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DISPUTE OVER THE HEIR TO THE
LARGEST PRIVATE HOUSE IN BRITAIN
T
The
WO members of
famous Fitzwilliam
family are to appear
in the High Court shortly to decide which of themh will inherit the title when the present 66-year-old Earl Fitzwilliam lies.
Whoever establishes his claim will eventually
master of Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, Yorkshire the largest pri- vate house in Britain.
But instead of occupying
its 365 roens and entering
by
WARM HOMECOMING
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1980.
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HA ONGOIN
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE'
0 the Royal Family Balmoral is essential-
T
ly home, rather than castle. Of all the royal residences, it is the one where the panoply of state can best be cast off in favour of homely, family life.
No one who has seen the King and Queen, friendly and genial, gracious and charming in their Own home, would be surprised to hear that they and their family are the best loved of all the royal residents the ordinary people of Deeside have known.
I
Miss Caroline Ries
To marry an earl.
Several strenuous outdoor weckt have shown that the King
The Deo al Balmoral, still ■ is better in health thun at any young, narrow ilver which can Uime since his operation 10
rod.
months ago. He no longer needs shed from the bank is ideal a pony for the last steep climbs for a woman casting with a light on a day's shooting. He walks-- Princess Elizabeth is an ex- and enjoys it.
The Queen, ut 50, is the ash- pert with a light sporting ride. ing enthusiast of the family, and likes to go out after
and stage. she has achieved standard of skill in this tricky favourite Balmoral
And, Princess Margaret? Her
pastime t riding.
sport.
high
THE EARL IN
3 ROOMS
SIDNEY RODIN
The great hall where once Through the immense por a liveried footman - in- ticu in the G00-foot ne walling used to sit waiting classic frontar-4 times to take messages to guests as long as a suburbars villa in the 60 bedrooms is today —he will Kon by a
side an assembly ruem door and live in three students.
rooms,
for
West
Riding County For that is how the pre- Cosineii, which mays £970 a sent eart has been living your for Wentworth, to all there since he auceceled to the necessary running re- the title in 1948.
Lord Fitzwillium's
ving
room was once the boudoir
of the comntesses.
pairs. No authority today would grint a private per-
on the licences,
Wentworth Woodhouse
When he entertains it is eighteenth century. in the billiards' room--the rable has been sold-anul în part of the picture gelery with many of its treasures under dust sheets.
HE
CLOSED UP
as the
Was burilt in the mid- The stables housed 150
well when horses, as noblemen vial to see who coaches in which the family, could create the greatest drove with postilions and architectural magnificence. outriders.
There Was plenty of money then to pay for it. When they came over with the Conqueror the family were already wealthy.
When the sixth earl die at the age of 86 in 1902 there was so much spare cash that his successor
at
TÜRRE FIGURES IN THE DISPUTE (Left). The ninth Earl Fitzellliam, halder of the title, (Centres Mr George James Toby") Fitzwilliam, aged 62, of Ficiorth, Susica. claims to be the heir-presumptive (Right) His brother, Captain William Wentworth-Fazwiliam, aped 16, of Miton, Peter- borough, is listed by Debrett as the heir-presumptive, The father of the two brothers won a orandsun of the fifth carl.
According to his birth certificate, Mr. George Filzwilliam Tras born on May 19, 1858 its parents were married on December at the same year, Mr. Flizeltiam claims that his parents went through a previous marriage ceremony in Scotland ichtch establishes him as the heir-prešumplive.
Fare man, and the valets nud Perconal mrids who waited on the ear, the countess, and their The fortune
the seventh #e children, earl inherited amounted to
:
ron deer
Generous Granger
ANGIBLE evidence of
T Stewart Granger's hunting
trip in East Afrlen are 11 sacks of trophies lying at a London taxidermista. When they are stuffed and mounted they will follow the film star to Holly-
wood.
But Granger is a man of m pulsive generosity. Though eager to keep his kills to him- self, he wanted, just the same, la reward
London rio- hls makers-and to reward them well.
His benevolent eye, roaming
around famous West End sporting establishment, lighted upon the world's best and big- rest buffalo hend shot in 1921. "The
thing." very
thought Granger, and he asked: "130w much?"
The
proprietors explained that the trophy was a sÜOW piece, not for sale. But Granger was
insistent, and eventually x
den!
was nrranged: £100.
Alas, it proved a sterile' bar gain.
For when the monster Was presented to the ring- makers they were pleased-but embarrassed. The world's big- gest buffalo lakes up a lot of space-more than they had to space.
And so, after two days' fun, the buffalo remained in its [original lair, and hunter Granger, his gratitude freely expressed, headed off to the studios.
1
Little season
RISIS or no crisis, London's West End is warming up for the autumn season of fun and games. A sign is the list of smart London weddings talking place int the next few weeks.
On October 5 the awning will be up outside St. Martin-in-the- Fields for pretty Flona Edmon- stone, one of last summer'# debutantes.
The bridegroom: AIajor Rupert Buchanan-Jardine, M.Č., son of the fabulous Sir Jock Bachman. Jardine, handsome, swash-buckl- ing Intra of Castle Milk, Dum- friesshire.
He told me: "I once wrote a cheque to pay of the chamber, two footmen, a
Six days later Miss Caroline am a poor ፯ነ፮፯. .
