ONE OF “OLD SCHOOL.”

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 64, 27 December 1935, Page 6

ONE OF “OLD SCHOOL.”

WOMAN WHO LEFT £120,000. Extraordinary discoveries were made recently in a house in South Kensington, London, following the death of a wealthy ninety-eight-year-old spinster, Miss Eva Mackintosh, of Queen’s Gate Place. She is believed to have left about £120,000. Lawyers who went to the house found five-pound notes in odd places—on mantelpieces, under plates. Miss Mackintosh, who came of a famous family and was a kinswoman of The Mackintosh of Mackintosh, lived with a, middle-aged companion, two servants, a dog and a thirty-yeai-old parrot. The companion, Mrs F. M. Lytle, is still living in the house. She said to a “Sunday Express” represena ‘‘Miss Mackintosh was a true Victorian. She clung to the customs of her young days. Every morning she drove in the park in her horse and carriage. She disliked motor-cars. Indeed, she disliked most modern innovations. “She disapproved of women who used lipstick or smoked. Site hated wireless and the telephone and would not have them in the house. People who came to visit her had to write or present themselves formally as they did in her youth. She had the habit of leaving money' about, but not in any great sums. “Her greatest characteristic was her love of animals. She was a Fellow of the Zoological Society and used to visit the zoo regularly. Polly, her parrot, is at least 30 years old, and was with her when I joined her more than 20 years ago. “Most of her money, I believe, will go to institution's which deal with the care of animals. And this house, where she lived for, much of her life, is to be converted into modern flats. Her beloved horse*and carriage will be sold.”