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Wikipedia Shaftesbury article-- error after error
25 Mar 2006 16:13:12 -0800
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bxzi...
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I always knew that you had to take anything in Wikipedia with a grain
of salt but their article on the the Earls of Shaftesbury requires a
pound (at least).
It listed an heir to the peerage named "Stefan David Andrew
Roberts-Ashley-Cooper, Baron Ashley, Viscount Villiers (b.1992)."
Just a few problems:
1) there is no current heir to the title (so who is "Stefan"?)
the_verminator...
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No heir to which title?
I know there are heirs to the Jersey earldom; altho not a son of the
present Earl there are the present Earl's half brother as well as heirs
of the second son of the 8th Earl-among others.
The Shafttesbury earldom had heirs listed in the 2004 Craycroft
Peerage-have they all died?
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2) Viscount Villiers is the courtesy title for the Earls of Jersey and
best of all,
3) given the fact that "Stefan" is listed with these courtesy titles,
one would say that he would be the "son" of the current earl. The
current earl was born in 1979 which would have made him a "father" at
the ripe old age of 13!
Peter Tilman...
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Well done, you've found an article that's been vandalised. Would you like a
medal?
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sacha...
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Not only is the so-called heir to the Earl of Jersey not Stefan etc.
etc., as that entry claims, the coat of arms is wrong.
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Brooke
bxzi@yahoo.com
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