YOUTHFUL EARL’S ESTATE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 244, 14 September 1932, Page 2

YOUTHFUL EARL’S ESTATE.

FORTUNE IN PROSPECT.

£70,000 OFFERED FOR CASTLE.

Although the eightcen-year-old Earl of Egmont has returned to the Canadian ranch where he lived for so long before his father inherited the title, it is quite likely that he may return to England one day (states an English paper). Contrary to many reports, the young Earl is a rich man, and he will be a very rich man when he is twenty-one. “I received £60,000 under the will of the dowager countess,” he said recently, ‘‘and when I come of age I shall have £250,000. “I am supposed to have sold the family pictures and to have refused to refurnish Avon Castle, our home in the New Forest, because of lack of money, but my means were sufficient to have kept up the estate four times over. I have been offered £70,000 for Avon Castle, but I don’t intend to sell it under £85,000.” Lord Egmont, whose father died so tragically after a motor accident a few months ago, is happy on his little ranch near Priddis, Alberta, Canada, whore he spent his boyhood days. He is living the life of a cowboy, though his proudest possession is still the 85 miles an hour motor cycle he bought in England.