is neither an Eaton nor a Chatsworth. In fact Lord Derby might live with exceptional splendourwhich he does not—and yet 'salt down ' the prodigious sum of £IOO,OOO a year—a circumstance which perhaps assists him in preserving that philosophical state of mind which marks his discourses. A colossal wealth he will have in time (Lord Derbys are lour lived) at this rate J Wb.it will he clo with il? In Liverpool they- declare that he givea away 6 but advice.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2295, 5 January 1884, Page 2
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182EARL DERBY'S WEALTH. Kumara Times, Issue 2295, 5 January 1884, Page 2
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