Obituary: The Duke of Westminster

Irish-born billionaire landowner who managed his family's vast estates wisely and was offered a trial by Fulham FC

Duke Special: Penny Lancaster and Rod Stewart meeting the Duke of Westminster at the Royal National Institute of the Blind gala dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London. Photo: Myung Jung Kim/PA Wire

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The 6th Duke of Westminster, who died last Tuesday, aged 64, was Britain's richest aristocrat, with a fortune estimated at more than £8bn (€9.3bn), based on an inheritance of 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia.

In later life, he lamented the fact that the accident of inheritance had taken him away from the placid life of an Ulster beef farmer like his father.