Laird Title Sell-Off ‘a Bit Fishy’

A LANDOWNER is selling off an aristocratic title to anyone who pays pounds 20 for a square foot of his estate.

On auction site eBay, Dr Peter Bevis also promises the right to catch salmon in his Highland grounds.

He writes: “Can you imagine your friends’ faces when you tell them they must call you Lord ‘Whatever’ of Lochaber?”

But the angling rights have been called worthless as no mature salmon can leap the Monessie Falls, a waterfall leading to his 60,000-acre Tulloch estate.

Only juvenile salmon can be found in his stretch of the River Spean – and they are protected by law.

Fishery board member Malcolm Spence QC said: “What Bevis is doing is completely wrong. I think it would be a criminal act to fish above the falls.”

But the laird said: “I did not set out to mislead.”

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