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| “Somewhere between £3m and £5m . . . I reckon that’s what the Treasury will take when I snuff it. I think they deserve it because the whole place may be worth £80m — it’s high time that society had its chunk of it.” So a rather radical sounding Lonsdale, 83, told the BBC2 programme Whose Britain is it Anyway? The seventh earl, an old Etonian, succeeded to his struggling 70,000-acre Cumbria estate in 1953. He then sold the wood from 3,000 acres of oak forest to the construction industry to enable the estate to be saved. We take him at his word when valuing the family assets, land and all. | ||||||||||||||||
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