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There have been many billionaires, or billionaire-equivalent for their time-period, in my tiny unit alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cheshire_Yeom
by chrisseaton 5y ago
There have been many billionaires, or billionaire-equivalent for their time-period, in my tiny unit alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cheshire_Yeomanry_officers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cheshire_Yeomanry_off...
- wolverine876 5y agoThanks. Quickly looking at the links, it seems all pre-WWI, mostly 19th century. Is that still true?
- chrisseaton 5y agoNo, as I said the Squadron was operationally commanded by a billionaire as recently as the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Grosvenor,_6th_Duke_of_Westminster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Grosvenor,_6th_Duke_of_... It's still very common for upper class people to join the Army in the UK.
- wolverine876 5y agoThanks for explaining it all!