The age-herald., 1899-07-19
MILLIONAIRE BOYS
 OF ENGLAND

Without reckoning the smart board
 schoolboy who nowadays carries in his | satchel the baton of Midas, to speak,
 the number of boy millonaires in England | is limited to about dozen.
 l The most youthful milionaire-in-prospect l is a youngster who has lately reached the | ripe age of years He has four baptismal
 names and a pet name, but his official title
 Is the Marquis of Tichield. He is the eld- 1 est son of the Duke of Portland, and, if he 1 lives long enough and successfully defends
 his title against Mrs. Druce's nominee. he
 will one day own property worth certain | ly not less than G4,0000OO
 l None of our rising milionaires quite | so youthful as the Marquis of Titchfeld. | The nearest in point of age to the Duke of | Portlands heir is the Duke of Sutherland's | eldest boy, the 10-year-old Marquis of | Stafford. As regards mere acreage, his in | heritance is infinitely more extensive than 1 that of the Marquis of Titchfield; but, | lucky for him. those acres are not in Lon- don. They lie for the most part in Suther- land, Shropshire, and the agricultural dis tricts of Staffordshire.
 One of the most interesting figures fin the role of boy millionaires is the daughter of the late Baron Hirsch For her years this young lady is certainly the most remarkable capitalist in the world. Under her fathers will she inherited nearly 1000 GOO pounds and, as at present she is only twelve years of age, it may be conjectured, without any
 undue prying Into her investments, that her capital will have materially increased by the time she is old enough to appreciate the true inwardness of millonairehood. few months ago the Duke of Westmin- ster indignantly denied in the columns of Lancashire daily paper the truth of a para graph to the effect that his income was | SOO,M0 pounds a year, and that at Eton he | known as Jack Sheppard" owing to | his closely cropped hair. The etymology of | his graces nickname doesn't come within | the scope of this article, which is concerned | rather with the prospective wealth of his grandson, and this point the duke threw | a little light in his letter. He jibbed at be- | ing assessed at SO0,000 pounds year, but l he gave it to be understood that if anyone put his income down at 400 900 pounds he | would be well within the truth Either in come is sufficient to make the dukes heir one of the weaithiest men in the world | This lucky parsonage Is only 20 years of | age. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, | commonly known as Viscount BelgraVe, l was a boy at Eton till the other day He | is the oldest son of the dukes seldest son, | Earl Grosvenor, who died seven or eight | years ago.
 There IS a popular lInpTeSSlOH lHdt ihC only roads to fortune in Ireland lie through | whisky and stout. This Is quite mistake. Ireland has a holy millionaire whose mill l lions were made in flax. Ninety years ago the Mulhollands were to Belfast what MT. Chamberlain is to Burlington today. Bel I fast was the Mulhollands, and the Mulhol- l lands were Belfast. For generations they were the chief representatives of the linen l trade in the north of Ireland. Nowadays 1 their active connection with linen has ceased, and the head of the family is par | tially disguised under the title of Baron Dunleath. The heir to the title and to the l good things resulting from linen is Master 1 Andrew Mulholland.
 | Every one has heard of the Crossleys of l Halifax They had been established as carpet manufacturers in Halifax for some time when the great boom in steam began. 1 The transition from the hand loom to the l steam loom had just been completed when | the grandfather of the present Sir Saville | Crossley came into the business. At that l time it seemed absolutely impossible that l steam-driven machinery could ever cope l with the ponderous operation of carpet | weaving. But Thomas Crossley wasn't to l be beaten by seeming impossibilites. For | four years he devoted himself day and 1 night to the problem of how to apply the newly discovered power to the manufacture | of carpets. The solution of this problem, | he foresaw, would rapidly change the 1 Crossleys from mere carpet makers into | mlionaires. But all his thinking seemed | doomed to failure, when one afternoon l man walked into his office and asked his | opinion on a device he had just patented | for weaving carpets by steam.
 l Thomas Crossley saw at a glance that l here was the philosophers stone. Then 1 and there he bought the patent rights from l his visitor. Within twelve months the l Crossleys' business was trebled; in ten | years it had grown out of all recognition;
 | within twenty years the family were mill | lionaires. And the heir to some of these
 | millions is now Sir Savlle Crossley's To- l year-old son.
 | No article on Boy Millionaires" would l be complete without some reference to the l infant Marquis of Blandford. This young | gentleman is, as all the world knows, the 1 son of the Duke of Marlborough. In the strictest sense he may not be destined to 1 be a millionaire, but in addition to what l he will succeed to on his fathers death, | he will inherit most of his mothers for l tune, which was at the time of her mar | riage, reported to be $2,00O 000