CHAPTER IV. 



ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LAND HOLDINGS AND RAIL- 

 ROAD LAND GRANTS. 



THE following is a list of the whole number of 

 land owners in England and Wales who are 

 possessed of 50,000 and more acres of land each, and 

 the actual amount of their holdings, by which it will 

 be seen that there are but three who own more than 

 100,000 acres each, and no one has an estate that 

 reaches 200,000 acres. 



SIZE OF ENGLISH LAND HOLDINGS. 



Names of Owners. Acres. 



Marquis of Ailesbury, 55,051 



Duke of Beaufort, 51,085 



" Bedford, 87,507 



Earl of Brownlow, 57,799 



" Carlisle, 78,540 



* Cawdor, 51,538 



Duke of Cleveland, 106,650 



Earl of Derby, 56,598 



Duke of Devonshire, 148,629 



Lord Leconficld, 66,101 



Names of Owners. 

 Lord Londesborough, 

 Earl of Lonsdale, 

 Duke of Northumber- 

 land, 



Duke of Portland, 

 Earl of Powis, 

 Duke of Rutland, 

 Lady Willoughby, 

 Sir W. W. Wynn, 

 Earl of Yarborough, 



Acres. 

 52,655 

 67,950 



191,480 

 55,259 

 64,095 

 70,039 

 59,912 

 91,032 

 55,370 



1'iit in the United States we have a saw maker, in 

 Philadelphia, with his four million acres ; two butch- 

 ers in California with their eight hundred thousand 



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