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IN a demonstration of the Tory commitment to self-made men and women, a big slice of the Conservative Party campaigning in down-to-earth constituencies is funded by a man who pulled himself up by his own bootstraps about 140 years ago.
The Cayzer Family Trust funds Tory campaigning in many constituencies. The Cayzer money comes from a simple lad who made his fortune in the 19th century. It has been the fortune for a big family of country-estate-owning inheritors who have been living off his industry ever since.
Charles Cazyer, son of a schoolmaster, was born in London’s Limehouse in 1843, went into the shipping business and eventually became hugely wealthy from his own shipping firm. He used the money from his steamship line to buy vast country estates in Scotland. He was elected a Tory MP in 1892, then later made a hereditary Tory lord.