Owning Mayfair
David Cannadine, 2 April 1981
Survey of London. Vol. 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2. The Buildings
edited by F.H.W. Sheppard.
Athlone, 428 pp., £55, August 1980,0 485 48240 1 Show More
edited by F.H.W. Sheppard.
Athlone, 428 pp., £55, August 1980,
“... Cheshire and Scotland, and have other holdings scattered around the world, especially in the old white Dominions. Contemporary estimates of their total wealth start in the region of £100 million, and work steadily – if speculatively – upwards from there. By comparison with many of their landed cousins, who slum it in safari parks, the Westminsters have ... ”