Duke Paper
Down from Northumbria came last week a duke, like the dukes of old, to trouble the Parliament at London. He purchased the Morning Post, oldest of existing London daily papers.
Alan Ian Percy, of the House of Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, notorious for quoting Nesta Webster, well-known anti-Socialist authoress, was a fighting soldier in Sudan and South Africa and a London soldier in the World War. In 1922, he was reported financially embarrassed, sold much land, rented his mansion on the Thames....
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