Put up your dukes
Two dukes went wrong in a piece about the political power of walking. It was not the 8th Duke of Devonshire, but the 9th, who insisted on prosecuting ramblers who staged the “Kinder Scout trespass” on his land in 1932 (The march of progress, 8 June, page 14, Great British Walks supplement). Nor was it the 10th Duke of Norfolk who later apologised over the resulting jailings, but the 11th, as the Guardian reported in April 2002 when thousands gathered to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the march: “Suddenly the sea of Gore-Tex parted for a stooped and elderly figure wearing a long tweed coat and brown suede shoes … Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire and the biggest private landowner in the Peak District, had travelled from his stately home at Chatsworth to the village of Hayfield to make a public apology” for the actions of his grandfather. Link
Then:
A correction in this column yesterday seemed to say that the 11th Duke of Norfolk – not the 10th Duke of Norfolk as the original article had it – apologised in 2002 for the 1932 prosecution of protesting ramblers by his grandfather. In fact, as the column went on to say, the 11th Duke of Devonshire made the apology (page 30). Link
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