YOUNG EARL’S SHOP.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2714, 23 June 1925, Page 10

YOUNG EARL’S SHOP.

BUSINESS IN WEST-END. TO FORM A CO MR ANY. A 22-year-old earl, heir to a marquisate and 22,000 acres, has opened an electrical engineering' business near Oxford Circus. He is the Earl of Bective, elder son of the Marchioness of Headfort, whowas formerly Miss Rosie Boote, the musical comedy actress. ‘T cannot say a great deal about the business just yet,” he told a newspaper representative, “for the arrangements are not quite completed. It is true that I have initiated the enterprise, but we hope to form a limited company in a day or two. "I have made a study of this particular branch of engineering, and have spent two years with the General Electric Company. I have also pursued independent studies.” Although the farl, who will be 23 shortly, will eventually be a great landowner, he long ago determined to fit himself for a commercial career, and when little more than a boy, voluntarily underwent a course of engineering which took him through the Coventry workshops of the General Electric Company. He has never been afraid of “roughing it,” and his new step, which will make him his own master, will, he says, enable him to realise one of his most cherished ambitions.