Baby Heirs to Millions.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 August 1914, Page 8

Baby Heirs to Millions.

Seldom has a baby started life with sucli a prospect of future riches as the Marquess of Bowmont, the little son of the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe. His mother, who before her marriage was Miss May Goelet, inherited with her brother, Mr. Robert (Joelet, an income from a trust fund of property worth no less than £8,000,----000. Jn addition to this the baby will, in the days to come, probably enjoy an income of £100,000 (or £2,000 a week), which his mother inherited from her father. There will also be another income, which Mrs. Ogden Goelet left to her daughter, the Duchess, while one must not forget the- 60,500 acres which \Vill pass from the Duke to his son.

There are one or two other lucky babies who, although not perhaps quite so well oft' as the little Marquess of liowmont, are not likely to suffer any great want. On the last day of 191.0 a son and heir was born to the Earl and Countess Fit/.william. The Earl owns 1.15,000 acres in England and Ireland, his English estate bringing in, it is said, about £90,000 per annum, and his Irish estates about £50,000. Some idea of the extent of the wealth to which the infant Viscount Milton is heir may be gathered from the fact that the late peer's estate was valued at considerably over £2,000,000.

Another lucky baby is the son of Ijord Howard de Walden. He will have wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. His mother is a great heiress, his father, Mr. Charles Van Ranlte, leaving: £380,000, while the Earl's income has been estimated at 10s. a minute.

Neither must one forget the son and heir born to the Duke of Norfolk in 3 908. The Premier Duke of England owns some 50,000 acres the chief estates being between the Thames and the Strand, in Sheffield, Arunde], and Lilt lehnmpton. The Duke draws hundreds of thousands of pounds every year from this valuable orouertv.