BIG LANDOWNERS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 160, 26 August 1892, Page 7

BIG LANDOWNERS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

The Duke of Sutherland is the largest landowner in the United Kingdom, lie being the possessor of upwards of a million acres of his native land. His rent-roll amounts in round figures to £130.000 per annum. In addition to the Sutherland property, he is a landowner in Staffordshire and Shropshire, the latter properties having come to the family through marriage alliances. The present Duke takes a great interest in agricultural affairs, and he has recently taken an active part in the management of ids wide domains. Sheep farming is largely carried on in the ancestral estates of Sutherland, and in addition to the holdings of smaller size there are some thirty or forty farms carrying from 8000 to 15,000 head of sheep. Lord Derby has an income of £200,000 a year or so from his town property. Then there is the rent from his lands. He has 57,000 acres in Lancashire, 9500 acres in Cheshire, 1400 acres in Surrey, and 950 acres in Kent, The Duke of Buccleuch is a prodigious landowner. He has 254,179 acres in Dumfries, 101,461 in Roxburgh, 60,428 in Selkirk, 909 lin Lanark, 3436 in Edinburgh, and about 25,000 in England, The Duke of Devonshire falls far behind this, but he is not exactly ‘ a landless man/ He has, in fact,' 89,462 acres in Derbyshire, 19,239 in Yorkshire, 12,681 in Lancashire, ll,oG2in Sussex, 3014 in Somerset, 1392 in Lincolnshire, and a large slice of Ireland. The Duke of Northumberland oavds 186,397 acres of land, and he received half a million of pounds for his house at Charing Cross,