The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-12
The Duke at Sutherland, n. q.

| rev men are so favored by fortune
as the great British noble who has
just landed at New York. He re.
jOices in the titles of BarOnet, Baron
of Cover, ViscOunt of Trentham.
Earl of Cover, Marquis of Stafford,
and Duke of Sutherland and Knight
of the Garter, in a country where a
title-especially DukedOm-means
some power and much exaltatiOn
above ones fellow men. lie is the
owner of Stafford House, st. James,
perhaps the most magnificent resi-
dence in London; Of Trentham Hall A,
StaffordShire of Dunrobin Castle,
Sutherlandshire, and half a dozen
more palaces in different portions of
England. He possesses one of the
rarest collections of pictures and
other art treasures in the world, and
Can call many Thousand acres of the
finest land in England and Scotland
his private property, one estate in.
Guiding nearly the whole of the
county of Sutherland. A small rail
road, u couple of yachts, and herd
of Uie DUTIES lnlstel f&aiY,sd, as mart
sions.
His Grace, whose family name is
George. Granville illiam-Sutherland
ILevesOn.G Cover, was born in 1928,
and is consequently in his Saith year.
He married when only 90 years OF
age a peeress in her own right and Il
great heiress. Ann, Countess OF Gro
martie, and by her has several chill
dren, the eldest of whom, CrOmartie
Marquis of Stafford, accompanies his
father. Lord Stafford is 81 years OF
age and is an officer of the Second
Life Guard and still unmarried. The
second son will inherit his mother
earldom, by special royal permission,
and is called at present by her second
little, Viscount Tarbat. Here, ell
Iparenthese, it may be as we'll to add
that English peers of the higher
lgrades have usually Deen advanced
from lower rank, which "by cour'
|tesy" is the title of the eldest son
lduring the fathers lifetime.
In the pages of Lotair it was the
Duke of Sutherland that the late
Lord Beaconstield portrayed wher
speaking of the magniticence of Cor
lisandes father, and the gourmet
Hugo BOhun, is made to say in refer
ence to the costly luxuries always tt
| be found at the Stafford House ban
lquets: "What a perfect family
How safe you were to have ortolan'
for support
The Dukes town house is built OF
portion of ground diverted from
the Royal Park of st. James, ant
was purchased by the father OF it:
present owner in lS4l for $3.50, 900
and since that time over a million
and a quarter dollars have been spen
on improvements. 1t was erected fo
the late Duke of York, but the Prince
died very much in debt when TIT
mansion was only half finished, anC
his executors were only too pleased
to sell the skeleton house of LevesOn
Cover. The internal appointment
are on a style worthy of fairy castl
or an abode of Bagdad's might!
Caliph in the Arabian Nights. On
marvellous feature of the house is TIN
grand staircase, which fills the entir
, center of the mass of building and il
loftiness occupies the total height
From base to ceiling every portion i
Respondent with gliding and carving
t and a gallery, which runs round three
sides, is supported by magnilicen
marble pillars, and in compartments
, Towering the entire walls, are copie
by Lorenzi of several Of Paul We
3 ronese's colossal pictures. This COZ
IridOr leads into a series of sumptu
t lous apartments, one of which, tn
, ballroom, is unequaled for gorgeous
ness of decoration by any of tn
E palaces or museums of England.
Y On the occasion of the Shah o
D Persia's visit to Europe, he, as mat
ter of course, was entertained q
Stafford House, and the orienta
: splendor of the surroundings so SUI
prised his Oriental Majesty that h
gravely suggested to the Prince O
Wales the ACCESSIBILITY of privatel
). lstrangling the Duke, as he appeare
Y far too powerful for subject, an
!. besides "the Queen could confiscat
! his estates -