Bice will leave behind for ever I have just received a no longer has guests They increased their pos off the half-million pounds
letter from my bank complain her job as voluntary worker at for the night. If he did. sessions by marrying death duties.
ing of the size of my overdraft. the Housing Centre and assure the title of a countess. ole is to he would have to open heiresses, by distinguished closed rooms, hoerow mat service to the Crown and tresses and blankets for the by doing business as beils: and crockery and chants in the City of Lon- at least $5,000,000, entlery for the table.
All such articles surplus. to his needs-he has NO children-have been soldi.
dion,
mer-
COAL WEALTH
The furniture, household THE discovery of coal un- equipment.
antiques,
der their thousands of pie acres turned them into multi-millionaires by the
tures, and silverware took
a fortnight to auction and middle of the 19th century. fetched £110,000.
This Ford Fitzwilliam was
tt
Marions
Sea story
ORD BROWNLOW
{friend
Lor the Dule of Windsor, who
"I have the use of Wentworth marry the Eart of Plymouth Woodhouse, which I shall never In 1925 housekeening (includ- vaente, but I have only £4,000 int furniture) cost £6,732, the 3 year to live on, Out of this £2,975, amekeeping I have to pay the upkeep of 20- 24,256, buiting £2,323, polo bedragned Barnsdale Hall, my Brilliant mut engmeer, who £563, the stud £8,170, house- other residence at Oakham, escorted Mrs. Simpson to France produced
electric Rutland, 1,000,000 tons
salaries £2,791, of hold coal a year num the two col- light £944, motor cars £2,004.
"We have Just let the house leries he wout humself on the
and the pack of With other expenses the total in Ireland 23,000-acre Weatonth
estate annual bill for running the hounds kept there." Other mine were leased to 21 m..on was £31,787,
Lord Fitzwillium is sad when companies.
worth.
I was £41,375, four years he recalls His coal brought him £100, user, and did not diminish anti The ennifield becarne the on a year, witne his 00,000 1901, when some of the children Held yelded came of age, and less entertain- very largest and richest in the acre estate in There would be
* 100k place. another £50,000 annually, the guests for
to county.
little drink. for the cellors, which Wentworth Woodhouse in
'LOVED US'
E
But the fear of heavy death dues cause the cart in 1933
persessions into four unlimited house estapanies. Two more companies father," he said.
them well and looked wile atied later,
then. They never the style
He was a pioneer in develop stretch half the length of the 19th centary outshone ing the by-products of coal, and to convert most of hus the house and are reached its earlier days as a social formed
the prosperous South through five miles of un- "entre,
When Queen Vic- Yorks Chemical Works. derground passages.
have foria stayed there she said
He bought more estates, and also been emptied.
vast.prouts mude
from the Sheffield suburbs he owned, e produced steel, ran transport companies.
she could not afford to en- tertain on such a scale. Two thousand bottles of· Often a hundred dis- vintage port fetched nearly tinguished guests sat at
the ear's table.
£4.000.
IT FADED
of living
U town house in Grosvenor They are not now. If they had
on the eve of audication) Is back in London after a holiday in the South of France.
He has told me of a narrow asenpe fram disaster in his 16- tan yacht Chinchilla.
When three hours out from the days of Went-Villefranche, bound for Mar- seilles, the twin rudders of his boat jammed hard over, The ea was choppy; the "mistral” Cstrong northerly wind) WEA blowing, and a fast tids running. The yacht could not be except in a perpetual que 17.000 miners we gave steered.
and shipwreck on the employment to loved the circle,
and loved
my grand-rocky coast seemed inevitable.
Lord Brownlow and his slip- "Ife knew
after per went overboard, fruitlessly the rud- begrudged pulled and lugged at
Then they climbed back, nt Went ders.
put on heavy shoes, went over worth.
the side once more, and tried "The miners were happy then
maan- kicking. At Inst the rudders moved, and the two men
Silpwreck Averted, Lord talk to. knew whom
his bunt to port, steering only The story of the splendour "The earls were good måsters. with the motors. of Wentworth
understanding and ended with the There was wat. The seventh eart died in immediate help. 1943, the eighth five years later.
"Now they do not know whom About
£2,000,000 In death
The officials over) duties silli remains to be paid. to talk to.. All the family's coal now be them are helpless because they term of omes
are controlled · from: Whitehall., Secretary, is one of this world's
No, 1 trouble shooters. "A' 200-year": friendship be
Tough, hard working, and family and the single-minded, he has been de minera has been broken. That tiled as the only bull who 24/7 his own china shop |arbubaki wiki hin 2
style London Kapenas Herolde) -
At house gatherings And be continued to live in Another was converted into Wentworth Woodhouse and they Brownlow succeeded in bringing Van Dyck portraits of
during the Doncaster races; regal splendour at Wentworth offices. the earl's ancestors, as well the batter was said to walk Woodhouse until a few yearn as other heirlooma, remain. 50 miles
a week inside before the last war.
were
HUGE STAFF
So does the gold plate. Wentworth ministering to But it remains locked in the the wants of the guests. plate room.
They regularly lost their way in the multiplicity of CONTROLLER of the house longs to the State, and the pro
A The rest of the house is passages, and some
nine portios'not diboinistered by the now a training college for given packets of waters so housemaids, a housekeeper, companies have been handed, tween my 200 physical culture that they could drop à trail three stillevam maids, four over to four trustees. teachers. It will remain for from their bedrooms to the laundry malte, bre kitchen What the position for me is the saddest thing of all the next 50 years:-
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