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Show PEERS OWN NEARLY THIRD OF ENGLAND LONDON. April . In the Liberal Government's Gov-ernment's campaign against the House of Lords, whose power it seeks to curtail, one of the chief arguments is the enormous enor-mous area of territory wnich the peers own, the total amount of land held by the.e titled gentry being estimated at nearly one-third of the whole country. The property of the Dukes alone would equal the area of about a dozen English counties. Here are some figures showing the amount of land held by several of the Dukes: Name. Acres. Duke of Sutherland 1,358,600 Duke of Rirhmond and Gordon .. 286,500 Duke of Fife 249.300 Duke of Devonshire 186,000 Duke of Portland 183,000 Duke of Bedford 84.000 Duke of Westminster 36,000 Total 2,378,000 The last two Dukes, although their acreage is comparatively small, are really richer than the others, because they own a large part of the West End In London. |