THE TRAGIC COURTENAYS
One of England's oldest and most tragic families, the Courtenays, has been hard hit by the death duties. The head of. the family, the seventeenth Earl of Devon, has recently offered for sale the family seat, historic Ford House in Devonshire, says the "Christian Science Monitor."
The Earl, who is 20 years old and a clergyman, succeeded to the title in! June of 1935 and inherited a fortune of £300,000—not sufficient, however, to jr^iain the ancient house, which has 'sheltered several English Kings in the six centuries of its existence. Few English families can boast of bluer blood or more eventful background than the Courtenays. The sixth and seventh carls of the line were beheaded, the eighth attainted, the tenth imprisoned, the eleventh beheaded, the twelfth imprisoned from the age of 12 to 2G and later in life imprisoned again. Rarely has the earldom passed from father 1o son; it has been extinct five times and dormant once.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 7
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161THE TRAGIC COURTENAYS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 7
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