The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-16
The. Duke Of Richmond, With Vast Estates,
and the Marquis of Butte, With His Thirty
Millions, PIunns in the Matrimonial Market

- LONDON, Oct. 15.-Though the Brit
ish peerage has of late years yielded
many titled husbands to American
heiresses there is no danger of the sup
ply running short. With over 500 fam
lilies entitled to representation in the
House of Lords, it will be understood
that John Bulls output of peers, max
ing no allowance for new creations, is
in fair way to keep pace for some
time to come with Uncle Sans sur
plus of vastly rich and pretty girls.
AS a matter of fact, there are at pres
ent far finer matrimonial plums to be
plucked from the tree of the British
aristocracy than have yet been gath
cred by the American feminine in
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Dukes rank first in the British peer
age after the Princes Of royal blood
and the two Archbishops Matrimo-
nially viewed, among the most eligible
OF them is the Duke of Richmond, who
is four times a Duke-of Richmond,
LennOx and Gordon, in Great Britain.
and Due d'Aubigny in France. He has
also three Earldoms-March, DarnIey
ages of Settrington and Methuen He
owns nearly SOC, 900 acres of land which
is about fifteen times as much as the
Duke of Marlborough has. He pos
sesses fine old Scotch castle, Gordon
Castle in Banffshire, a magnificent
mansion at Chichester, Goodwood
House, which deservedly ranks among
the best of the stately homes of Eng
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succeeded to his estate only last year
He is SO, tall, thin and of active habits.
He carries his age well, and where
titled marriages are concerned youth
and romance are secondary considera-
lions. He is brainy man, too, and a
plucky one; was member of Parlia-
ment for nineteen years, and as colonel
of the Third Royal Sussex Regiment
he distinguished himself in the South
African war.
He has no objection to an untitled
bride, for he has been twice married,
and each time to a plain Miss" His
first wife was Miss Amy Ricardo, and
his second, who has been dead seven
teen years, was Miss Isabel Craven.
With neither did he receive a fortune
but he was only the heir when he mar
ried them. Now that he is four times
a Duke he finds himself sorely in need
of ducats to maintain his estates in
proper style, for much of his property
is in Scotland. where rents are low
That is why an American heiress would
stand a good chance now of making
her money count. The Duke already
has an heir-the Earl Of March-by his
first wife, and this heir has a son, SO
that his third Duchess would stand a
very remote chance of seeing any of
her offspring in possession of the titles
RARE DUCAL PRIZES.
Well worth cultivating by American
matchmaking mammas is the Duke of
ST. Adams, hereditary grand falconer
of England, who, though thirty-four
years of age, has thus far succeeded
in eluding the net of the fowler He
is not a drawing-room Duke and pre-
fers a yacht to all the gayeties of town
He is a handsome fellow with one of
the finest seats in England at Best
wood in Nottinghamshire and one of
the finest in Ireland, somewhere in
Tipperary, but he has never shown any
disposition to settle down since he en-
tered upon his inheritance in 1898, much
to the regret of several English mat
rons with manageable daughters. His
property covers some 5000 acres. At
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