A SMALL ESTATE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19460, 6 November 1928, Page 13

A SMALL ESTATE.

LATE LORD ROTHERHAM.

(KIOM OUa OWN COEEKSPOHDWT.) LONDON, September 21. The late Lord Bptherham, of Broughtdii, Lancashire, and Bottingdean, Sussex, who before 1898, had an. annual income of £22,000, has left an estate valued for probate ol £10... In. both commerce and rpolities Lord Botherham had been a leading figure. At one time he was a director of .the London City and Midland Bank and of the Boyal Exchange Assurance, .Corporation, a 8 well as chairman of the Fine Cotton Spinners' Association. .. Within the period 1004-07 he- was much engaged -in pubUc commercial activities, for he was president of tne Associated Chambers of Commerce, and held the presidency of three oth«* important bodies—the Machinery Users Association, the Institute of Doctors and the Textile Institute. In 1914 ho accepted the office of chairman of the War Office Canteen Committee. He left Lancashire for London in 1899. Soon afterwards he entered into a variety of financial engagements, which in the end proved disastrous. In 1917 Lord Botherham's financial affairs became entangled, and a receiving order was made. His liabilities ! were £118,303. «, He told the Court that all his property had been.realised, and, that he had had to borrow from moneylenders. On the Stock Exchange, he said Ae lost £40,000, and in Lille cotton; mill investments £IO,OOO.