The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-09-28 00:00:00

AN ECCENTRIC PEER.

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'The most eccentric peer now - living is also ono of the
wealthiest. I refer to the Duke of Portland, who osne
immensely-valuable property in London, and 1101,1 La
receiving an income of at least .£1,4100 a day. He WA
passion for solitude. Though he has two tine houses iq
Cavendish-square and Park-lane, very fpw Lenitionershava
ever set eyes upon him. Even at his place in Not% Ira'
beck Abbey. where he passes ino.t. ..f his time, he lives
so much alone that he will not have Any servants to wail
upon him at dinner, hut has an apparatus by which Me
table is lowered through the door to the kitchen when it
wants replenishing. Not that it often needs this, for the
Duke is a very abstemious man, and has only two meals
• day, at one of which half a chicken is served. and
the other meal the other half. Occasionally he has visitors
at Welbeck, but he never sees them, though they mar hi
in the house with him for weeks at a time. Some other
curious traits of this strange being are told in the riga'.
Ile is very fond of building, and has a keen eye for see
defective material or fault of construction. Should he
discover anything of the kind which. cannot he rentediol.
down comes the whole structure, no matter what it bail
cost. He &heart has models of new buildings male
hand, and some of them cost hundreds of pounds. his
approaches to the abbey are subterranean, and there are
lb miles of tunnels on the estate, all well ventilate!. sad
many of them lighted day and nighh xiii olornod sith
sculptures There is a splendid stall where 50 bunters
are kept, though the Duke never hunts. He ha. a g Mal
may exercise in all weathers. The Duke now OM.
of glass and iron, a quarter-ofm-mile loug, where tbcy
strueting three enormous subterranean librack''. an'l
subterranean church, and it has taken the workmen em-
ployed on the job three years to excavate the groua‘!.
But tLat upon which the Duke most prides himself, i Ins
museum. It is constructed largely of gla'" aul ligh"
by A dozen chandeliers, each weighing a too, anti harm:
40 lights. It has taken ten years to tin the glass alone.
and now the pictures are living bun:. They am v.IID
choice, as they ought to be, seeing that the ukg
eight years ago made a huge bonfire of 3"
!minting' it hielt he
did not think good enough, though they they bad rest maul
thousand pounds Hin
e has never been arrivd, and it O
supposed has never been in love anti as he is 75 toouerre!v.
he is not very likely to be. Ile is very fond of iinsw"
and has had some of his servants taught MilOie, in ordd
to play to him. Ile has one human friend, oh".
lives not at Welbeck, but in town, and gets coasts/di,
supplied with all the luxuries which the abler gc'",%,
produce. The Duke's other friends are the deer. wn
he feeds with biscuit out of his own bands. When
drives out he is conveyed in a vehicle hung rou"d sm
curtains, so that no one can see in, and it is drawn by "i
Lilliputian ponies. He keeps his town homes alwV
ready to receive him, but scarcely ever visits them. n;
used to be somewhat of a Liberal in politic'. rerr
merited Kings Lynn for • short time, but he be..-stw:.!
Conservative several years ago. His brother was w 2
famous Tory statesman Lord George Bentinck. Tlic
sent heir to the dukedom is Major-General Bentinek,
Colonel of the 7th Dragoon Guards. —London Co,risycnl 1.
Martin Harna,—one ol the authors of - the Mormon Ribi4
has Ind died, aged fri
Cactus lea( is to be used in paper.makifl%ao
a substitute
for raga, and
...promisee a reduction in the cost of palV,;uit
TAYLOR'S rATENT SIM'S° MACHIN/SS have "In AO
improvements, which rendered then, superior to
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ID
pac es reference to good mhin at a fair pri .
ce 7,4,,,iris
purchasers, if unable to obtain Taylor e Penn,: va
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send for a wos_pectus to 97, Cheapside,
Great DriMeld, Yorkshire,. or the branch eatabllnr"
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