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by Bailey, Catherine


  * Calculated using average earnings as opposed to RPI.

  * Diana’s sister.

  * $67 million at today’s values.

  * $128 million at today’s values.

  * The £36,000 Henry owed his brothers and sisters under the terms of his father’s will.

  * £612,000 at today’s values.

  * Charlie Lindsay had died of cancer, aged sixty-three, the previous spring.

  * Senior physicians appointed by the Lord Chancellor to examine wealthy Chancery patients in asyhms throughout England and Wales.

  * Sir George Arthur, Private Secretary to Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Secretary of State for War.

  † Henry Cust, politician and editor, 1861–1917. His affair with Violet began soon after her marriage and continued into the early 1900s. He was the father of Diana, Violet’s youngest daughter.

  * His elder brother, Charles Bunbury, later 11th Baronet.

  † Francis Charles Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey, Captain, Life Guards.

  ‡ Great-grandson of the Marquis of Bute, killed in action, 1914.

  * His elder brother, Hugo, Lord Elcho, killed in action at Gallipoli, 1915.

  † Harold Tennant, Under-Secretary of War 1912–16.

  * Aubrey Herbert, second son of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon.

  † Percy Wyndham, grandson of the 1st Baron Leconfield.

  ‡ John Manners, eldest son of the 2nd Baron Manners.

  § George Edward Gascoyne-Cecil, son of Lord Edward, fourth son of the 3rd Marquis of Salisbury.

  ¶ Captain Hon. Rupert Keppel, third son of the 8th Earl of Albemarle.

  * John and Charlie collected medieval tiles. Their collection included a number of whole pavements from Halesowen Abbey and Rievaulx.

  * ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ – the supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy.

  * Edward Stuart Wortley, the commanding officer of the North Midlands.

  * The First Battle of Ypres, 19 October–22 November 1914.

  * The equivalent of almost $1 billion at today’s values.

  * ADC to General Stuart Wortley.

  * The name then for Foulkes’s Special Brigade.

  * Commander, Royal Engineers.

  * Rothesay Stuart Wortley, the general’s son.

  † Tommy Bouche, Master of the Belvoir Hounds.

  * 16 Arlington Street.

  † Approximately £7 million at today’s values.

  * The Revd Knox, private chaplain to the Duke.

  * Guy Brooke, later 6th Earl of Warwick, ADC to Sir John French.

  * The Marquis of Titchfield, heir to the Duke of Portland.

  * Later Viscount Norwich.

  * DeputyAssistant Quartermaster.

  † John’s horse.

  * Slang for a service-issue rifle.

  † Eddie Grant, a fellow staff officer.

  * The Duke’s eldest son.

  * The Duke’s second son.

  † Approximately £75 million at today’s values.

  ‡ Approximately £225,000 at today’s values.

  § Approximately £7.5 million at today’s values.

  * Jacqueline de Portalès, granddaughter of the Comte de Portalis.

  * Bridget Colebrooke, eldest daughter of first and last Baron Colebrooke, later married to Lord Victor Paget.

  * Frances married Hon. Captain Guy Charteris, the second son of Hugo, 11th Earl of Wemyss, on 23 July 1912.

  † Approximately £125,000 at today’s values.

  * £625,000 at today’s values.

  † £94,000 at today’s values.

  * Includes the war dead from the nearby hamlets of Easthorpe and Normanton

  * Approximately £34,500,000 at today’s values.

 

 

 


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