Grand Dukes and Diamonds. The Wernhers of Luton Hoo
Details:
- Author(s) Trevelyan, Raleigh
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1991
- Pages 472pp; illus
- Publisher Secker & Warburg
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Cultural assets collection & patronage
- Name Social responsibility, social control & philanthropy
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Largely about the business [gold and diamonds extraction, etc] and social and domestic [also military] lives of Sir Julius Wernher, 1850-1912, and Sir Harold Wernher, 1893-1973, and gives much coverage also to their South African business associates, Sir Alfred Beit, Jules Porges, Sir Frederick Eckstein and Sir Lionel Philips. Includes from about their philanthropy and touches on their cultural assets, eg their house, Luton Hoo