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Anachronism or endearing oddity? Britain’s last privately owned villages

Sir Richard FitzHerbert told me that he did not want to be thought of as “just another nobleman in a great house.” FitzHerbert is the current holder of the FitzHerbert baronetcy, which he inherited in 1989 at the age of 24; he also owns the Jacobean Tissington Hall, the 2,000 acres of hilly Derbyshire land,… Read More »