YoungWillz 21,028 Posted August 9, 2016 Surely this is good news for the Exchequer? The IHT bill will be mahoosive. Assuming of course that all the money he made remained in the country...property values alone though....Austerity ends? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted August 9, 2016 Surely this is good news for the Exchequer? The IHT bill will be mahoosive. Assuming of course that all the money he made remained in the country...property values alone though....Austerity ends? I doubt it. He'll have had arrangements in place 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted August 11, 2016 Surely this is good news for the Exchequer? The IHT bill will be mahoosive. Assuming of course that all the money he made remained in the country...property values alone though....Austerity ends? I doubt it. He'll have had arrangements in place OK so assuming he does have to pay some inheritence tax and he is now only worth £8 Billion where in the list of eligible batchelors will Hugh Grosvenor now come. He is younger than Prince Harry but older than Harry Styles. On the downside he does have the sort of face that instantly reminds you that somewhere in the lineage of the current Aristocracy someone must have intermarried with a horse. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted August 11, 2016 If you want to see disrespectful grief porn at it's worst see this article. The lads just lost his father unexpectedly and they're plastering photos taken years ago all over the shop to discredit him. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/party-life-new-duke-westminster-8606864 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted August 11, 2016 If you want to see disrespectful grief porn at it's worst see this article. The lads just lost his father unexpectedly and they're plastering photos taken years ago all over the shop to discredit him. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/party-life-new-duke-westminster-8606864 As a hatchet job goes it is pretty weak. He isn't even the one holding the doll. Lets face it if someone wanted to and paid our friends enough money they could amass three photos and concoct a story about what we liked based on that. Having said that those houses look very nice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,577 Posted August 11, 2016 The green eyed monster that is the red press are showing their true colours. They despise families that have done well for themselves in life. Yet the lad would probably surrender every penny of the £9billion just to have his dad back. Pretty sick stuff but not unexpected of rag tabloid journalism in The Mirror. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,101 Posted August 11, 2016 The green eyed monster that is the red press are showing their true colours. They despise families that have done well for themselves in life. Yet the lad would probably surrender every penny of the £9billion just to have his dad back. Pretty sick stuff but not unexpected of rag tabloid journalism in The Mirror. Maybe so, but you can bet your last copper coin the new duke won't pay a penny in inheritance tax. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted August 11, 2016 The green eyed monster that is the red press are showing their true colours. They despise families that have done well for themselves in life. Yet the lad would probably surrender every penny of the £9billion just to have his dad back. Pretty sick stuff but not unexpected of rag tabloid journalism in The Mirror. Maybe so, but you can bet your last copper coin the new duke won't pay a penny in inheritance tax. Guardian has a good article: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/aug/11/inheritance-tax-why-the-new-duke-of-westminster-will-not-pay-billions Isn't our country great? They called the now deceased Duke the third richest man in the UK. Then as usual we find he had his money and property in trusts and companies so all of that technically didn't belong to him personally at all. At least some taxes continue to be paid on an ongoing basis...but the rules are such for those who have privilege and accountants, and those who don't. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted August 17, 2016 Tom Cholmondeley, son of 5th Baron Delamere and one of the largest landowners in Kenya, dies at 48. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/17/aristocrat-tom-cholmondoley-dies-aged-48_c1405336 Famous for shooting the natives... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeley Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted August 17, 2016 Tom Cholmondeley, son of 5th Baron Delamere and one of the largest landowners in Kenya, dies at 48. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/17/aristocrat-tom-cholmondoley-dies-aged-48_c1405336 Famous for shooting the natives... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeley He was operated by them... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,130 Posted August 17, 2016 Tom Cholmondeley, son of 5th Baron Delamere and one of the largest landowners in Kenya, dies at 48. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/17/aristocrat-tom-cholmondoley-dies-aged-48_c1405336 Famous for shooting the natives... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeley Oh! I think he was the fellow who was suggested to me a while ago by a friend who was at school with him. As a bit of a wild card. Damn. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted October 25, 2016 King Michael of Romania turns 95 today. Still several shopping days until Christmas though... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted December 7, 2016 Lady Moyra Browne, former vice-president of the Royal College of Nursing and DDP pick, has died aged 98. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=moyra-browne-ponsonby&pid=183001951 The death notice has been published in The Times, so I presume this counts in the event that no other obit appears. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Moyra_Browne Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted December 20, 2016 John Willoughby Denison-Pender, 3rd Baron Pender of Porthcurnow, has died aged 83. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/209255/pender Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Pender Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,437 Posted December 20, 2016 British conservationist Allen Bathurst, the Lord Bathurst, is still not in the best of health following a five month stay in hospital for multiple organ failure from a deer fly bite! Also, his house got burgled while he was fighting for his life. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted December 21, 2016 Sir John Digby Atholl Oakeley, 8th Baronet, who represented GB in sailing at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, has died aged 84. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/209271/oakeley Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oakeley Wiki (Baronetcy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakeley_baronets Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted December 23, 2016 Death Notice for Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill aged 76, the uncle of the present Duke of Marlborough. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=charles-george-william-colin-spencer-churchill&pid=183183051 Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer-Churchill,_10th_Duke_of_Marlborough Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted December 24, 2016 Death Notice for Lady Alison Davis aged 86. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/209433/davis Youngest daughter of Clement Atlee. Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee#Marriage_and_children Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted December 27, 2016 The Grand Duke of Luxembourg was just hospitalised with bronchitis shortly before his 96th birthday: http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/grand-ducal-family-of-luxembourg/grand-duke-jean-hospitalised-74148 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted December 30, 2016 Lady Marion Fraser LT, former Director of Scottish Opera, has died aged 84. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=marion-fraser&pid=183248137 Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Fraser Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted January 11, 2017 Death Notice for Sir Simon Benton-Jones, 4th Baronet of Treeton, aged c.75. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/209897/benton-jones Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_baronets#Jones_baronets.2C_of_Treeton_.281919.29 Interestingly he played himself in an episode of American Princess: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2800532/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,386 Posted January 11, 2017 Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, has died aged 77. He served in The House of Lords, as a Conservative Whip from 1979-1984, followed by working in The Northern Ireland Office 1984-1989. The Barony has become extinct on his death. http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-lyell/1865 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted January 25, 2017 Death Notice for Dame Shirley Paget, DDP unique pick, in The Times: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=shirley-paget-anglesey-morgan&pid=183705362&fhid=39132 Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Paget,_Marchioness_of_Anglesey Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted January 25, 2017 Death Notice for Dame Shirley Paget, DDP unique pick, in The Times: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=shirley-paget-anglesey-morgan&pid=183705362&fhid=39132 Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Paget,_Marchioness_of_Anglesey That doesn't look like the times. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,028 Posted January 25, 2017 Death Notice for Dame Shirley Paget, DDP unique pick, in The Times: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=shirley-paget-anglesey-morgan&pid=183705362&fhid=39132 Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Paget,_Marchioness_of_Anglesey That doesn't look like the times. I assure you, it is. Here is the source page: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
