In Britain the Dukes of Marlborough, who had been obliged to sell off some of their art collection in the 1880s to make ends meet, became past masters at discovering willing American heiresses. The eighth duke, George Spencer-Churchill (1844–92), married an American millionairess, Jane Warren Price (1854–1909), widow of a New York realtor, while his son the ninth duke, Charles Spencer-Churchill (1871–1934), married Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964), who owned $4.2 million of railway stock in the USA;
