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dice · December 21, 2008

On one of the web pages that I skimmed looking for this
information, it said both the 7th and 8th Earls lived outside
the UK until becoming the Earl (although it did not name
them, so I did not include it above). Maybe the 7th Earl left
the oldest kid home to run the sheep farm when he moved to
the UK, and his son became the 8th Earl?

The Henry Doubleday Research Association is now called
Garden Organic, according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Doubleday_(1810-1902)

(Garden Organic does not list Earl of Edgecombe seeds,
by the way, in their current seed catalog.)

Maybe the family still owns the sheep farm?

December 21, 2008	#8
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	On one of the web pages that I skimmed looking for this information, it said both the 7th and 8th Earls lived outside the UK until becoming the Earl (although it did not name them, so I did not include it above). Maybe the 7th Earl left the oldest kid home to run the sheep farm when he moved to the UK, and his son became the 8th Earl? The Henry Doubleday Research Association is now called Garden Organic, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Doubleday_(1810-1902) (Garden Organic does not list Earl of Edgecombe seeds, by the way, in their current seed catalog.) Maybe the family still owns the sheep farm? __________________ -- alias