The 6th Duke Of Rutland

The 1st Duke of Rutland had been raised to a dukedom for the support he gave William of Orange in the 1688 Revolution. The family were (and remain) big landowners, particularly in the East Midlands. The 6th Duke, who was born in 1815, succeeded his father to the title in 1857, after serving as a Tory MP for fifteen years.

In 1882, Bateman calculated in 'Great Landowners of Great Britain' that he had over 70,000 acres producing an annual income of £97,486. Though when he died in 1888, he only left £104,136 in his will, the 1882 figure puts a £2.92m value on his asset wealth. That represented around 0.27% of the then £1.075bn net national income. In today's terms that would be over £2.9bn.