MAY SELL AVON CASTLE
EARL OF EGMONT’S DECISION GOING BACK TO RANCH IN ALBERTA LONDON, May 28. The Earl of Egmont, the Canadian rancher who inherited the title and estates in Hampshire at the age of fifteen, when his father was killed in a car accident, arrived in England this week from Alberta. He may sell his ancestral home, Avon Castle. “I don’t think I want to live there,' he said. “It is not furnished, and I have already had one offer of £40.000 for it. lam only over here on a two months’ trip. Then I shall go back to my ranch in Alberta.” When he was last in England, from 1929 to 1932, he shook society by scorching around the grounds of the castle on a motor-cycle, and doing his own shopping. “We will not bother much about society,” he said. “But I would like my boy (three-year-old Viscount Perceval) to go through one of your colleges and round it off by going to Oxford or Cambridge.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21086, 12 July 1938, Page 8
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