Lord Derby, sportsman and statesman, is the latest peer to sell part of his estates. Last week, for a price said to be in the neighborhood of five million dollars, he disposed of his Bury and Pilkington estates in Lancashire to Messrs. Green of Chesterfield. The estates comprise about 5,000 acres, on which are 50 farms, 500 houses and some 2,000 leaseholds.
The King appointed ex-Premier Lord Oxford and Asquith a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the place of the recently deceased Lord Milner (TIME, May 25). Lord...
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