Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
SEAT OF OLD NOBILITY
IS SOLD TO SYNDICATE
Town House OF Duke Of Dcvonshirc
Passes Into Hands OF
Outsiders.
BUILT TWO CENTURIES AGO
In 1898 Building Cost 100000.
but Purchasers Few Days Ago
We're Forced to Pay $4,000, 900 for
Property.

LONDON. Oct lS-Thc sale o. The
Duke OF Devcnshircs town house 20
a real estate syndicate for S5.ooO.oOo
Is the latest OF the seats OF the old
rot;lity 10 pass into tho hands Of
outsiders The purchaser OF this Lon
don home of the Governor General OF
Canada is an American syndicate. and
Il is reported that hotel will be
erected on the site.
Devonshire House was erected nearly
two centuries ago. in 1855. at a cost
of about 100000 1t is one Of the
most Important and historic OF the
old London mansions,; VIZ E,oon ,,, eS,
Thackeray and the other Victorian
novelists made the stage settings OF
don l!fe Il stands with characteristic
British disregard for display. It's back
TO Iondon's chief thoroughfarc. Picca-
dilly. lis porches facing spacious
garden worth some dollars per square
inch. Landowne House. the town nlac.
of the Marquis Of l.ansdowne. which
the neares; ne;ghho- and tina; is re-
ported TO he in The market also.
Own Magnificent Homes.
The Governor General Of Canada and
the Marquis OF Landowne both own
three or tour country estates as well.
They are =; he front Of The srea;
the he's Duks's paiacs named Gaa;Swo!;h
in De-eyshi-e IS one o. the mos, raas1i.
fcen, private estabiisha,sTo = me
cxosp; Windsor Castle.
Ch-ste-aeld House. owned - genera
lions Of Lords Ches;eEasid; A-t i2as
residences. has been sold recently. -.;.s
had been rented FOR some yeas =.
Kiss ns Nay Geelet oA the daush;s- ;: o.
den Goeiet. OF New York. Here the
government entertained Colonel House
when he came TO London. as special
commissioner after the United states
entered the war. The Duke Of Rutland
has just parted with his town house
which for a time was tcnanted bE the
American merchant. Gordon Sclfridgc.
Lord Ebury's great country estate N
Surrey, near London, has been p9 p,
by a newly created neer. Lord Lever
hulme, the soap magnate.
The newspapers ascrine various rea-
general increase of the cost OF living
make Impossible the upkecp of such
OF servants; another, that tho motor
car makes il possible for people to
live in the country and still enjoT
other writer credits the Duke OF
Dcvonshirc with a belief that the con
slant sight of such costly private pos
sessions by the hus-rdiug masses who
daily pass the iron gate of Devon
shire House tends to promote Boil
shevism
City Changing Hands.
Eng nd Changing LANDS, is the
heading under which weekly paper
groups long pagcs OF notices of cs-
tates for SAIL. Ambcrley Castle. one
OF the properties Of the late Duke OF
Norfolk. is in the latest list. Also
Euthin Castle. long in the possession
OF the Cornwailis- West family; tho
Rothes' estate linked with the an
cient earldom OF that name: and Bur
ton PynSent. once inhabited by Will
liam Ritt Mathern Palace. Ashby-
Saint-l.cgers. Creg-y-Nog Castle
Toward, Graham Grange. Rushbrooke
Hall Windlesham Park Whatton
Manor. Barwcll Court. Abby Owin-IIir
these are typical offerings on the
real estate market They are de-
scribcd. some of them as Jacobean.
Tudor. Queen Anne. Georgian: pic
turcd with moatS. turrctS. gargoyleS
panelled oak walls and carved stair
rails; and many have appcrtaining to
Them lakes deer parks: Italian and
Georgian gardens. hunting with four
packs" and even "feuing land In
such reading matter the Knowing find
between, the lines not few stories
OF family tragedies.
Apart from sales Of whole propertics
many great estates are being curtailnd
Dy placing a few thousand acres on
the markets here and there. The ag-
sresate OF these land transfers has
amounted 20 millions OF acres this
year The redistribution OF the land
INTO smaller holdings. which has been
the principal reform of the past cen
fury IN ireland, is generally consid-
cred All for the good OF the larger