DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. i6i 



heavy policies on the life of the Duke, and knowing 



the perfect integrity and business-hke habits of the 



Marquis of Chandos, they made him manager or 



steward of the Wotton estate, giving him, I am told, 



;^I500 per annum as a salary, out of which, in a most 



disinterested way, he gave his father ^500 a year to 



enable him to live in comfort at the Great Western 



Hotel at Paddington, and to his mother the Duchess 



the same, she having been lent by the Queen a suite 



of apartments at Hampton Court. Wotton had been 



partly refurnished, and the Marquis resided there, 



superintended the labourers on the estate, looked after 



the land drainage, cutting off water-courses, felling and 



sawing up timber, and all the various operations of 



land management. I have many times seen him, whilst 



I was hunting with the Bicester hounds, standing up to 



his ankles in clay laying out and planning water-courses 



and drains, and thoroughly looking after upwards of a 



hundred labourers. After a year or two he married a 



very amiable lady, Miss Harvey of Langley Park, to 



whom he was greatly attached, and who bore him three 



daughters. With her, I heard, he had about £1000 a 



year from her father ; and his mechanical and business - 



Hke habits, his love of railway w^ork and knowledge of 



locomotive engines, earned him the position of Chairman 



of the London and North-Western Railway, with a 



salary of ;^2500 per annum. 



The Marquis from that time, with his very modest 



requirements, was able to save money. The Duke, his 



father, somewhat suddenly died; the life policies for 



which his life was insured fell in, and I believe some- 



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