Yellow Earl: Life of Hugh Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1857-1944 (a great English eccentric)

Yellow Earl: Life of Hugh Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1857-1944 (a great English eccentric)

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Published by Molendinar Press, 1980, hardcover, illustrated, index, 272 pages, condition: as new.

The 5th Earl of Lonsdale, Hugh Lowther, was perhaps the most famous English Lord in the world by the 1880s. His reckless spending of his vast fortune, his womanising, his love of fast-living, horses, hunting and boxing rocked the Edwardian aristocracy and has endeared him to risk-takers and bon-viveurs the world over ever since. As a penniless, wayward, younger son who had not expected to inherit, Hugh had joined a travelling circus for a year after leaving Eton, then moved on to America, spending months buffalo-hunting. He pawned his birthright to make his fortune from cattle ranching in Wyoming and was practically destitute when the scheme failed. But then his older brother unexpectedly died, Hugh took both the title and the vast fortune that went with it, and the rest is history: a close friend of Edward VII, a great public benefactor and an unforgettable showman in everything he did, his biography is a pacey, elegant and fascinating tribute to one of aristocracys greatest eccentrics.

The frankly grotesque story of the 5th earl of Lowther. Eye wateringly rich yet managed to spend it all, hugely privileged but completely uneducated, oblivious to that privilege but beloved by working people as their sporting champion, amazingly well travelled but apparently had no sort of expanded horizons  On the plus side, apparently the reason the AA ( Automobile Association) uses that grating shade of yellow is that he was their first president (he was obsessed with his vehicles all being in his yellow livery and got them to use it).


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