Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — A Princely Landlord. [ARTICLE]

A Princely Landlord.

Earl Fitzwilliam, who lately summoned his tenants to Wentworth House to inform them that they bad no half year’s rent to pay, is one of the dozen wealthiest nobles in England, and comes of a solid, respectable rac-, which has vigorously supported liberalism, and never wasted their substance' in riotous living. He is grand-

son of the Earl for whom Dublin nut up its shutters when ne was recalled from the Viceroyalty, through tbe intrigues of those wnoanticipated from him a policy f*r too favorable in their eyes toward tbp Irish people. Wentworth is about'Jbe only house in England where the practice is siill maintained of having occasionly a public day. It is then announced that Lord and Lady Fitz william are at home to all friends, and far and near come the “nobility and gentry,” net forgetting the farmers. A member oi the family presides at each of the dinner tables. The servants of the guests are duly feasted in the servant’s hall. On one occasion the Fitzwilliams entertained at a fete nearly 40,000 people. Lord Fitzwilliam’s income is not less than $1,200,000 a year, of which probably a third comes from collieries. His estate in Wicklow, Ireland (whichcomes to him from the famous Eirl of Stia - ford), i'-> esthhatet ar $200,000 a year. He •.pends every autumn there, and did not miss his visit this year. Last year, deeming his presence" specially desirenhie, he was there for nearly six months.