THE BACHELOR DUKES OF ENGLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1934, Page 25

THE BACHELOR DUKES OF ENGLAND

There are now four wealthy young bachelor dukes in Britain—the most eligible bachelors in tho country. They are tho Dukes of Roxburghe (aged 21), Norfolk (aged 20), Northumberland (aged 22), and Grafton (aged 20), says a London paper.

Thanksgiving prayers were offered lately in the privato chapel at Floors Castle and at the parish church for the coming of ago of the Duke of Koxburghe. His twenty-first birthday was elaborately celebrated on September 7 at his country scat. Ho has inherited .69,000 acres of land, Kolso Castlo, and a mansion in Carlton House Terrace as large as a hotel. From his mother, formerly Miss May Goelet, of Newport, United States, ho will inherit a fortune anything up to £1,000,000. ■The eldest of the four dukes is, in official parlance, "the most illustrious Prince, Bernard, Duke of Norfolk." This young man is the premier duke and earl. He inherited an estate worth roughly £5,000,0p0. It was once .€10,000,000, but death duties have reduced it drastically.

His other possessions are 50,000 acres of land, a house in St. James* Square, fnnr country spjits, a racingl stable, gold

and silver plate weighing a ton and a half, and Arundel, v castle that yields plaeo to Windsor alone. The duke is a Roman Catholic.

The Duke of Northumberland is.living abroad. When liis father died, four years ago, the estate was valued at £2,500,000, excluding valuable heirlooms. Ho remains iii India, shooting, though ho owns Syon House, Islcworth, coalmines in Northumberland, a mansion at Albury Park, Surrey, and Alnwiek Castle, the most historic fort'rcss on tho'Border, with a tenantry of 300.

Early next year tho Duke of Grafton will como of age. Euston, his seat, has 14,000 acres of tho best shooting in Britain. He owns all the valuable land round Euston Station, Grafton Street, and Fitzroy Square. Ho has only emerged twice from the oblivion of minority. Once last year, when lie was fined £5, and paid promptly, for' driving a three-wheeled motor-car at a dangerous pace, and beforo that when his mother, a war widow, remarried. Then lie turned up at the church with all tho hounds of the Grafton. Hunt. He is a cousin of Captain KitzTJoy, Spnaker of the House of Commons,

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