EX TEACHER’S CLAIM
TITLE AND FORTUNE.
“ONE OF SEVERAL.”
(Auutralian and N.Z, Cable Aasociation.,
. LONDON, June 27. The newspaper “Weekly Despatch’’ says that Alexander Grant, a septuagenarian ex-school master, is claiming in the Scottish Courts, the title and huge fortune of Earl Seafield, at present held by the nineteen-year'-old-Lady Seafield, one of the few countesses m her own right, whose grandfather liv. ed in humble - circumstances in New Ze’>k'nd prior to succeeding to the title. Grant claims to be. the son of the seventh Earl, who paid for his cduca. tion at Aberdeen, and only saw his mother once in 1906.
Lord Strathspey, uncle of Lady Seafield, and her heir-presumptive, says that Grant’s claim is one of several. An American claims the title and already calls, herself Countess Strathspey- . He ’added : “I have contemplated claiming the Earldom, but it would cost £50,000, which is prohibitive. The trustees of the estate allow me £7OO yearly,, and I have to rent a house in a London suburb, whilst the ancestral seats in Scotland are empty.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1925, Page 5
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173EX TEACHER’S CLAIM Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1925, Page 5
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