A County Seat Changing Owners.
[Negotiations are said to be proceeding between Mr W. H. Smith, M.P., and the Earl of Devon for the purchase of Powderham Castle, the histoiic seat of the Courtenay family. Lord Devon is a man much to be pitied. He is close upon his 80th year, and there is no member of the House of Peers who has a higher reputation for the possession of all the qualities which go to make an English gentleman. But he is blessed (or the reverse) with a son, Lord Courtenay, who has been in a state of chronic impecunio3ity for the last 20 years. Lord Devon has frequently assisted him ; but he has, at length, declined to do so any further. He allows him an annuity of £400 a year, but very wisely refuses to go beyond this. The present Earl of Devon succeeded his father, who inherited the title from a cousin, who in 1831 called it out of an abeyance of over 250 years by proving that he was the first cousin, sixteen times removed, of the previous Earl, who lived in Queen Elizabeth's time, and is mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's novel of " Kenilworth."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 302, 26 September 1888, Page 3
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199A County Seat Changing Owners. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 302, 26 September 1888, Page 3
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