A part of the biography by personal statement writers:

"I soon found to my embarrassment", he blandly explains in his autobiography "that one of the principal attractions is myself". But his embarrassmerlt has not been over-apparent; his genial bespectacled face stares out from advertisments to attract visitors.

He offers special lunch-parties for Americans to have lunch with a duke for ten pounds and he shows no sign of disliking his duties: "being a showman is more fun, " he wrote, "than sitting about in dignity or potting pheasants". Nowadays it must be said that the tangible advantages of a title are very few.