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Strutt was educated at Harrow and at
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was inherited by his son Arthur and then shared, in 1930, with Arthur's New
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cost Strutt £20,000 and included large playing fields and stained glass in the library showing the Strutt coat of arms. In 1910, he funded a public swimming pool in Belper and within four years he gave an additional £5,000 to expand the school's facilities. The school went on to become a
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Scotland. At these 24,000-acre (97 km) estates he built cottages and pony paths, enlarged the existing house and a dam in Glen Galmadale to hold water that could be used to keep the River Galma in flow (and fish) when there was a drought. The Strutt family were able to take cruises to
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Frances Strutt. A third sister, Clara, was born in 1861, but died in 1863.
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Herbert Strutt was born on 21 April 1854 in Belper. He was from the well known Strutt family whose fortune came from cotton mills and the inventions of the Strutt ancestors back to
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Portraits of Strutt and "Mrs George Strutt", both by
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260:"The Killer Lady of Kingairloch"
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