"MARQUIS AND COSTERMONGER."
The Marquis of Ailesbury died suddenly a few days ago, in his 76 th year. He is succeeded by hie grandson, Viscount iSavernake. The death of the Marquis of Ailesbury raises to the peerage one of perhaps the most extraordinary specimens of hereditary rank that even recent days have seen (writes the London correspondent of the Liverpool Post). Lord Savernake, who now becomen the Marquis of Ailesbury, distinguished hi'muelf a few years ago by constantly appearing in public as a ooetermouger. He wore the usual stiff cutaway flash coat, with large pearl buttons; the corduroy breeches, with bell bottoms; the gaudy gipsy neckevchief and the small peaked cap in which the wellknown London character disports, and ho also drove a cart of the coster type. Among his other idiosyncracies was his marriage, when he selected as the future Marchioness one of the young ladies whom Mr. John Hollingsheai) used to produce in the burlesques of the Gaiety Theatre.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7824, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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