The following year, 1546, the Privy Council appointed Levett to oversee the mines of the Duke of Norfolk's Sussex estates.

At 64 (he turns 65 on June 18) Mr. McCartney is reportedly a billionaire and could easily settle into retirement at his Sussex estate.

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and come into his inheritance of the Sussex estates at the age of 21.

The College is run by a warden, who lives in part of the building that was originally used by the Sackville family on visits to their Sussex estates.

Seven years later, the woman is hired as a governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate, whose father is the anonymous landowner.

Sackville was also disappointed when Lord Wilmington the late Prime Minister (d. 1743) declined to leave him his Sussex estates, worth £3-£4,000 a year.

They describe Crane's last 18 months, when he and Taylor, though in debt for rent, provisions and a piano, took over a 14th-century Sussex estate called Brede Place.

Trained as an arboriculturalist, Hicks started his professional career as head gardener to surrealist art patron Edward James at his Sussex estate, West Dean.

Richards still owns Redlands, the Sussex estate he purchased in 1966, as well as a home in Weston, Connecticut and another in Turks & Caicos.

In addition to his Sussex estate, he owned an 18th-century villa at Asolo, near Venice.